Jean Maillard

Mayor of Dijon (1560-1561)

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Jean Maillard (c. 1515 – after 1570) was a French composer of the Renaissance. While little is known with certainty about his life, he may have been associated with the French royal court, since he wrote at least one motet for them. Most likely he lived and worked in Paris, based on evidence of his print editions, which were prepared there. Since later in his career he set verse by Huguenot poet , as well as Clément Marot, he may have either become a Protestant or had Protestant sympathies; this could explain his disappearance from Paris around 1570. If he did leave the city then, his destination is unknown. No record of him after that year has been found. Maillard is mentioned by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel, and also by Ronsard in his Livre des Mélanges (1560 and 1572). He was evidently famous during his time, and many of his motets were used as source material for parody masses by composers as distinguished as Palestrina; in addition Lassus reworked some of his music. Claude Goudimel also used a secular chanson of Maillard's as source material for a mass. Six of Maillard's masses have survived, and two others are known to have been lost. Considerable other music of his has survived in printed editions, including eighty-six motets, settings of the Magnificat, lamentations, chansons spirituelles, and secular chansons. Stylistically, his sacred music is more closely related to the contemporary Franco-Flemish idiom of pervasive, dense, complex polyphony than to the relatively clear and succinct style of his fellow French composers. In particular, he used short motifs in close imitation, and often used strict canonic devices. About half of his motets are for four voices; the rest are for five or six, with one motet for seven voices. Many of his motets have the cantus firmus in long note values in the highest voice, while the other voices carry on in a polyphonic, imitative texture. His Missa pro mortuis was an early Requiem mass setting, and one of the only examples from France in the 16th century. Unlike his sacred music, his secular music was in the prevailing popular idiom of the 1540s.

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Commemorated on 2 plaques

Place Notre-Dame - no 7 Maison Maillard Cette maison fut élevée à partir de 1565 par le victomte-mayeur Jean Maillard qui avait déjà entrepris la construction de son autre maison, du même nom, au no 38 rue des Forges. La façade a peut-être été réalisée selon un modèle de l'artiste Hugues Sambin, qui avait déjà œuvré por Jean Maillard. Son décor est caractéristique du style Renaissance : frontons, têtes et mufles de lions, fruits et fleurs sculptés. Au centre, une grande niche dominée par un cartouche abrite une statue de Vierge. Les lucarnes sont accotées de cariatides.

English translation: Place Notre-Dame - no 7 House Maillard This house was raised from 1565 by Jean Maillard, mayor of Dijon. Who had already begun the construction of his other house of the same name at No. 38 rue des Forges. The facade may have been made according to a model of the artist Hugues Sambin, who had already worked for Jean Maillard. Its decoration is characteristic of the Renaissance style: pediments, heads and muzzles of lions, fruits and carved flowers. In the center, a large niche dominated by a cartridge houses a statue of the Virgin. The dormers are crowned with caryatids.

7 Place Notre Dame, Dijon, France where they owned

Rue des Forges - no 38 Maison Maillard dite Milsand Maison construite pour Jean Maillard, maire de Dijon en 1560. La façade sculptée présente une étonnante gamme du répertoire décoratif de la Renaissance: frontons brisés, figures rehaussés de diadèmes, mufles de lions, vases, guirlandes de fruits et de fleurs, trophées... Elle a sans doute été réalisée en deux temps, le niveau supérieur plus équilibré ayant vraisemblablement été conç u par Hugues Sambin, architecte et sculpteur célèbre. Les archives permettent avec certitude de lui attribuer la façade arrière et le portique à atlantes dans la cour. Cet ouvrage commandé en 1565 évoque les atlantes de la Grotte des Pins à Fontainebleau, réalisée par l'artiste italien, La Primatice, à la demande de François 1er. Le rez-de-chaussée de la maison a été remanié au début du 20ème siècle.

English translation: Rue des Forges - no 38 Maison Maillard dite Milsand This house was built for Jean Maillard. Mayor of Dijon in 1560. The sculpted facade presents a wide range of Renaissance decorative word : brocken pediments, diadems-crowned heads, lion-muzzles, vases, garlands of fruits and flowers, trophies, etc ... There were probably two stages of building work, as the upper storey, which is better balanced, was almost certainly designed by Hugues Sambin, a famous sculptor and architect. That he designed the rear facade and the Atlas portico has benn ascertained by consulting local archives. The Atlas portico which was ordered in 1565 recalls the Pine Grotto Atlases in Fontainebleau, the work of the Italian artist La Primatice, for King Francois 1. The ground floor of the house was altered at the beginning of the 20th century.

38 Rue des Forges, Dijon, France where they owned