Family Name: Tarteron
First Name: Jérôme
Birth Date: Fri, Feb 05, 1644
Birth Place: Paris
Death Date: Mon, Jun 10, 1720
Death Place: Paris
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Tarteron was a Jesuit teacher of rhetoric and humanities at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. Among his students, he had a considerable impact on the education of Voltaire and Charles-Jean-François Hénault.
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Tarteron translated Latin poetry into French, such as Horace, Perseus and Juvenal.

He was careful to produce editions that would be suitable to circulate among his students, removing the most obscene parts and modifying the texts where necessary. Tarteron's Horace in particular introduced Voltaire to poetry and to one of his favourite authors.

Although his versions had a wide diffusion, he was often criticised for the eccessive pedantry of his translations.


secondary bibliography references

P. Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXème siècle, vol. XIV, Paris, 1875, p. 1488.

I. O. Wade, The Intellectual Development of Voltaire, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 12-15, 23-27.

C. M. Northeast, The Parisian Jesuits and the Enlightenment, 1700-1762, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 1991.

Translations

  • Miscellanea

  • Translation Title: Traduction nouvelle des Satyres, des Épîtres et de l'Art poétique d'Horace
  • Original Author: Horace
  • Original title: Miscellanea
  • Publ. Year From: -0001 to:
  • lang: Latin
  • Translation: Traduction nouvelle des Satyres, des Épîtres et de l'Art poétique d'Horace
  • N° Editions: 4
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1684
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    Although Tarteron does not say which editions he used for this translation, he acknowledges having found a source of inspiration in Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's imitations of Horace's Ars Poetica (L'Art poétique, 1674) and Satirae (Satires, 1666).

    As stated in the title, this collection includes both books of Satirae, both books of Epistolae and the Ars Poetica.

    This edition, with a few corrections and different titles, was republished in 1700, 1710 and 1713.

  • Miscellanea

  • Translation Title: Traduction nouvelle des Satyres de Perse et de Juvénal
  • Original Author: Persius and Juvenal
  • Original title: Miscellanea
  • Publ. Year From: -0001 to:
  • lang: Latin
  • Translation: Traduction nouvelle des Satyres de Perse et de Juvénal
  • N° Editions: 5
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1688
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    Tarteron mentions Michel de Marolles's Les Satires de Juvénal et de Perse (1658) as his main source of inspiration for this version, as Marolles's volume included both the original Latin text and his French translation.

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