French libertinism
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- | Libertinism in France starts with [[François Villon]] [[de Viau]]. | + | Libertinism in France starts with [[François Villon]] and [[Théophile de Viau]]. |
In the early [[17th century France|17th century]], two Jesuit priests, [[Marin Mersenne]] and [[François Garasse]] start [[French censorship]] and French religious suppression. | In the early [[17th century France|17th century]], two Jesuit priests, [[Marin Mersenne]] and [[François Garasse]] start [[French censorship]] and French religious suppression. |
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Libertinism in France starts with François Villon and Théophile de Viau.
In the early 17th century, two Jesuit priests, Marin Mersenne and François Garasse start French censorship and French religious suppression.
Most frequently cited is Mersenne's estimate (from Quaestiones celeberrimae in Genesim, 1623) that Paris counted 50,000 atheists or libertines. At a time when the total population of Paris was about 300,000, this is an astonishing one out of six Parisians.
And Garasse's definition of a libertine is also frequently cited:
- "Libertines I call our drunks, bar-flies and impious spirits who have no other God than their stomachs and who are recruited by that damned guild known as the Brotherhood of the bottle. [They] come chomping as young foals, enjoy the benefits of their age, and imagine that God will receive them with grace in their old age, and they are therefore worthy to be called libertines, although we may equally call them atheists." --François Garasse in "The curious doctrine of the would-be wits of our age", tr. JWG
See also
References
- Frédéric Lachèvre
- Antoine Adam
- Les Libertins au 17e siècle. Paris 1964, 1986
- René Pintard
- François Perrens
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