The uproar in the Cevennes

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Ludwig Tieck
* 1773 † 1853

The revolt in the Cevennes is an unfinished novella in four sections by Ludwig Tieck , the first and second sections of which were published by Reimer in Berlin in 1826 .

The young Edmund von Beauvais “turned from the zealous Catholic to the Huguenot” and fought in the ranks of the camisards against the troops of the Catholic king .

time and place

The novella is set in 1703 near Florac in the Cevennes .

history

On October 22, 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes . Then the camisards, as the Huguenots were called in the Cevennes, fought for their religious freedom.

action

1

After a lost battle against the king's troops, the Kamisarde Cavalier poses as a miller's boy “Montan, or Wilhelm” and finds shelter in the house of the Catholic Council of Parliament in Beauvais. Edmund, the son of the house, is amazed to see how the guest effortlessly thwarted the violent intrusion of aggressive camisards during the night.

Days later, the director of Basville visits the parliamentary council and accuses it of having sheltered and fed rebels on the run. In addition, the director resented the parliamentary council for not allowing his son Edmund to hunt camisards. Furthermore, the director can not come to terms with the appearance of Christine de Castelnau - that is Edmund's bride. Christine had publicly accused the Marshal of Montrevel - who is the commander in chief of the royal troops in the Cevennes - of having shot defenseless women and children, allegedly accomplices of the Camissards.

Taken together, all these occurrences cause the good Catholic Edmund to turn back. He wants to go up into the mountains and join the rebels. At first he does not receive the blessing of the father. But the Parliamentary Council, basically a friend of the “unfortunate”, finally lets the son go and even gives him money.

Edmund has supernatural abilities. His “inner eye” can see a messenger “behind the mountain”. Edmund also knows where the courier is hiding his message. In addition, Edmund is amazingly able to understand the secret speech of interlocutors walking quite far away.

2

Roland, leader of the camisards, leaves the determination of whether Edmund is "faithful" to one of the prophets among the rebels. Edmund is accepted as a brother and is amazed when he meets Cavalier in the camp. Edmund wants - as a newcomer among the camisards - to save the life of the captured robber Lacoste. He achieved this goal with Cavalier's support.

Edmund receives worrying news from home. The father was summoned to the director in Nîmes . Meanwhile, the king's soldiers plundered the father's house and set it on fire. Edmund has to go down into the valley. In the ruins he meets his father. He conjures the son to leave the country with him. But Edmund wants revenge. The father sees this and hides from the manager in a remote village.

Like Edmund, Cavalier also has "the prophetic face". He's got one up in the mountains: Down in the valley a courier was sent with important dispatches to the Marshal of Montrevel in Nîmes. The camisards actually intercept the courier and get hold of his letters. Thus the position of the royal troops becomes known. A scout should be sent in preparation for a preventive strike. Edmund offers himself and is selected.

So Edmund goes down again into the valley and meets the old Catholic priest and namesake Edmund Watelet in a village near Florac. The old man tells Edmund wonderful things: As a young man he had two friends: Lacoste and Edmund's father. Watelet thinks that Edmund looks "very similar" to his father. And the old man talks about his childhood sweetheart, about beautiful Euphemia. But the girl then became a nun and Watelet became a monk. Edmund von Beauvais does not yet reveal himself to the old man.

It comes, as it must. The Camisards move on to the announced attack. The village of Watelets is devastated. The Catholics are "slaughtered" - in the language of the Camisards, "the idols will be executed". Of the Catholics, only Watelet survived - miraculously - wounded in the bloodbath. Edmund von Beauvais reveals himself to the old man and protects him. The two Lacoste meet in front of the ruined village church.

Edmund von Beauvais sets off for Florac with Watelet. On the way there is a wondrous approach. The two pass the village where Edmund's father has found shelter. The young Edmund has one more face, "sees the figures of his interior", "sees" his father, who is very close in a farmhouse - and walks past.

A great miracle closes the novella. The castle that housed Euphemia was burned down by the camisards. The terminally ill nun was able to save herself in the nearby forest. Finding each other again, the two lovers, the priest and the nun, die together in the forest.

Quotes

"No one stands so firmly that he cannot fall."

"It must be wonderful to understand all the thoughts that God allows us."

Testimonials

  • I started this story as early as 1820. On my return trip from Italy in 1806 I met Herr Sinclair in Frankfurt am Main, who told me about three plays about this very strange occurrence.
  • My poetry was almost finished when I got to know the “Histoire des Troubles des Cevennes”, reprinted in 1819 at Alais . Apparently the best writing on this subject.

reception

  • Josef von Hormayr praised the novella in a letter of November 20, 1826 to Tieck: “Since I myself led the Tyrolean War of 1809 and know the Mountain War and the People's War very well, you may also appreciate the increase in the impression made by the tremendous psychological truth , the grandiose arrangement of the whole, the precise characteristics, the high calm in the constant restlessness, the immovable in the eternally mobile have made on me. I don't know how to compare this impression with anything, for many years in our truly fateful time ”.
  • In a letter to Tieck on March 30, 1828, Wilhelm Schlegel called the Cevennes “a gorgeous work”.
  • Hesse would like to include the novella in his library of world literature .
  • According to Paulin, Tieck imitated Walter Scott in this “great novella” .
  • Tieck tells exciting stories on a real basis "in the freedom that non-German material offers him".
  • When Edmund sees the father's house in ruins, a painful realization comes to him. He caused the destruction.
  • At the end of the novel, Edmund is at a crossroads and has to ask himself: should he follow the path of the robber Lacoste or that of the priest Watelet?
  • The novella is written against "party hatred".
  • Tieck is looking for the key to understanding the terrible upheavals that came from France in 1789 and which surprised Europe and came to a temporary end in 1813. When the author published the novella in 1826, the next revolution , again from France, was imminent.
  • Kern sees the priest Watelet as "a model" of Tieck "for the future man". It is about the "doctrine of tolerance".

literature

source
  • Gotthold Ludwig Klee (ed.): Tiecks works. Third volume. The uproar in the Cevennes. Pp. 219–457 in Meyer's classic editions. Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig and Vienna 1892. Critically reviewed and explained edition.
First edition
  • Ludwig Tieck: The uproar in the Cevennes. A novella in four sections. 1st and 2nd section. G. Reimer Berlin 1826. Marbled, half leather with back label
expenditure
  • Ludwig Tieck: The uproar in the Cevennes. Published by Hans-Joachim Polleichtner ,hochufer.com, Hanover 2009; ISBN 978-3-941513-03-7
  • Christoph Lenhartz, Hans W. Goll (ed.): Ludwig Tieck: The uproar in the Cevennes. Editions La Colombe 2001; ISBN 978-3-929351-13-2
  • Ludwig Tieck: The uproar in the Cevennes. Zenodot Publishing Company 2007; ISBN 978-3-86640-212-6
  • Ludwig Tieck: The uproar in the Cevennes. Roman , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag Reinbek near Hamburg 1987 (pocket book Rowohlt Century Volume 6); ISBN 3-499-40006-5
Secondary literature
  • Hermann Hesse: A library of world literature . Reclam's Universal Library No. 7003. Leipzig 1957. With an afterword by the author from December 1948
  • Johannes P. Kern: Ludwig Tieck: poet of a crisis . Pp. 154-178. Lothar Stiehm Verlag Heidelberg 1977. (= Poetry and Science , Volume 18)
  • Roger Paulin: Ludwig Tieck . JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart 1987. Series: Metzler Collection; M 185; ISBN 3-476-10185-1
  • Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 2. The Age of the Napoleonic Wars and the Restoration: 1806–1830. Munich 1989; ISBN 3-406-09399-X ; P. 519.
  • Armin Gebhardt: Ludwig Tieck. Life and complete works of the "King of Romanticism" ; Tectum Verlag Marburg 1997; ISBN 3-8288-9001-6 ; Pp. 296-300.
  • Martina Schwarz: The bourgeois family in Ludwig Tieck's late work. “Family” as a medium of time criticism ; in: Epistemata. Würzburg scientific writings. Literary Studies series, vol. 403. Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg 2002; ISBN 3-8260-2289-0 ; Pp. 131-168

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schulz, p. 519, 24. Zvo
  2. ↑ Source, p. 236, footnote 3
  3. ↑ civil prefect
  4. ↑ Source, p. 428, 4. Zvo
  5. ↑ Source, p. 442, 16. Zvu
  6. ^ From the foreword to the first edition from June 1826, source, p. 225, 1. Zvo
  7. ^ From the foreword to the first edition from June 1826, source, p. 226, 1. Zvo
  8. ↑ cited in Klee in der Quelle, p. 224, 1. Zvo
  9. ↑ quoted in Gebhardt, p. 299, 19. Zvo
  10. ↑ Hesse, p. 31, 1. Zvu
  11. ^ Paulin, p. 89, 17th Zvu
  12. ↑ Schulz, p. 519, 26. Zvo
  13. ↑ Schwarz, p. 145, 8. Zvo
  14. ↑ Schwarz, p. 149, 21. Zvo
  15. ↑ Kern, p. 155, 9. Zvo
  16. ↑ Kern, p. 166 above
  17. ↑ Kern, p. 166, 9. Zvu
  18. ↑ Kern, p. 163, 10. Zvo