University of Exeter Press

Les Marguerites

    • 51 Pages


    Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac (Bordeaux 1630-1714) was notorious in his own time but has only recently become the subject of serious study. This is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poèmes héroïque, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transformed into gallantry.



    This is a volume in the Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.





    This is the first critical edition of Les Marguerites, poèmes héroïque, a volume originally published in Bordeaux in 1676. Written in alexandrines, divided into five cantos (chants), Les Marguerities offers a fascinating example of playful contemporary poetic taste where epic heroism is transformed into gallantry.



    “The work will certainly interest dix-septiémistes, not least for its sophisticated views on the relationship between art and nature and on the representation of perspective.” (Modern Language Review, Volume 97 No. 2, 2002)



    Frontispice, II; INTRODUCTION; L'auteur, VII; Le temps des Marguerites, X; Les Marguerites de Cantenac; une salutaire meditation sur les dures Destinees des Marguerites, XI; un poeme heroique, XVI; un poeme galant d'heroisme tendre, XVIII; Note sur l'etablissement du texte, XX; BIBLIOGRAPHIE; OEuvres attribuees a J. Benech de Cantenac, XXI; Elements de bibliographie generale, XXVII; Etudes sur Cantenac, XXX; LES MARGUERITES; Dedicace a Mademoiselle F, 3; Chant premier, 5; Chant II, 11; Chant III, 23; Chant IV, 30; Chant V, 42.





     



    Robert Aulotte is Emeritus Professor of French Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne.