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MAYNARD François (1582-1646) Poète, membre fondateur de l'Académie françai

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MAYNARD François (1582-1646) Poète, membre fondateur de l'Académie française

Very rare manuscripts, including a poem to the glory of Mazarin, protector of the Academy. A quatrain is first dedicated to the chancellor SÉGUIER : " Puis que le Grand Seguier fait un si bon accueil au travail mesuré qui sorti de mon estude "... Then a sonnet is addressed to MAZARIN (with erasure and correction in the 8th verse) : " Jule, puis qu'a l'honneur des filles de Memoire Tu remplis ton palais des escris des scavans Ayme l'Academie, elle seme ta gloire Et tous ses Apollons sont des livres vivans. [...] Crown our fights which tame the ignorance Or the future will say that you did not know The flowers and the laurels of the Parnassus of France. On the back, after two crossed-out lines, a secretary has put down a new version of the sonnet to Mazarin. Maynard then composed in his own hand a small light poem (2 quatrains) : " I believe that she writes chickens To tire four secretaries "... The other sheet, on ruled paper coming from the same collection as the letter to president Caminade, presents on the front several epigrams and thoughts (among which quotations of Cicero) : " These ambitious and farded friendships have some clout on the theatre, but they are of no use in the cabinet. [...] It is necessary to be quite filosofe to consider without emotion the public calumnies "... On the back are three epigrams : "Puis quil mesprise Maynard, je luy fairay respondre par Malherbe "... Then Maynard composed a satirical poem on MAZARIN (15 verses): "In Mazarin one sees only merit And who does not like him is a true Muscovite, [...] Light people that a small wind agitates, Monster testu ches which the rage lives, Nas tu pas tort davoir si haut prosné Que le conseil d'un fourbe raffiné Trompe une femme, et qu'Armand [Richelieu] resucite En Mazarin. "

We join 2 other autograph manuscripts of poems : " Jay trop bien dit, jay trop bien deviné "... (fragment of 13 verses, 1 page in-4) | a quatrain : "Adieu pompous demoiselles "... (1 page oblong in-8).