Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour

Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt (1 March 1653, Paris – 4 January 1730) was a French admiral and man of letters. He was a friend of chancellor d'Aguesseau, Racine (who he replaced at Académie française and as official historiographer to Louis XIV) and Boileau (Valincour was the dedicatee of Boileau's eleventh satire, "On true and false honour", and also completed the publication of Boileau's works in 1713).

Biography As a protégé of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, he entered the court of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse and became secretary of the fleet then secretary to the prince's commands. He was also made an honorary member of the Académie des sciences in 1721.

Works Lettres à la marquise de *** sur "La princesse de Clèves" , Paris, 1678, in-12 (repub. 1926) Vie de François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, Paris, 1681, in-12 Preface to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie, 1718 Essai d'une traduction d'Horace, Amsterdam, 1727, in-12 Verse translation of several odes of Horace in the Menagiana, II Observations critiques sur l'Œdipe de Sophocle