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17 février 2013
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Robert Cummings, « 12. The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas’s La Judit », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.8kwvdf
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The modern editor of Du Bartas’s La Judit, André Baïche, plausibly dates to 1564 its commissioning by Jeanne d’Albret, mother of Henry of Navarre. It was supposed to celebrate an analogy between the relief of besieged Bethulia by Judith’s assassination of Holofernes and the relief of the besieged Orléans, in 1563, by the assassination of the ultra-Catholic François Duke of Guise, by Jean Poltrot de Méré. The preoccupations of the biblical narrative were congruent with those of Du Bartas’s Fre...