Les Marguerites

By (author) Jean Benech de Cantenac Edited by Robert Aulotte

Publication date:

01 August 1999

Length of book:

51 pages

Publisher

University of Exeter Press

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9780859896429

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.

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.

“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)