Le Bourdeau des neuf pucelles

A poetic and critical miscellany that revisits a seventeenth-century libertine poet’s life and suppressed writings, combining original verse, adaptations of fragmentary texts, and editorial commentary. The author dedicates and tempers erotic material while recounting the poet’s arrest, trial, and execution, and reflects on censorship, literary reputation, and the survival of texts despite suppression. The volume alternates elegiac homage, descriptive pastiche of lost poems, and restrained erotic imagination, and includes notes about recovered fragments and the limits of reproduction. Overall it explores the tension between artistic daring and social repression through poetry and prose annotation.