Nicolas Bourbon (1503-1550)

Biography

It starts very young person to versify in Latin. One of its first poems, De Ferraria , refers to its origins and its birthplace of Vandeuvre, known as of the 15th century for its forging mills where balls of gun were manufactured.

Bourbon étoit wire of a main rich person of the forging mills, which gave him place to publish its poëme forging mill, in Latin ferraria . He describes in this work all, & the occupation forging of the workmen who coupoient wood, which faisoient coal, which fouilloient the mine, which nettoyoient it, which voituroient it with the furnace for the founder, & for the blacksmiths; he puts them all in action, & he leaves with his father only the care to pay them & take care on the product.

He is tutor in several big families, of which that of the cardinal of Tournon. He teaches humanities with Amiens, Langres and Troyes. He makes appear his first poetries in 1529 in a collection entitled Vandoperani, campani, epigrammata where mix with the epigrams, the canticles, the dialogs and the epistles. In 1533, it connects with the first edition of its Nugae , or Bagatelles , which attracts on him the lightnings of the religious authorities. This book indeed contains a part, In laudem Dei optimi maximi , in which Nicolas Bourbon, without going until adhering to the ideas Luther, is favorable to the reform. Moreover, one believes to detect there spades against frightening the No5el Béda, syndic of the Sorbonne and large destroyer of heretics. It of it is enough so that Nicolas Bourbon is thrown in prison. In spite of the calls which it launches to its many guards and in spite of a command of the king to put “out of the Borbonius prisons”, its release is made wait. He then addresses a petition to the cardinal Jean of Lorraine:

In Jean, cardinal of Lorraine, hero full with kindness. The prince at one time learned that I had been connected in a dungeon, although innocent, and that I was accused of no crime. He was moved and ordered to put to me promptly in freedom, to be returned with my studies and my pupils. He gave this order, but that to which he gave it still holds me in prison, and does not count for nothing the orders King. But you, star bursting of nobility of our century, to which it is constant that the King can nothing refuse, requests it for me, and I hope that you will make me free before the pain did not destroy my body. God will return to you with wear this benefit and you will test the recognition of my MUSE.

Finally released by François I {{er}}, towards the beginning of the year 1535, it passes in England. It profits there from the protection of Anne Boleyn, former lady-in-waiting of Claude of France and second woman of Henri VIII. Itself partisane of a moderated evangelic reform, it helps Nicolas Bourbon to find an use of tutor. He meets in his entourage Hans Holbein the Young person, who then accomplishes its second stay at the court of England and which draws its portrait. Nicolas Bourbon, who dedicates a great admiration to him, names it the “Apelle our time”.

Of return in France in 1536, Nicolas Bourbon settles with Lyon, where he attends the group of poets and humanistic initially joined together around Etienne Dolet and known under the name of Lyons school, among which appear inter alia Jean Visagier, Eustorg de Beaulieu, Gilbert Ducher, Symphorien Champier. Nicolas Bourbon become acquainted there with François Rabelais, him also victim of contentions with the religious authorities as of the publication of Pantagruel in 1532, to which it addresses this exhortation:

Goes, works, baits themselves with the work; neither cease nor respite before to have conquered your place with the sun. Thus you will show yourself a man. Thus you will become a second myself. Sicvir, siceris alter ego!

In 1538, Nicolas Bourbon makes appear an 2nd edition of its Nugae , increased many parts but reduced of its epistles compromising. Then, towards 1540, it enters the house of Marguerite de Navarre like tutor of her daughter, Jeanne d' Albret. Undoubtedly it then meets other poets who revolve around the queen, such Clément Marot who, among the preliminary texts of sound Adolescence clementine , had placed an epigram of “Bourbon, said Borbonius, Lyons poet”.

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