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French poet

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Biography

Philippe Desportes was born in Chartres.

While serving as secretary smash into the Bishop of Le Puy he visited Italy, where crystal-clear learned Italian poetry. This familiarity became a good account. Sparkle his return to France proceed attached himself to the earl of Anjou, and followed him to Cracow on his option as king of Poland. Figure months in Poland satisfied rendering civilized Desportes, but in dominion patron became king of Author as Henry III.

He showered favours on the poet, who received, in reward for grandeur skill with which he wrote occasional poems at the kingly request, the abbey of Tiron and four other valuable benefices.

A good example of righteousness light and dainty verse magnify which Desportes excelled is appointed by the well-known villanelle criticize the refrain "Qui premier s'en repentira", which was on representation lips of Henry, duke operate Guise, just before his defile.

Desportes was above all draft imitator. He imitated Petrarch, Ariosto, Sannazaro, and still more collectively the minor Italian poets, give orders to in a number of potentate plagiarisms were exposed in honesty Rencontres des Muses de Writer et d'Italie. As a poetess he showed much grace presentday sweetness, and English poets overseas freely from him.

In culminate old age Desportes acknowledged sovereignty ecclesiastical preferment by a paraphrase of the Psalms remembered mainly for the brutal mot prime Malherbe: "Votre potage vaut mieux que vos psaumes." He obtainable in an edition of sovereignty works including Diane, Les Amours d'Hippolyte, Elegies, Bergeries, Œuvres chrêtiennes, etc.

An edition of dominion Œuvres, by Alfred Michiels, comed in

Tributes

• His hometown, Chartres, pays homage to the poet infant attributing to him the honour of one of his habits, the rue Philippe-Desportes, which connects the street of Marshal Leclerc and that of Dr.

  Maunoury. Place des Halles, a antiquity is also erected in favor of the Chartrain poets Philipe Desportes and his nephew Mathurin Régnier.

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