Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues (Dordogne). After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household. He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse.

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La Calprenède wrote several long heroic romances that were later ridiculed by Boileau, and most of them were also referenced in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote.[1][2][3] They are: Cassandre (5 vols., 1642–1650); Cléopâtre (1648); Faramond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him.

Works online

• Édouard, 1640
• Phalante, 1642
• Herménigilde, 1643
• Jeanne, reyne d’Angleterre, 1638
• La Bradamante, 1637
• La Mort de Mitridate, 1637
• La Mort des enfants d’Hérodes, ou Suite de Mariane, 1639
• Le Clarionte, ou le Sacrifice sanglant, 1637
• Le Comte d’Essex, 1638

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Calprenède, Gauthier de Costes, Seigneur de". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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