Skip to content

Georges de Brébeuf Quotes

1618–1661 France

Georges de Brébeuf (1618 – 1661) was a French poet and translator best known for his verse translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (1654) which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille, but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau in his Art poétique.

France
Poets
Translators

Random Georges de Brébeuf quote

1 quote

It is from him [Cadmus] that this ingenious art comes to us of painting words and speaking to the eyes; and by the different forms of traced figures, giving colour and body to the thoughts.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georges de Brébeuf (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.