# Adam Billaut

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{{Short description|French carpenter, poet and singer}}
[[File:Adam Billaut par Edme Bovinet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|'' French carpenter and poet Adam Billaut'' by [Edme Bovinet](/source/Edme_Bovinet), [Bibliothèque nationale de France](/source/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France), 1790]]
'''Adam Billaut''' (31 January 1602 – 18 May 1662) was a French carpenter, poet and singer. Nicknamed "the [Virgil](/source/Virgil) of rabot" he is considered one of the first poet-workers.

Billaut divided his time between [Paris](/source/Paris), where he met [Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant](/source/Antoine_Girard_de_Saint-Amant), [Guillaume Colletet](/source/Guillaume_Colletet), [Paul Scarron](/source/Paul_Scarron) and [Michel de Marolles](/source/Michel_de_Marolles), and [Nevers](/source/Nevers), where he married Catherine Renard in 1630. He received patronage from [Marie Louise Gonzaga](/source/Marie_Louise_Gonzaga) and the [Prince of Condé](/source/Louis_II_de_Bourbon-Cond%C3%A9), and he was also pensioned by [Cardinal Richelieu](/source/Cardinal_Richelieu).

He wrote a number of books, including ''Les Chevilles'', which enjoyed some critical success when it was published in 1644, ''Le Vilebrequin'', published posthumously in 1663, and ''Le Rabot'', which was never printed.

[[File:Nevers maison adam billaut 01.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Home where Adam Billaut lived while in [Nevers](/source/Nevers)]]

==Principal publications==
* Ode à Monseigneur le cardinal duc de Richelieu, par le menuisier de Nevers, 1639
* Les Chevilles de maître Adam, menuisier de Nevers, préface de l'abbé de Marolles, 1644
* Stances de maître Adam au parc de Nevers, sur le départ de la sérénissime reine de Pologne, 1645
* Ode pour monseigneur le Prince, par maître Adam, menuisier de Nevers, 1648
* Le Vilebrequin de maître Adam, menuisier de Nevers, contenant toutes sortes de poésies gallantes, tant en sonnets, épîtres, épigrammes, élégies, madrigaux, que stances et autres pièces, 1663
* Poésies de maître Adam Billaut, 1842
* Appendice aux poésies de maître Adam, menuisier de Nevers, 1842

==References==
* François Gimet, workers poets Gallery. The proletarians muses: Adam Billaut, Jean Reboul, Jasmine, Magu, Marius Fourtoul, Rouget, Voitelain Louis, Charles Poncy Auguste Abadie, Queen Guard, Paris: E. Fareu, 1856
* Guy Thuillier, "Adam Billaut Nivernais and seventeenth-century writers," Nevers Nevers Municipal Library and Academic Society of Nivernais, 2002

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Category:French male poets

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