About Gabriel Bounin
Lived 1520 – 1604 (aged 83–84). Gabriel Bounin was a French playwright and poet.
Gabriel Bounin (1520 in Chateauroux - 1604) was a French writer and dramaturgist of the 16th century. He was a lawyer of Châteauroux in Berry. In 1561, Gabriel Bounin published La Soltane, a tragedy highlighting the role of Roxelane (with no reliable sources or proof) in the execution of Şehzade Mustafa, the elder son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. In defiance of the rules of the Pléiade, La Soltane was a play about a contemporary event, rather than a Classical one.
Works La Soltane Satyre au Roy contre les Republiquains
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French writer
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Gabriel Bounin was born in 1520 in Châteauroux.
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Gabriel Bounin died in 1604.
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Gabriel Bounin was a playwright and poet.
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