Guillaume de La Perrière
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Guillaume de La Perrière, was born in Toulouse
(in what is today a part of France
) in 1499 or 1503, and died in 1565, known for his writings and emblem books. His work is often associated with the French Renaissance
. La Perrière chronicled events in his home city of Toulouse. His best known work is Le Théâtre des bons engins, published in Paris
in 1539, and was edited in later editions, published in 1540 and 1585. More recently, La Perrière's Le miroir politique has received attention, thanks to the work of Michel Foucault
. Foucault identifies the work of La Perriere as belonging to Early Modern France
and foreshadowing discourses of governmentality
.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
(in what is today a part of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) in 1499 or 1503, and died in 1565, known for his writings and emblem books. His work is often associated with the French Renaissance
French Renaissance
French Renaissance is a recent term used to describe a cultural and artistic movement in France from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth century...
. La Perrière chronicled events in his home city of Toulouse. His best known work is Le Théâtre des bons engins, published in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in 1539, and was edited in later editions, published in 1540 and 1585. More recently, La Perrière's Le miroir politique has received attention, thanks to the work of Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
. Foucault identifies the work of La Perriere as belonging to Early Modern France
Early Modern France
Kingdom of France is the early modern period of French history from the end of the 15th century to the end of the 18th century...
and foreshadowing discourses of governmentality
Governmentality
Governmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the later years of his life, roughly between 1977 and his death in 1984, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France during this time...
.
Images from Le Théâtre des Bons Engins
Six pages from the 1545 edition.Works
- Le Theatre des bons engins, auquel sont contenus cent emblemes (Denis Janot, 1539) http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k711107.pdf
- "Les annalles de Foix" (Nicolas Vieillard, Toulouse, 1539)
- Les Considerations des quatre mondes (Macé Bonhomme, 1552)
- La Morosophie (Macé Bonhomme, 1553)
- Le miroir politique, contenant diverses manieres de gouverner & policer les republiques, qui sont, & ont está par cy deuant: ocuure..., Paris: Pur V. Norment, & I. Bruneau; 1567.
Further reading
- Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, Alison Saunders, A Bibliography of French Emblem Books, 2 volumes, Droz, Genève, 1999-2002, pp. 364-381.
- Michel FoucaultMichel FoucaultMichel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...
. "GovernmentalityGovernmentalityGovernmentality is a concept first developed by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the later years of his life, roughly between 1977 and his death in 1984, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France during this time...
." - Guillaume de la Perrière, Le Théâtre des bons engins, introduction d'Alison Saunders, Scolar Press, 1973.
- Guillaume de la Perrière, Le Théâtre des bons engins; La Morosophie, introduction d'Alison Saunders, Scolar Press, 1993.
- Stephen Rawles, « The earliest editions of Guillaume de la Perrière’s Theatre des bons engins » in Emblematica, 2.2, 1987, pp. 381-6.
- Alison Saunders, « The Theatre des bons engins through English eyes » in Revue de littérature comparée, 64.4, 1990, pp. 653-73.
- Géraldine Cazals, Guillaume de La Perrière (1499-1554) - Un humaniste à l’étude du politique, thèse de doctorat d’histoire du droit, Université des Sciences sociales, Toulouse I, 2003.
External Links
Biographie et reproduction en fac-simile du Théâtre des bons engins Éléments biographiques- Glasgow University Emblem Website including French and Italian emblem books