Jehan Le Saulx d'Espanney

Jehan Le Saulx d'Espanney, born in the second half of the 16th century was a French playwright from Épaney (Calvados).

He wrote a unique tragedy, in three days according to him, L'Adamantine ou le Désespoir (Rouen, Raphaël du Petit-Val, 1608) : Darimant loves Bezemonde, herself loved by Selpion.

Incipit

MANES DE RICHEMONT.
Je viens du clair sejour ou la tourbe des Anges
Benit son Createur d’un beau flus de louanges,
Je n’en faits que sortir en mon cœur soucieux
De voir encor un coup la surface des Cieux,
Ni de l’objet plus doux la grandeur infinie,

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