Les Bergeries
work by Racan
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discussed in biography
- In Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan
…work is a pastoral drama, Les Bergeries (“The Sheepfolds”), sometimes called the finest example of the genre in French; it was performed at the Hôtel de Bourgogne about 1620 and published in 1625. His other poems are mainly bucolic and religious, both preserving the elegiac lyricism of an earlier age…
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