Rosière

A rosière is an young girl whom one rewards, in certain French villages, for its reputation Vertu euse.

Instituted, according to the legend, by Holy Medard at the end of the 5th century, the festival of the rosière was born with Salency. She consists of the handing-over of a pink crown of S with the young girl whose irreproachable control, the virtue, piety and modesty had marked the village.

The first rosière would have been the sister of Medard saint. The tradition remained all the June 5th (or around the Pentecost) until our days in several villages.

In 1769, Charles-Simon Favart makes represent with Fontainebleau then with the Commedia dell'Arte Rosière de Salency , Op3era Comique followed by a Ballet, whose music is due to Blaise, Philidor, Monsigny and Duni. The topic will be taken again in 1774 by André Grétry, on a booklet altered by Masson de Pezay.

At the 19th century, to celebrate its accession with the throne then the victory of Austerlitz, Napoleon issues that poor and virtuous young girls will be equipped by the State and will be married. In 1810, to celebrate its weddings with Marie-Louise of Austria, the emperor orders that, in all the country, 6.000 soldiers are married with these young girls of good morality.

Guy of Maupassant in particular wrote the rose tree of Mrs Husson , news in which “rose tree” gets along like the male equivalent of “rosière”.

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