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Oddo, Nancy. "Un chemin de velours vers Dieu : roman et dévotion en France (1557-1662)." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030163.
Full textAron, Mélanie. "Les mémoires de Madame de Motteville : du dévouement à la dévotion." Nancy 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999NAN21037.
Full textWhen Louis XIII died, Madame de Motteville exiled by Richelieu in 1624, was called back to the Court. She lived the next 23 years at the side of Anne of Austria, and became her confident. During her free time, she wrote down her observations and reflexions. These notes form the basis of her Memories, the definitive version of which was written in 1661. I have chosen to travel down this path, in the steps of the confident, and watch as the Court passes before her eyes : the picture painted by Madame de Motteville offers the reader a pessimistic vision of a world in decline. If the Memories witness her profound attachment to the Crown, they are also the place where her personality is expressed. The writing constitutes an essential element of her existence. The reader travels through an historic biography to a personal story. Neither the life of the Court, neither her writing about it, can make her forget her anxiety about past times. Haunted by nostalgia for paradise lost, she renounces, little by little the world as she turns toward eternal truths. . . Then disappears
Sinicropi, Gilles. ""D'oraison et d'action"." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010CLF20001.
Full textCurelly, Laurent. "L'Alchimie des larmes dans la poésie de dévotion anglaise du dix-septième siècle." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005STR20053.
Full textThis thesis deals with the way such seventeenth-century writers as the Catholic poets Southwell and Crashaw ad their Anglican counterparts Donne, Herbert and Vaughan handle the tear-motif in their devotional poetry. It purports to establish why the motif is equally used by poets of different religious persuasions in early-modern England. It also looks into the reasons why these writers, through they are steeped in spirituality, are so anxious to represent what is inherently but a bodily fluid. Thus, this study analyses the way tears as material substances are depicted in the poems as well as the way the motif actually fits in with seventeenth-century theories of the passions of the mind. In addition, it brings out how profoundly the alchemy of tears sustains the dynamics of faith as it gives a fresh impetus to the poets' endorsement of Christian spirituality, and examines how influential a part it plays on poetic creation itself
Gauthier, Patricia. "Littérature et utopie en France sous la règne de Louis XIV." Lyon 3, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991LYO31014.
Full textDo the utopias published in the reign of louis xiv correspond with an anti-establishment movement against the royal politics ? may we consider them as revolutionary texts? a comparative study of cyrano, tyssot, fontenelle, gilbert, lesconvel, foigny, vairasse, fenelon or mlle de montpensier's works shows that their pure literary stakes do not to be sneezed at. These texts take their form from imaginary or real accounts of voyages, from education's novel, sometimes with a picaresque accent, or from philosophical dialogue. So there is no real "utopian genre" but a many-sided matter which favours the finest intellectual subtlety. This fact explains, as much as the aspiration for change, the succes of these works during this period. This subtlety puts the discourse under the sign of figurative, that means ambiguous, speech and belongs to the critical purpous (social, political or religious). The criticism is often virulent ( the texts denounce the collusion between power and religion, they demand liberty of conscience or envisage to abolish property, hereditary nobility or clergy) but it is not necessarily opposed to the prevailing ideology of that time. It reactivates some libertine philosophy's points by subjugating them in a "middle-class" ideal that no one determinism could totaly explain
Chométy, Philippe. ""Philosopher en langage des dieux" : la poésie d'idées en France, 1653-1716." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10044.
Full textUomini, Steve. "Histoire cachée : polygraphie historique et comportements intellectuels dans la France du XVIIème siècle." Paris 4, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040052.
Full textThe aim of this study is a thorough analysis of a large body of French historiographical works written between 1612 and 1696. Divided into three main stages, the examination of thematic and structural characteristics of seventeenth-century narrative historiography focuses on tragic, romantic and anecdotal traditions. A series of preliminary biographical surveys is intended to collate ascertainable data pertaining to the specific professional strategies involved in historiographical-related careers. Concurrently, critical inquiry devoted to documentary procedures, referential options, epistemological presuppositions and historiological considerations is conducted as a contribution to the understanding of inherent methodological conventions substructing early modern historical narrative genre. In addition to prosopographical and diplomatological areas of investigation, an exploration of emblematic discursive presumptions underlying the deployment of formal and thetic configurations is designed to reveal operative intellectual paradigms. The exhaustive inventory of topological processes and the complete enumeration of salient locutionary features conjointly fulfill the purpose of reconstructing both implicit and recurrent behavioral indications exclusively discernible through collective representational perspectives. Finally, close inspection of the principal phases of contemporaneous literary criticism ranging from tutelary and censorial intervention to scholarly opinion, including publisher's and reader's scrutiny, accredits a reevaluation of prevalent assumptions regarding antecedent historical culture in light of hitherto unutilized source materials
Gendras, Eva. "Les femmes et la culture à travers la littérature française du XVIIème siècle." Rouen, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ROUEL193.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to study the role of women in the seventeenth century through French literature and to analyse their involvement in social, political and artistic matters, as well as their reactions, however limited they may have been. The first part deals with their outward appearance or more precisely with the woman's body. Then their legal status and their status as married women or working women are put under scruting. The third part considers the role women played throughout the two french regencies and the fronde. The fourth part examines how they fought to have access to culture, through education and art. The last two parts are more particularly concerned with the literary aspect of the subject, dealing with female writers and the feminist quarrel among the seventeenth writers. Feminism had developed in a society dominated by men, so that it had to be "tolerated" by them. This supremacy eventually led to the confrontation of opposing forces whose clash brought about the disintegration of the culture of the seventeenth century. This was how a more complete social reality could be grasped and the figure of the female being could enverge from it
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
Mercier, Alain. "La littérature facétieuse sous le règne de Louis XIII (1610-1643) : une société dans son miroir." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040287.
Full textStiker-Metral, Charles-Olivier. "Narcisse contrarié : l'amour propre dans le discours moral en France." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040227.
Full textIn Seventeenth-century France, self-love, “the love of self, and of all things for self” as La Rochefoucauld defines it, is at the core of the reflection of authors traditionally gathered under the name “Classical moralists”. An item of the antihumanist topic, this deceptive power blurs values and discourses, and produces in the reader a resistance to truth. These works firstly strive to delineate the usage history and diffusion of the term in the French language, from spirituality to moral theology. A second part approaches the main systems of self-love (Pascal, Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, Malebranche, Fénelon), along with their peripheral reflections where Epicureanism plays an important role. Self-love therein appears as a deceptive power with ambivalent effects, both a source of inauthenticity and the origin of virtuous behaviors. The third part covers the demystification which the moral discourse performs: the systematic questioning of the genuineness of behaviors imposes to constitute a paradoxical axiology. Our fourth part strives to draw the legitimacy of moral judgment: under which conditions is it possible to censor the behavior of one's neighbors? The fifth part examines the pragmatic project of the moral discourse which consists of correcting the reader. The latter is made to face their own unbearable image. The moral discourse risks non acceptance by running contrary to the reader's fallacious certainties, which in turns questions both the effectiveness of the discourse and its very legitimacy
Jehl, Emilie. "Le motif du cœur dans l'emblématique anglaise de dévotion au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAC033.
Full textThis thesis brings together three emblem books : Henry Hawkins’ The Devout Hart (1633), Christopher Harvey’s The School of the Heart (1647) and John Hall’s Emblems with Elegant Figures (1648). By doing so, it confronts three writers who display denominational differences in King Charles I’s England, where the issue of religion still fuels intense debates and conflicts. Yet those emblematists share an interest in the motif of the heart, which they use as a metonymy for man in his relationship to transcendence. By replacing the discourse of the heart in the historical, cultural and ideological context in which it has emerged, this thesis attempts to show how three authors with presumably conflicting views end up converging. Moreover, it shows how engravings and texts interact to articulate a powerful affective discourse, which can engage both the reader/spectator’s sympathy and adherence. The emblem book thus works as the support of a meditative exercise through which the devout can hope to find again the way to his soul and bring it back to God
Schapira, Nicolas. ""Le Secrétaire d'État des belles-lettres" : identité sociale et actions d'un professionnel des lettres au XVIIe siècle : la carrière de Valentin Conrart (1603-1675)." Paris 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA010627.
Full textAris, Daniel. "La vie intellectuelle dans le Maine au XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040328.
Full textTestino-Zafiropoulos, Alexandra. "Représentations de l’Espagne en France au XVIIe siècle : du savoir encyclopédique aux récits de voyages." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040240.
Full textChagraoui, Mohamed. "Une dynamique libérale à la fin du XVIIe siècle 1863-1709 (pratique littéraire, idéologies et société)." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20040.
Full textThe present sudy sets out to chart a late 17th century liberal problematic in the development of ideas, themes and literary representations in france. The mercantile conception of the real, controlling human relationships, produces the evolution of history, of society and of the ideas which convey man's conception of history and society in the form of tendancies: the tendancy to promote exchange, exchange value, motivation based on financial interests, the tendancy to exacerbate egocentricity, the tendancy which leads to the formation of a class of owners and manipulators of money and to the conquest and colonisation of the world. These movements express themselves in a new literary practice opposed to classicism, that is to say opposed to order, to measure, to the respecting of rules within a literature closed in upon itself and upon human psychology. This practice takes the form of remarks, reflections and diverse thoughts, characters, dialogues and dictionaries. These new literary forms can be explained by their critical function in relation to the established order and their reaction to the new human condition is characterised by oppositionned ideas irreductible to the hitherto dominant ideology or to the aesthetic norms which it imposed
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 textZékian, Stéphane. "Les aventures de la tradition : la référence au "siècle de Louis XIV" dans la France révolutionnée (1795-1820) : formes, usages, enjeuxComplément du titre." Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040110.
Full textIn the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, French public sphere was marked by references to "Le siècle de Louis XIV”. This dissertation focuses on the structural ambiguities of the formula's consecration between Thermidor and the beginnings of the Restoration. "Le siècle de Louis XIV" was more a bone of contention than a memorial elevated by consensus to the glory of the Classics. The conflict in question is not, however, that of the Classicists against the Romantics but rather that of two irreconcilable versions of the Classical Tradition. Disputed between the apostles of the catholic revival and the heirs of the Enlightenment, literature from "le siècle de Louis XIV" was used in the service of contradictory regimes of exemplarity. What are the words and the tools of appraisal that can enable one to name and assess it ? Moreover, to what extent can this category, "le siècle de Louis XIV", bear the process of historicisation as it is de facto both the wavering subject of a sacralization which absolves it from the weight of History, and that of a more secularized admiration ? The present study introduces and analyzes the implications of "Siècle de Louis XIV"'s oscillating nature. Beyond the mere interpretation of Classicism, it is the definition of post-Belles-Lettres "Littérature" itself which is at stake
Noro, Yasushi. "Un littérateur face aux événements du 17e siècle : Amable Bourzeis et les événements dans sa biographie." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2006. http://ezproxy.normandie-univ.fr/login?url=https://www.classiques-garnier.com/numerique-bases/index.php?module=App&action=FrameMain&colname=ColGarnier&filename=YnoMS01.
Full textÓ, Ciosáin Éamon. "Les Irlandais en France, 1590-1685 : les réalités et leur image." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20029.
Full textNarrative, analysis and chronological framework of Irish migration to France in the 17th century, located in its European context. Beginning with medieval and 16th century Franco-Irish relations, which shape some aspects of this migration, this study proposes three distinct periods: 1590-1633, 1634-1660, 1660-1685. It charts the movement of people, the political, social and religious factors behind the migration, and the arrival and settling or further movement of Irish exiles. Using primary and secondary sources from several jurisdictions, significant characteristics of the migration and presence of the Irish in France are studied. The early period is marked by mobility and the marginal status of most Irish. Significant military and clerical migration to France in the 1634-1660 period is accompanied by a small élite presence. In a context of temporary exile, signs of stability emerge. The Restoration in England sees not a general return to Ireland but a continued Irish presence in France, in the civilian, military and clerical spheres. By this stage several Irish clerical institutions had been set up in France. In spite of its continuity, the social character of this migration meant that naturalisations and privileges for the Irish were relatively rare before 1690. However, the Irish appear to have integrated successfully, locally in Western France, in the army and church. This migration was numerically significant but its importance has been understated. The issue of memory of this migration during the subsequent Jacobite exile is discussed, and the literary representation of the Irish in early modern France is studied
Cousson, Agnès. "L' expression de soi dans les écrits autobiographiques et la correspondance des religieuses de Port-Royal au XVIIe siècle." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CLF20004.
Full textPascal, Catherine. "La tradition des Femmes Illustres aux XVIème et XVIIème siècles." Montpellier 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MON30020.
Full textStemming from the tradition inaugurated by Boccace, the theme of "Illustrious Women" and the anthologies gathering exemplary "biographies" enjoy a growing success during the XVIth century to reach a peak in the first and particularly brilliant years of Ann of Austria's regency until the eve of the Fronde, while a distinct increase of women's prestige can be noticed in the social and political fields. Against the current of a traditionally misogynous doxy and literature which, resting upon a collection of ideas, beliefs and myths inherited from Antiquity and the Middle Ages, considered woman as an inferior, despicale "animal", that could even be dangerous for the family and for society, these elitist writings, based upon an aristocratic ideology, but nevertheless finding a wide audience, exalt the exceptional virtues of a relatively restricted number of scrupulously chosen women whose merit was consecrated by History or by the Bible. At the time of the social Counter-Reformation, some authors, religious for the most part, put forward these women as examples or models of secular saintliness to the female members of a nobility which has to be reconciled with piety. After studying the development of the discourse on the "Illustrious" in the world which created it, this work without neglecting their edifying value, first of all tries to examine the anthologies of the "corpus" on a serial and narrative point of view, by focusing on the analysis of the complex relations woven between the narrative and the image. Then, it makes an inventory of the different forms of women's heroism, by putting back the issue in the more general debate on the rivalry of the various types of glory, opposing a secular moral code -that of the World- to a religious one -that of God. Finally, it tries to assess the effects of this kind of literature on the female readership to which it is specifically destined
Fricheau, Catherine. "La géométrie de la vie : l'art du jardin en france : 1580-1730." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040183.
Full textThis thesis aims to go beyond the mere aesthetic appraisal of the classical garden and to establish the link between its creation and philosophical tradition. It examines what is meant by the common phrase "a French style garden" and relates the history of the gardens created in France in the 17th century and that of the terms commonly used by art criticism and history to depict this type of garden. Connecting the art of gardens with the philosophical tradition of the "art of living", it studies how modern art treatises by Olivierde Serres, Cklaude Mollet, Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie, André Mollet, La Quintinie, Dezallier d'Argenville) were inspired by the works of ancient writers, mainly Latin agronomists, but also differed from them. Then it examines the relations between the art of gardens and the fine arts that it seems to depend on : painting or architecture, through the works of André Félibien and Claude Perrault, as well as the part played in garden creation by the times' scientific knowledge of physics and geometry, in particular perspective modified by Desargues. The thesis outlines a history of the construction of the garden space from Olivier de Serres to Le Nôtre, and its correlation with the interpretation and the use of perspective in the 17th century. Finally the meaning of the garden's whole body is sought in literature, in the novel whose emblem it is : "Le songe de Poliphile" (Poliphile's dream) by Francisco Colonna, of which there is an evocation in La Fontaine's poems, and above all in the descriptions made in mademoiselle de Scudery's work "Clélie- la promenade de Versailles" ( Clelie- the walk in the gardens of Versailles) where imagination has a new role to play. Then a parallel can be drawn between the theatre and the garden, the former as a representation of historical action (Corneille), the latter as a representation of nature's action as it manifests itself in the living body, in particular in Man himself. Cartesian anthropology with its analogical conception of the life of bodies through distinct images provides the ultimate meaning of the garden as a work exemplified by the writings of someone like La Quintinie in the specific domain of plants
Bonardi, Marie-Odile. "Les mérites chrétiens en France au XVIIème siècle, les représentations iconographiques et littéraires des vertus." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040021.
Full textThe iconographic and literary representations of virtues in the XVII century in France followed a continuous evolution but also suffered an important change. The greek philosophers created those concepts, and they were christianised very soon. In the XVII century, like before, the virtues were represented in paintings, sculptures and engravings. The literature also largely used the virtues, and praised for a highly religious moral. An evolution could be witnessed, not in the representations, but in the way the virtues were used from a political point of view. The theme is banalized, and the religious interpretation of virtues became scarce. The meaning of the virtues is blurred. The virtues are used by the king in his quest of absolutism. The virtues, mirror of a changing society become secular
Robic-de, Baecque Sylvie. "Le salut par l'excès : analyse d'une poétique de la dévotion dans l'oeuvre de Jean-Pierre Camus (1608-1652)." Paris, EHESS, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994EHESA001.
Full textThis thesis examines the complex connections between literature and religion in catholicism stemming from the council of trent, through the works of one of the most astonishing individuals of the first half of the seventeenth century in france, jean-pierre camus. An active bishop as well as a prolific novelist, camus was the author of a series of works written between 1620 and 1644, entitled "histories devotes", which exhibit close links between fiction and spirituality. This thesis examines how these paradoxical narrations use varied procedures -subtle devout traps- to convert their readers, and how such poetics of devotion are developed for the specific audience imagined as "honnetes gens" (honorable people). The "histoires devotes" also raise questions about the text of an experience : the relationship between an experience of writing or reading and a religious experience. This study is organized in four parts. The first part considers how camus's religious thought was influenced by francois de sales. A second part considers the reformation of reading recommended by camus, in which recreation is mingled with piety. The third part scrutinizes the poetics of the "histoires devotes". The fourth part suggests an allegorical interpretation of the stories, and concludes with questions about the implications of reading in the practices of spirituality
Volpilhac, Aude. "Le « Secret de bien lire » : Morales de la lecture en France au XVIIe siècle (1626-1685)." Lyon 2, 2008. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2008/volpilhac_a.
Full textPrescriptive discourses on reading multiply during the seventeenth century. The concern aroused by the proliferation of « méchants livres » and the appearance of new audiences whose inaptitude is a subject of lament is reinforced by the cartesian-introduced epistemologic criticism. As catalogues intending to rate the value of books where being set up, taxonomies of good and bad readers are established to prevent misuses. The object of criticism moved on spontaneaously from the book to the reader, whose competence and responsability is questionned, be it sacred reading, scholar reading or entertainment reading. However, many authors exert themselves to lay down the foundations of a reading reform grounded in the necessity to link the knowledge of the work itself and self-knowledge. All the prescriptive discourses converge towards the elaboration of a pattern of meditative reading in which judgment plays an essential role. The practice of reading is likened to the judging faculty as much because of its contribution to the learning of the art of thinking as it enables everyone to set his own life rules. But, if on one hand, the establishment of St. Augustine-inspired hermeneutics puts the accent on the spiritual and religious dimensions, on the other hand the primordial role played by reason and natural enlightenment is emphasized
Jaouik, Moulay-Badreddine. "L'Islam et les Lumières françaises, 1624-1789." Rouen, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011ROUEL037.
Full textThis thesis of 994 pages aims at analysing the place of knowledge about Islam and Muhammed in the whole French works in the 17th and 18th century literary world ? It endeavours to show exactly the pray a real "golden age of information about Islam" will emerge in the late 17th century. This was a genuine moment of the Enlightenment, a period when the authors will henceforth favour the Muslim sources to write about Islam. Thus by becoming a subject of knowledge, Islam and Muhammad inspire political, philosophical and religious thoughts and the history and the present of Muslims with a feeling of deep respect. The texts relating to Muhammed, the Kuran, theology and the numerous critical assays are hence published on a new model which breaks with the hostile and controversial tradition related to the approach of Islam and its promoter and reduced by apologetics to their religious dimension, a tradition which will not be abandoned but which will take a renewed form all through the18th century to lead to a radically condemnation of the Muslin world and authors who were supposed to be panegyrist relatively unscrupulous of science. Studying this controversial tradition through its view, its transformation, detecting the moment from whish the premises of a real change in the view of Islam start to emerge showing who the precursors and their continuators are, the methods of research what they use and when exactly "this golden age" tend to fall, explaining the reasons, those are the issues in the study focused on a corpus of almost 250 various books, and which is meant to be a contibution to the history of ideas
Luciani, Isabelle. ""Composer en vers français. . . " : pratiques culturelles et société dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10038.
Full textJulia, 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
Bougy, Saint-Martin Catherine. "La langue de David Ferrand : poète dialectal rouennais du XVIIème siécle, auteur de La Muse normande." Caen, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992CAEN1097.
Full textThe norman muse is a collection of comic poems written by David Ferrand, a poet and printer from Rouen (1590-1660) for the Puy des palinods (literary society of the palinods), a literary contest organised every eighth december to commemorate the immaculate conception of the holy virgin. This works, written in the purin language, that of the textile workers in Rouen, is the subject of a phonetic, morpho-syntaxic and lexical study; its aim is to determine, in this corpus of twenty-eight books, what belongs to norman dialects, what is peculiar to the french language of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what is to be attributed to the authors's own imagination. The phonetic study tends to reveal that part of the phenomena that have been noted are archaism, witnessed in old and middle french, while another series of phenomena is to be linked to those described by dialectologists as characteristic of the norman dialects north of the joret line. The morpho-syntactic phenomena which are studied are most often witnessed in seventeenth century language
Sicard-Arpin, Ghislaine. "Bourdaloue : la dialectique du coeur et de la grâce." Lyon 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990LYO31017.
Full textOur inquiry deals with the conversion's dialectic in bourdaloue's preaching, a dialectic of heart and grace. Conversion consists in choosing between two opposite proposals : god or sin. This existential choice depends on each one's freedom and finds its transcendance in christ's grace. The aim of our first part is to present the main stages of heart's progress before christ's coming : the original state of this heard and its change after sin. The sinner's conversion is bound with cross work, that bourdaloue considers from a dialectical point of view, as a struggle whose transcendance is in god-made-man's resurrection. The converted heart is transformed into a new heart : his life is vivified by the grace which conveys to achieve the law in divine freedom and love. Our third part points out how bourdaloue trics to convey his listeners to an always more perfect and holier christian life. Its achievment depends on the free will of man, subject to grace ; its binds the responsability of each christian who can have, thanks to christ, a life of unity and peace with god
Berregard, Sandrine. "Tristan L'Hermite, "héritier" et "précurseur"." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030066.
Full textGuyon-Lecoq, Camille. "La vertu des passions : esthétique et morale de la tragédie lyrique (1673-1733)." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA040124.
Full textThis thesis re-places lyrical tragedy within the framework of the history of ideas in order to study the arrival of a "modern" concept of morality which challenges the primacy of heroism and the values of the upper echelons of society, and which bases the idea of individual virtue on natural sensibility, with particular reference to the battle between the ancients and the moderns, this study posits the hypothesis that the moderns, using the lyrical tragedy as their testing ground, applied to the laws governing the "beautiful" their ideas on the stability or instability of the laws of nature, and attempted to rethink the solidarity of the arts after the model of the solidarity of the sciences. Lyrical tragedy, a composite genre as well as being a performing art, brings about a change of viewpoint leading to a division between moral and aesthetic judgement. It naturalizes the supernatural and, by substituting the problem of evil by the representation of the misfortunes of ordinary sensitive individuals moved by gentle passions, it advances the aesthetics of what is touching, thus promoting a morality of tenderness which may be seen in subsequent literature. The birth of a new society engendered the birth of an aesthetically new genre: conversely, the aesthetic forms peculiar to the genre made the lineaments of this modern morality clearer. Bringing to the forefront feminine values when society promotes women to universalist values, lyrical tragedy, often criticized as being artificial and verbose, highlights a new version what is true, natural and simple. Pure classical values are fully assumed: by giving voice to the heart's truth which expresses the state of the soul, more than it describes the actions of the individual, lyrical tragedy evokes the ideal simple sublime which is more touching than admirable
Bar, Virginie. "L'allégorie au Grand Siècle : fortune de l'"Iconologie" de Cesare Ripa et Jean Baudoin." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040105.
Full textWhat was the actual influence of Cesare Ripa and Jean Baudoin's 'Iconologie' on French painters and sculptors of the age of Louis XIV ? This study intends to answer the question and shows what use the artists of that time made of the famous anthology that provided them with hundred of allegorical combinations personifying the most varied concepts. .
Goupillaud, Ludivine. "De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles : métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle en France." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003VERS002S.
Full textThe influence of the Latin poet and in particular of the Aeneid is studied through two angles : the symbolic filiation and the poetical legacy Virgil left to the men of the seventeenth century. In this way, the "heirs" proclaimed this legacy and tried to put it forward with translations, learned theorizations, etc. It's only with certain reservations that the illegitimate sons (the "grand bastards") admitted this legacy - they strove to build up their own patrimony inventing new forms for the epic. Finally, the "parricides" rejected the antic legacy favouring the French culture and the contemporary development of arts. To them, Versailles was like an "architectural epic" which supplanted the Aeneid. To conclude, the Sublime is presented as being in the heart of these inheritance tensions
Dennequin, Marjorie. "Les "Dévotieuses" : dévotion et préciosité à Grenoble au XVIIe siècle : la Congrégation de la Purification." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAH032/document.
Full textDuring the past three decades, historians focused on renewing historiography on congregations and religious brotherhoods in the modern era. Many researchers have highlighted the initiative of several secular women in this spatial, identity and political reconquest. We would like here to invite the reader to discover a female congregation if not unknown, at least unknown to historians in general and historians of religion in particular: the Congregation of the Purification. Populated by many women from the aristocracy, nobility and commoners, this lay association of the Seventeenth Century leads the researcher to tackle the question of the perception of holiness by women and their desire to reach a model of piety embodied by Philothea, Salesian spiritual heroine. In Grenoble, women are in fact particularly keen to embody and spread the message of the founder of the Visitation.The Ladies of the Purification are unique in many ways: very different from one another, they nevertheless manage to do "body" while respecting and praising the qualities each of their "sisters" through the lens of their Abridged life and virtues. Mindful of keeping the memory of their "body" and the memory of the congregants, they take the pen and write in unison the history of their Congregation. The various archives consulted upset preconceived ideas about the dévotes and help realize the importance and durability of links maintained between these women and men who have left their mark on the spiritual society of their time. They also invite us to go to Paris in the closed circle of the Regent of the Kingdom of France and to question us about the universe of Precious women and about the possible relationship between devotion and preciosity
Conroy, Jane. "L'Angleterre des XVIe et XVIIe siècles dans le théâtre tragique du XVIIe siècle en France." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040082.
Full text17th century French tragedy turns its back on the present. There are two exceptions : the small number of turkish and english subjects. .
Teulade, Anne. "Le théâtre hagiographique en France et en Espagne au dix-septième siècle : essai de poétique comparée." Paris 4, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA040179.
Full textThis dissertation presents a comparative study of the French and Spanish seventeenth century hagiographic drama. The first part is devoted to the theoretical problems raised by the two genres : a study of the generic terminologies, of the places where the plays were staged, and of the way their contemporaries (theorists and playwrights) considered them thus allows us to draw the outline of an essentially hybrid theatre. Indeed, in the two countries, it seems contradictory to associate a saint's life and a theatrical form. The second part presents a dramatic analysis of the plays. We show how the authors managed to integrate the figure of the saint in a real dramatic plot despite his passionless nature. The structures of the dramas rely on a conflict between the saint and his circle, on a conversion of the hero himself, or on a series of adventures through which the saint becomes an epic hero. This part reveals that the theatrical forms created by the French and the Spanish authors are less divergent than the traditional opposition between Spanish and French aesthetics of this period suggests. Finally, the third part deals with the spectacle of saintliness. We study how the playwrights succeeded in transforming the inward and unspectacular character of the saint into a living spectacle before the other characters' eyes. Being a perfect character, this specific hero cannot arouse the fear and pity Aristotle described and generates instead works in which admiration is the prominent aesthetic effect. These works thus rely on specific poetics which this dissertation attempts to define
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”?
Bernardes, Antonio Manuel de Sousa. "Etudes sur les "Mémoires personnels ou Anectotes de la cour de France" notés par José Da Cunha Brochado dans le temps qu'il a servi comme envoyé à ladite cour." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20019.
Full textJose da Cunha Brochado, who was an envoy of Peter the second of Portugal at the court of Louis the fourteenth, when he stayed from 1696 and 1704, wrote these memoirs between 1696 and 1700 approximately. In these memoirs, the writer's opinions on various subjects are recorded, especially : 1 - the proprieties and some rules of etiquette in use at the French court. 2 - a critical analysis of some actions and behaviours observed at the court and which the memorialist considered as either blameful or worthy of being imitated by the court of Portugal, especially in the matter of home and foreign policy. 3 - a survey of what the late seventeenth century had been for France - and in some mesure to Portugal - from the economic, religious and moral viewpoints. The presents study on these hitherto unpublished memoirs consists first in the original text with a French translation facing ; accompanied by an analysis, chronological table, general introduction and notes. An onomastic index of the names mentioned by the memorialist or prompted by the writhing of the notes has been compiled ; the last section of this thesis is a selected bibliography of the principal works that have been used
Ferrari, Nathalie. "Pratiques épistolaires et modèles antiques dans la France du premier dix-septième siècle : la lettre de consolation." Paris, EHESS, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EHES0111.
Full textThis work is about the pratice of th consolation letter in France during the first half of the seventeenth century. It is based on a comparative approach. The letter's composition follows the model of the Antiquity. The representations used by the writers draw a parallel between Early Modern France and Ancient Republican Rome. Letter is analyzed as a specific discourse and as a place of ancient Roman civilization "survival" (A. Warburg). The reconstitution of the practice that induces it and references to Antiquity it contains bring to the fore the caracteristics of the consolation letter's writing. Two hypothesis are checked in order to explain the obvious ubiquity of the Roman model : the first on concerns the historical transmission of the ancient inheritance which makes available such reference, the second on concerns the analogy existing between two social structures which makes its appropriation possible in the Early Modern society with some displacements of this model. Those alterations are made visible in the study of Roman consolation that ends this work
Vialleton, Jean-Yves. "Poésie dramatique et prose du monde : étude des formes et des règles de comportement dans la tragédie en France, des premières tragédies de Corneille et Rotrou aux dernières tragédies de Quinault et Boyer (1634-1697)." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040200.
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 textQuaranta, Gabriele. "L'art du roman : peintures à sujet littéraire en France au XVIIe siècle (du règne de Henri IV à la régence d'Anne d'Autriche)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010615/document.
Full textThis thesis investigates a number of pictorial decorations with literary subject in French aristocratic houses during the period from the reign of Henry IV to the beginning of the regency of Anne of Austria, especially during the 1620's and 1630·s. Critical literature has shown the important reference to the literature in pictorial patronage of Henry IV and Marie de 'Medici: from the Franciade to the Ethiopiques, from the Jérusalem Dclivercd, to the Pastor Fido. In a larger part, those subjects enjoyed a great fortune also in aristocratic patronage of crown ministers as weil as of some rebel "frondeur". During the same years, with the publication of Honoré dUrfé's .Astrée, Cervantes ' Don Quixote and many others, the novel began to impose itself as autonomous genre, to becorne an important instrument of representation but also a way of training and reflection on society and culture of modern Europe. Indeed as the epic heroes. who appeared in painting but even on stage - as protagonists of court ballets, tragedies and tragicomedies - were increasingly read and interprete in a "novel' light. So, figurative arts were involved - in their way - to this development, which is one of the nodal points of our cultural history. Starting from the specific case sets a literary subject, the ultirnate goals of this work are the analysis of the different cornmands, the different way to "read" these "histories" and to translate them in images, and the relationships between artistic patronage. literarv patronage and, in general, the links between culture and painting
Lanni, Dominique. "Affreux, sales et méchants : les représentations du Cafre et du Hottentot dans les cultures littéraire et scientifique françaises à l'âge classique." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040061.
Full textCreated long before they were discovered, the populations of the outermost Africa were mixed by travellers, scientists and novelists at the rise of the seventeenth century, under the names of "Gens du Cap", "Sauvages du Cap", "Cafres" and "Hottentots". These populations puzzle the European imaginary since the end of the medieval time. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, they are the subject of different represen-tations in writings such as travel stories, scholarly books, collections of stories, novels, tragedies and comedies To analyse the forms and the stakes of these representations, to bring to the fore the circonstances in which they emerge, to study the way they are conveyed, to report the aesthetic, philosophical, historical and theological debates they imply ; here are some of the stakes of this essay in which in an anthropopoiétic angle the autor sets out to bring to light the making of otherness, of the people from the outer-most Africa in literary and scientific French cultures from the sixteenth to the eigh-teenth century, or from the beginnings of Humanism to the final lights of the trium-phant Enlightenment
Toublet, Cécile. "Le corps dans les histoires comiques au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040209.
Full textFrom 1612 to the end of the century, comic novels constitute a entertaining narrative genrewhich, despite many diverse influences, finds its cohesion in firm aesthetic choices : a natural writing, an attention to reality, an outward truthfulness of places, situations and characters, as well as serious themes under the apparent farce. When the modern critique rediscovered those works, it underlined their crucial part in XVIIth century novel’s evolution, after a long period of oblivion or denigration. Indeed, previous to any analysis, comic novels strike mostly by their buffoonery : their writers don’t hesitate to use triviality and vulgarity to create laughter.Surely, the simple and franc pleasure of reading comic novels is based on the grotesque staging of the body : deformed faces, disproportionate anatomies, gesticulations, falls, illnesses, punches, armed or sensual fleshes forge the narrative material. Our thesis proposes to investigate the ostentatious presence of the human body and to demonstrate that it is at the heart of the construction of the comic novel as a genre. In addition to this exploration, our study seeks to sharpen the interpretation of the corporeal entertainment by taking into account its cultural and anthropological context. The aim is to understand how, beyond its poetical andgeneric part, the body becomes meaningful to the authors of XVIIth century comic narration
Arzoumanov, Anna. "Pour lire les clefs sous l'Ancien Régime : anatomie d'un protocole interprétatif." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040143.
Full textCossette-Blais, Sara. "L'Autre comme instrument de propagande : les représentations des Espagnols en France durant la Fronde (1648-1653)." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/32565.
Full textIn 1648, the Treaties of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years’ War without ending the French-Spanish hostilities, which were officially declared in 1635. During the continuation of the fighting between the two great powers, the France is shaken by many contestation’s movements mostly concerning the government of Anne of Austria and her chief minister Jules Mazarin. The revolts of the Fronde (1648-1653) give the Spaniards the opportunity to nourish the troubles of their neighbours and to attempt alliances with the rebels. This conjuncture leads to the emergence of a warrior literature through which all parties of the Fronde attack and defend themselves by using words, namely the mazarinades. The Spain of Philip IV is represented by the polemicists in many pamphlets because they want to do the apology of it or, on the contrary, they want to emphasize its vices and its bad intentions, mostly with regards to the long awaited peace with the French crown. In both cases, these representations are manipulated by the parties as a justification of their own actions and interests. This thesis highlights the presence of the spanish theme in the mazarinades and the recurrence of the stereotypes of the Spaniards that were put to good use by the propagandists during the Fronde.
Revon-Rivière, Elise. "Des textes intitulés Promenade à l'invention du promeneur et de l'observateur : le loisir lettré en ville dans les textes anglais et français des dix-septième et dix-huitième siècle." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070081.
Full textThis work deals with dozens of texts called « Promenade » from 1586 to the 19th century, with English journalism, with the invention of the word « promeneur » and "observateur" during the French Enlightenment
Bohnert, Céline. "La Fable d'Adonis en France à l'époque moderne (de la seconde moitié du XVIe à la fin du XVIIe siècle)." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040182.
Full textAncient Fables are the public goods for the artists. In this PhD I focus on the fable of Adonis both as object for scholars and for writers. While ancient myths are seen are conveying knowledge, through allegorical interpretation, I try to make clear how in addition literature models the fable ? I study throughout the writings of mid-XVIth century to the end of the XVIIth how the different transmitters of the fable of Adonis (translators, editors and scholars) keep remodelling them. This myth, first considered as written in a coded sacred language, is turned by scholars and then by writers into an edifying fable. Adonis, whose principal source becomes more and more the Metamorphoses, is seen as no longer bringing knowledge about God, but about Nature and human beings. The modelling of the fable of Adonis through literature consists in selecting the scholars’ data, rearranging the sources and choosing different literary genres for rewriting it. Three distinct periods clearly emerge. First, the fable is reshaped by poetry through metaphors, then, in the 1620’s, by edifying narratives, finally, after 1660, by lyrical dramas and tragedies. The Adone by Marino plays a crucial part in this later metamorphose. Overall, the fable of Adonis in pre-modern France is neither empty representation, nor pure imagery or symbolic myth, but it indeed epitomizes yearnings for love and peace educated society