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Des fleurs et des pleurs
« Ô douce Poésie !
Couvre de quelques fleurs
La triste fantaisie
Qui fait couler mes pleurs. »
« Les Séparés », « La Sincère », « L’Oreiller d’une petite fille », « La Madone des champs », « Rêve intermittent d’une nuit triste »… Cette anthologie vous fera (re)découvrir des thèmes chers à Marceline Desbordes-Valmore : l’innocence de l’enfance, la nostalgie de l’amour, la peur de la perte, la communion avec la nature, la beauté et la fragilité de la vie.
Aux prémices du romantisme français, la poétesse offre une ode à la sensibilité et au partage des émotions, dédiée à ceux et « celles qui pleurent » et aiment intensément.
Couvre de quelques fleurs
La triste fantaisie
Qui fait couler mes pleurs. »
« Les Séparés », « La Sincère », « L’Oreiller d’une petite fille », « La Madone des champs », « Rêve intermittent d’une nuit triste »… Cette anthologie vous fera (re)découvrir des thèmes chers à Marceline Desbordes-Valmore : l’innocence de l’enfance, la nostalgie de l’amour, la peur de la perte, la communion avec la nature, la beauté et la fragilité de la vie.
Aux prémices du romantisme français, la poétesse offre une ode à la sensibilité et au partage des émotions, dédiée à ceux et « celles qui pleurent » et aiment intensément.
96 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2023
About the author
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
175 books36 followersMarceline Desbordes-Valmore (June 20, 1786 – July 23, 1859) was a French poet.
She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore.
She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819. Her melancholy, elegiacal poems are admired for their grace and profound emotion.
Marceline appeared as an actress and singer in Douai, Rouen, the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where she notably played Rosine in Beaumarchais's Le Barbier de Séville. She retired from the stage in 1823. She later became friends with the novelist Honoré de Balzac, and he once wrote that she was an inspiration for the title character of La Cousine Bette.
Her poetry is also known for taking on dark and depressing themes, which reflects her troubled life. She is the only female writer included in the famous Les poètes maudits anthology published by Paul Verlaine in 1884. A volume of her poetry was among the books in Friedrich Nietzsche's library.
She died in Paris.
She was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her family emigrated to Guadeloupe. In 1817 she married her second husband, the actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore.
She published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819. Her melancholy, elegiacal poems are admired for their grace and profound emotion.
Marceline appeared as an actress and singer in Douai, Rouen, the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, where she notably played Rosine in Beaumarchais's Le Barbier de Séville. She retired from the stage in 1823. She later became friends with the novelist Honoré de Balzac, and he once wrote that she was an inspiration for the title character of La Cousine Bette.
Her poetry is also known for taking on dark and depressing themes, which reflects her troubled life. She is the only female writer included in the famous Les poètes maudits anthology published by Paul Verlaine in 1884. A volume of her poetry was among the books in Friedrich Nietzsche's library.
She died in Paris.
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May 20, 2023
Tout douuuuuux
January 20, 2025
Un recueil qui permet de découvrir cette poétesse romantique un peu oubliée, à l'œuvre parcourue par des émotions exaltées, de l'amour de la piété et beaucoup de deuils. J'ai été peu touchée par le style lyrique, mais plus convaincue par les poèmes les plus simples et les plus puissants.
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