"JE N ESTIME PAS MOINS TES LETTRES QUE SES ARMES"

The poetry of praise, a traditional practice, was particularly abundant in the early 17th century. The balance of its 3 functions (social, political and poetic) was upset when published in collections, such as those by Toussaint Du Bray: in this context, poems were as much in the poet’s honor as in the dedicatee’s.

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