, not Durand (GiLLEs), Sieur de la Bergerie, an eminent advocate to
, not Durand (GiLLEs), Sieur de la Bergerie, an eminent advocate to the parliament of Paris, is
supposed, according to Pasquier, book xix. letter 15, to
be the same who was one of the nine advocates commissioned by the court to reform the custom of Paris. He
was also among the best poets before Malherbe, wrote odes,
sonnets, elegies, &c. and translated, or imitated part of
the Latin pieces written by his friend John Bounefons the
father; under the title of, “Imitations tirees du Latin de
Jean Bonnefons, avec autres amours et melanges poetiques,
” The verses to his godmother on the decease of
her ass, who died in the flower of his age during the siege
of Paris, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1590,
” are esteemed a masterpiece in the ironical and sportive style. They may be
found in the ingenious work, entitled, " Satyre MenipeeY*
and in the works of Durant, 1594, 12mo. He was broken
on the wheel, July 16, 1618, with two Florentine brothers
of the house des patrices, for a libel against the king.
Some, however, doubt if this is the same.