Anne de Graville

Miniature dedication of the Roman de Palamon et Arcita:^[1] Anne de Graville presents her work to Queen Claude de France, Étienne Colaud, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms.5116, f.1V.

Anne de Graville or Anne Malet de Graville (1490?-1540?) was a 16th-century French translator and poet.

Biography

The daughter of admiral Louis Malet de Graville and Marie de Balsac, she married secretly, around 1508, to her cousin Pierre de Balsac, lord of Entragues, the son of Robert de Balsac. She was the maiden of honour of Claude of France and confidante of Marguerite de Navarre.^[2][3]

Works

• La belle dame sans mercy; seventy-one rondeaux composed from the eponymous poem by Alain Chartier (Upsala : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1897)
  • Read online
  • Manuscrit des rondeaux on Gallica
• C'est le beau romant des deux amans Palamon et Arcita et de la belle et saige Emilia, translaté de vieil langaige et prose en nouveau et rime par madamoiselle Anne de Graville la Mallet, dame du Boys Maslesherbes, du commandement de la Royne (1521) Collection (manuscript), formerly belonging to Reine Claude, containing the novel translated by Anne de Graville (on Gallica). Rewriting of the first translation (Le livre de Thezeo) from Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida. This work was commissioned by Reine Claude.
• Reprint: Critical text prepared and presented by Yves Le Hir (PUF, 1965)

References

External links

• Maxime de Montmorand Anne de Graville, sa famille, sa vie, son œuvre, sa postérité (Paris, Picard 1917)
• Anne Malet de Graville on Arlima