{"id":18627,"date":"2020-03-29T17:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/?p=18627"},"modified":"2020-03-29T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T15:50:06","slug":"florilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/?p=18627","title":{"rendered":"Floril\u00e8ge&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"223\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Miscellan\u00e9es-des-fleurs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Miscellan\u00e9es-des-fleurs.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Miscellan\u00e9es-des-fleurs-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Les miscellan\u00e9es sont des recueils sur des sujets divers de\nscience et de litt\u00e9rature, d&rsquo;\u00e9tudes (Larousse).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u00e9j\u00e0 auteure aux \u00c9ditions Buchet-Chastel \u00e0 Paris de <em>Miscellan\u00e9es\ndes plantes<\/em> (2016) et de <em>Miscellan\u00e9es de mon jardin<\/em> (2018), Anne-France\nDautheville propose cette ann\u00e9e chez le m\u00eame \u00e9diteur ses <strong><em>Miscellan\u00e9es\ndes fleurs<\/em><\/strong> rassemblant deux cent cinquante chroniques, anecdotes amusantes\nou l\u00e9gendes sur les fleurs, s\u00e9rieuses ou ludiques, scientifiques ou pratiques,\nutiles ou futiles, mais toujours po\u00e9tiques, o\u00f9 l&rsquo;on croise Pline l&rsquo;Ancien,\nDarwin, Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre et bien d&rsquo;autres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extraits&nbsp;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Violettes imp\u00e9riales <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorsque Napol\u00e9on Ier fut envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00eele d\u2019Elbe, ses amis lui\ndemand\u00e8rent quand ils le reverraient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab&nbsp;Avec les violettes&nbsp;!&nbsp;\u00bb, r\u00e9pondit-il. On\ncomprit qu\u2019il faudrait attendre le printemps suivant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aussit\u00f4t, il devint le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral la Violette et ses partisans\nde se reconna\u00eetre gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 deux petites phrases&nbsp;: \u00ab&nbsp;Aimez-vous la\nviolette&nbsp;?&nbsp;\u00bb Il fallait r\u00e9pondre&nbsp;: \u00ab&nbsp;Eh bien\u2026&nbsp;\u00bb. L\u2019autre\nreprenait&nbsp;: \u00ab&nbsp;Elle rena\u00eet au printemps&nbsp;\u00bb. S\u2019\u00e9tant ainsi\nidentifi\u00e9s, les deux larrons pouvaient comploter en toute confiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Censur\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On les appelle orchis, orchid\u00e9es, on se p\u00e2me devant leur\nbeaut\u00e9, leur \u00e9l\u00e9gance. En grec ancien, <em>orchis<\/em> signifiait \u00ab&nbsp;testicule&nbsp;\u00bb.\nIl semblerait que les tubercules de ces merveilles ressemblent fortement \u00e0 ces\u2026\nchoses-l\u00e0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maquillage pour mecs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nos anc\u00eatres les Gaulois cultivaient la garance&nbsp;; non\npoint pour ses mignonnes fleurs jaunes, mais pour ses racines&nbsp;: ils en\nextrayaient une teinture rouge dont ils se peignaient le corps avant le combat.\nAinsi ne voyait-on pas le sang couler quand ils \u00e9taient bless\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab&nbsp;\u00c9tonnant, non&nbsp;?&nbsp;\u00bb, e\u00fbt dit Pierre Desproges\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong> P\u00c9TRONE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Miscellan\u00e9es des fleurs \u2013 Tout sur les\nfleurs et un peu plus encore <\/em><\/strong>par Anne-France\nDautheville, pr\u00e9face de Jean-Marc Th\u00e9venet, Paris,\n\u00c9ditions Buchet-Chastel, mars&nbsp;2020, 144&nbsp;pp. en noir et blanc au\nformat 14&nbsp;x&nbsp;21,5&nbsp;cm sous couverture cartonn\u00e9e et jaquette en\ncouleurs, 15&nbsp;\u20ac (prix France) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par P\u00e9trone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18629,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions\/18629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}