VOITURE Vincent (1597-1648) poète et épistolier, il fut un d - Lot 247

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VOITURE Vincent (1597-1648) poète et épistolier, il fut un d - Lot 247
VOITURE Vincent (1597-1648) poète et épistolier, il fut un des membres fondateurs de l'Académie française [AF 1634, 33e f]. 2 L.A. (minutes, one incomplete from the beginning), Paris 27 February 1648 and n.d., [to Claude de MESMES comte d'AVAUX]; 2 pages in-fol. each. Probably Voiture's very last letter, three months before his death. [These are drafts, the second signed by a farmer; Étienne Martin de Pinchesne (1616-1680), Voiture's nephew, made corrections and additions, crossed out with a stroke of the pen certain passages which have remained unpublished, and made of these two pieces a single letter CCXIX of the "Lettres de Monsieur de Voiture" in the original posthumous edition of the OEuvres de Monsieur de Voiture in 1650 by Augustin Courbé (pp. 787-800). Voiture died on May 24, 1648. Here he alludes to the disgrace of the Count of Avaux, whom Abel Servien's intrigues had sidelined at the end of the Munster negotiations]. "You could not better testify to the good state of your soul than by writing me a letter like the one I have just received; it seems to be drawn from medio de fonte leporum, so pleasant and flowery is it, and it is easy to see that it comes from a serene spirit, and from a quiet source. In truth, my Lord, nothing could do you so much honor in my mind as to see that in the state your affairs are in you know how to laugh in this way; this is called frui diis iratis, and fortunae minaci mandare laqueum; do you remember the time you promised her the Temples, you are well back from this idolatry, and you know how to make fun of her at this time. I believe, however, that she will only threaten you for this time; those who know the people with whom you are dealing say that even though they do not wish you well, they will not do you any harm, and that they will not want to expose themselves to the envy they would incur if they treated badly a man who, in the opinion of everyone, has so well deserved France. Then he praises the letter written by the count to the duke of Longueville, and evokes his own poem [Epître à M. le Prince] : " I am delighted that my verses did not have you desplused, when I made them I did not propose that they should be examined by a judge as well heard as you ". The end of the letter, glued to the previous page, begins with a page entirely crossed out with a stroke of the pen. Voiture speaks about the steps he wants to make in favour of the count: "Me who knows your kindness, your frankness and your heart, it seems to me Monseigneur that I would do wonders on it, and that I could persuade all that I would like"; in particular with the duke of LONGUEVILLE: "And he concludes: "If I know well, you are the best and wisest man in the world, but you are also the most pleasant man in the world, and one would not suspect it...
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