Prières Dans Maria Chapdelaine

love, nature, and rhetorical but excessively deferential addresses to great persons and to Louis XIV in particular) and the predictable and interchangeable odes, elegies, chansons, eclogues, madrigals, rondeaux, ballades, épîtres, idylls, portraits, prières, lettres and billets. The most admired lyric poet was Madame des Houlières (1638–94), author of a tragedy, Genséric, and winner of the first poetry prize awarded by the Académie Française in 1671. Detached in tone even when in playful mood, she rarely