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A Short Biography of Marquis Luc de Clapiers

Author Name:

Marquis Luc de Clapiers

Born As:

Marquis de Vauvenargues Luc de Clapiers

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Born:

6 Aug 1715

Died:

28 May 1747




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Moralist, essayist and writer                          
                          
                          
                          
In 1740, he met and fell in love with an aristocratic eighteen year old soldier eight years his junior, Paul Hippolyte Emmanuel de Seytres. De Seytres died shortly thereafter, during the Siege of Prague in 1742. De Clapiers addressed his philosophical work “Conseil à un jeune Homme” - Advice to a Young Man - to his young beloved. He also wrote a funeral eulogy for him, a work which he considered to be among the most important of his life, and which he continued to polish until his death. Vauvenargues discusses in his writings his hate of women and his love of young men, which he defends as having nothing against nature, and blames "malicious spirits" for criminalizing his tastes in love.