Fusion Entre Bouffon Et Tragique Dans Lorenzaccio

grandeur much admired by Goethe and Byron. But the greatest of the century’s epic poems was Les Tragiques, in seven cantos, by Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552– 1630). After a neo-Petrarchist debut, quickly repudiated, d’Aubigné became one of the most militant Huguenot apologists and a scourge of monarchs. Begun in 1577 and published in 1616, when it made little impact in the new age of Malherbe, Les Tragiques is a savage denunciation of the enemies of the Reformation and shows the triumph of the true faith