Théophile de Viau

thumb| Théophile de Viau (1590 – 25 September 1626) was a French Baroque poet and dramatist. Quotes Cette femme a fait comme Troie: De braves gens sans aucun fruit Furent dix ans à cette proie Un cheval n'y fut qu'une nuit. This woman has behaved like Troy: It took brave men ten years of fight To ply without success this prey, Which one horse brought down in a night. Epigramme, La Quintescence satyrique (1622), p. 22 (tr. J. R. Theobald, 1980) External links Geoffrey Brereton (ed.) The Penguin Book of French Verse, vol. 2 (1964 [1958]), p. 171 Norbert Guterman (ed.) The Anchor Book of French Quotations (1990 [1965]), pp. 72, 73; originally published as A Book of French Quotations (Doubleday, 1963) John R. Theobald, The Lost Wine: Seven Centuries of French into English Lyrical Poetry (1980), p. 123 Category:1552 births Category:1630 deaths Category:Poets from France Category:Playwrights from France Category:Satirists from France Category:Bisexual people