Les voix de l’Antique chez Pierre Perrin, introducteur des ambassadeurs auprès de Gaston d’Orléans

Abstract

Pierre Perrin (c. 1620-1675), who entered the service of Marguerite de Lorraine at a very young age, succeeded Vincent Voiture in 1653 as Gaston d’Orléans’s master of ceremonies. He was a poet in French and Latin, translator of Virgil’s Aeneid, inventor of ‘musical words’ for court composers, opera librettist, creator in 1669 of an Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which in 1672, thanks to Lully, would become the famous Académie Royale de Musique. Perrin’s taste and knowledge of Antiquity ‒ the various Greek, Latin and Hebrew Antiquities ‒ endeared him to the duke, as did his commitment as a theoretician to creating a new lyrical art inspired by both Ancient and Modern poets.

Keywords

• lyric art
• neo-Latin poetry
• French poetry
• translation into verse
• sound of verse
• musical lyrics