Jean Vauquelin of Fresnaye

Jean Vauquelin of Fresnaye , born with the Fresnaye-with-Savage towards 1536 and died in Caen in 1606 is a poet French.

Jean Vauquelin of Fresnaye made his studies with Paris, then his right to Poitiers and Bourges. After a dissipated youth, it followed some time the military career, combatant in the wars of religion under the orders of the marshal Matignon and wounded with the seat of Saint-Lo in 1574. Then it made a career of magistrate while becoming, under Henri III, general lieutenant in Caen and, under Henri IV, president with the présidial of the same city.

The poets of the Pléiade inspired its poetic vocation with this true country squire, disciple of Ronsard liking non-seulement the forests, the meadows, water and the voice of the nightingales as a poet, but carrying out a rustic life, mixing with the exercises and work with the countryside which, while subscribing to the reforms of the Pléiade, underlined the continuity of the French literary history. Studying Trouvere S and of the old chroniclers, it wished to see the French poetry established on a national basis and, one of the first in France it cultivated the MUSE pastoral with a feeling, a naturalness and a true talent. Its Foresteries , which it started to publish in the twenty years age (1555), has already qualities which are found more complete in its Idillies . It chooses this title, “of as much, says it, that it means and represents only various small images and engravings in the semblance of those which one engraves with lapis lazuli, with the gems and chalcedonies to be used sometimes as seal. Mine in the kind, full with love childish, are only imagettes and small shelves of imaginations of love. ” Some of the Idillies offer these licentious expressions which authorized then the Gallic speech; others are simply naive and of a rural good-naturedness, and tend, like known as the author, to represent “Nature out of shirt”.

Vauquelin exposed its sights in poetic Art of Vauquelin of Fresnaye: where one can notice the Perfection and the Defect of Old and Modern Poetries undertaken in 1574 at the request of Henri III, but not published until in 1605, of a a little hard, but interesting style by boldnesses of ideas, and where he asks a Christian Parnassus to replace old mythology. He wrote, with the imitation Horace, Satire S, which one would more precisely name epistle S, as firmly thought and better written as poetic Art , and whose he formulated the laws in the Discours to be used as Foreword on the Subject of the Satyr in 1604 - 5, which make school. One still has of Vauquelin: Sonnets religious and political, whose feeling is high. The Œuvres of Fresnaye were joined together several times after its death (Caen, 1605, 1612, in-8°).

He is the father of Nicolas Vauquelin Of Yveteaux.

Extract

Lord, I did not cease, as of the flower of my age,

to pile up on my sins boss above sins;

Of the gifts that you had me inside the heart hidden,

Plaisant, I made use of it with my disadvantage.

Now that snow covered my face,

That my most beautiful meadows are faded and mown,

And that already so much of years my desiccated nerves have,

Me ramentai evil of my unsteady age.

does not give up me: in its oldest years,

the wise king of the Jews adored false gods,

to take pleasure in the desire of the foreign women.

Tired! make that with your honor I can spare

the remainder of my years, without you me foreign

And without taking pleasure with the untrue fables.

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