François Tallemant the Elder

François Tallement (1620, La Rochelle – 6 May 1693, Paris) was a French churchman and translator.

He is often known as l'Aîné (the Elder) to distinguish him from his cousin Paul Tallement le Jeune.

",[1] whilst one historian in the Académie stated: "He knew [ancient] Greek, Latin, Italian, English and Spanish perfectly.

This fault made him the butt of a pleasant nickname: whilst some of our brothers of the Académie were cardinals, ministers and bishops and [thus] were called His Eminence, His Excellency, His Greatness, we called [Tallement] His Worriedness (Son Inquiétude).

Poetry alone, you know, divided herself between several different people, but the society of an academy makes useful to each [member] all the diverse talents of those of whom it is composed, by those knowledgeable and ingenious conversations in which each brings his particular fount [of knowledge] and speaks according to the genius that nature has given him and which he has cultivated by study.