Contemporary copy of a poem titled ‘L’Aigle et le Rossignol’
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L 31/340/118, ‘Poem. ‘L’Aigle et le Rossignol”
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Contemporary copy of a poem titled ‘L’Aigle et le Rossignol’
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A poem in French describing an eagle and a nightingale.
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In the poem, the commanding eagle hovers in long circuits high in the sky. He sees himself as the king of nature, claiming that victory has placed its laurels in his claws. The eagle lands on an oak tree at the centre of the forest and begins talking about his glory and royalty. The eagle’s neighbour, however, a nightingale, sings in a sheltered, leafy elm tree.
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A footnote in English concerning the provenance of the poem has been added ‘by a Lady, who resides at Lausanne, Daughter to Mr Rapin the Historian, Married to Mr Blaquiere, a Cousin of Sir John Blaquiere’, occasioned by the emperor visiting Geneva and omitting to visit Voltaire. This is Marie de Rapin-Thyoras (1715-1798), daughter of Paul de Rapin (1661-1725) and wife of Paul Elie Blaquière (1705-1786). Bedfordshire Archives have dated this manuscript to c.1800, however the presence of Marie de Rapin-Thyoras’s footnote places it before her death in 1798.
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