Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour
Jean-Baptiste Henri de Trousset, lord of Valincour or Valincourt was a French admiral and man of letters. He was a friend of chancellor d'Aguesseau, Racine and Boileau.
Biography
As a protégé of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, he entered the court of Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse and became secretary of the fleet then secretary to the prince's commands. He was also made an honorary member of the Académie des sciences in 1721.Works
- Lettres à la marquise de *** sur "La princesse de Clèves" , Paris, 1678, in-12
- Vie de François de Lorraine, duc de Guise, Paris, 1681, in-12
- Preface to the Dictionnaire de l'Académie, 1718
- Essai d'une traduction d'Horace, Amsterdam, 1727, in-12
- Verse translation of several odes of Horace in the Menagiana, II
- Observations critiques sur l'Œdipe de Sophocle
