XVI. VE XVII. YÜZYIL FRANSIZ YAZININDA DİN SAVAŞLARI VE AGRIPPA D’AUBIGNÉ’NİN LES TRAGIQUES ÖRNEĞİ
HOLY WARS IN THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE, LES TRAGIQUES BY AGRIPPA D’AUBIGNÉ AS AN EXAMPLE

Summary/Abstract: Holy wars came to an end in the 18th century in France as a result of the social compromise reached after French Revolution in 1789, but till that period society witnessed numerous destructions and wars through ages. Time to another, in French literature, the narration of bloody wars and catastrophic events, is the duty of writers and poets. The eight religious wars of the sixteenth century, started from the middle of the XVI century and finished in 1598, divide France into two camps as a Protestant and Catholic. It is the turn of Agrippa d'Aubigné to tell the miseries and wars spaces fires through his work The Tragic, written in verse. Although having received a humanist education, Agrippa d’Aubigné was motivated by taking the revenge of a great number of Protestant leaders who were executed as a result of their judgements and their actions that they performed in the name of God. He led his life through a Catholic and Protestant conflict, and, though he was heavily wounded several times, he did not die on a battlefield. In his poetical work Les Tragiques, which was arranged in seven parts, Agrippa d’Aubigné mentioned poverty, misery, cruel attitudes of kings, judgements in gilded bureaus and palaces, corruption in society, terrible picture created by the war, the sides who were seeking for revenge in the second half of the 16th Century France and he completed his work by emphasizing substantial justice was going to be secured by God on the day of judgement. In this article, we studied, firstly generally holy wars in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and then the world view and style of Agrippa d'Aubigné.

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