Honore d\' Urfé

Biography

Born with Marseilles in a noble family originating in the Drill allied Maison of Savoy by his/her mother (Renee of Savoy-Tightens) then come with Marignane to treat its businesses with Francoise de Foix, Honore d' Urfé makes his study S at the Jésuites. Man of action, it takes party for the catholic Ligue and remains forever faithful to the duke of Nemours.

The December 2nd 1592, the duke of Nemours takes Montbrison (the Loire). Honore recovers then to the service from the duke and breaks with Anne d' Urfé, Baillif of Forez, which consequently tries to pacify the province. At its exit of Prison, the July 26th 1594, Nemours names Honore “lieutenant-general with the government of Drill”.

In 1600, the February 15th, Honore returns in Forez to marry Diane de Châteaumorand, her sister-in-law, after the cancellation of its marriage with Anne d' Urfé.

Author of a pastoral poem, undoubtedly written towards 1604 Sireine , it defends the Platonic theories of the love in the Épîtres morals (1603).

He founds, towards 1606/1607, with his friends Antoine Favre, François Dirty and Claude Favre de Vaugelas, the Académie florimontane, the first learned society of Savoy. He is especially known for his invaluable novel Astrée , partly autobiographical novel of adventures published between 1607 and 1633. This unfinished work, published in four parts between 1607 and 1627, falls under the tradition of the novels hellenistic, Virgile and the courteous poets.

Astrée comprises more than 5.000 pages, that is to say five parts divided each one into 12 pounds. The first three parts are published in 1607, 1610, and 1619 and when of Urfé dies in 1625, its secretary Balthazar Baro would have completed the fourth part and a continuation would have given him (1632 - 1633).

According to Larousse (1863), the fifth and sixth parts would have been composed by Pierre Boitel, sior of Gaubertin, and are published in 1626. It is one of most considerable successes of the century, which will not have a true posterity in the kind of the pastoral novel, but a considerable influence on the novel, the Théâtre (Molière), the opera and mentalities. The impact of this novel is still felt today since the porcelains with green glaze, at the origin coming from China and of Korea, are still called céladons nowadays, to remember it the name of the second character of this novel which was always out of clothes decorated with ribbons tender green. This " influence" be exerted including in the Anglo-Saxon world.

The episodes of this love story were nourished few last years in area forézienne where the family of Urfé, installed about the year 1000 with the top of Champoly, had built in the plain of the Lignon of Drill the Bastie d' Urfé, the first of the castles known as “Renaissance”.

It also left a collection of poems Savoysiade (1609), pastoral in five acts Sylvanire or the Dead lives (1625).

He dies during a military campaign, in 1625, during which he carries out the Savoyard troops of the duke Charles-Emmanuel Ier of Savoy against the Spaniards.

Works

1583 : triumphing It entered over Magdeleine of Rochefocaud with Tournon
1603: Epistles morals
1604: Sireine
1607: Astrée
1609: Savoysiade
1625: Sylvanire or the Dead lives

Works on line

triumphing It entered over Magdeleine of Rochefocaud with Tournon Lyon: J. Pillehotte, 1583
the epistres morals of the lord of Urfé Lyon: Jaques Roussin, 1598
the sireine of lord Paris: at J. Micard, 1606
Astrée Paris: 1607,1610, 1619sq., online edition of the first three parts by Reinhard Krüger, Boen on Lignon/Stuttgart: University of Stuttgart 2006
Sylvanire, or It dead-sharp, fable of the woodlands Paris: R. Whip, 1627
traditional Theater: Sylvanire, or It dead-sharp, fable of the woodlands in corrected text mode and compared with the edition Honore Champion (2002).

Internal bonds

Astrée , its work majeure
Built of Urfé (the Loire)-->

External bonds

Biography
Text on Honore d' Urfé
Honore d' Urfé on site CÉSAR

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