Jean Daurat

Jean Daurat

Jean Daurat (or Dorat) (Latin, Auratus), (1508 – November 1, 1588) was a French poet and scholar, a member of the "Pléiade".

He was born Jean Dinemandy at Limoges in 1508, a member of a noble family. After studying at the College of Limoges, he came to Paris to be presented to King Francis I of France, who made him tutor to his pages. He rapidly gained an immense reputation as a classical scholar. As a private tutor in the house of Lazare de Baif, he had Jean-Antoine de Baif for his pupil. His son, Louis, showed great precocity, and at the age of ten translated into French verse one of his father's Latin pieces; his poems were published with his father's.

Daurat became director of the College de Coqueret, where he had among his pupils Antoine de Baif, Pierre de Ronsard, Remy Belleau and Pontus de Tyard. Joachim du Bellay was added by Ronsard to this group; and these five young poets, under the direction of Daurat, formed a society for the reformation of the French language and literature. They increased their number to seven by the initiation of the dramatist Étienne Jodelle, and thereupon they named themselves "La Pléiade", in emulation of the seven Greek poets of Alexandria.

The election of Daurat as their leader proved the weight of his personal influence, and the value his pupils set on the learning to which he introduced them, but as a writer of French verse he is the least important of the seven. Meanwhile he collected around him a sort of Academy, and encouraged the students in a passionate study of Greek and Latin poetry. He himself wrote incessantly in both those languages, and was styled "the modern Pindar". His influence extended beyond the bounds of his own country, and he was famous as a scholar in England, Italy and Germany.

In 1556 he was appointed professor of Greek at the Collège Royale, a post he continued to hold until, in 1567, he resigned it in favour of his nephew, Nicolas Goulu. King Charles IX gave him the title of "poeta regius" ("the king's poet"). His prolific output was the wonder of his time; he is said to have composed more than 15,000 Greek and Latin verses. The best of these he published at Paris in 1586. He died at Paris, having survived all his illustrious pupils of the "Pléiade", except Pontus de Tyard.

The "Œuvres poétiques" in the vernacular of Jean Daurat were edited (1875) with biographical notice and bibliography by Charles Marty-Laveaux in his "Pléiade française".

Daurat is credited with the development of the claque in French theatre, in which professional applauders are paid to ensure the success of (or, in other cases, booed to ensure the failure of) certain plays, playwrights and actors.

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