Gabriel Bounin

Gabriel Bounin (1520 in Chateauroux - 1604)[1] was a French writer and dramaturgist of the 16th century.

He was a lawyer of Châteauroux in Berry.

In 1561, Gabriel Bounin published La Soltane, a tragedy highlighting the role of Roxelane (with no reliable sources or proof) in the execution of Şehzade Mustafa, the elder son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

[2][3] In defiance of the rules of the Pleiad, La Soltane was a play about a contemporary event, rather than a Classical one.

[3] This tragedy marks the first time the Ottomans were introduced on stage in France.