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"Tous les curieux connaissent, tome IV du Ménagiana, une longue lettre de La Monnoye dans laquelle cet intrépide érudit, ce fin connaisseur en tant de doctes matières, s’adressant plus spécialement «aux amateurs de la gaie littérature», recommande à un sien correspondant anonyme, alors en Italie, la recherche d’une notable quantité de manuscrits uniques, de livres introuvables ou rarissimes: les Centons de Lælius Capilupus; le Philelphe in-folio de l’an 1502; les Trecento Novelle de Franco Sacchetti, non encore imprimées, ce dont il s’émerveille; les Novellæ Hieronymi Morlini, 1520, in-4o, avec privilège du Pape! le Petrus Delphinus de 1524, in-folio, etc."--Curiosa: essais critiques de littérature ancienne ignorée ou mal connue (1887) by Alcide Bonneau


"Croiriez-vous que sous le dernier tous les Centons de Lælius Capilupus, sans exception & sans retranchement, osèrent y paroître?"--Bernard de la Monnoye cited in Ana, ou Collection de bons mots, contes, pensees detachees, traits d'histoire et anecdotes des hommes celebres

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Bernard de La Monnoye (Dijon, June 15, 1641, - October 15, 1728) was a French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic, known chiefly by his carols Christmas in Bourgogne.

Biography

Bernard began his studies in Jesuit schools, and attracted attention by epigrams in Latin and essays in French. By his father wish, he went to study law at Orléans. There he gave way to his literary tastes by, during the harsh study of jurisprudence, gathering curiosities about the authors and books that he read. He began legal practice at the Dijon Parlament in 1662; but had little inclination for that profession, and, using his health as an excuse, left the bar and devoted himself entirely to the literary arts.

In the following years Bernard divided his time between reading books and frequenting the intellectual circles of Dijon, where he made his debut in poetry. In 1671 he won a contest of the French Academy with a poetic essay on "the abolition of the duel", which was ardently praised by Charles Perrault, and years later by Voltaire. He went on to win the Academy's contest four more times. Rumors circulated that the organizers had asked him to refrain from entering the contest again, to give a chance to other authors.

To make a living, he took in 1672 a job at the Court of Finances, at which he kept for eight years. Not long afterwards he got married. During this time he produced copious verse, which made him moderately famous. He also composed many hymns in Latin, and translated into French the Spanish poem Gloss of Saint Therese. By 1687 he was admitted as a corresponding member of Padua's Accademia dei Ricovrati.

Among his best compositions of the time are a dozen of riddles in sonnet format, some of which are considered to be better than anything of the sort that existed at the time; and three translations of exts about Burgundy wine, Champagne wine, and cider. He also wrote, under the pseudonym Gui Barozai, the Thirteen Christmas (1700), a collection of carols in the patois of Bourgogne; which were followed later that year by Sixteen More Christmas. These songs in simple language become immensely popular. The best known, which is still orchestrated and played today, is probably Guillô, pran ton tamborin, better known as "Patapan".

Publications

  1. Noël bourguignons de Gui Barozai, ai Dioni (Dijon), (1720), with glossary and music. In Louis Dubois, Noëls et autres poésies bourguignonnes de La Monnoye (1817).
  2. Menagiana (1715), 4 vols. La Monnoye appended to volume 4 some texs of his own:
    1. Lettre au président Bouhier sur le prétendu livre des Trois imposteurs.
    2. Dissertation sur le Moyen de parvenir.
    3. Autre Dissertation sur le Songe de Poliphile.
    4. Dissertation sur la célèbre Epigramme latine de Pulci sur un hermaphrodite.
    5. Remarques sur les Judgements des savants de Baillet.
  3. Drs Observations sur le Cymbalum mundi et sur les Contes de Bonaventure Desperriers.
  4. Remarques sur le Poggiana of Pierre Lenfant, (1722).
  5. Préface et des Notes sur les Nuits of Straparole.
  6. Deux Préfaces pour la Pancharis of Bonnefons.
  7. Notes sur la Bibliothèque choisie et sur les Opuscules de Colomiès.
  8. Dissertation sur le Passavant of Théodore de Bèze.
  9. Vie du poète Sarrazin, in volume 1 of the Mémoires de Albert-Henri de Sallengre.
  10. a Lettre à l'abbé Conti sur les principaux auteurs français, in volume 7 of the Bibliothèque française.
  11. Vie de Pyrrhon, translated from the Greek text by Diogenes Laërtius.
  12. Some fragments in Mémoires de littérature of Pierre Nicolas Desmolets, volumes 3 and 6.
  13. Lettre à Maittaire, contenant diverses remarques sur les Annales de l'imprimerie et sur la vie des Estienne (1712).
  14. Remarques sur les Bibliothèques de Lacroix Dumaine et Duverdier (1772).

La Monnoye left as unpublished manuscripts the Observations sur l'Anacréon of Régnier-Desmarais, and the Remarques sur les vies des jurisconsultes, of Taisand; and as unfinished texts the farce de Patelin and a Commentaire sur Mellin de Saint-Gelais.




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