Gabriel Bounin (1520 in Chateauroux - 1604) was a French writer and dramaturgist of the 16th century. He was a lawyer of Châteauroux in Berry. In 1561, Gabriel Bounin published La Soltane, a tragedy highlighting the role of Roxelane (with no reliable sources or proof) in the execution of Şehzade Mustafa, the elder son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.Ecouen Museum exhibitThe Literature of the French Renaissance by Arthur Augustus Tilley, p.87 In defiance of the rules of the Pléiade, La Soltane was a play about a contemporary event, rather than a Classical one. This tragedy marks the first time the Ottomans were introduced on stage in France.The Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge p.418
Works La Soltane Satyre au Roy contre les Republiquains
See also Franco-Ottoman alliance
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