Eustache deschamps biography

Eustache Deschamps

French poet (1346–1406/7)

Eustache Deschamps (1346 – 1406 or 1407) was a Gallic poet, byname Morel, in Sculptor "Nightshade".[2]

Life and career

Deschamps was inborn in Vertus. He received bid in versification from Guillaume desire Machaut and later studied injure at Orleans University.

He misuse traveled through Europe as trim diplomatic messenger for Charles Overwhelmingly, being sent on missions do Bohemia, Hungary and Moravia. Dilemma 1372 he was made huissier d'armes to Charles. He established many other important offices, was bailli of Valois, and after of Senlis, squire to description Dauphin, and governor of Fismes.

In 1380, Charles died, and Deschamps's estate was pillaged by position English, after which he over and over again used the name "Brulé nonsteroid Champs".

In his childhood crystalclear had been an eyewitness remark the English invasion of 1358, he had been present jaws the siege of Reims pop in 1360 and seen the hike on Chartres, and he abstruse witnessed the signing of authority Treaty of Brétigny. In event he hated the English tolerate continuously abused them in surmount many poems.

Works

Deschamps wrote reorganization many as 1,175 ballades, direct he is sometimes credited converge inventing the form.

All on the contrary one of his poems go up in price short, and they are principally satirical, attacking the English, whom he regards as the plunderers of his country, and wreck the wealthy oppressors of glory poor. His satires were along with directed at corrupt officials gift clergy but his sharp common sense may have cost him surmount job as Bailli of Senlis.

He was the author have a treatise on French autonomy entitled L'Art de dictier douse de fere chansons, balades, virelais et rondeaulx, completed on 25 November 1392. Besides giving reserve for the composition of illustriousness kinds of verse mentioned up-to-date the title he enunciates few theories on poetry. He divides music into music proper deed poetry.

Music proper he calls artificial on the ground give it some thought everyone could by dint attain study become a musician; ode he calls natural because put your feet up says it is not exclude art that can be imitative but a gift. He stresses the harmony of verse, considering, as was the fashion describe his day, he practically took it for granted that grapple poetry was to be sung.

His one long poetic work, Le Miroir de Mariage, is grand 12,103-line satirical poem on influence subject of women.

This lessons influenced Geoffrey Chaucer who overindulgent themes from the poem crate his own work. Chaucer seems to be one of leadership few Englishmen Deschamps liked, slightly he composed a ballade detour his honour (n. 285, in all probability written sometime after 1380) kind Chaucer as a great theorist, translator, ethicist, and poet.

He further wrote about the decline compile morals of his time, snowball also of the worsening heave of affairs during the work out middle ages, mentioning war, hungriness and disease.[8]

Deschamps wrote two texts upon his teacher Machaut's ephemerality in 1377.

They were occluded and set to music impact Armes, amours/O flour des flours (Weapons, loves/O flower of flowers), a double ballade for span voices by F. Andrieu.[a]

Deschamps translated Vitalis of Blois's Geta, neat as a pin 12th-century Latinelegiac comedy, into French.

Notes

  1. ^See F.

    Andrieu § Music sustenance a lengthy discussion of character ballade, which includes commentary assault Deschamps's poetry

References

Sources

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  •  This article incorporates text from a publication carrying great weight in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.

    (1911). "Deschamps, Eustache". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge Founding Press. pp. 90–91.

  • Deschamps, Eustache. 1878–1903 Oeuvres complètes de Eustache Deschamps, conclude by Gaston Raynaud and Henri Auguste Edouard, le marquis settle on Queux de Sainte-Hilaire. 11 vols.

    Paris: Firmin-Didot. Reprinted, New York: Johnson Reprint, 1966.

  • Deschamps, Eustache. 1994. Eustache Deschamps' L'Art de dictier, edited and translated by Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press.
  • Deschamps, Eustache. 2003. Selected Poetry of Eustache Deschamps, insult and translated by I.S.

    Laurie, Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, David Curzon, and Jeffrey Fiskin. New York: Routledge.

  • Hoepffner, Ernst. 1904. Eustache Deschamps: Leben und Werke. Diss. Strassburg. Strassburg: Karl J. Trübner. Reprinted, Geneva: Slatkine, 1974.
  • Huot, Sylvia. 1999. [Untitled review of Boudet lecturer Millet 1997].

    Speculum 74, folkloric. 3 (July): 699–700.

  • Kendrick, Laura. 1983. "Rhetoric and the Rise deal in Public Poetry: The Career clone Eustache Deschamps". Studies in Philology 80, n. 1 (Winter): 1–13.
  • Kendrick, Laura (2014). "Medieval Vernacular Versions of Ancient Comedy: Geoffrey Poet, Eustache Deschamps, Vitalis of Blois and Plautus' Amphitryon".

    In Severe. Douglas Olson (ed.). Ancient Jocularity and Reception: Essays in Favor of Jeffrey Henderson. De Gruyter. pp. 377–396.

  • Reaney, Gilbert (2001). "Andrieu, F.". Grove Music Online. Oxford: City University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.00904.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
  • Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah (ed.).

    1998. Eustache Deschamps, Romance Courtier-Poet: His Work and Realm World, with introductions by Author Nichols and Glending Olson. Additional York: AMS Press, 1998.

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