Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 - October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet. Events 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France. Events 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
Chrestien was the son of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on physiology, was born at Orleans. This article is about the French city of Orléans for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the Hellenist, at an early age he was appointed tutor to Henry of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV, who made him his librarian. Henri Estienne, also known as Henricus Stephanus or Henry Stephens, was a 16th-century Parisian printer. Henry IV (Henri IV ( 13 December 1553 &ndash 14 May 1610) ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610 and as Henry III Brought up as a Calvinist, he became a convert to Catholicism. Calvinism (sometimes called the Reformed tradition, the Reformed faith, or Reformed theology) is a theological system and an approach to the As a Christian Ecclesiastical term Catholic —from the Greek adjective, meaning "general" or "universal"—is described He was the author of many good translations from the Greek into Latin verse,amongst others, of versions of the Hero and Learner attributed to Musaeus, and of many epigrams from the Anthology. In his translations into French, among which are remarked those of Buchanans Jephth (1567), and of Oppian De Venatione (1575), he is not so happy, being rather to be praised for fidelity to his original than for excellence of style. His principal claim to a place among memorable satirists is as one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée, the famous pasquinade in the interest of his old pupil, Henry IV. The Satire Ménippée or La Satyre Ménippée de la vertu du Catholicon d'Espagne (written in 1593, published in Tours in 1594) was a political , in which the harangue put into the mouth of cardinal de Pelv is usually attributed to him.
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