About Estienne Durand
Lived 1585 – 1618 (aged 32–33). Estienne Durand was a French poet and writer.
Estienne Durand (c. 1586 – 19 July 1618) was a 17th-century French poet.
A provincial controller of wars in the service of Marie de Medicis, he is the author of a pamphlet against Louis XIII, La Riparographie, now lost, which earned him to be broken and burned with his writings on the Place de Grève.
Works Les Épines d'Amour (1604) Méditations (1611) Stances à l'inconstance
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French poet
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Estienne Durand was born in 1585.
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Estienne Durand died on 19 July 1618.
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Estienne Durand was a poet and writer.
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Estienne Durand was French.
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