This beautiful book takes up the most emblematic passages of Roman de Renart, adapted from the 1861 edition of Paulin Paris and richly illustrated from different medieval manuscripts kept in the BNF manuscripts, rarely or never reproduced. The fox surmounts all the blows of fate thanks to its cunning and its verve, formidable weapons to trap the fools. The comedy of Roman de Renart is based on an implacable and jubilant satire of medieval society: contempt for villains and campaign priests, distrust of feudal order and royal justice. The culprit always escapes ... The reader who has fun with the ridiculousness of the dupes becomes an accomplice of the scoundrel. The miniatures which illustrate the text evoke, by their abundance, their voluntarily naive feet and their stylized characters to the extreme, the world of comedy. - [Publisher]

Language: French

Locators: ISBN: 978-2-7177-2668-8