Jean-Jacques Bouchard

Jean-Jacques Bouchard (30 October 1606, in Paris – 26 August 1641, in Rome) was a French writer. He was the son of Jean Bouchard, Secretary of the King, and Claude Merceron, a relation of Gilles Ménage, from a recently ennobled family composed of judges.[1] Bouchard was an author of erotic literature and notably published Confessions.

Main works
  • La Conjuration du comte de Fiesque, traduite de l'italien du Sgr Mascardi par le Sr de Fontenay Sainte-Geneviève et dédiée à Monseigneur l'Éminentissime Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, Paris, 1639
  • Journal I Les confessions ; Voyage de Paris à Rome ; Le carnaval à Rome, works by Jean-Jacques Bouchard, by Emanuele Kanceff, Turin, Giappichelli, 1976
  • Journal II Voyage dans le royaume de Naples ; Voyage dans la campagne de Rome, works by Jean-Jacques Bouchard, by Emanuele Kanceff, Turin, Giappichelli, 1977
  • Confessions, preceded by "Avez-vous lu Bouchard ?" by Patrick Mauriès, Paris, le Promeneur, 2003 (ISBN 2-07-076869-4)

Bibliography
  • René Pintard, Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, Paris, Boivin, 1943, Slatkine reed., 2000

References
  1. Emanuele Kanceff, "Introduction" of the Journal by Bouchard, Turin, Giappichelli, 1976, p. IX
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