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* Vincent Voiture 1597 – 1648, poet and prose writer
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Vincent Voiture ( 24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648 ), French poet, was the son of a rich merchant of Amiens.
In the Historiettes he gives finished portraits of Vincent Voiture, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Malherbe, Jean Chapelain, Valentin Conrart and many others ; Blaise Pascal and Jean de la Fontaine appear in his work ; and he chronicles the scandals of which Ninon de l ' Enclos and Angélique Paulet were centres.
Among the more noteworthy episodes in the history of the Hôtel de Rambouillet are the literary quarrel between the Uranistes and the Jobelins-respective partisans of two famous sonnets, the Sonnet d ' Uranie, by Vincent Voiture, and the Sonnet de Job, by Isaac de Benserade-and the composition by almost all the great poets of the day of the Guirlande de Julie, a collection of forty-one madrigals, each on the theme of a flower, offered in 1641 to Julie d ' Angennes by Charles de Sainte Maure, who had been wooing her for ten years when he conceived the idea of the handsome manuscript, but whom she kept waiting four more years.
Members of her salon, received in the intimacy of her Chambre Bleue, admitted to the ruelle — the space between her daybed and the wall of the alcove — represented the flower of contemporary French literature, fashion, and wit, including Madame de Sévigné, Madame de La Fayette, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the Duchesse de Longueville, the Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Bossuet, Jean Chapelain, Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu, La Rochefoucauld, Paul Scarron, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, and Vincent Voiture.
Other original members included Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean Ogier de Gombauld, Jean Chapelain, François le Métel de Boisrobert, François Maynard, Marin le Roy de Gomberville and Nicolas Faret ; members added at the time of its official creation included Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Claude Favre de Vaugelas and Vincent Voiture.
Other epistolary novels followed by Claude Barbin, Vincent Voiture, Edmé Boursault, Fontenelle ( who used the form to introduce discussion of philosophical and moral matters, prefiguring Montesquieu's Lettres persanes in the 18th century ) and others ; actual love letters written by noble ladies ( Madame de Bussy-Lameth, Madame de Coligny ) were also published.
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* 1952 – Vinnie Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Kiss and Vinnie Vincent Invasion )
For a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.
By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )
Wincenty Kadłubek ( Vincent Kadlubo, 1160 – 1223 ) used for the first time the original Latin term res publica in the context of Poland in his " Chronicles of the Kings and Princes of Poland.
From it came the master general who remained longest at the head of the administration during the 19th century, Père Vincent Jandel ( 1850 – 1872 ).
Edward Vincent " Ed " Sullivan ( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974 ) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
* 1797 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent – John Jervis, ( later 1st Earl of St Vincent ) and Horatio Nelson ( later 1st Viscount Nelson ) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
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