Barbe de Verrue
Barbe de Verrue is a literary figure from the Poésies de Clotilde by Clotilde de Surville (around 1405 - around 1498). She is described as the 13th century French Trobairitz .
Les Poésies de Clotilde
Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, Madame de Surville married from 1421, lost her husband Bérenger de Surville in 1428 during the siege of Orléans . The couple had a son. Her husband's absence from the war inspired her to write heroic verses and mourned his death in elegiac poems. Her memoir, which also included a history of French poetics, has been lost. She survived her daughter-in-law, son, and only granddaughter who remained unmarried. Her last poem was a chant royal in honor of King Charles III.
In 1803, the writer Charles Vanderbourg (1765-1827) published the Poésies de Marguerite-Éléonore-Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, depuis Madame de Surville, poète français du xve siècle , consisting of forty poems by Clotides. In the extensive foreword, Vanderbourg explained the history of the manuscript. The new publication was received with praise and admiration, and Raynouard gave the poems the same status that he accorded the work of Bowley, published by Thomas Chatterton . The poetry-authoring character of the young widow with son inspired a number of French artists. Eugène Ernest Hillemacher dedicated at least three paintings to her and her son, Jean Gautherin created a bronze figure of mother and son.
So much for one way of describing Clotilde de Surville. The other narrative is that this woman never existed and that her work is pure fiction, a fake or later imitation. It seems to be certain that a Bérenger de Surville married a Marguerite - but not until 1427, but a Marguerite de Chalis, not a de Vallon-Chalys. The cause preoccupied the French intelligentsia, politics and science for many years - including Charles Nodier , Jean-Antoine Chaptal , Joséphine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte . It is said to have been Napoleon's wife who is said to have made the publication possible in the first place.
Since the only source describing Barbe de Verrue is questionable, the question of whether Barbe de Verrue was a real person or a literary figure is also unanswerable.
Barbe de Verrue
The Trobairitz is said to have been an adopted child. She became a successful singer who performed her own songs, traveled from town to town and made wealth through her art. She sang Petrarcas Griseldis , in the song Gallic Orpheus the Gauls and in another song Aucassin and Nicolette. It was placed on a par with the Troba peaks Almucs de Castelnau and Beatriz de Dia . Her songs have been described as lively and happy, rather not romantic. An example of their works:
Voyd son hyver venir li sages
Come al fins biau jor, belle nuict;
Scet que sont roses for toz ages
Si por toz ages sont ennuict.
Modern reception
Judy Chicago dedicated an inscription to Barbe de Verrue on the triangular floor tiles of the Heritage Floor of her installation The Dinner Party . The porcelain tiles labeled with their name are assigned to the place with the place setting for Eleanor of Aquitaine , who was one of the most influential women of the Middle Ages as Queen of France (1137–1152) and later of England (1154–1189). Barbe de Verrue is one of the 999 women on the Heritage Floor .
literature
- Antonin Macé: Un procès d'histoire littéraire , les Poésies de Clotilde de Surville, études nouvelles suivies de documents, Grenoble: Prudhomme 1870, online
- Albin Mazon: Marguerite Chalis et la légende de Clotilde de Surville , Étude sur l'authenticité des poésies de Clotilde de Surville, suivie de l'acte de mariage de Béranger de Surville, d'une lettre de M. Eugène Villard et d'une lettre de M. Jules Baissac, Paris: A. Lemerre 1873 online
- Rachel Sauvé: "Poésies" de Clotilde de Surville, Supercherie littéraire et subversion des genres, in: Nineteenth-Century French Studies , Volume 29, Number 1/2, University of Nebraska Press, Fall / Winter 2000–2001 online , pages 21– 34
- Jean-François Jeandillou: Supercheries littéraires , La vie et l'œuvre des auteurs supposés, Genève: Librairie Droz 1989 and 2001, ISBN 978-2-600-00520-3
- Auguste Tourette: Quelques mots sur Vals et ses environs , Res Universis 1993, ISBN 978-2-7428-0154-1
- Abbé Hippolyte Colly: Retournaguet et la paroisse de ce nom , Paris: Le livre d'histoire 2007 (1882), ISBN 978-2-7586-0064-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marriage contract of the noble Bérenger de Servile and the noble lady Marguerite , accessed on December 9, 2017
- ↑ a b H. G. Adams: A Cyclopædia of Female Biography: Consisting of Sketches of All Women who Have Been Distinguished by Great Talents, Strength of Character, Piety, Benevolence Or Moral Virtue of Any Kind: Forming a Complete Record of Womanly Excellence Or Ability . Groombridge, 1857, p. 90 (Retrieved December 9, 2017).
- ^ A b Edgar Taylor : Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825, p. 273 (Retrieved December 9, 2017).
- ^ The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Younger Members of the English Church; Vol XVI, Jul-Dec 1858 1858, p. 582 (accessed December 9, 2017).
- ↑ Edgar Taylor (Ed.): Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green 1825, online
- ↑ Brooklyn Museum : Barbe De Verrue , accessed December 9, 2017