Jean Bertaut

He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard: "Ce poëte orgueilleux, trébuché de si haut, Rendit plus retenus Desportes et Bertaut."

He early entered the church, and had a share in the conversion of Henry IV, a circumstance which assured his career.

He was successively councillor of the parlement of Grenoble, secretary to the king, almoner to Marie de' Medici, abbot of the Abbey [fr] of Aunay-sur-Odon and finally, in 1606, bishop of Sées.

[1] After his elevation to the bishopric he ceased to produce the light verse in which he excelled, though his scruples did not prevent him from preparing a new edition of his Recueil de quelques vers amoureux (1602) in 1606.

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