Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2011, 7(2):21-30 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2011.015

Jehan de Nostredame : vies des troubadours ou nouvelles de la vie ?French

Josef PROKOP
Université de Bohême du Sud, Èeské Budìjovice (République tchèque)

Mots clés: Jehan de Nostredame ; troubadours ; biographies ; nouvelles ; Novellino

Jehan de Nostredame : the lives of troubadours or tales of life ?

Jehan Nostredame (1507?-1577?) published in 1575 a collection of his versions of short troubadours' biographies. The book enjoyed an immense success and it was no earlier than in the 18th and the 19th centuries that there appeared the first criticism pointing to the invented troubadours, falsification of history and other fantasies contained in the book. By the end of the 19th century Nostredame was by some scholars referred to even as an impudent imposter or mystificator and his collection was rejected as a bunch of lies on the whole. This article seeks to propose a possible explanation of the Nostredame's alleged lies and falsifications. An explanation based on the hypothesis that Nostredame published his pretended biographies only to use this formal frame to compose his own collection of short stories, novellas, so much in vogue in his times.

Keywords: Jehan Nostredame; Troubadours; Biographies; Tales; Novellino

Published: December 11, 2011  Show citation

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PROKOP, J. (2011). Jehan de Nostredame : vies des troubadours ou nouvelles de la vie ? Écho des études romanes, 7(2), 21-30. doi: 10.32725/eer.2011.015
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