Vincent Voiture
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 376 years ago |
Date of birth | February 24,1597 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Amiens |
France | |
Date of died | May 26,1648 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Job | Poet |
Books | Lettres de V. Voiture - Scholar's Choice Edition |
Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry, and Several Other Occasions: By the Wits of the Last and Present Age. . . . From Their Originals. With Their Effiges [sic] Curiously Engraved . . . In Two Volumes | |
The History of Alcidalis and Zelida. A Tale of the Fourteenth Century | |
Education | University of Paris |
Collège de Boncourt | |
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ID | 1174732 |
Vincent Voiture Life story
Vincent Voiture, French Mannerist and Baroque Précieuses poet and writer of prose, was the son of a rich wine merchant of Amiens. He was introduced by a schoolfellow, the count Claude d'Avaux, to Gaston, Duke of Orléans, and accompanied him to Brussels and Lorraine on diplomatic missions.