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Martin Thierry, an intellectuel humanist from Beauvais during the Renaissance.

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Our thesis aims to make known Martin Thierry, a forgotten writer from Beauvais during the Renaissance, his life, his environment, his work, his ideas and his culture.This lawyer, a professor of civil law, devotes himself to writing, exclusively in Latin, and uses his immense culture, both secular and religious, to celebrate certain local figures or those close to the king, such as Bernardin de Valdrey and Anne de Montmorency, or to evoke, in a commited manner, certain major subjects that occupied many minds at the time, such as the question of peace between Spain and France, the Protestant reform, and the legitimacy and sanctity of the Church.In a collection of poems published in 1532, he praises Eleanor of Austria as a symbol of peace, as well as the new bishop of Beauvais, Charles de Villiers, with whom he sought to establish respectful and cordial ties. In the De obitu, he recounts, in a very spiritual manner, a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and, on the occasion of his death, praises Guillaume de Montmorency, presented as a model of virtue. His collection of epigrams, which touches on a variety of subjects, introduces us to his small circle of friends, and echoes the current events of the time, such as the sentencing to death of Jacques de Beaune. In the Silves, our writer illustrates moral maxims through stories often taken from mythology or antique history.It seemed to us that it was not uninteresting to know that a provincial intellectual could think of his time, so rich and so decisive in the history of ideas.