Jacques Yver, Le Printemps d'Yver [Yver's Spring]

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Jacques Yver’s

Printemps

is a French Renaissance work evocative of multiple previous authors. The volume consists of stories most immediately reminiscent of Marguerite de Navarre’s collection of seventy-two French stories, the

Heptaméron

(1559). Yver’s stories and their premise – three gentlemen and three noble women who spin tales in order to distract each other from the horrors of the recent third religious war and to rejoice in the brief 1570 truce of Saint-Germain – provide an intriguing and distinctive continuation of this genre. Uneven in tone and sparse in number,

Le Printemps’

five narratives of chivalry, tragedy, farce and fable nonetheless knew immediate success, perhaps because of the collection’s acknowledgement of contemporary strife. First published in 1572,…

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Citation: Harp, Margaret. "Le Printemps d'Yver". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 February 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34627, accessed 19 March 2024.]

34627 Le Printemps d'Yver 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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