Misères Agrippa D Aubigné

the lighter poems of the Mélanges (1556). In 1560 he published the first Édition collective, but in the changed political climate his work to the mid-1560s turned increasingly ceremonial and public, as in the Discours (1562–3) which deplored ‘les misères de ce temps’ from a Catholic standpoint. He replied vigorously to his Protestant critics but also published the buoyant Nouvelles poésies (1563–4). 60 THE RENAISSANCE By the mid-1560s, he was at the height of his fame, the ‘poet of princes’