Jacques Vallee, Sieur Des Barreaux
- Jacques Vallee, Sieur Des Barreaux
Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux (1599-1673), French poet, was born in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire on December 16, 1599. His great-uncle, Geoffroy-Valle, had been hanged in 1574 for the authorship of a book called "Le Flau de la Joy". His nephew appears to have inherited his scepticism, which on one occasion nearly cost him his life. The peasants of Touraine attributed to the presence of the unbeliever an untimely frost that damaged the vines, and proposed to stone him. His authorship of the sonnet on "Penitence," by which he is generally known, has been disputed, notably by Voltaire.
Des Barreaux was apparently bisexual. Although he was later known as one of the lovers of Marion Delorme, a famous courtesan, he also was the lover of the freethinking poet Théophile de Viau, called the "King of Libertines" by Jesuit prosecutors. During his imprisonment in 1623-1625 on charges of writing atheistic poems with homosexual allusions, de Viau addressed a poem to Vallée , "The Complaint of Théophile to his friend Tircis," reproaching Des Barreaux for doing little to help him.[cite web |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/viau_t.html |title=Viau, Théophile de |date=2002 |last=Collins-Clark |first=Kathleen |work=glbtq.com |accessdate=2007-07-18] After de Viau's death in 1626, a contemporary biographer of high society, Tallement des Réaux, referred to Des Barreaux as de Viau's widow, "thus indicating that their physical relationship was common knowledge at the time."][cite web |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/viau_t.html |title=Viau, Théophile de |date=2002 |last=Collins-Clark |first=Kathleen |work=glbtq.com |accessdate=2007-07-18] ]Subsequently, Des Barreaux was a lover of the libertine poet Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin, the so-called "King of Sodom," "a consummate gentleman" whose aristocratic rank and social connections protected him from prosecution for his witty, homosexually themed writings.[cite web |url=http://www.glbtq.com/literature/saintpavin_ds.html |title=Saint-Pavin, Denis Sanguin de |date=2002 |last=Collins-Clark |first=Kathleen |work=glbtq.com |accessdate=2007-07-27] ]Des Barreaux died at Chalon-sur-Saone on the 9th of May 1673.
See "Poesies de Des Barreaux" (1904), edited by F. Lachbvre.
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