Catherine Des Roches
Catherine Des Roches , actually Catherine Fradonnet (* 1542 in Poitiers , † in the autumn of 1587 ibid) was a French writer and salonnière . She and her mother Madeleine Des Roches were among the most respected women in France in the second half of the 16th century.
Life
Des Roches was the daughter of André Fradonnet, seigneur Des Roches, and his wife Madeleine. Her two siblings died in infancy. After her father's death in 1550, his mother married François Eboissard, a respected lawyer from Poitiers, through whom she gained access to the city's humanistically educated circles. From 1570 mother and daughter hosted a regular literary salon that was well known beyond the city limits . Her guests included Odet de Turnèbe , Barnabé Brisson, Claude Binet, Antoine Loysel, René Choppin, Nicolas Rapin , Scévole de Sainte-Marthe , Étienne Pasquier and Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné . The guests of the salon also wrote poetry together and in 1583 published La Puce de Madame Des Roches (The Flea of Madame Des Roches), a collection of gallant-comical verses about a flea that Étienne Pasquier discovered on Des Roches' neck.
Since Des Roches never married, she and her mother lived together until her death. They died of the plague , probably on the same day, in the autumn of 1587 .
plant
The Dames Des Roches , as mother and daughter were called, published three editions of their poems during their lifetime:
- Les Œvres (works, 1578)
- Les Secondes Œvres (Second Works, 1583)
- Les Missives (letters, 1586)
Her poetry, influenced by the group of poets La Pléiade , is shaped by the search for her own identity as poets. They advocated better access for women to education and tried to reconcile this with social expectations. Catherine's work was more extensive and varied than that of her mother. She wrote epistles , odes , sonnets , blasons , other forms of poetry and some dialogues in verse or prose form.
literature
- Julia Pieper: Between thirst for education and convention: erudition, virtue and female authorship in the work of the Dames Des Roches . Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus-Verlag 1998. ISBN 978-3-8255-0182-2
Web links
source
- Julia Pieper: Des Roches, Madeleine (aka M. Neveu). Des Roches, Catherine (aka C. Fradonnet) . In: Authors Lexicon. Ed. V. Ute Hechtfischer, Renate Hof, Inge Stephan and Flora Veit-Wild. Frankfurt / M. Suhrkamp 2002, p. 126f. ISBN 3518399187
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Des Roches, Catherine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fradonnet, Catherine (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1542 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poitiers |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1587 |
| Place of death | Poitiers |