Madeleine Des Roches
Madeleine Des Roches , b. Madeleine Neveu (* 1520 at Châtellerault , † in the autumn of 1587 in Poitiers ) was a French writer and salonnière . She and her daughter Catherine Des Roches were among the most respected women in France in the second half of the 16th century.
Life
Around 1539 she married André Fradonnet, seigneur Des Roches, and had three children, only Catherine of whom survived childhood. Widowed at an early age, she married François Eboissard, a respected lawyer from Poitiers, in 1550, through whom she gained access to the city's humanistically educated circles. From 1570 she and her 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-comic verses.
Since their daughter never married, they 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)
They wrote epistles , odes , sonnets , blasons , other forms of poetry and some dialogues in verse or prose. 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.
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, Madeleine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neveu, Madeleine (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and salonnière |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1520 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Châtellerault |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1587 |
| Place of death | Poitiers |