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The Anecdotes de notre temps depuis 1715 à 1736 is a set of 52 manuscript volumes acquired by the Royal Library in 1789 during the sale after the death of the Duke of Richelieu. Archivists itemized the majority of the volumes in the early 19th century and the documents in these volumes got dispersed in different thematic collections of the National Library of France. They generally combined a text and an image and referred to as anecdotes. Fortunately, a particular stamp assures their traceability and permits to identify them in the National Library. In this manner, an anonymous volume preserves around forty anecdotes containing 67 drawings and engravings of fauna and flora concerning the French colonial empire. A reconstruction was made through an intra-inter-trans structuralist approach to reconstruct first the micro-stories behind each anecdote in order to infirm the date of most of the iconographic documents. This approach also made it possible to determine the nature of the collection in the 19th century but also to identify invariabilities leading to the involvement of Antoine-Denis Raudot, class-intendant and secretary of the French Navy. It is believed that this corpus represents in fact the “pre-anecdotes” until Raudot's death in 1737, from which the Count of Maurepas must have drawn in order to partially compile the 52 volumes of Anecdotes de notre temps during his exile (1749-1774). This result and the fact that Raudot's went to New France (1705-1710) as a second clerk now permitted to identify a second set of eight Canadian anecdotes and to be presented here. The transfer of Raudot's “pre-anecdotes” corpus to Maurepas is explained partially by various events that occurred in 1737, the year when Raudot died (heritage, appropriation, saving).

Keywords: Secrétariat de la Marine, Jardin du Roi, Académie des Sciences, Compagnie des Indes, Cabinet de Curiosités, Circulation des savoirs, Cultures coloniales, Colonies françaises, Iconographie, Premières Nations, Comte de Maurepas, Antoine-Denis Raudot, Duc de Richelieu, Le Masson du Parc, Pierre Le Chevalier, Jussieu, XVIII siècle

This article presents the theoretical and methodological approaches of our research devoted to the study of local heritage in the context of its inscription on the World Heritage List. These “globalized” heritages are part of new governance contexts that often clash with the local desire to redefine heritage. To study the relationships between the local and international levels, it is important to take into account the new dynamics induced by the decolonial perspective, driven in particular by youth and civil society. We will demonstrate how multi-sited ethnography makes it possible to study the interactions between the actors involved in the site classification and management process and local communities, drawing on the case studies of two Senegalese sites listed on the World Heritage List: the Island of Saint-Louis and the Saloum Delta.

Keywords: Liste du patrimoine mondial, UNESCO, patrimoine culturel immatériel, Sénégal, communautés, ethnographie multi-située, UNESCO World Heritage List, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Senegal, Communities, Multi-Sited Ethnography, Lista del Patrimonio Mundial, UNESCO, patrimonio cultural inmaterial, Senegal, comunidades, etnografía multisitio, 世界遗产名录, 联合国教科文组织, 非物质文化遗产, 塞内加尔, 社区, 多地点民族志

This article reveals the intimate structures of propaganda discourses through an analysis combining concepts derived from argumentation, rhetoric and political communication. It exposes their discursive modus operandi to increase the adhesion of crowds, distinguishing the political communication from the propaganda, the argumentation by conviction from the argumentation by persuasion. How do rhetorical-argumentative strategies contribute to the construction of discourses displaying their «truth» or their «reality», building alternative worlds presented as the real worlds? The analysis of Romanian Senator Diana Șoșoacă’s speech on the earthquakes in Turkey in February 2023 provides some answers. Feigning rational argument based on factual arguments, the propagandist appeals to the primary emotions of her audience to change its forma mentis.

Keywords: Propaganda, Propaganda, Propagande, conspiration, conspiración, conspiracy, pragmadialectica, pragmadialectic, pragmadialectique, stratégies rhétorico-argumentatives, rhetorical-argumentative strategies, estrategias retórico-argumentativas