Pierre Cureau of the Room
Pierre Cureau of the Room (December 20th 1640 with Paris - April 15th 1693 in Paris) is a French man of the church.
Wire of the doctor Marine Cureau of the Room, it is reached of deafness and must give up its studies of medicine. He travels in Italy and binds friendship with the sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the historian of arts Carlo Cesare Malvasia. He studies theology, publishes in 1664 a collection of works of his father and attends the living room and the marchioness of Sanded. Protected from Colbert and the friend of its father, the chancellor Séguier, which had held it on the baptismal font, it is elected member of the French Academy in 1670. Towards 1668, it had become cleaned St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre parish of Paris. He dies at the time of the Famine of 1693, during which he becomes exhausted to return help to his the most stripped parishioners.
This man of erudite reputation, which corresponded with Pierre de Fermat, left only the panegyrics and funeral orations pronounced in homage to Therese d' Avila, Bernini, Marie-Therese of Austria, Pierre Seguier, Rose of Sainte-Marie of Lima, Charles Borromée and holy Louis.
External bond
- Biographical note of the French Academy