La Quete Du Ble

by Venance Dougados, edited by Remy Cazals

Book cover: La Quete Du Ble

Extent: 104 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Exeter French Texts

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(August 1997)

ISBN: 9780859895354

5.83 x 8.27 inches

Price: $30.00

In stock

REmy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794.


Having more literary than religious vocation, the young Capuchin monk Venance Dougados was sent on a fund-raising tour in 1786 among the peasants and gentry of the Monts de Lacaune in southern France. He came back with a remarkable work, La Quete du BlE, in verse and prose. The work was original, humorous, with pre-romantic undertones; it brought him much success, but at the same time it aroused the anger of his superiors. Remy Cazals provides a critical edition of this little-known text accompanied by a biography of its author, who became inflamed by the passions of the Revolution, and who was guillotined in 1794. This title is Volume 101 in the series Exeter French Texts/Textes littEraires. It incldues an introduction and essential notes, all in French.

  • By (author) Venance Dougados
  • Edited by Remy Cazals