, cousin-german of the preceding, was son of Nicolas Nicole, receiver
, cousin-german of the preceding,
was son of Nicolas Nicole, receiver of the town of Chartres,
where he was born Sept. 4, 1611; and became one of the
king’s council, and president in the elections of Chartres.
He died Nov. 22, 1685. He was a good Greek, Latin, and
Italian scholar, and had a talent for French poetry; which,
however, he abused, the greatest part of his poems being
grossly indelicate. Of these he published a collection at
Paris, 1660, in 2 vols. 12mo, with a dedication to the king,
under the title of “The Works of the President Nicole.
”
This collection appeared again after his death, enlarged
with several new pieces, some of which are upon subjects
of piety, in 1693, at Paris. They consist chiefly of translations of several works of “Ovid,
” “Horace,
” “Persius,
”
“Martial,
” “Seneca the Tragedian,
” “Claudian,
” and
others, “A Translation of an Elegy and Ode of Anacreon,
”
and of “A Poem upon the Loves of Adonis, by the cavalier Marin, &c.
”