"Le Paresseux" de Marc Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant
- Author
- Camille Chevalier-Karfis
- Published
- Sat 01 May 2010
- Episode Link
- http://www.frenchtoday.com/easy-french-poetry
This poem in middle French, from the 17th century, is an hymn to indolence. Saint-Amant was a libertin poet, who enjoyed all the pleasures of life, liked to eat, drink, smoke and rest, as depicted in this poem.
