Abstract: Very attached to Bordeaux, where she stayed from 1923 to 1927, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore dedicated an elegy to the city, Le Retour à Bordeaux, published in 1925. In addition to its biographical dimension, the text deploys a hymn to the literature of this region. The article focuses particularly on the figure of Montaigne, on the perception that the poetess had of the author and of his work, to analyze the motives that she updates in her elegy.
