Английская Википедия:Dear friend La Moussaye
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:Use dmy dates Dear friend La Moussaye is a satyrical poem in macaronic verse written in 1643 in latin and attributed to Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé.Шаблон:Sfn
History
Louis, Prince of Condé (1621-1686) is said to have written the poem in an exchange of letters with his friend and aide-de-camp Amaury III de Goyon, Marquis de La Moussaye (1601-1674), when he was twenty-two years old.Шаблон:Sfn The poem features Condé and de La Moussaye traveling on the river Rhone,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn surprised by a thunderstorm, Conde exclaimed "We are going to drown!" to which de La Moussaye is said to have answered: "Our lives are safe, for we are sodomites" ie. homosexuals.Шаблон:Sfn
According to Professor Mark Bannister, Prince of Condé was known in his youth as a libertine noble motivated by a desire to shock and "to ridicule the protocol to which a Prince du Sang was expected to conform".Шаблон:Sfn Condé was also prepared to use his authority to take the defence of "sodomites",Шаблон:Sfn while evoking the subject of homosexuality in songs, was a form of self-derision.Шаблон:Sfn According to Christian Kühner, lecturer in history at the University of Freiburg, for young libertine nobles, playing with the forbidden, like homosexuality or atheistic opinions, was also a way of strengthening a relationship.Шаблон:Sfn
The refrain "Landerirette" indicates that the dialogue was very likely sung, possibly to a tune that both correspondents would have sung together on their shared travels and military campaigns.Шаблон:Sfn
Content
Grand Condé:
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Marquis de La Moussaye:
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Legacy
The playfulness element about the protagonists sexual preferences appealed to Marcel Proust who quoted the poem in In Search of Lost Time.Шаблон:Sfn The insinuation made in the last verse was use by one of Condé's former allies, Conte Jean de Coligny-Saligny, who after an altercation with the Prince became his most heinous enemy.Шаблон:Sfn The poem was also reported by Elizabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orléans, the famous Versailles gossipmonger, who questioned whether Condé really made a confession.Шаблон:Sfn In the Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, published in 1990, "Dear friend La Moussaye" was incorrectly attributed to Prince Eugene of Savoy.Шаблон:Sfn
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