Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1594 - February 18, 1654) was a French author.

Works

His fame rests chiefly upon the Lettres, a second collection of which appeared in 1636. Recueil de nouvelles lettres was printed in the next year. His letters, though empty and affected in matter, show a real mastery of style, introducing a new clearness and precision into French prose and encouraging the development of the language on national lines by emphasizing its most idiomatic elements. Baizac has thus the credit of executing in French prose a reform parallel to Francois de Malherbe's in verse. In 1631 he published an eulogy of King Louis XIII of France entitled Le Prince; in 1652 the Socrate chrétien, and Aristippe ou de la Cour in 1658.

Related Topics:
1636 - Prose - Francois de Malherbe - 1631 - Eulogy - Louis XIII of France - 1652 - 1658

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