“Pourquoy nous avez-vous, diront les arbres, faicts / D’arbres delicieux execrables gibets?” Vegetal life in the Tragiques

In this article, Usher offers an examination of the presence of vegetal life in the Tragiques of Agrippa d’Aubigné. Within the wider context of a Renaissance renewal of botany, he studies landscapes, trees (cedars, cypresses, hawthorn…) et flowers (aconite, hellebore, laurels, roses…) that the reader comes across in the Calvinist epic.