Les Marguerites [French]

By Jean Benech de Cantenac

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, po mes h ro que, 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 litt raires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 0859896420
• ISBN13: 9780859896429
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 51 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.1"