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In the Renaissance, the oral transmission of texts was not only justified by a tradition that would persist in parallel with the rise of printing: it actually found a point of support in the rediscovery of the medical treatises of the Ancients interested in reading out loud. Able to better allow for the circulation or release of moods, vociferation or reading aloud are among the therapeutic programs at work in Antiquity. Rabelais, a doctor himself, Latin translator and publisher of Hippocrates and Galian, was no doubt aware of this link between voice and health, as Gargantua’s way of life seems to show: the humanist combines in his stories a representation of the voice borrowed from the rhetoric of the actio, an anatomical representation of the path of the voice to the ear, and a therapeutic vision of the vocal exercises. These different representations all contribute to the humanist development of the giant. Clément Marot goes even further by giving an echo of these medical treatises in the “Royal Chant of the Conception of Our Lady,” thereby renewing the image of the divine “Word” and that of the Virgin Mary.
Keywords: Voice, Voix, Vociferation, Vocifération, Health, Santé, Rhetoric, Rhétorique, Renaissance, Renaissance
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The first edition of the Histoire comique de Francion by Charles Sorel (1623) contains numerous references to the eating and drinking. My study examines narrative sequences focused on a fluctuation between deprivation and abundance, frustration and jouissance. In addition to the domain of food, I consider allusions to sexuality and knowledge, insofar as they share the same narrative paradigm, and shed light on each other. This analysis also shows how Sorel relates ambivalent references to food to some of his moral claims, expressed through subversive uses of the tradition of comic fiction. The four books added for the 1626 and 1633 editions of Francion can be perceived as a wavering attempt to displace Bacchus, who presides over the protagonist’s birth and is emblematic of the various immoderations in the first edition.
Keywords: Eating and drinking, Deprivation, Abundance, Temperance, Drunkenness, Carnivalesque, XVIIth century, Charles Sorel, Manger et boire, Privation, Abondance, Tempérance, Ivresse, Carnavalesque, XVIIe siècle, Francion, Francion, Charles Sorel
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