ABSTRACT
Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac was a French jurist and poet. In 1565 he became general advocate to the parlement of Paris and in 1574 was appointed to become a member of the Royal Private Council (Conseil privé du roi), the body responsible for making decisions on France’s judicial system. In 1572, he sought to defend the Saint Bartholomew’s massacre of French Protestants as an example of “justified anger” by the Crown. His Discourse on Anger and How it must be Moderated was a speech made on 24 February 1576 to the Palace Academy. It offers evidence of the lasting influence of the writings of the ancient writers Plutarch and Seneca on early modern European attitudes towards anger as an emotion.
