Théodore-Agrippa D'Aubigné

Ashley Voeks (University of Texas at Austin)

Ed. by Allison Stedman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.03: French Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century: Classical and Baroque, 1600-1700.
Vol. editors: Heather Kirk (University of Western Ontario), Kathrina LaPorta (New York University), Polly Mangerson (DePaul University), Julia Prest (University of St Andrews), Allison Stedman (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 8 Feb 1552
Died 29 Apr 1630
Activity 1615-1630

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

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Novelist
Poet
Soldier

Other

Autobiographer
Historian / Chronicler
Scholar

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Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552-1630) was a French Protestant writer and soldier. A prominent member of the Huguenot party, Aubigné’s works were largely influenced by the French Wars of Religion. He is best known for Les Tragiques [The Tragic Ones] (1616), a seven-book epic inspired by the effects of religious, political and social divides in early modern Europe. While Aubigné spent the later years of his life in Geneva, he remained an influential figure in the Protestant struggle for recognition in France. Today his writings are characterized by their polemical tone, biblically-inspired style and violent imagery. Aubigné’s corpus thus provides color and depth to our modern conception of Protestant-authored French literature from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Aubigné was born in 1552 at the Château de Saint-Maury in the present day Charente-Maritime department of...

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Citation: Voeks, Ashley. "Théodore-Agrippa D'Aubigné". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 January 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1107, accessed 09 June 2026.]