La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, Seigneur de

La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, Seigneur de

▪ French author
born c. 1610, château of Toulgou, near Sarlat (now Sarlat-la-Canéda), France
died 1663, Grand-Andely

      author of sentimental, adventurous, pseudohistorical romances that were immensely popular in 17th-century France. To this rambling and diffuse genre he imparted vigour through swift-moving plots.

      After studying at Toulouse, La Calprenède entered the regiment of the guards and campaigned in Germany. Pursuing military and literary careers simultaneously from 1635 to 1641, he wrote tragedies and tragicomedies, some based on episodes in English history, including Jeanne Reyne d'Angleterre (1636; “Jane, Queen of England”) and Le Comte d'Essex (1638; “The Earl of Essex”). In 1642 he began a series of novels glorifying love and war: Cassandre, 10 vol. (1642–45), a history of the decline of the Persian empire; Cléopâtre, 12 vol. (1647–58), a story of Cleopatra's alleged daughter by Mark Antony; and Faramond, 12 vol. (1661–70), a Merovingian history, the last five volumes of which were completed after his death by Pierre d'Ortigue de Vaumorière. These well-plotted romances found immediate favour, and they continued to be popular to the end of the 18th century.

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