Jacques Yver et Agrippa d’Aubigné : écrivains engagés du 16ème siècle

Jacques Yver, born of a family of Niortais aldermen, owes his fame, limited today to specialists in 16th century literature, to his unique work "Spring of Yver" which he wrote before he died in 1571. Republished in 2015, his story brings together five stories of a varied genre, between epic adventure, farce or tragedy and relates in particular facts related to the wars of Religion.
His contemporary Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné, whose granddaughter, born in Niort, became Marquise de Maintenon and secretly married King Louis XIV in 1683, was also a recognized poet writer. First a man of war with Henri III of Navarre, this convinced Calvinist is the author among others of the "Tragic ones", a long epic in verse that denounces the persecutions suffered by Protestants. In September 2016, Niort hosts an international colloquium dedicated to it.

"Niort, lead the investigation": HIS DREAM.