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In the Discours des misères de ce temps, Ronsard claims that it would be, for him, to do too much honor to the Genevan preachers, in particular in Montméja, to play against them by interposed works. But Bèze, whom he waited on the ground of the disputatio to dispute against him on the subject of the discord between Catholics and Protestants, first opposes a refusal to the apostrophes which he addressed to him in this direction, as he did to the authors of the pamphlets against him. This study examines the reasons for this silence and its rhetorical value, then it comments on the preface to Poëmata where Bèze finally responds, in a pungent way, to the defenders of the Catholic faith who attacked his person since he played a leading role in the Reformation.
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From the first works of romantic inspiration, to his last great utopian novels, Zola's work is replete with multiple variations linked to the transformation of the cultural and social realms and the evolution of the author on an ideological and political level. Nevertheless, behind these very real modifications, one finds a portrait of a world that remains unchanged and places his work in a stasis. A striking illustration is the particular concept of “woman” that, notably acquired from Michelet, fills his novel from beginning to end. We examine here how this character manifests, from La confession de Claude to Travail, through Germinal, a profoundly conservative vision of the word that is the background to more progressive aspects visible on the surface of his work.
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Because of the preponderance of references to the Orient in Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte-Cristo, one question comes to mind inevitably upon reading the novel: what is the signifiance of the Orient for Dumas? To answer this question, one must realize that, as Edmond Dantès faces his ennemies, his maneuvers take us, through a complicated intrigue, to a nexus of incoherent signs where the Orient as object and orientalism as a discourse become more and more inconsistent and lose all signifiance and value.