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AbstractAs a romantic haunted by the classicism of Massillon or Bossuet, exiled in a century of revolutions but envisioning himself in the age of Louis XIV, Chateaubriand is at home only in the Middle Ages, even though the intertext is lacking. Though he never ceased to use the « Grand Siècle » as a model, an irresolvable ambiguity remains in his relationship to the « siècle classique ». On the one hand it acts as a screen onto which he projects his « non-coincidence » with the 19th century, and on the other it obscures the period of the Middle Ages in which he wants to discreetly set his legend.
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After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the banning of Protestantism in France, the Mercure galant published a large number of accounts of conversions to Catholicism. The French-speaking Protestant press, based in Holland, responded with a counter discourse. This article provides an analytical overview of the cases of religious conversion that took place in Canada as reported by both the Mercure and the opposition press in exile.
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Whereas we associate the memory of the Wars of Religion in French fiction with the genre of the historical and galant short stories of the 1660s, this article shows how the early seventeenth-century novel (romance, chivalric and adventure) was a first place of memory for these civil wars. The diverse modalities of the fictionalization of history along with the fictional treatment of violence are examined to underscore the specificity of the fictional approach to civil war. Finally, this research highlights the singular memory work of each fictional sub-genre: a memory to be shared, a militant memoir of the troubles or a critical reading of the past with a view to behaving better in the present. The novels written between 1599 and 1629 thus offer an interesting palette of “historical” novels well before this fictional genre appeared during the reign of Louis xiv.
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