Aloysius Bertrand Gaspard De La Nuit Un Rêve

more sophisticated and serious reflections on death and, above all, to his translations of the Psalms (1541, 1543) which, many times reprinted, became part of the Protestant tradition. After his death, ‘marotique’ poets (like the anti-Neoplatonic Bertrand de la Borderie (c.1507–after 1547) and Charles Fontaine (b. 1514) who made ‘gayeté naturelle’ an essential part of the poet’s make-up) attempted to imitate his manner and achieve comparable success. But they lacked his wit, charm and craft and did