More French letters

Antin

I first read Mots d’heures: gousses, rames ages ago, but the opening of the first poem, with its erudite footnotes, still makes me giggle:

Un petit d’un petit [1]
S’etonne aux Halles. [2]

[1] The inevitable result of a child marriage.
[2] The subject of this epigrammatic poem is obviously from the provinces, since a native Parisian would take this famous old market for granted.

Cf. A French letter, and the “French pieces” of the Tang (faqu and faqu 2)…

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