 | 9484. Francois Malherbe mort en 1628
Delpeck François de Malherbe was born in Caen in 1555 ; he died in Paris in 1628. Although it lived the greatest part of its existence in XVIe century, it is considered that it belongs rather to XVIIe.
After having finished its studies, it enters to the service of bastard of the king Henri II, the duke of Angouleme ; when this one is named governor of Provence, the young poet follows it to Aix-en-Provence, where it resides during twenty years : he y Marie, dream with his descent, frequent of the enlightened characters and composes of the worms. The death of Henri of Angouleme, in 1586, does not change of anything its way of living ; remaining sometimes in Provence, sometimes in Normandy, it continues to write, with the difference which it then starts to acquire a certain reputation like poet.
In 1600, a turning occurs in its career : Marie de Médicis is of passage in Aix, and Malherbe greets its entry in the city and the welcome in France with its Ode with the queen wishes him. Here it is definitively left the darkness. It goes to Paris in 1605, is received by the king, who orders a poem to him to celebrate one of his campaigns : it will be the Prayer for King Henri the Great energy in
The Limousin, which causes at Henri IV so much admiration that it names his ordinary gentleman author of the Room to keep it at his sides.
It touches from now on a pension and sings the events of the kingdom, the merits of Marie de Médicis, her son, the cardinal of Richelieu, writes some parts of love and paraphrase the psalms. It is received in the very good company of the time, and it has enthusiastic disciples, like Racan. It writes little, but its poetry and its theories have such a radiation that the other poets, in their works, are obliged either to conform to its principles, or to react against them.
It knows glory, at the end of its life, but the destiny sends a terrible test to him, because his/her son, in 1627, is killed during a duel, without its assassins being punished. He dies besides itself the following year. Without a mount: 200mm x 260mm.
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