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Title: Un 'centonet' de Lucain, éloge de l'opportunisme ou de la vertu?
Subtitle: Agrippa d'Aubigné, Confession catholicque du sieur de Sancy II, IX
Author(s): CHARLET, Jean-Louis
Journal: Humanistica Lovaniensia
Volume: 72    Date: 2023   
Pages: 237-243
DOI: 10.2143/HLO.72.0.3292720

Abstract :
Breaking the rules of the antique cento, Agrippa d’Aubigné has written two Latin centones from Lucan’s verses to express an actual political and religious message. We propose a literary and political study of the first, a little cento (24 verses) presented as extemporaneous and inserted in the fictitious confession of Nicolas de Harlay, gentleman converted to Catholicism in 1597: a paradoxical praise of unscrupulous political opportunism (of the roman Catholics!).

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