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100 1 _aLa Marche, Olivier de,
_d1426?-1502
245 1 3 _aLe debat de Cuidier et de Fortune
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-07
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cValenciennes: Jehan de Liège, 1500
653 _aFrench poetry -- To 1500
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k70383r
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77414
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