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Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist. He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues (Dordogne). After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household. He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse.

La Calprenède wrote several long heroic romances that were later ridiculed by Boileau, and most of them were also referenced in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote. They are: Cassandre (5 vols., 1642–1650); Cléopâtre (1648); Faramond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him. His Le Comte d'Essex, produced in 1638, supplied some ideas to Thomas Corneille for his tragedy of the same name.

Works online

• Édouard, 1640
• Phalante, 1642
• Herménigilde, 1643
• Jeanne, reyne d’Angleterre, 1638
• La Bradamante, 1637
• La Mort de Mitridate, 1637
• La Mort des enfants d’Hérodes, ou Suite de Mariane, 1639
• Le Clarionte, ou le Sacrifice sanglant, 1637
• Le Comte d’Essex, 1638

References

1. ^ Chisholm 1911.
2. "Textual References: References to Pharamond in The Female Quixote". Arabella's Romances. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
3. "Textual References: References to Cassandra in The Female Quixote". Arabella's Romances. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
4. "Textual References: References to Cleopatra in The Female Quixote". Arabella's Romances. Retrieved 8 March 2019.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "La Calprenède, Gauthier de Costes, Seigneur de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 36.

• 17th-century births
• 1663 deaths
• People from Dordogne
• 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights
• 17th-century French male writers
• 17th-century French novelists
• Deaths by horse-riding accident in France
• French male novelists
• French male dramatists and playwrights