Cinq méditations sur la mort (LITT.GENERALE) (French Edition)

Cinq-Mars or a Conspiracy Under Louis XIII

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Paperback , pages. Published May 25th by Nabu Press first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. The first historical novel, and one of the first Romantic novels, in French literature, obviously imitating the style of Sir Walther Scott, this is the story of the actual conspiracy of the Marquis de Cinq-Mars against Cardinal Richelieu.

Like the other earlier Romantics other than Stendhal such as Novalis and Lamartine, de Vigny is a Royalist who idealizes the feudalism of the Middle Ages, and thus sees the conspiracies of the suppressed feudal nobles as a good thing, and the centralizing t The first historical novel, and one of the first Romantic novels, in French literature, obviously imitating the style of Sir Walther Scott, this is the story of the actual conspiracy of the Marquis de Cinq-Mars against Cardinal Richelieu.

Like the other earlier Romantics other than Stendhal such as Novalis and Lamartine, de Vigny is a Royalist who idealizes the feudalism of the Middle Ages, and thus sees the conspiracies of the suppressed feudal nobles as a good thing, and the centralizing tendencies of Richelieu as totally wrong and evil, as leading to the undermining of the monarchy itself and eventually the French Revolution. Which they did, and of course that was progressive, despite the many admittedly evil things that Richelieu did -- like any politician of the time. De Vigny's version of the politics of the period influenced the less serious but much more popular novels of Alexandre Dumas, such as Les trois mousquetaires and its sequels although in his last, unfinished novel, Le Sphinx rouge , Dumas reverses this and treats Richelieu as the hero and the Queen and the duc d'Orleans as the villains, probably a more historically accurate version.

De Vigny changes some of the facts and of course makes a love story the basic motivation for the conspiracy; but the novel is well-written and more worth reading than Novalis or Lamartine. The version I read, the eleventh edition printed in during de Vigny's lifetime contains his "Reflexions sur la verite de l'art" as a preface and his reception discourse when he was elected to the Academie as an appendix; it also has his notes to the book.

There is no preface or introduction or other material by anyone else. Mar 15, Laura marked it as to-read Recommends it for: Tome 1 of 2 Free download available at Project Gutenberg. Tome 2 of 2 Free download available at Project Gutenberg. Cependant, il n'est pas un. En plus, contrairement a D'Artagnan, Cinq-Mars est plutot antipathique.

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Enfin, c'est roman historique avec un fort empreinte du Romantisme allemand. Neanmoins, sa lecture est loin d'etre une experience joyeuse. Nov 19, Annabelle rated it liked it. The book is hard to follow, very romantic with exquisite detail of settings, and satire of the pomposity of uniforms and supposed prestige of ranks. Cinq Mars is in love with a young princess befriended by his family, he must go prove himself and Richelieu sets him up to be favored by Louis XIII thinking he can control him.

Mars has a joie de vivre and great courage, does well in battle and in duels. Eventually he tries to do a deal with Spain to disempower Richelieu, but people turn on each other, and he is sacrificed. His dear friend goes to death with him, claiming it is for God. All are principled and all end in tragedy with no one being loyal except Cinq Mars. It is an very interesting read, for the style and history, and to capture a romantic reality.

Jan 05, Boban rated it liked it Shelves: De Vigny has some nice style. It starts off very intriguing, like an introduction to a great Romanticism book, however it dwells more into politics after the first pages, mostly about Cardinal Richelieu, and it kinda loses it's touch. Well worth it to read it once, but not a great of a book for sure. Octavian rated it liked it May 31, Victor Maestracci rated it really liked it Jan 02, Sophie rated it really liked it Feb 26, Jean-marie Aubry rated it liked it Dec 03, Genoveva rated it liked it Mar 01, Griffnoir rated it liked it Sep 13, Suffragette rated it it was ok Oct 02, Henry Letham rated it it was amazing Jun 01, Flora rated it really liked it Oct 22, Uros Smoke-g rated it it was amazing Jul 07, Besides, the proof of its positive worth is in all the ill that they speak of it.

The book enrages people. Moreover, since I was terrified myself of the horror that I should inspire, I cut out a third from the proofs. They deny me everything, the spirit of invention and even the knowledge of the French language. I don't care a rap about all these imbeciles, and I know that this book, with its virtues and its faults, will make its way in the memory of the lettered public, beside the best poems of V.

Gautier and even Byron.

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Baudelaire, his publisher and the printer were successfully prosecuted for creating an offense against public morals. They were fined, but Baudelaire was not imprisoned. Another edition of Les Fleurs du mal , without these poems, but with considerable additions, appeared in Many notables rallied behind Baudelaire and condemned the sentence. Victor Hugo wrote to him: I applaud your vigorous spirit with all my might. Nearly years later, on May 11, , Baudelaire was vindicated, the judgment officially reversed, and the six banned poems reinstated in France.

In the poem "Au lecteur" "To the Reader" that prefaces Les Fleurs du mal , Baudelaire accuses his readers of hypocrisy and of being as guilty of sins and lies as the poet:. By , his illnesses, his long-term use of laudanum , his life of stress, and his poverty had taken a toll and Baudelaire had aged noticeably. But at last, his mother relented and agreed to let him live with her for a while at Honfleur. Baudelaire was productive and at peace in the seaside town, his poem Le Voyage being one example of his efforts during that time.

His financial difficulties increased again, however, particularly after his publisher Poulet Malassis went bankrupt in In , he left Paris for Belgium, partly in the hope of selling the rights to his works and also to give lectures. Baudelaire's relationships with actress Marie Daubrun and with courtesan Apollonie Sabatier , though the source of much inspiration, never produced any lasting satisfaction.

He smoked opium , and in Brussels he began to drink to excess. Baudelaire suffered a massive stroke in and paralysis followed. After more than a year of aphasia , he received the last rites of the Catholic Church. Many of Baudelaire's works were published posthumously. After his death, his mother paid off his substantial debts, and at last she found some comfort in Baudelaire's emerging fame. Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.

This obsessive idea is above all a child of giant cities, of the intersecting of their myriad relations.

Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connects it more closely to the work of the contemporary "Parnassians". As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man as typically espoused by the romantics and expressed by them in rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban sensibility, an awareness of individual moral complexity, an interest in vice linked with decadence and refined sensual and aesthetic pleasures, and the use of urban subject matter, such as the city, the crowd, individual passers-by, all expressed in highly ordered verse, sometimes through a cynical and ironic voice.

Beyond his innovations in versification and the theories of symbolism and "correspondences", an awareness of which is essential to any appreciation of the literary value of his work, aspects of his work that regularly receive much critical discussion include the role of women, the theological direction of his work and his alleged advocacy of "satanism", his experience of drug-induced states of mind, the figure of the dandy, his stance regarding democracy and its implications for the individual, his response to the spiritual uncertainties of the time, his criticisms of the bourgeois, and his advocacy of modern music and painting e.

He made Paris the subject of modern poetry. He would bring the city's details to life in the eyes and hearts of his readers. Baudelaire was an active participant in the artistic life of his times. As critic and essayist, he wrote extensively and perceptively about the luminaries and themes of French culture.

He was frank with friends and enemies, rarely took the diplomatic approach and sometimes responded violently verbally, which often undermined his cause. In , Baudelaire became acquainted with the works of Poe , in which he found tales and poems that had, he claimed, long existed in his own brain but never taken shape. Baudelaire saw in Poe a precursor and tried to be his French contemporary counterpart. Baudelaire was not the first French translator of Poe, but his "scrupulous translations" were considered among the best. A strong supporter of the Romantic painter Delacroix , Baudelaire called him "a poet in painting".

Baudelaire also absorbed much of Delacroix's aesthetic ideas as expressed in his journals.

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As Baudelaire elaborated in his "Salon of ", "As one contemplates his series of pictures, one seems to be attending the celebration of some grievous mystery This grave and lofty melancholy shines with a dull light In private correspondence, Delacroix stated that Baudelaire "really gets on my nerves" and he expressed his unhappiness with Baudelaire's persistent comments about "melancholy" and "feverishness".

Baudelaire had no formal musical training, and knew little of composers beyond Beethoven and Weber.

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Weber was in some ways Wagner 's precursor, using the leitmotif and conceiving the idea of the "total art work" "Gesamtkunstwerk" , both of which gained Baudelaire's admiration. Before even hearing Wagner's music, Baudelaire studied reviews and essays about him, and formulated his impressions. Gautier , writer and poet, earned Baudelaire's respect for his perfection of form and his mastery of language, though Baudelaire thought he lacked deeper emotion and spirituality.

Both strove to express the artist's inner vision, which Heinrich Heine had earlier stated: I believe that the artist can not find all his forms in nature, but that the most remarkable are revealed to him in his soul. In gratitude for their friendship and commonality of vision, Baudelaire dedicated Les Fleurs du mal to Gautier.

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Manet and Baudelaire became constant companions from around In the early s, Baudelaire accompanied Manet on daily sketching trips and often met him socially. Manet also lent Baudelaire money and looked after his affairs, particularly when Baudelaire went to Belgium. Baudelaire encouraged Manet to strike out on his own path and not succumb to criticism. But he has a weak character. He seems to me crushed and stunned by shock. Baudelaire praised the modernity of Manet's subject matter: When Baudelaire returned from Belgium after his stroke, Manet and his wife were frequent visitors at the nursing home and she would play passages from Wagner for Baudelaire on the piano.

Baudelaire admired Nadar, one of his closest friends, and wrote: Nadar's ex-mistress Jeanne Duval became Baudelaire's mistress around Baudelaire became interested in photography in the s and, denouncing it as an art form, advocated its return to "its real purpose, which is that of being the servant to the sciences and arts".

Photography should not, according to Baudelaire, encroach upon "the domain of the impalpable and the imaginary".

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Many of Baudelaire's philosophical proclamations were considered scandalous and intentionally provocative in his time. He wrote on a wide range of subjects, drawing criticism and outrage from many quarters. He wants to be 'two'. The man of genius wants to be 'one' It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls 'the need to love'. Only the brute is good at coupling, and copulation is the lyricism of the masses.

To copulate is to enter into another—and the artist never emerges from himself. In his journals, he wrote, "There is no form of rational and assured government save an aristocracy.

A monarchy or a republic, based upon democracy, are equally absurd and feeble. The immense nausea of advertisements. There are but three beings worthy of respect: To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions. Give them only carefully selected garbage. Baudelaire's influence on the direction of modern French and English language literature was considerable.

The most significant French writers to come after him were generous with tributes; four years after his death, Arthur Rimbaud praised him in a letter as 'the king of poets, a true God'.

Marcel Proust , in an essay published in , stated that along with Alfred de Vigny , Baudelaire was 'the greatest poet of the nineteenth century'. In the English-speaking world, Edmund Wilson credited Baudelaire as providing an initial impetus for the Symbolist movement, by virtue of his translations of Poe. Eliot , while asserting that Baudelaire had not yet received a "just appreciation" even in France, claimed that the poet had "great genius" and asserted that his "technical mastery which can hardly be overpraised At the same time that Eliot was affirming Baudelaire's importance from a broadly conservative and explicitly Christian viewpoint, [53] left-wing critics such as Wilson and Walter Benjamin were able to do so from a dramatically different perspective.

Benjamin translated Baudelaire's Tableaux Parisiens into German and published a major essay on translation [54] as the foreword. In the late s, Benjamin used Baudelaire as a starting point and focus for his monumental attempt at a materialist assessment of 19th-century culture, Das Passagenwerk. Poetry Collection in memory of Baudelaire. The Spanglish classic novel Yo-Yo Boing!

The novel The Alice Network by Kate Quinn uses multiple quotes from Les Fleurs du mal as a character development device for the main antagonist and as a metaphor for the women of the Alice Network. Vanderbilt University has "assembled one of the world's most comprehensive research collections on

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