Marie de France (poetess)

Its life

It is the first woman writer Frenchwoman, but almost nothing it is known, if it is only it writes itself in the epilog of its Fables: " Marie have num, if sui of France" (I have as a name Marie and I am of France). Probably living in England, related to the court of Henri II Plantagenêt and Aliénor of Aquitaine (its Alluviums are dedicated to a king, undoubtedly Henri II), it was to be originating in Ile-de-France.

Writing

Poetess, it gathers news in worms coming from the old Breton traditions, to which it gives the name of Lais . Alluviums or Tales (v. 1160-1175) are a collection of twelve short accounts into octosyllabic to rhymes punts, of variable size (of the 118 worms of Chèvrefeuille to the 1184 worms of Eliaduc) which is with the Breton novels what the news will be later with the novels. Marie known as to have written and " assemblés" its texts starting from " alluvium bretons". Only one of these alluviums is strictly speaking arthurien, the Lay one of Lanval. The love, generally in margin of the company (nine of twelve alluviums tell hybrid loves), is the principal subject of the collection: shortest but perhaps most beautiful of these texts, the Lay one of chèvrefeuille, refers thus to the history of Tristan and Iseut. Several alluviums utilize the marvellous one, but all have nevertheless the real-world for backdrop.

Marie de France, with a talent of storyteller, adds a courteous and poetic tonality to the magic of the matter of Brittany. A discrete emotion emerges from accounts where the author privileges pity and the compassion for his characters. Its style of a great saving in means, is characterized by sobriety in the composition of the account, a very sure art of the setting in scene and the effectiveness of a simple and limpid language.

In addition to Alluviums, Marie de France is also the author of a collection of Fables (between 1167 and 1189) which is the first known French adaptation of the esopic fables, and the espurgatoire of Patrice saint, who proposes a detailed evocation of the sufferings of the Purgatory, and falls under the tradition of the voyages towards Beyond.

Works

a collection of twelve alluviums which can be classified in two categories: fairy-like alluviums ( Lanval , Yonec …) and realistic alluviums ( Eliduc , Laostic …).
Lay of Lay Yonec
of Lay Ash
of Chaitivel (the Unhappy one)
Lay of Lay Lanval
of Lay Milun
Lay of the two Lovers
of Lay Eliduc
of Lay Bisclavret
of Lay Guigemar
of Lay Equitan
of Chèvrefeuille
the Lay werewolf

of Lay Laostic or of the eostic (of the Breton eostig = “nightingale”)

Fables (Ysopet of the Greek writer Ésope)) The espurgatoire of Patrice saint

Appendix

A school (French) was founded (international College Marie de France), in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

External bonds

Bibliography, Files of literature of the Middle Ages (ARLIMA)
Text of the '' Lais ''
'' International Marie de France Society ''

Simple: Marie off France

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