The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . com-plete his education at the Universities of Basle andHeidelberg. But the natural bent of his mind wasnot towards the law, and when he was barely twentyFrangois entered the service of Henri dAngouleme,gra7id prieur of France and Governor of earliest experience in Provence was his in-fatuation for a yovmg woman of the country, whosepraises he sang vmder the name of N^r^e; but on 1October, 1581, he married Madeleine de Coriol
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . com-plete his education at the Universities of Basle andHeidelberg. But the natural bent of his mind wasnot towards the law, and when he was barely twentyFrangois entered the service of Henri dAngouleme,gra7id prieur of France and Governor of earliest experience in Provence was his in-fatuation for a yovmg woman of the country, whosepraises he sang vmder the name of N^r^e; but on 1October, 1581, he married Madeleine de Coriolis, andthe union seems to have been a happy one. He re-mained ten years in Provence, becoming knownthrough his Larmes de St. Pierre, an imitation ofTansillos verses and at best a puerile production. In1586 Henri dAngouleme was slain in a duel by PhilipAltoviti, and Malherbe returned to Caen. He ad-dressed an ode to Henry IV on the capture of Mar-seilles in 1596, and in 1600 presented to Maria deMedici, who stopped at Aachen on her way to becomethe queen of Henry IV, verses which show his tal-ent to have reached its maturity. MALINES 570 MALLARD. Du Perron about this time recommended Malherbeto the favour of the king, and when in 1605 he came toParis, Henry had him remain near him. The Duke ofBellegarde recei ved the poet into his household, settledon him a pension, and made it possible for him to live at Court. At thistime began his ac-quaintance withRacan, who be-came his first dis-ciple, and a littlelater he startedhis correspond-ence with his arrival atCourt Malherbehad assumed therole of literarymaster and re-former. He maderelentless war onthe provincial ex-pressions, neolo-gisms, and defectsof style in theprose writers andpoets of the a select bodyof followers, towhom his opinions were oracular, and he was pitilessin his criticism of whatever fell below his canons oftaste. He himself henceforth wrote few verses, hismost touching lines
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