François de Malherbe

François de Malherbe , born with Caen in 1555 and died in Paris in 1628, is a Poète French.

Biography

François de Malherbe was born in Caen in 1555, resulting from a noble family, it stuck, at the 19 years age with Henri of Angouleme, wire naturalness of Henri II, and large Prieur of France. He fought in the rows of the Ligue, before marrying and fixing themselves at Aix-en-Provence. Called in Paris for its businesses in 1585, it accepted pensions of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis. The only son who remained to him, Marc-Antoine Malherbe, was killed in 1627 with Cadenet by Covet of Marignane, in a duel. Malherbe died the following year in Paris.

Work

Poetic and linguistic contribution

To purify and discipline the French language were the work of its life. It expresses for that a great severity with regard to the Maniérisme and of the Baroque of the poets of the previous century and in particular of Philippe Desportes. One can regard it as the first theorist of the classic art made of measurement and propriety and one of the reformers of the French language. It was for that one of the authors most constantly republished during the Ancien Mode.

The homage which addressed to him Boileau (“Finally Malherbe came…,”) expresses this debt of the traditional writers. Today this Hémistiche passed in the Langue to greet the advent of a progress, of a reform.

Having, even with the King, his outspokenness, he answered one day this last:

Some absolute that you are, you would know, Lord, neither to abolish nor to establish a word, if the use does not authorize it.

Malherbe, this pessimist, was hardly made illusion on its state and said but

it was a stupidity to make the trade of rhymester who a poet was not more useful for the State than a good player of skittles.

Tallemant of Réaux, which described it like “lout and uncivil”, has well depicts the character “maniac” of its obsession for the purity of the language. He said his enemies “that, if he put himself at it, he would make their faults of the books larger than their same books”. Some always refused, for this reason, to submit their writings for his approval because “it was only one tyrant, and that it cut down the spirit with people”. Among those which were risked there nevertheless, “He says to a man who showed him a malicious poem where there had as a title: POUR ROI, that there was to only add: POUR SE TORCHER CUL. Even, “one hour before to die, it awoke as in start of a great drowsiness, to take again its hostess, who was used to him as guard, of a word which was not quite French, to her liking; and as its confessor wanted some to make him reprimand, he says to him that he had not been able to prevent himself some, and that he had wanted until death to maintain the purity of the French language. ”

Quotation

And, pink, it lived what the pinks

live the one morning space.

( Consolation with Mr. of Périer ).

These two famous worms have a history: initially, Malherbe had written Rosette lived… , using the first name of the girl of Mr. of Périer. The correction - very happy - worms with the profit of this affixing ( pink, it lived… ) testifies to the ceaseless preoccupation with a perfection expressed by Malherbe. For the little story, when Malherbe published this Consolation , of Périer time remarier had had and to have two other children.

Composed towards 1600, these worms which count among mélodieux of the French Poésie are not without pointing out the pinks of Pierre de Ronsard.

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