Jacques Yver
Jacques Yver (* 1520 in Niort ; † 1572 ibid) was a French narrator.
life and work
Yver, who had studied law and was mayor of Niort in 1556, was inspired by the collection of novels by Matteo Bandello , who died in Agen , to create his work Le printemps (1572), which was particularly popular because of its realistic style, which was rich in images, had numerous editions and was in turn a role model was made for L'Eté (1583) by Bénigne Poissenot .
Works
- Le Printemps d'Yver , ed. by Marie-Ange Maignan in collaboration with Marie Madeleine Fontaine, Geneva, Droz, 2015 (title with pun on printemps "Frühling" and hiver "Winter").
literature
- Marie-Ange Maignan, Sur le "Printemps" de Jacques Yver. Etudes de biographie, de sources et d'expressions , Thèse 3e Cycle, Sorbonne 1981 (supervised by Robert Aulotte )
Manual literature
- Robert Horville, Le XVIe Siècle 1494-1598, in: Histoire de la littérature française , ed. by Henri Mitterand, Paris 1988, pp. 125–234 (here: p. 221).
- Marie Madeleine Fontaine, “Yver, Jacques”, in: Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Paris 1994, pp. 2061-2062 (Bouquins series).
Web links
- Literature by and about Jacques Yver in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Jacques Yver in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yver, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French narrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1520 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niort |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1572 |
| Place of death | Niort |