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Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt (5 April 1606, Châlons-en-Champagne – 17 November 1664, Paris) was a French translator of the Greek and Latin classics into French and a member of the Académie française.
Nicolas Perrot d'Ablancourt, né à Châlons-en-Champagne le 5 avril 1606 et mort à Paris le 17 novembre 1664, inhumé à Ablancourt, est un homme de lettres, érudit et traducteur français.
6 days ago · French translator, man of letters, and one of the early members of the Académie Française. Born a Huguenot, he converted to Catholicism at 20 but apostasized a few years ... From: Perrot d'Ablancourt, Nicolas in The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French ». Subjects: Literature.
Mort le 17 novembre 1664. Né à Châlons-sur-Marne, le 5 avril 1606. Traducteur de Cicéron, Tacite, Xénophon, César, Lucien, etc., il a traduit aussi des ouvrages espagnols et a laissé quelques œuvres en prose.
First edition of the French translation by Nicolas Perrot, sieur d’Ablancourt, made from the original in Spanish by Luis Marmol Carvajal (1520-1600). Brunet, III, 1440. During the expedition of Charles Quint against the Moors, Marmol was captured and imprisoned during almost 8 years.
In the prefaces to his French translations of Tacitus (1640) and Lucian (1654), Nicolas Perrot d’Ablancourt rationalizes his substantial revisions by appealing to the canons of French literary taste that his translations helped to form.
Jul 8, 2024 · Perrot d'Ablancourt, Nicolas. (1606–64).French translator, man of letters, and one of the early members of the Académie Française. ... Access to the complete content on Oxford Reference requires a subscription or purchase.
