Jacques de Coras was a French poet born in Toulouse

Toulouse

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. Grandson of the Huguenot

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 jurist Jean de Coras

Jean de Coras

Jean de Coras, also called Corasius was a French jurist.Born in Réalmont as the son of a notary, he studied law in Toulouse, Cahors, Orléans and perhaps also in other cities, under teachers such as Franciscus Curtis junior and Marianus Socinus junior...

, he was raised in the Protestant Reformed Church of France

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. After serving as a cadet in the military, he studied theology, and exercised the functions of a Protestant minister in Guyenne

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. He was, during the same time, associated with the person of Turenne

Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne

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, and he converted to Catholicism. He mixed to good effect his poetic studies and his religious work. He died in 1677.

Works

• la Conversion de Jacques de Coras, dédiée à nosseigneurs du clergé de France; 1665, Paris, in-12.
• Jonas, ou Ninive pénitente; 1663, Paris, in-12.
• Three poems, Josué, Samson, and David, were published under the title Œvres poétiques; 1665, Paris, 1n-12.

Sources

• This article, in its inaugural (Nov 2005) edition, consists largely of material translated from the article, Coras (Jacques de), in the French-language Nouvelle Biographie Général: 1860, Paris: Fermin Didot Frères. vol.xi, column 764. That article, itself, gives as a reference, Moréri, Grand dict. hist.