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DU BROQUART, G. - La Fille d'Astrée, ou, La Suite des berger…
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DU BROQUART, G. - La Fille d'Astrée, ou, La Suite des berger…
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DU BROQUART, G. - La Fille d'Astrée, ou, La Suite des bergeries de Forets : Contenant plusieurs Histoires de nostre temps mises sous noms empruntez, qui font voir les effects de la vertu & de l'honneste affection. Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1633. In-8, (6) ff, 929 (1) pp, (1) f., yellowed paper, foxing, worm damage to lower margin of qqs. ff. with loss of qqs. letters, ivory vellum with flaps.
LEVER 89. Same work as ''Seconde partie de la Bellaure triomphante (1633). Burgundian author of whom Papillon (I, 185) does not hesitate to say that he had genius. He presented himself as a continuation of the Astrée and set his novel, like this one, in a real setting: Pagny, on the banks of the Arar in Burgundy. It is a roman à clef in which Du Broquart has brought together memoirs that his father "aged at the court of two or three kings" had enjoyed writing about memorable events in which he had been present or taken part. For example, the long story of Bajamond and Clarimène features, under assumed names, the real-life adventures of Louis of Savoy, mother of François I, the Chevalier Duprat and the Constable de Bourbon (Magendie, p. 251). But Du Broquart was not content to write a novel of intrigue. He intersperses the story with moral and political reflections: - p. 27, he describes the dangers of a favourite who is too powerful. - On p. 132, he notes that ''the riches and goods that make me a true man of honour cannot be taken from me''. - p. 724-725, he criticises forced marriages, even by monarchs, and defends natural inclination - p. 297 to 303, he praises the shepherds of the Pagny region, whose frugal lifestyle ensures purity of morals and who have nothing to envy of the great, who are corrupted by wealth and whose distant origins also lie in simple huts.
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