Sur les traces de Noel du Fail

Description

A cultural hike in the company of one of the great storytellers of the 16th century in Brittany. Writer, jurist and humanist, the Christmas figure of Fail dominates the literary life of the Renaissance in our Province from its high stature. At the same time facetious and serious by virtue of his legal functions, this Janus will have known how to paint tasty pictures of his contemporaries, and leave to posterity facetious works where his talents as a painter of morals excel. His rustic remarks, masterpiece of mocking observation of the rural world, his baliverneries animated by the good humor of Eutrapel, Polygame and Lupolde, open the way to his Tales and Speeches of Eutrapel where he shares his social ideas , political and religious. From the carefree universe of the child of Saint-Erblon from which his rustic remarks are drawn, full of freshness and naivety, at the work of his maturity published 30 years after his first writings, it is at evolution of a journey of a little gentleman from Haute Bretagne which we are witnessing. The one that posterity has called Breton Rabelais, is the spiritual son of the cantor of the Dive Bouteille. He followed in his footsteps while keeping his own style. While he was not on the front line, particularly in the opposition against the excesses of the Church, he nonetheless defended ideas that are daughters of the Renaissance, such as sensitivity to animal suffering, the the status of women, particularly in terms of the Law, and tolerance towards religious convictions. Faithful to the King, he always kept a free thought, that which had been taught to him by notorious Huguenots from his studies at Bourges, and he advocated tolerance during these wars of religion which bloodied France in the second half of the century . Chenapan in his youth, laughter and paver drummer as he portrays himself during his Parisian stay, after a forced journey in Italy because of his woes at play, he will end up being enthused by the teaching of the Law which he discovers through the science of two masters Baron and Le Douaren, emeritus Breton jurisconsults. Therefore, seduced by the "beauty of the laws" after getting married, it was in Rennes that he settled. A whole career in the service of the judicial institution in which he will participate through the Presidial and then the Parliament. From 1552 to 1587, he administered justice and was one of the most eminent advisers to the Parliament of Brittany. Author of a treaty of jurisprudence which will be authoritative until the Revolution, "the most notable and solemn Arrests of the Parliament", he was also without doubt the author of a History of Brittany, described as very learned and beautiful by one of his contemporaries, but who unfortunately did not reach us. Rich in remarkable classical knowledge, which he demonstrates in his Tales & Speeches, he has crossed his time with philosophy by taking a distanced and acerbic look at the human condition, and at the ridiculousness of many postures of his contemporaries. The treasure he transmitted to us is eutrapelia, that good humor spiced up with a few well-thought-out thoughts, which he liked to be entertained. The French spirit before it is qualified as such, art of conversation adorned with some polite impertinence or an insolence tempered by good education ... Amateur of oratorical jousting, he bequeaths us this pleasure of living already in his time noticed and valued by Thomas Aquinas.

For 16th century Brittany, this unjustly forgotten writer must take back the place he should always have had in the literature of that time. And to give this century the two legs it needs to stand up, let's now associate Jacques, the navigator, Noël the writer. Canadian diamonds and Baliverneries d'Eutrapel will burn your memory.