Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède

French writer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1609

Place of Birth: Sarlat-la-Canéda, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 22-Oct-1663

Profession: writer, playwright, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède (1609 or 1610 – 1663) was a French novelist and dramatist.
He was born at the Château of Tolgou in Salignac-Eyvigues (Dordogne).
After studying at Toulouse, he came to Paris and entered the regiment of the guards, becoming in 1650 gentleman-in-ordinary of the royal household.
He died in 1663 in consequence of a kick from his horse. La Calprenède wrote several long heroic romances that were later ridiculed by Boileau, and most of them were also referenced in Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote.
They are: Cassandre (5 vols., 1642–1650); Cléopâtre (1648); Faramond (1661); and Les Nouvelles, ou les Divertissements de la princesse Alcidiane (1661) published under his wife's name, but generally attributed to him.