Un jardin sur l'Oronte

Un jardin sur l'Oronte (A Garden on the Orontes) is a work by Maurice Barrès, which was first published in 1922 by Plon-Nourrit. Barrès purportedly transcribed in it a story which an Irish archaeologist had translated to him from a manuscript one evening of June 1914, at a café in Hama by the Orontes River. The tale of love of "a Christian and a Sarrasin" is set in the crusading era of the Middle Ages.[1][2]

Un jardin sur l'Oronte
AuthorMaurice Barrès
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Publication date
1922

The publication triggered what would be called la querelle de l'Oronte[3][4] (the Orontes Quarrel): as worded by Jane F. Fulcher, "despite the widely known conservatism of Barrès, the novel created a scandal, particularly in the Catholic press, which perceived its sensuality as an outrage to religious morality."[2] After Barrès' death, the work onto which Barrès "claimed to have projected a Wagnerian conception" was adapted into an opera of the same name with a libretto by Franc-Nohain and music by Alfred Bachelet, which was created, undoubtedly delayed by the scandal, on 7 November 1932.[2]

References
  1. The London Mercury. 6. 1922. p. 645.
  2. Fulcher, Jane F. (2005). The Composer as Intellectual: Music and Ideology in France, 1914–1940. Oxford University Press.
  3. Cavet, Jean (1927). D'une critique catholique (in French).
  4. Frandon, Ida-Marie (1952). L'Orient de Maurice Barrès (in French).

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