Samuel Pepys /pi ːps/(born the February 23rd 1633 with London - died the May 26th 1703 with Clapham) was a civil servant and a writer English. He is known mainly nowadays by his extraordinary newspaper, covering the period of 1660 with 1669, written with a method of Sténographie near to that to Samuel Taylor, and where he reports in particular great events like the epidemic of plague of London (1665-1666) and the Grand fire of London in 1666.
Chronology
It is born with London in 1633, wire of tailor. He attends the school St Paul of 1646 with 1650, then Magdalene College with Cambridge, where he obtains his Baccalauréat in 1654. He enters then to the service of a distant cousin Edward Montagu, naval officer which will become admiral at the time of the Deuxième and the Third War Anglo-Dutch. He marries Elisabeth St Michel, on February 1st 1655.
January 1st 1660, it begins its newspaper like a resolution of the New Year's Day and after a voyage in May and June, with the fleet which brings back Charles II, it is named Clerk off the Acts with the Navy Board. He quickly learns the trade from the naval administration and becomes an influential member of the institution. Dice 1667, it pleads the cause of the marine before commissions of the Parliament.
Troubles of health to the eyes oblige it soon to dictate its notes and in May 1669, it must give up its newspaper. It then accomplishes a pleasure trip in France and to the Netherlands, but to the return in October, his wife falls ill and dies. It will set up to him a monument with the church St Olave Hart Street, one of rare to have escaped with the fire of 1666.
In 1673, it is elected at the Parliament and becomes secretary of the commission on admiralty. He is elected, in 1676 main of the Trinity House , organization which deals with the maintenance of the Phare S and the channels on the British coasts, but also of caritative works for the sailors. He is re-elected at the Parliament in 1679, but is attacked by his political enemies, he is imprisoned with the Tour of London, from May with juillet ; the loads against him are abandoned only in June of the following year.
In 1683, it is sent to Tangier to assist Lord Dartmouth, in the evacuation of the British colony. Of return in March 1684, it is again in grace and the king Charles II names it in June secretary of the king for the businesses of the Amirauté, station which it preserves at the crowning of Jacques II. Faithful to support of the king, it is then beaten with the elections on January 1st 1689 after the escape of this one and must resign thereafter of its post of secretary. It then undergoes two imprisonments, in May - June 1689 and June 1690, because it is suspected of Jacobitisme, but it is finally released fault of reasonable evidence and it withdraws public life. In 1701, it leaves London for its country house to Clapham, where it dies the May 26th 1703.
The newspaper
First entry on January 1st, 1660: “By the grace of God, with the last end of the year, I was in very good health, without anything to feel my old evil… ”. March 26th, 1658, S. Pepys survived an surgical operation: the disease of the stone (Renal calculus). He was considered, rightly, like one miraculé.
The newspaper surprises sometimes by its frankness and of the very distinct opinions: “to marry a girl whom one put pregnant, it is like shitting in its hat and giving it on its head”, expression borrowed from chapter 5 of book 3 of the Essais of Montaigne: “which bad mesnage made Jupiter with its wife, who it avoit firstly pratiquee and jouyë by passing fancies? It is what one says, to shit in the basket, for after putting it on its tests”.
Its library
French translation
- Newspaper , Books, Robert Laffont, 1994, ISBN 2221901010
External bonds
- the newspaper Samuel Pepys converted into newspaper Web
- Bookstore of Pepys in line
- The Samuel Pepys Club
- Project Gutenberg
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