The Theme of Être and Paraître in the Works of Agrippa D'Aubigné

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The works of the late Renaissance poet Agrippa D'Aubigné were to a great extent inspired by his feelings of hatred and bitterness toward the Catholic Church and the monarchy of the later Valois's. This hatred often expressed itself in the epic vision of a Protestant crusade against tyranny and injustice. Elsewhere, his feelings expressed themselves in the form of savage satire. This satirical inspiration is most prominent in the first three cantos of his epic poem Les Tragiques and in a prose dialogue entitled Les Aventures du Baron de Vaeneste. The structural principle which is constantly at work in these satires is the contrast between being and appearing, between reality and appearances, between être and paraître. Throughout these works, being is synonymous with truth, justice, and the true faith, things which for D'Aubigné are the hallmarks of the Huguenot cause. Appearing, synonymous with falsehood, injustice, and hypocrisy, is looked upon as the main feature of the royal court and of the Church. This dialectical opposition of the two principles is always strictly maintained. Never is there expressed a possibility of reconciliation. Protestantism is always on the side of right, and Church and monarchy on the side of evil. Les Aventures du Baron de Faeneste is a very bitter invective against all the enemies of Protestantism in France. It is a novel written in the form of a dialogue between a Protestant gentleman named Enay (from the Greek eivoct, to be) and a swaggering young Catholic courtier named Faeneste ( from the Greek f œ ??&?

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文艺复兴晚期诗人阿格里帕·德·奥比格涅格的作品在很大程度上受到了他对天主教会和后来瓦卢瓦王朝的君主制的仇恨和痛苦的启发。这种仇恨常常表现在新教徒反对暴政和不公正的十字军东征的史诗般的愿景中。在其他地方，他的感情以野蛮讽刺的形式表达出来。这种讽刺性的灵感在他的史诗《悲剧》的前三章和题为《瓦内斯特男爵的冒险》的散文对话中最为突出。在这些讽刺作品中不断起作用的结构原则是存在与表象之间、现实与表象之间、être与para之间的对比。在这些作品中，存在与真理、正义和真正的信仰是同义词，而这些对奥比格涅来说是胡格诺派事业的标志。“表面”是虚假、不公正和虚伪的同义词，被视为王室和教会的主要特征。这两个原则的辩证对立始终是严格保持的。从来没有表示过和解的可能性。新教总是站在正义的一边，而教会和君主政体总是站在邪恶的一边。《费内斯特男爵历险记》是对法国新教所有敌人的一篇非常尖刻的谩骂。这是一部以对话形式写成的小说，对话的主人公是一位名叫Enay(来自希腊语eivoct, to be)的新教绅士，他和一位名叫Faeneste(来自希腊语f ?? ?&?)< ??，似乎)。这种对话形式加强了两个主要人物观点之间的对立。这里有对抗，但没有沟通。工作保持完全静止;人物的思想没有发展。作者在前言中非常简单地陈述了他的主题，接下来的三百页构成了一系列的场景，其中主题一次又一次地被说明。正如作者所言:“La + gcv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv + ccv。”费内斯特的一生，就像狄德罗笔下的新拉莫一样，是由他所扮演的角色组成的。他的内心生活是一个被闪亮的外表所掩盖的空虚。他的家族徽章代表着一扇窗户，家族的座右铭是:“Entre come”

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