La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée
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La Pucelle, ou la France délivrée (The Maid, or the Heroic Poem of France Delivered) is an epic poem about Joan of Arc, by Jean Chapelain.
In 1656 Chapelain published, in a magnificent format, the first twelve cantos of his celebrated epic on Joan of Arc, La Pucelle, on which he had been working for twenty years. Six editions of the poem were disposed of in eighteen months. This was the end of the poetic reputation of Chapelain, "the legist of Parnassus." Later the slashing satire of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux resulted in Chapelain ("Le plus grand poète Français qu'ait jamais été et du plus solide jugement," as he is called in Colbert's list) taking his place among the failures of modern art.
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