This article presents the edition, with French translation and philological and literary commenta... more This article presents the edition, with French translation and philological and literary commentary, of an odelette by the humanist Florent Chrestien. It is an occasional piece composed in 1567 for the baptism of Charles de Bourbon-Soissons, son of Louis de Condé. Placed in its historical context, the odelette is analyzed as a manifesto for an alternative pindarism to that of Ronsard and the Pléiade, and as a militant piece serving the Protestant cause and the interests of the House of Bourbon.
This article presents the edition, with French translation and philological and literary commenta... more This article presents the edition, with French translation and philological and literary commentary, of an odelette by the humanist Florent Chrestien. It is an occasional piece composed in 1567 for the baptism of Charles de Bourbon-Soissons, son of Louis de Condé. Placed in its historical context, the odelette is analyzed as a manifesto for an alternative pindarism to that of Ronsard and the Pléiade, and as a militant piece serving the Protestant cause and the interests of the House of Bourbon.
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