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Griffejoen-Cavatorta, Constance. "Libertinage et éthique aristocratique au XVIIe siècle." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2011VERS006S.
Full textIn the seventeenth century, many noblemen voiced the importance they attached to the liberty of mind, soul and body, through their deeds and works. Showing their voluptuous nature and celebrating the pleasures of the flesh, they freed themselves from stern morals. Displaying some distance towards religious beliefs and practices, they asserted their independence and denied the consideration due to the Altar. Fostering political opposition by their involvement in plots and conspiracies, or by fighting duels, they claimed for an ideal of rebelliousness. Libertine deeds, whether they relate to debauchery, disbelief or political rebellion, gain strength when accompanied by a libertine pen. The works written by representatives of aristocratic libertinage such as Montluc, Saint-Évremond, Bussy-Rabutin, La Fare or Chaulieu reveal a remarkable unity. These noblemen share values closely linked to their standing; composing libertine works - whether in matter or in manner – more perenially contributes to building their aristocratic ethos. Set at the heart of aristocratic libertinage, claiming for liberty thus assumes a major importance to the noblemen and their mental universe. Libertinage appears as an aspect essential to nobiliary culture and constitutes one of the most fundamental ways of expressing aristocratic identity and consciousness
D'Angelo, Filippo. "Le Moi dissocié : libertinage et fiction dans le roman à la première personne au XVIIe siècle." Grenoble 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008GRE39046.
Full textThe libertine novelists of the 17th century wrote frequently in first person. Nevertheless, their use of the first person narrator did not lead to a personal configuration of a heterodox vision of the world. Characterized by irony and concealment, the libertine practice of self-diegetic writing is the product of a process of declarative dissociation: the auctorial point of view is well separated by the narrative one that, in its tom, lost its own ideological discourse and became a series of heterogeneous points of view. This study aims at analyzing this process through sorne works such as the Histoire comique de Francion (1623) by Charles Sorel, the Première journée (1623) by Théophile de Viau, Les Aventures satyriques de Florinde (1625, anonymous), Le Gascon extravagant (1637) by Onésime de Claireville, Le Page disgracié (1643) by Tristan L'Hermite, L'Autre Monde (1657-1662) by Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Orphelin infortuné (1660) by César François Oudin de Préfontaine, Les Aventures (1677) by Charles Coypeau Dassoucy, La Terre Australe connue (1676) by Gabriel de Foigny and the Histoire des Sévarambes (1677-1679) by Denis Veiras. At the end of the path characterized by the analysis of these texts, the subjectivity marking out libertine first person narrator novels seems to be a dissociated subject, hanging on the neuter declarative space where its contradictory impulses takes place
Staquet, Anne. "Descartes et le libertinage." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210696.
Full textAoun, Ali. "Libertinage et utopie : étude comparée de la question de l'homme dans des utopies narratives du XVIIe siècle." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007CLF20023.
Full textBah-Ostrowiecki, Hélène. "Erudition et combat antireligieux au 17ème siècle : le cas du Theophrastus Redivivus." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100074.
Full textThe Theophrastus Redivivus, a bulky anonymous antireligious work written in sixteen fifty nine, is constructed on a reuse of traditional philosophical culture (mainly graeco-lation and renaissance); it consists of six treatises devoted respectively to proving the non-existence of gods, the eternity of the world, the exclusively political nature of religion, the mortality of the soul and the non-existence of the beyond, the necessity of despising death, then of living according to nature in order to reach happiness and wisdom. We will first show how the organization of the text (articulation and selection of scholarly references, various argumentative techniques. . . ). Determines the way in which these issues, common at the time, are dealt with. It is particularly crucial to grasp the tension between a demographic project and the polemic intention of the work. The second part focuses on the concept of nature which pervades the whole text and provides the meeting-point for reflexion on the super-natural, society, and man. It illustrates the major philosophical positions that structure the text, as well as their inadequacies, and even their contradictions. Those two parts reach the same conclusion via different ways: despite a sometime violently antireligious tone, the Theophrastus cannot be globably regarded as a merely atheist work. On the one hand, the discursive structure of the text, founded on the dialogism of scholarship, shows that heterodox positions, while undoing the totalitarian ambitions of the church's discourse, are vulnerable too, since they rely on the same culture and persuasion techniques. On the other hand, the denial of gods, the initial thematic, is only the starting point of a reflexion that, in its anthropological consequences, finally reintroduces the necessity, in order to think out man, of an alterity embodied by nature; in terms of function, it takes up in ethic developments the place previously held by the divine
Moreau, Isabelle. "Les stratégies d'écriture des libertins au XVIIème siècle." Saint-Etienne, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STET2097.
Full textSeventeenth century libertinism does not constitute a single harmonious philosophy, nor does it reduce to mere anti-christianism. Libertine thought is obviously in conflict with christian doctrine, but should not be reduced to this conflict alone : libertinism possesses its own logic and coherence, which it is important to grasp in order to understand authorial strategies. The analysis of the libertine protocol of reading and writing — their complex style, their rhetorical use of quotations, their irony — seems to us the best approach. Gabriel Naudé, François de la Mothe le Vayer, Cyrano de Bergerac and Charles Sorel read a very select library of books which they appropriate before beginning to write their own. To understand what is at stake in this protocol, it is important to determine the philosophical, rhetorical and stylistic coherence of libertine discourse. In the fields of religion, history and natural philosophy, the libertines tackle the question of knowledge from a very critical standpoint. Two domains — historiography and the reading of travelers’ accounts of their journeys — seem especially significant. Our authors elaborate an image of man and the world which competes with christian representations. Man loves myths : he has an inherent tendency to abandon critical distance. The libertines believe that it is most important to analyse the psychological mechanism that gives birth to conviction and belief. Writing strategies are the philosopher’s rhetorical answer to the anthropological analysis of human beliefs
Caballero, Marcial. "J. C. Vanini : averroïsme de Padoue et pensée libertine (une philosophie de la crise à l'âge baroque)." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040155.
Full textThe topic of our research is G. C. Vanini's life and works (1585-1619). Until recently, these have been partially or anachronistically interpreted. That is why we have decided to place them in their proper context, within the age of counter-reformation, or the age of barocco. This was a time strongly conditioned by a "logic of war", a time when imagination was deeply concerned by recurrent metaphors with sceptic connotations that tended to contemplate life as a "dream" and the world as a "theatre". Every deed and writing of this philosopher can be analyzed as an original answer in the history of thought, once they are replaced in their right context, Vanini uses elements from other schools and doctrines from the late renaissance philosophy and builds upon the ruins of a thought in crisis (Aristotelian tradition) that -in its most orthodox version- legitimates the violent ideology of counter-reformation, which is Vanini's main target. His radicalism, as well as his ability for anticipation would explain the controversy that has always accompanied him, under the contradictory labels of "hero" or "damned". It would explain as well his capacity for acting as a catalyst -within the libertine movement- and as a reference difficult to forget when we try to rethink some important subjects related to the origin and consolidation of a certain modern mentality and its inherent contradictions: the conception of the basis and functions of knowledge, the place we assign to nature -and to man in nature-, the relationships between philosophy and religion or philosophy and power, the way to consider the metaphysical concepts or the horizon of transcendence, and the possible basis of an ethical theory that isn't based on religion any longer
Julia, Aurélie. "Frédéric Lachèvre ou le renouveau des études dix-septièmistes." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040185.
Full textWho remembers Frédéric Lachèvre (1855-1943)? Usually forgotten by encyclopaedias and dictionaries, his name rings no bell anymore although the man devoted himself to what could be called “minor history” and spent many hours bringing out the minors of XVIIth century from dusty archives! Only few specialists may remember the remarquable Bibliographies collectives de poesies du XVIIe siècle which earned Frédéric Lachèvre the nickname of “bibbliographe-bénédictin”. Nothing in this man could predict such a fate: promised to a brilliant career in Finance, it was only when he was forty-five when the autodidact published his first studies on Jacques Vallée Des Barreaux, Théophile de Viau, Saint-Pavin, Claude de Chouvigny. . . Under his pen, it is the world of a little known century which emerges. His commentaries with personal remarks could make one smile: his vision belongs to a particular milieu from a particular time. Recalling the scientific work of Frédéric Lachèvre evokes various notions as bibliophily, bibliography, censorship. . . Along with them reppear erudite persons like Charles Nodier, Jean-Jacques Brunet, Pierre Louÿs, Fernand Vandérem, Georges Mongrédien. . . With a light and pleasant style, sometimes sarcastic and caustic, the work of Frédéric Lachèvre is an invitation to bury oneself in the earthy world of minor poets
Tricoche-Rauline, Laurence. "Le Moi libertin : Modalités d'expression de la subjectivité à l'âge classique." Saint-Etienne, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STET2102.
Full textSzabries, Carmen. "Libertinage et libertins dans les romans d’Andréa de Nerciat." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040007.
Full textThe following thesis proposes three main questions : how realistic is Nerciat’s portrayal of his libertines? What ethical imperatives drive his literary creations ? What kind of literary devices does Nerciat employ to express a libertinage that is at once joyous and playful ? Nerciat’s writing exemplifies a voluptuousness and excessive pleasure that combine to create a unique universe full of exquisite charm. Shaped by a self-sufficient hedonism, his libertines live with the single-minded aim of fulfilling their ideal of pleasure, but do so without experiencing any great suffering. It soon becomes apparent that Nerciat is a master of writing : his style is characterised by a fluency of pace; the weaving together of textual elements is coherent and the content is inventive. Overall, the author reveals an imagination that is overpowering, but which reins itself in at the service of a comic humour that engages completely both the reader’s attention and his approbation
Gouverneur, Sophie. "Prudence et subversion libertines : politique, éthique, esthétique chez François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé et Samuel Sorbière." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040062.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to combine general philosophical research (on moral and politics virtue of prudence) and research in the history of philosophy (on the status of libertinage in the seventeenth century). Thus, our study deals with the function of the concept of prudence in the works of three seventeenth-century French libertines : François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, and Samuel Sorbière. Starting with a preliminary question that challenges the dominant historiographic thesis (why should the critical thinking of the libertines stop where the politic begin ?), our purpose is to demonstrate how these authors put forward a form of politically subversive thought, and hence libertine, in so far as they divert the explicit meaning of the "raison d'Etat" discourse, though a theorizing and a use of prudence. Indeed, from their perspective, prudence is both an object of thought (as the political art of deception and ethical art of deceit) and a writing process which subverts the opponent's discourse. The successive analysis of the multiple aspects of prudence, with its political implications (inherited from Machiavel), ethical implications (inherited from classical philosophy and from Montaigne), and aesthetic implications (inherited from the persecution libertinage), will lead to a clearer understanding of these authors' complex political thought, and, from a more general point of view, allow to reflect on the very polemic category called "libertinage" (what is its coherence in the seventeenth century and what is its relation with philosophy?)
Dupuy, Nathanaëlle. "Le libertinage érudit et la formation de l'homme : François de La Mothe Le Vayer, précepteur royal et précurseur pédagogique." Nantes, 2016. https://archive.bu.univ-nantes.fr/pollux/show/show?id=4eba63dd-e037-4b06-9950-1704ebee8088.
Full textFrançois De La Mothe Le Vayer, a learned libertine in the XVII century was the of King Louis XIV’s private tutor. At first sight, the political part of our libertine – Richelieu’s protégé and the Sun-King’s private tutor – may seem contradictory with the idea of an educational precursor. Nevertheless, reading attentively Le Vayer’s works reveals, beyond his large culture of the Ancients, a critical thinking not deprived of any meaning within our present time. Libertines as precursors can be seen from two angles. First, by the setting up of the “economical governance” which is a distinctive feature of the way the Ancients ruled, we will point at the way François De La Mothe Le Vayer brings a secularized governing pattern to the foreground of politics by initiating the separation of pastoral governance from regal power. Secondly, by the means our libertine uses to highlight another vision of education of the self, separate from institutional forms and from educative conversion. Since the beginning of Christianity, the aim of education and converting institutes is to prepare souls to entering the expectation of a salvation which political order will then administer. Facing this, the libertine view of education establishes a break : an emancipating education. Putting into practice the theory of education of the self, how can La Mothe Le Vayer still be our contemporary? How can he enlighten us about the present state of things regarding the part of education as a lever for the political question?
Ponzetto, Valentina. "Alfred de Musset et les écrivains libertins du XVIIIe siècle." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040042.
Full textMusset's writing owes more than usually recognized to eighteenth-century libertine writers. This becomes clear when we remove old critical stereotypes and take a fresh look at his works. The very locations in which the stories take place hearken to the libertine tradition, drawing the picture of a sophisticated, worldly universe, confined to a few urban centres (Paris, Venice) and to some privileged, interior settings imbued with sensuality (boudoirs, petites-maisons). The key is evocation rather than description, literary reminiscences rather than the observation of reality. Musset's characters, too, display traits that set them in the tradition of the heroes of the libertine novel, in a relationship equally comprising admiration and desired imitation, as well as polemical opposition and reinterpretation. They are, notably, good talkers and seducers. Whether employed in dangerous and corrupting designs, or in more playful and lighthearted tones, their speech is marked by a language, a phrasing, a style, a seductive intent typical of libertine writing. This is precisely where we can recognize the most fruitful and most deeply rooted libertine heritage in Musset's works: an elegant and allusive language, which suggests eroticism and desire without vulgarity; a style composed of decent yet evocative metaphors, insinuating reticence, artful ellipses. It is finally a way of writing that elicits the reader's complicitous cooperation and irresistibly seduces him. Between reviving and transcending the libertine model, reusing and ironically distorting the clichés derived from this tradition, Musset's work develops its originality and its charm
Benard, Mylène. "Les romans personnels et libertins au XVIIe siècle." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007CLF20019.
Full textJaziri, Anissa. "Drôlerie et noblesse : l'esthétique et l'éthique du corps des aristocrates à l'épreuve des dramaturgies comiques et tragi-comiques du XVIIe siècle français." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100004/document.
Full textWhile the body of the common people has inspired many sociological and anthropological approaches, our research has focused on the study of the body image of aristocratic characters in french seventeenth century comic and tragic dramaturgies.Although the often heroic presence of this social category is part of the so-called "noble" genre of tragedy, it is, and according to a long Aristotelian tradition, banned from the comic genre considered more susceptible to the mediocre, even the ugly, physical and moral, and to consider things of the body. Based on a corpus of sixty comedies and tragicomedies dating from 1629 to 1690, our study of the physical images of the nobles then leads to a particular aesthetic that makes us question the compatibility between the often idealizing representation of the "honest men" and laughter. However, to highlight the pleasant presence of the noble body on stage, we referred to a more subtle notion than the comic, that of the drollery which lies between the approval of the celebration of the beauties of the aristocrats concerned by the action and the pleasant awareness of the excesses of this perfection, between the disconcerting inventiveness, even the grandeur, of the nobles who disguise themselves and the bursts of laughter inspired by some of their bodily or natural defects or failures, between the amused spectacle of their sensuality little annoyed or casual, the exultation aroused by their militant libertinism, which makes you think, and a kind of unease in front of the cynicism of the few, between the admiration of the talents of actors allowing good tricks, thanks to a beautiful gestural dexterity, and the jubilation inspired by the success of well-born protagonists. The stakes become even higher when it comes to the desire for freedom that the bodies express on stage, especially those of women when violent excesses or hypocritical behavior are represented. So many rich impressions that amplifies the setting in space and in voice by actors who also let hear a kind of mystery of the words. All the shades of drollery, of a comic that we perceive as a little strange, seem to have been experienced by our dramatic poets to bring the nobles to the comic scene and, at one time, to the mixed genre of tragi-comedy
Champion, Julie. "Le cheminement de la parole libertine." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040160/document.
Full textIt seems that libertinism has always been misread, distorted and regarded as a movement with a limited scale. However, even if the establishment of the notion of libertinism was based on the negative vision spread by its detractors, it was actually a strong ideology, philosophy and style that was often misunderstood because the libertins always denied all kind of dogma. Therefore, they do not propose a philosophical model but a way of thinking in which the reader has to figure one’s own vision of the world as well as an ideal model of life and wisdom. This continuity was revealed by the contemporary criticism of the libertins from the seventeenth century, that we name “Scholars” since the thesis developed by René Pintard in 1943. But the chronology divides the movement in two periods and denies the possibility of a continuity between the libertine authors from the seventeenth century and those from the eighteenth century, regarded as minors authors. Through the study of four libertine pieces from the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries (Les États et Empires de la Lune et du Soleil by Cyrano de Bergerac, Dom Juan by Molière, Thérèse philosophe by Boyer d’Argens and the three versions of Justine by Sade) and through their comparison with the stakes of libertinism defined by the theoretical texts and criticism, this continuity is highlighted and studied in five fundamental ways : refusal of beliefs, the promotion of a scientific approach, putting common values in perspective, the existence of a materialistic hermeneutics and the constitution of a political, social and philosophical ideal
Sultan, Élise. "Les romans libertins du XVIIIe siècle ou la philosophie des sens dessus dessous." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H211/document.
Full textLibertine novels are not only pornography. During the 18th century, they are at the root of a philosophical and literary device, where fiction reflects and inspires reflection. Although the body of Libertine novels from Crébillon's Sylphe ( 1730) to Sade's Juliette ( 1797) is very diverse, the scam that runs through it is a distinctive oscillation between erotic scenes and philosophical debates. Rather than rewriting philosophical theories, the Libertine novels offer a literary way to philophize. Those novels offer experiences to the reader. Shilling philosophy towards the “boudoir”, the Libertine novel reconcile body and mind, theory and practice
Francès, Cyril. "La mémoire du désir : poétique du temps et figuration du sujet dans l'Histoire de ma vie de Giacomo Casanova." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30054.
Full text«What is deepest in man, it is the skin - as he knows himself," wrote Paul Valéry in L’idée fixe. Few autobiographical works have quite explored of this depth: since Rousseau, the imperatives of the genre require to go in cute. L’Histoire de ma vie belongs to this little number. Casanova, for long man of all superficialities, runs continuously the surface of being, not to forget himself, but precisely "as he knows himself." On the epidermis, appear the most dizzying metamorphoses as the most brilliant revelations: man discovers of what stuff is made. The reflexivity of the narrative itself cannot do without this mediation, and that the writer tries to find as the pages go by, it's less a truth or essence than a body again capable of depth. The work tends to recompose its tissues, to restore its splendor and to replay his impulses, hoping to overcome the only truly superficial reality: Time. Desire’s memory refers to this carnal anamnesis, which unfolds away from consciousness and interiority but in the theater of skins and ornaments. L’Histoire de ma vie tries to collect and to raise the intensity, giving back to the subject writing this flesh lost, the only one he knows and that each line is trying to regain. This memory has its own temporality; it shapes a unique subject and generates a unique writing system: it opens within the world of writing of the self an immense space and still insufficiently explored
Tabeling, Brice. "L'écriture familière en France au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA144.
Full textIn Seventeenth-Century France, familiar writing was a language practice unique to the particular space that intentionally assumed a poverty of form and multiplicity of meanings. What issues did 17th century contemporaries see at stake in what is not a “style”, but as described by Dominique Bouhours, an “immature” state of language? In the first part (chapters 1 & 2), we will focus on the principal model of familiar writing that centers the discussion in the 17th century: the “sermo” (Ciceronian or Augustinian). Thus we will shed light on a political fiction under the theorization of familiar writing: what is at stake in the “Sermo” is the passage from a language attached to primitive communities and understood as simply an affective measure of human relations to a differentiated language,unique to societies and built on the representation and sharing of meaning.The second part (chapters 3-6) will explore the disruptions that progressive empowerment of the private space provokes in the understanding of familiar writing in the 17th century. In the eyes of those who lived in the 17th century, familiar usage of language constituted both anoccasion that preferred the feeling of community, as well as a threat to civil ambition to which it is attached. Treaties on conversation tried to limit its dangers. Libertine texts exacerbated the power of its disruptions.The last part (chapter 7) is devoted to the theatrical works of Molière. Following readjustments brought to notions of style and representation by our exploration of the classico-baroque familiar writings, how does one interpret Molière’s comic language? What are the consequences for our understanding of “le ridicule”?
Cuyl-Candit, Elodie. "La liberté dans l'œuvre de Crébillon fils." Dijon, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995DIJOL002.
Full textCrebillon fils novels show the libertin as a weak individual, completely dominated by his passions and whom aberrations seem the manifestation of an instinct that the society can repress but not gag. This universe is the one of a general sensuality to which the libertins press their conquests to surrender without constraint however, it seems that this sensual freedom is an illusion and that everyone has to justify his faults there is, in libertines conquestes, a crual intention, an evil purpose that aims to study feminine freedom before desire and that finds its excuse in an ostentatious will to make "experiences". This need of justification is the symptom of a tenacious guilt. Shall the individual be tempted when he proved himself too weak to resist? Which is, then, the exact measure of the human freedom? Moreover, the libertin is an individual in exhibition, who is subdued to the judgements of the "public" the "public" is powerful and it is to protect one's reputation, so necessary in that world of appearances, that everyone has to disguise himself, condemned to be always pleasant. There is no more political freedom than social freedom kings and prince are tyrants who require from their subjects, a total submission so that no one could cross their aspirations nor desires, as powerful in prince as they are in ordinary people. The individual is prey to the desperate will to satisfact his passion, whatever it is in alienating the freedom of the others, forgetting that they are his passions themselves that chain him
Bokobza-Kahan, Michèle. "Folie et libertinage dans le roman du XVIIIème siècle." Paris 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030083.
Full textThe main objective of this study is to approach the libertine novels of the xviiith century (until the publication of les amours du chevalier de faublas by louvet de couvray in 1789), as a questioning on the involvment of madness and libertinism - way and mean of being - to the becoming of human in the world. Libertinism always developing within a determined society and in the relationship with others, the issue of madness is perceived in three different aspects : the social angle, the psychological angle and the interactional angle. Highlighting the representation of madness and the links woven between mental disease and a certain kind of relationships based on the libertine system, this study leads to a better comprehension of the libertine phenomenon itself
Shin, Hyun-Sook. "Utopie romanesque et libertinage." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040148.
Full textSince the regency till the fall of the French monarchy (17891799), the literature, has been the "golden age" of the utopia and of the libertine philosophy, who have been illustrated by many great works. These two "reactions" have things in common. First, they were against the political and the religious principles of the traditional French monarchy. They expressed a desire to flee reality and to live in dreams. Moreover, they used several characteristic techniques such as periodical eloquence and polemical or sophistical sentences. Furthermore, both of them used fabulous and exotic stories. However, it is impossible to ignore their differences. For example, the "open-minded" "freethinkers" are more revolutionary than reformist; on the contrary, the suggestions of utopia for a change of the European governments describe some new societies, even more "close-minded" than the 18th century monarchy
Bastide, Olivier. ""Les Fastes du monde foutant" : ou le libertinage de Nerciat romancier." Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10130.
Full textMouttapa, François. "Mystique, sensibilité, libertinage : jeux de la création mimétique dans le roman au XVIIIe siècle (Prévost, Laclos, Sade)." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA082196.
Full textThe reflection will bear on the pastiche of religious rhetoric in the 18th century novel. The works studied - Prevost's Les mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité, Laclo's Les liaisons dangereuses, Sade's Justine - constitute a set of novels all deeply impregnated with religious culture in their literary creation. Rather than explain those works from a strictly social and historical standpoint or from a psychoanalytic standspoint, the study meshes two fields of a critical analysis of the links between religion and literary construction. . .
Zhang, Qianru. "Claude Villaret, témoin de l’évolution du roman libertin du 18e siècle." Thesis, Paris 8, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA080139.
Full text: Between 1736 and 1738, Crébillon fils composed Les égarements du coeur et de l’esprit. In 1740, Gervaise de Latouche published Le portier des chartreux. Today, we consider them both as libertine novels, not without a certain delicate embarrassment. There is no doubt that studies devoted to the libertine novel during two recent decades have allowed contemporary researchers to extend and clarify the definition of the genre, so that classifying the two novels in the same genre no longer makes problems; however, their difference in the content and in the form seems enormous to us. Actually, the libertine novel evolved perpetually in the 18th century. Two currents, each representing on its own mondain libertinism and licentious libertinism, formed and coexisted. Thus, we can’t help asking the following question: why did this division take place within the libertine novel? Chronologically, the 1740s constituted an important period of the libertine novel’s evolution. And Villaret wrote his novels precisely in this period. As a witness of this transition moment, Villaret erases, with his four novels, the demarcation between these two currents. In his novels, on the one hand, the protagonist’s social status is sometimes ambiguous, balancing between elite and common people, and a decent and veiled language is used here and there to describe a commoner protagonist; on the other hand, his description of desire also balances between suggestive allusions and bare terms. By studying Villaret’s novels, we will better understand this crucial moment in the libertine novel’s evolution, the reasons, the forms and the process of this evolution. In this way, we can also discover the multiple ties formed between the two divergent currents, so that Les égarements du coeur et de l’esprit is not as far from Le portier des chartreux as we believe
Roche, Bruno. "Le rire des libertins dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CLF20011.
Full textVarela, Sarmiento Eugenia. "Usages et enjeux de la gravure dans le roman libertin du XVIIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080068/document.
Full textThe objects of study of this thesis are printed books, the French libertine novel of the 18th century and the illustrations that go with these texts. We explore concretely the duality of libertine illustration, created between the explicit aspect of its topics and the tacit condensation of an idea. This study starts, in the first chapter, with a general historical synthesis of the use of picture since Antiquity until the 18th century, and explores the uses of a classical past in the manufacture of libertine illustrations, as well as its change in time and its specific historic-cultural characteristics. The second chapter goes deeper into this same universe but focuses on the gender roles given to bodies represented on illustrations, on the notion of sexuality printed in them and on the rhetoric and intimate effect that texts and pictures set up between the author and the reader. In the third chapter, we look at the reading of allegoric illustrations. These are found in the frontispieces of libertine novel and represent their most important aspect. Indeed, these frontispieces contain the traces that establish continuities in their esthetical dimension, represented by the appropriation of stylistic and thematic elements of Classical Antiquity and “condensation”, an essential characteristic of the pictures on this type of illustrations. Finally, in the fourth chapter, we study the relation between illustration and Arts, particularly represented through Painting. In this perspective, and from a predetermined analysis scheme divided into specific topics, we focus on the singularities that permit establishing what was considered, or not, as Arts in the 18th century
Querio, Ruth. "Les stratégies pudiques aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : histoire et représentations." Nice, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011NICE2025.
Full textThis work is devoted to the study of modesty strategies which deal with the whole mechanisms whose purpose is to protect our human dignity. These strategies keep us from the feeling of shame which puts on alert our modesty. The attacks whose target is the modesty belong to the same field, whereas the way we have to thwart them move a great deal all along centuries. The modesty strategies form our viewpoint to read the 18th and 19th centuries. This work embodies a link not only between two centuries but also between two types of source-books (fiction and egodocument). What are the divergences and convergences between these two centuries ? What is the influence of literature master pattern relevant to human behaviour ? We endeavour to set a perspective between the representation imposed by the society and their eventual applications. In the public field, the modesty strategies turn into politeness and civility to allow the individu to live peacefully in society. In the intimate field, the 18th century will build up the modesty strategies from the libertine figure in order to settle a received sexuality in the society. The aestheticism will be its form of sublimation. The 19th century leans on the two faces of the woman to lead to the « double standard » conceit : on the one hand the romanticism set between love and grief as a « modesty voucher », and the other hand the prostitution with the use of « fugitive figure »
André, Valérie. "Le roman de libertinage, 1782-1815: de l'exhumation à la réhabilitation?" Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212334.
Full textLefevre, Amandine. "Entre clandestinité et libertinage, le secret dans le roman français du XVIIIe siècle (1737-1782)." Thesis, Reims, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REIML001/document.
Full textIn the eighteenth century secret is a theme which goes through reality and fiction alike. It is actually found both in adventurous novelists' life and in their works. Between 1737 and 1782, from the prohibition of novels which brings about underground publishing to the twilight of the libertine outlook depicted by Les Liaisons dangereuses, secret does not stop transforming itself. Basically at the origin of ups and downs even imbroglioes in Mouhy, Chevrier or Bastide, it contributes afterwards to the expression of subjectivity in Vivant Denon and Laclos’s works. From adventure to alcove, we observe the interiorization of a theme which is renewed at the same time as the pleasure of reading. This study hopes to render the context of the time putting in relation novels considered as minor and others held to be major ones and to prove that beyond the boundaries that separate the sub-genres, the secret of literature lies very likely in the way minor works can throw light on masterpieces
Madonia, Francesco Paolo Alexandre. "L'estetica della "laideur" nel romanzo libertino." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA081692.
Full textTomas, Stéphanie. "Les contes en vers au XVIIIème siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040155.
Full textThis thesis means to study the 18th century verse tale, a rich and diverse work which has never been the subject of an overall analysis. A real fashion phenomenon, just like the fairy tale that preceded it, the verse tale was practiced by well-known authors (Voltaire) as well as second rate writers such as Grécourt, the most prolific. The narrative put into verse was a minor genre with no code which was disparaged by the supporters of literary orthodoxy. It falls within the province of transient poetry and comes straight from the art of conversation, which was so highly prized at the time that it imposed themes on writers and shaped the poetics of the texts. Between refined entertainment and fully-fledged literary genre, the verse tale, which underlines the crisis poetry was going through at the Age of the Enlightenment, embodies the search for a new poetic way marked by humility, lightness and simplicity and objecting to solemnity and the sublime. Our work, which is limited to printed texts, adopts three different angles: successively, the sociological, historical and generic angles. Tales, which are society poems and collective and serial works, are an indication of the taste for mockery and banter characteristic of this time. As for the diachronic approach, it aims at throwing light on the peaks of the vogue for tales from 1715 to the Revolution but also at bringing out a transhistoric continuity by establishing the origins as well as the posterity of the genre. Tales are also viewed in connection with the other genres it delights in imitating and twisting. They are libertine because of their philosophy but above all because of their allusive and subversive writing
Guillemet, Morgane. "De la représentation au mythe : l’ambiguïté féminine dans le roman libertin du XVIIIe siècle." Phd thesis, Rennes 2, 2009. https://theses.hal.science/tel-00447426/fr/.
Full textOver the last few years university criticism has taken a greater interest in the libertine novel. Yet, looked at from the point of view of woman and feminine, taking into account a large set of works – from French Regency to the first years of the nineteenth century – provides a new vision of both the libertine novel and the feminine question. The purpose of this thesis is therefore to envisage these two poles of understanding of Enlightenment thought and imaginary in their so rich but too little revealed until now mutual interaction. The libertine novel provides indeed its own answer to a question that obsessed the century in which it was born and evolved: the woman. The imageries, myths and fantasies revolving around feminine and femininity are also the origin of the basic feminine ambiguity in these texts. They are actually asserting themselves in both their intentions to liberate and their temptations to normalize. A thorough analysis of mastery and its stakes that are in the heart of relations between the two sexes and therefore the opposition masculine/feminine point out that this ambiguity, always wavering between liberation and subjection, is to interpret as a dynamic likely to construct a fantastical staging of woman and feminine
Dornier, Carole. "L'enonce general dans l'oeuvre de crebillon fils." Caen, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990CAEN1065.
Full textGenand, Stéphanie. "Le modèle libertin et la fin de l'Ancien Régime, 1782-1802." Paris 4, 2002. https://acces.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/login?url=https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780729408677.
Full textThe object of this thesis is to highlight the existence of a connection between the libertine aesthetics, as it appears under the Regency, and the abolition of principles inherited from the Ancien Régime. Indeed libertinage cannot be dissociated from the existence of aristocracy, as it appears in mondain circles in the 1730s, and among idle nobles who practice the art of seduction. It is worth examining the evolution of the libertine aesthetics at the turn of the century, in a context where the French Revolution, and before that stronger values of the bourgeoisie, both tend to question all aspects of the aristocracy's prerogatives. .
Touré, Kevin L. H. "Clandestinité et libertinage dans les Liaisons dangereuses de Choderlos de Laclos et Histoire de Juliette D. A. F. de Sade." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030164.
Full textClandestinity: a word that associates secret and sedition; and threrefore implies the subversion of the common values established by a society legal frame. As this step aside from normal values, it had been embodied at the Classical Age by the libertines. However, at the XVIIIth century, the libertine isn’t anymore the philosopher or the satirical and licencious poet he had been in the XVIIth century : by this time, he becomes a novel character. But what is exactly a libertin novel, at the XVIIIth century ? Two writters of the time provided answers of a very different kind: Laclos in Les Liaisons dangereuses and Sade in a novel like Histoire de Juliette. Consisting in an interpretation of the “libertinage romanesque”, their novels essentialy dwel on one very matter: clandestinity. How such a theme could provide fundamental clues to the undestanding of the significations that both authors have given to the libertinage of the XVIIIth century ? A question that implies that the study of their books should focus on the libertine intertextual schemes that nourish their imaginaire. Which means questionning the sense they’ve given to this association: clandestinity and libertinage
Champion, Émilie. "Le Maréchal-duc de Richelieu : un homme de pouvoir et de guerre, au siècle des Lumières." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30026.
Full textLouis-François-Armand of Vignerot du Plessis, marshal of France, duke of Richelieu in 1715. Almost forgotten by history of France, he is especially famous for his numerous scandals, his love of the women. It is not a question of accomplishing a simple biography of this man but much more of studying the several subjects procreated by this figure. The son of great-nephew of the famous cardinal Richelieu, he is first of all a member of the high French nobility of this end of the XVIIth century up to the end of XVIIIth century. His existence is therefore the image of life, habits and usages, of the nobility. Man of paradoxes, anchored well in his century, libertine, born in 1696 he remains however profoundly marked by the previous, Louis XIV’s reign, the godson of whom he is. Protector of the arts he hasn’t in his library the writings of the Enlighment philosophers, except these written by his friend Voltaire. Finally, the man called by his contemporaries “French Alcibiades", close and intimate friend of the king Louis XV, is a model sycophant, the perfect gentleman of courtyard. The military activities taking a big part of his life, he is also a great warrior, fine strategist, whose qualities are too often eclipsed by his numerous scandals. He participates in different conflicts which shell throughout the XVIIIth century. Serving honestly during the Polish succession war (1733 – 1738), the duke of Richelieu displays all his military talents in 1745 at the battle of Fontenoy and even more in 1756 (siege of Minorca). He rose to the rank of marshal of France in 1748 becoming, above all, a great figure of the French military history. Finally all his summarily mentioned qualities, shaping such a particular personality, turn out to be very useful in his last function of governor of Guyenne he was given in 1755. This new mission demands all his intelligence, charisma and skills, for showing in turn his authority and firmness but also a diplomacy, which has not been strange for him as former ambassador in Vienna (1725 - 1729) and in Dresden (1747). It’s very much interesting to observe how the duke’s personality influenced the governed province. He ends his well filled life in 1788 having lived almost all XVIII century
Haidar, Imad. "La femme et la société dans les romans de Crebillon fils." Montpellier 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991MON30017.
Full textCrebillon depicts-or builds-a s0ciety which renounces traditional values. He proposes a new art of love which guarantees a life free of all negative aspects. He advocates ephemeral pleasures as having an ethical and social value. Thus, he gives the concept of woman and love a new expression. Love, according to him, is no longer a commitment, it is a simple game of seduction which occurs with level- headed women who do not offer any resistance in the name of virtue. This love, which is only the relinquishment to the natural vigors of desire, permits the development of relationships in which men and women are equal. This natural law must counterbalance the established social laws according to wich there can not exist an equitable relationship between the two sexes. Crebillon, respectfultowards women, places ther wishes on the same level as those of men. He incites them to free themselves from the hypocritical mask of virtue, and to stop hiding or denying ther desires. By this, he invites them to reject the prejudices which impinge on sentimental relationships and the statute of women in particular
Richter, Josef. "Libertinage littéraire en Angleterre, en France et en Allemagne (1751-1804). Etude de trois romans épistolaires : clarisse Harlove de Richardson, Les Liaisons dangereuses de Laclos et Menander und Glycerion de Wieland." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040083.
Full text“I don’t see why a girl like Nanette should be blamed for profiting from the madness and extreme disorderly conduct of your libertines, in order to set the highest price to her person and her art,” Wieland’s Leontion says to herself. This “extreme disorderly conduct” is only one of the characteristics of that kind of carefree existence which is an expression of the triumph of libertine mores at a time when the fascination of European societies for libertinism, whether real or imaginary, is reflected in English, French and German Literature. The following thesis thus demonstrates the diversity of libertine literature in Europe in the second half of the XVIIIth century. In order to analyse this diversity and compare its different aspects, I have chosen three epistolary novels that I consider to be paradigms in the matter: Clarissa Harlowe by Richardson in England, Les Liaisons dangereuses by Laclos in France and Menander und Glycerion by Wieland in Germany. The implicit or explicit judgement that these three authors pass on the laws of social order, on religion, and on the mores of the period is emblematic of an original vision of the world. Although this vision is expressed within the limits of works of fiction, the study of these works highlights a number of elements that are specific to the social and political atmosphere of the time, as well as certain autobiographical elements which have contributed to the social paradigm of feminine and masculine libertinism to which they subscribe. The purpose of this thesis is to study these literary works as rich sources of information on the libertines and their conduct as an accepted social model for men and women alike, and to discuss the complexity and singular nature of this phenomenon by a differential treatment of the various themes through which it can be identified
Guillemat, Christian. "Le jeu et le roman dans l'oeuvre de Crébillon fils." Montpellier 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003MON30012.
Full textClaude Crébillon (1707-1777) was accused of being a libertine novelist. A recent discovery portrays him as an ethnographer or a moralist when he is a player. Inextricably, libertine pastimes and those of the novel weave works which testify to the disorders of society, the difficulties of novel genre and uncertain nature of artistic creation. Crébillon creates libertine characters who can never establish themselves in the long term nor evolve with regards to others. As a conscious novelist, he bases his writing on the play on styles and on the novel tradition in order to compose works in which beings disappear behind their representations. As an artist, he creates a universe composed of moments and shapes, criss-crossed by many paths which never leave it. This play acting is neither gratuitous, nor disordered, nor inoffensive, nor futile : organised by the text, it produces artistic works, it brings all concepts into perspective and it provides an outlet to philosophical perplexity
Jolivet, Vincent. "La Bête en l’Homme : l’animalité humaine dans l’oeuvre de Sade." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040227.
Full textAnimality is one of the most topical questions for the thinkers of the Enlightenment. The nature of the soul and the criterion of men’s specificity, the origin of knowledge and the functioning of the body, the classification of species and the animal’s rights are all at the heart of debates and reflections of the time. And so they are in the marquis de Sade’s works, whose ambition to destabilize the humanistic values finds with this question a very convenient philosophical instrument. With Sade, the animal appears in fact what he is as far as philosophy is concerned: a powerful weapon for skeptical thinkers, a metaphysical bomb able to blow away all ethics, an operative concept to work out the next enslavements to come. Inspired by the French materialist thinkers, Sade considers Man as an animal amongst others and views human beings as mere assembling of atoms and efficient machineries; but contrary to them, he tries to draw the conclusions of such a statement and tends to make him a brute. Playing the part of some sort of criminal Rousseau eager to push mankind into violence and depravation, he rationally advocates a frightening return to the most primitive bestiality and calls for a general step back to the times when Man was still a wolf for Man. A program that however he isn’t always able to stick to, animal turning out to be a very tricky philosophical ground even for him
Brin, Raphaëlle. "Écrire « sans conséquence » ? Stratégies d’écriture et ambiguïtés de la figure d’auteur dans l’œuvre de Casanova (1752-1798)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL026.
Full textThe invention of the Casanovian myth is based on the writer's occultation. It contradicts an ambition pursued for several decades by the Venetian. In a time when the condition of the “man of letters” is undergoing crucial transformations, Casanova’s successive attempts to achieve recognition in various literary genres were not successful. This study more specifically questions his relationship with the notion of author, considered under the two poles of auctoriality and authority. Between the "refusal of consequences" and "inconsistency", the author appears, in Casanova’s works, as a labile and evasive instance. The instability of his positions is linked to tactical constraints and epistemological biases, but also to a playful and theatrical conception of existence. Casanova's reading habits and writing practices reveal a writer haunted by a strategic conception of literature. The study focuses on these writing strategies, both in the philosophical and autobiographical works, and aims to understand their effects. Long marginalized, Casanova's work offers nevertheless a unique perspective on the evolution of sensibilities and aesthetics over the century, as well as on the upheavals that affect the status of writers, their relationship with the authorities or with the "public"
Haj, Sassi Taïeb. "Récit de rouerie, machination et représentation de la machination dans la fiction et la gravure libertines, de Crébillon à Sade." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3028.
Full textThe libertine novels ornated with figures grew dramatically in the eighteenth century. According to Goncourt brothers it is “the century of the vignette”. The development of this genre of illustrated books changed, both aesthetic sensibility of the reader and the material conditions of reading a trick story, for our conception of libertine literature as a system of representation is no more exclusively textual nor discursive but triggers a dialogue with the image. The study of this duplication of representation is at stake, using the text-and-image devices it operates, as a new method to analyse their interconnection in the libertine trick stories. One could imagine such narratives are the most distant from the image, since the machination and trickery need to act covertly, whereas the logic of the image appears to be at the very heart of the operative devices of representation which govern the eighteenth century libertine novel. Following that scientific approach, we’ll try to complete the existing studies on poetics of the erotic or intimate scene, and how gazing and theatricality interact within classical fiction, with the hypothesis that, in the trick stories, the representation of the libertine plot faces two strategies: the one that lures with showing something and the other with concealing
Okuneva, Irina. "Mirabeau : écrivain, orateur, néologue." Paris, EHESS, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014EHES0007.
Full textHonoré-Gabriel de Riquetti, count of Mirabeau, nobleman from Provence, went down in history as an eminent orator and a major protagonist of the French Révolution in its first stage. As a resuit, most studies on Mirabeau have been written by historians focusing on the political activist and thinker, while his private life was being scrutinized by biographers, starting as early as the end of the 18th century. In our research, we put forward a différent approach. Mirabeau's figure cannot be fully apprehended if confined to the two years of his political prominence in the revolutionary assemblies. It is necessary to examine his rich, prolific, life-long career as a 'man of letters' belonging to the last génération of the Enlightenment. Mirabeau's many works are diverse in nature. They include erotic novels, essays, pamphlets, translations of ancient as well as modem authors, letters, and of course, political discourses ; in addition to those published works, manuscripts or fragments of manuscripts can be found in several archives, most notably in Aix-en-Provence and in the archives of the French Foreign Office. The présent dissertation covers the whole of Mirabeau's published and unpublished works. Against the prevailing notion of an undisciplined thinker, we aim at demonstrating the cohérence of Mirabeau's vision by making apparent the logical ties between his «philosophy» (as applied to history, langage or the arts), his théories on éducation, and his political analyses. Our approach, we hope, will shed a new light on the historical figure of the revolutionnary Mirabeau ; it can also help understand the reasons for Mirabeau's deep and lasting influence
Buis, Emmanuelle. "Circulations libertines dans le roman européen : 1736-1803 : étude des influences anglaises et françaises sur la littérature allemande." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030063.
Full textThis dissertation is a study of the influence of “gallant” libertine literature from England and France on German literary creation in the last three decades of the 18th century. The number of translations and critical commentaries which appeared at the time testifies to the successful impact in Germany of four novels of seduction, the very emblems of the genre, namely Clarissa Harlowe, Les Égarements du coeur et de l’esprit, Le Paysan perverti and Les Liaisons dangereuses. It is therefore legitimate to search for echoes of those works in the German production of the late 18th century. The survey of scientific evidence of the attention paid to those novels (openly acknowledged influence, critical comments or explicit marks of intertextuality) results in the selection of six German writers, also enthusiastic readers of the books, whose works display a reflection of the tradition of “gallant” libertine literature, viz. Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, Wilhelm Heinse, Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano and Jean Paul. The confrontation between the German novels and the “sources” reveals the presence of the main motifs of “gallant” libertine literature: typology of characters, strategy of seduction and key phases in the plot. Yet it is inseparable from a systematic use of distortion. The parody of a series of narrative techniques and the recourse to “perverted imitation” bear witness to a process of distanciation in which both the originality of the literary heirs and the specifically German sensibility of a fast expanding literature assert themselves. By giving new directions to certain fundamental principles of the libertine quest, the latest German works in the corpus alter the initial libertine doctrine and pave the way for new areas of existential questions, thus foreshadowing the disillusioned artistic figures of the 19th century
Sansregret, May. "L'enchevêtrement des discours moraux et libertins dans Les mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des moeurs du XVIIIe siècle de Charles Pinot Duclos." Mémoire, 2006. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3012/1/M9310.pdf.
Full textLavoie, Liette. "La "FOUTERIE" versus les émois grandiloquents : étude de l'évolution du langage libertin à travers Le sopha de Crébillon fils et La philosophie dans le boudoir de Sade." Mémoire, 2007. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/777/1/M10099.pdf.
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