Satyres Nouvelles

by Jean Benech de Cantenac, edited by A.M Clin-Lalande

Book cover: Satyres Nouvelles

Extent: 102 pages

Publisher: University of Exeter Press

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Exeter French Texts

Language: French

(Paperback) (Published)

(June 2001)

ISBN: 9780859896917

5.83 x 8.27 inches

Price: $30.00

In stock

Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac was notorious in his own time but has only recently become a subject of serious study. This book contains seventeen poetic ‘satyres’ together with various other poems.


Poet, novelist, sometime member of Mademoiselle de Montpensier’s circle and correspondent of the Mercure Galant, Cantenac (Bordeauz 1630?-1714) was notorious in his own time but has only recently become the subject of serious study. Satyres nouvelles was first published in 1706 in Amsterdam. It contains seventeen poetic ‘satyres’ together with various other poems and is the last of six collections by Cantenac published in his lifetime. This is a volume in the Textes littEraires/Exeter French Texts. The text, introduction and essential notes are all in French.

  • Edited by AM Clin-Lalande