Eustace Deschamps

Biography

Eustace Deschamps is of blood noble but of modest origin. He received an important intellectual formation: he studied the right to the university of Orleans thanks to sponsorship of Guillaume de Machaut, canon of the cathedral of Rheims. Eustace, child, have food in this medium of the capitulary schools. Thus this rider received a clerical formation intellectual quite higher than that of large the Noble S of his time. Then it Marie between 1366 and 1373. Three known children were born from this union. It begins its career with the service of its natural lords before entering to the service of the king. In 1375 he is baillif de Valois i.e. agent of the Duke Philippe of Orleans, brother of Jean the Good. In this political circle he attends the officers and rejoined royal advisers with Charles V. Its material situation is average until in 1389 where it receives the post of baillif de Senlis. It occupied of important functions at the court of France: he was royal messenger, usher of weapons of Charles V, rider of the Dauphin, baillif of Senlis, Master of National Forestry Commission to Villers-Cotterêts and general of finances. He travelled much and knew all the great men of his time, in particular Charles V, Charles VI, Of Guesclin, the duke Louis of Orleans. This is why of its immense work (80.000 worms), historical poetries are most interesting. They are his/her Marmousets friends who recovered the manuscripts of the author to make them copy and transmit the work of Deschamps to the posterity.

Work

The Dictionnaire Bouillet looks it at the 19th century like the creator of the ballade and the drinking song.

Most famous is the ballade On the demise of Bertrand Of Guesclin . It also composed a great number of satirical poetries and morals, where it attacks the Church, the State, the financial ones and especially women. Lastly, it left a kind of Art poetic, under the title art to dictate and of fere let us chançons, ballades, virelais and rondos (1362).

Its widest work is entitled: Mirror of the marriage , extremely hostile satire with the women.

He wrote a great number of fables; Jean of the Fountain imitated of it some, in particular the Cicada and the Ant and the Conseil held by the Rats .

Ballade on the demise of Bertrand Of Guesclin

Tuck of honor and tree of valiancy,

Lion-hearted enthusiast of hardement,

the flower of the valiant knights and the glory of France,

Victorieuux and bold Wise combatant,

in your facts and well undertaking,

Sovereign man of war,

Victorious people and the ground conqueror,

most valiant which onques was in life,

Each one for you must black dress and querre:

Cry, cry, flower of knighthood.

O Brittany, cries your hope,

Normandy, make its burial,

Guyenne also, and Auvergne gold advances you,

And Languedoc, quier him his monument.

Picardy, Champagne and Occident

Must to cry aquerre

Tragédiens, Aréthusa requerre

Which into eaue by tear was converted,

So that with all of its death the heart tightens:

Cry, cry, flower of knighthood.

He! men-at-arms, have in remembrance

Your father - you were his/her children -

the good Bertrand, who such an amount of had puissane,

Which loved you so lovingly;

Guesclin requested: request

dévotement That it puist paradise conquerre;

Which mourning do not make any and which does not request, he wanders,

Car of the world is the failed light:

Of any honor was the line tightens:

Cry, cry, flower of knighthood.

Publications

the National library of France has all its works in manuscript.
Georges-Adrien Crapelet published in 1832 a choice of its poetries, which was supplemented in 1850 by Prosper Tarbé.

Under the direction of Jean-Patrice Boudet and Helene Millet Eustace Deschamps in his time , Publications of the Sorbonne, Paris, 1997. Collection of 70 poems classified by topics with a comment, notes translating the difficult words, summarized poems… realized by historians and specialists in the literature

Partial source

external bond

Some poems
complete Works, on Gallica

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