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A huit ans et demi le père mena son fils à Paris, et en le passant par Amboise un jour de foire, il veit les testes de ses compagnons d’Amboise encore recognoissables sur un bout de potence, et fut tellement esmeu, qu’entre sept ou huit mille personnes il s’escria, Ils ont descapité la France, les bourreaux. Puis le fils ayant picqué près du père pour avoir veu à son visage une esmotion non accoustumee, il luy mit la main sur la teste en disant: Mon enfant, il ne faut pas que ta teste soit epargnee après la mienne, pour venger ces chefs pleins d’honneur; si tu t’y epargnes, tu auras ma malediction.
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“Sa Vie à ses enfants,” Henri Weber, ed., Agrippa d’Aubigné: Oeuvres (Paris: Gallimard [Pléiade], 1969), pp. 385–86.
All citations will refer to the following editions: Bernard Gagnebin, ed., Le Printemps: L’Hécatombe à Diane (Genève: Droz, 1948) and
Fernand Desonay, ed., Le Printemps: Stances et Odes (Genève, Droz, 1952). Armand Garnier, in Agrippa d’Aubigné et le parti protestant (Paris: Fischbacher, 1928), Vol. I, Ch. III, dates nearly all of the love poems between 1571 and 1573. But Desonay places the Odes later, 1573–1582, noting that they allude to a different milieu and express a more self-confident, detached, “madrigalesque” attitude. Weber speculates that some stances and many odes were written between 1574 and 1580. All agree, however, that the poems we shall study fall into the earlier period, 1571–1573.
John T. Nothnagle, “Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa D’Aubigné,” in Myth and Symbol; Critical Approaches and Applications by Northrop Frye, L. C. Knights and others (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963), p. 66.
Wolfgang Drost, “Petrarchismo e realismo nella poesia di d’Aubigné giovane,” Rev. di lett. moderne e comparate, XV (1962), 184, notes that neither Weber nor Desonay gives this significant title in their editions.
See Drost, op. cit. and Carlo Cordié, “L’ugonotto innamorato,” in Saggi e studi di letteratura francese (Padova: Cedam, 1957), pp. 24–32, for the influence of fifteenth-century Italian Petrarchists and earlier sixteenth-century French poets; see Henri Weber, La Création poétique au XVIe siècle en France (Paris: Nizet, 1955), pp. 308–332, for comparison of French Pléiade poets and d’Aubigné.
Marcel Raymond, Génies de France (Neuchatel: la Baconnière, 1942), p. 75.
Henri Weber, ed., Agrippa d’Aubigné: Oeuvres, p. 1118, cites similar images in du Bellay’s poetry, and observes that the physical impression is much stronger in d’Aubigné’s poem.
Op. cit., p. xii.
The phrase is central to Henri Weber’s structural analysis of the stances I in “Structures de quelques poèmes d’Agrippa d’Aubigné,” Actes de la 3e session des Journées Internationales d’étude du Baroque (Montauban: Publications du Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, 1969), III, 15–25.
Génies de France, p. 76.
Weber, “Structures de quelques poèmes ...,” p. 17.
Ibid.
Weber, ed., Oeuvres, p. 1136, notes that in the Golden Age, honey flowed from oak trees (Virgile, Bucoliques, IV, 30); by contrast, in d’Aubigné’s stances, “la douleur du poète leur fait suer une sorte de bile amère (‘cholere’) qui n’a que la couleur du miel.”
“Seconde Journée de la Bergerie,” cited in Weber, Création poétique, p. 328.
Weber, ed., Oeuvres, p. 1136, contrasts the much stronger present indicative used by d’Aubigné to the usual invitation to nature found in the Greek bucolic poets, in Sannazaro’s “Arcadia,” or in the ‘‘complaintes” of Marot and Belleau.
Création poétique, p. 330.
See Ernst Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. Willard R. Trask (New York: Pantheon Books, 1953), pp. 92–95.
Weber, ed., Oeuvres, p. 1136, explains that “errines” is an adjective formed on “Erinnyes” and has the value of “vengeurs.”
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Altizer, A.B. (1973). D’Aubigne. In: Self and Symbolism in the Poetry of Michelangelo, John Donne and Agrippa D’Aubigne. Archives Internationales D’histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2459-4_2
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