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Jean Lemaire de Belges (c.
1473 – c.
1525) was a
Walloon poet and historian who lived primarily in
France.
He was born in
Hainaut (Hainault), the godson and possibly a nephew of
Jean Molinet, and spent some time with him at
Valenciennes, where the elder writer held a kind of academy of poetry. Lemaire in his first poems calls himself a disciple of Molinet. In certain aspects he does belong to the school of the
grands rhétoriqueurs ("rhetoricians"), but his great merit as a poet is that he emancipated himself from the affectations of his masters. This independence of the
Flemish school he owed in part perhaps to his studies at the
University of Paris and to the study of the
Italian poets at
Lyon, a centre of the French
Renaissance. In
1504 he was attached to the court of
Margaret of Austria, duchess of
Savoy, afterwards
Regent of the
Netherlands. For this princess he undertook more than one mission to
Rome where he came into contact with the culture of the Italian
Renaissance; he became her librarian and a canon of Valenciennes. To her were addressed his most original poems,
Lettres de l'amant vert, the
amant vert (green lover) being a green parrot belonging to his patroness. This latter piece was subsequently utilised in the sublimely melancholic Soubz ce tumbel (Within this tomb) by
Pierre de la Rue. It is an intense elegiac farewell to Margaret's 'green lover'.
Within this tomb, which is a harsh, locked cell,
Lies the green lover, the very worthy slave
Whose noble heart, drunk with true, pure love,
Losing its lady, can't bear to live.
Lemaire gradually became more French in his sympathies, eventually entering the service of
Anne of Brittany, wife of
Louis XII, and supporting Louis's ambitions to create a church relatively independent of the
Pope. His prose
Illustrations de Gaule et singularitez de Troye (
1510-
1514), largely adapted from
Benoit de Sainte More, is a novel-like history that connects the
Burgundian royal house with
Hector using fictional characters.
Lemaire probably died before
1525.
Étienne Pasquier,
Pierre de Ronsard and
Joachim du Bellay all acknowledged their indebtedness to him. In his love for antiquity, his sense of rhythm, and even the peculiarities of his vocabulary he anticipated the humanist movement led by Du Bellay and Ronsard, the
Pléiade.
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