>Dear Denis,
>
> Thank you for your reply. Technically, there would have been no (or
>very few) Jews in France after the 1306 expulsion, so the literary use would
>have been just that, anyway. Still, I was curious as to whether it had
>survived, as it does, for instance, in England. It surprises me you have so
>few women though; who was the audience for these poems?
>
> Susan
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>Susan Einbinder
>Hebrew Union College
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Dear Susan
These poems were presented in competitions occurring every sunday
after the 8th December (I.C.'s feast), in the church of the Carms. Everybody
could be present, and the little people was there, in a dense assistance.
But the indications I have show few women in the assistance : one could see
in David Ferrand's "La muse Normande" (beginning of the XVIIth c.) a lively
portrait of the Puy, and he speaks of "ste grant assemblaille" (this large
crowd), but doesn't mention women. In fact, the only woman in the Puy is the
Virgin, until, in the beginning onf the XVIIth century, the sister of Blaise
Pascal, Jacqueline, won a prize. There is one poem on the Immaculate
Conception written by a women, Catherine d'Amboise, probably a parent of the
Archbishops of Rouen. But I don't think it has been presented to the Puy.
Friendly
Denis Hue
Universite de Rennes 2
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