02367cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800440003704000110008104100170009205000070010910000390011624500380015526400510019330000470024433600260029133700260031733800360034350000310037950801370041052013010054753400640184865300290191285600500194185600430199199900190203477414UtSlPG20260610134807.0mcr n260607r2025ca 1500utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afr2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aLa Marche, Olivier de,d1426?-150213aLe debat de Cuidier et de Fortune 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-12-07  aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))  aLe debat de Cuidier et de Fortune by Olivier de La Marche is an allegorical debate poem written in the late 15th century. The work stages a moral-philosophical contest between human self-confidence and the power of Fortune, exploring fate, free will, and the instability of earthly honors and pursuits.

The poem opens with a narrator, imprisoned after a disastrous battle, who hears a quarrel between Cuidier (presumption, bold self-belief) and Fortune, the blindfolded lady turning her wheel. Cuidier boasts that daring and resolve win love, glory, wealth, and renown; Fortune declares herself the heaven-sanctioned scourge who overturns such hopes. Before the narrator, set as judge, Cuidier tests every path—noble birth, learning, arms, trade, marriage, crafts, farming, courtly love, physical strength, hunting, travel, shepherding, heraldry, even the religious life—claiming will can secure success. Fortune rebuts each with classical and biblical exempla of sudden ruin (Hector, Samson, Absalom, Oedipus’s sons, Nebuchadnezzar, martyrs), showing that outcomes rest in her turning. The dispute remains unresolved; the vision breaks, and the narrator records it soberly, framed by his grief and captivity after his lord’s death at Nancy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cValenciennes: Jehan de Liège, 1500  aFrench poetry -- To 15004 uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70383r40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77414  c118134d118134