Transparency and obstacle Rumours in Ronsard’s Les Nues, ou Nouvelles (1565)

In the allegorical and political poem of Les Nues (1565), Ronsard gives his vision of Paris disrupted by all kinds of contradictory rumours and hopes for the return to political stability. It also serves his personal agenda. This article analyzes the rhetorical plan of the poem, it studies the manner in which other poetic themes are mixed, and it identifies its classical sources or intertext.