L’Astrée, a pastoral novel of Honoré d’Urfé abounds in dramatic episodes that shatter the bucolic idyll. The suicide scenes of Damon or Chriséide; the violent context of Placidie’s marriage show the protagonists in traumatic ...

This article explores the issue of fear as an instrument of power in Discours sur les moyens de bien gouverner by Innocent Gentillet. This protestant author was a witness to the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, which he ...

The text written by Jean Bretog Tragédie française à huit personnages (1571) is, like its Normandy author, still unknown to a wider group of specialists. This drama, through its moralizing and allegorical character, derives ...

The article analyses the vision of the devil in the selected tales of the Vie des peres, a collection of pious tales from the thirteenth century, freely inspired by patristic literature and medieval exempla. The period in ...

The literary work Rolandslied, written at the end of the 12th century by Pfaffe Konrad, most probably at the behest of Henry the Lion, is a transformation of the history known from the French literary work Chanson de Roland, ...

Tacitus’texts are permeated with fear. This effect is reached as a result of the use of a rich vocabulary related to fear and numerous scenes in which fear plays a major role. The structure of Tacitus’stories is in fact ...

In the novel The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir shows the crisis of French intellectuals, namely writers facing ideological and political dilemmas after World War Two. Reflecting on the usefulness of their works, the main ...

The article focuses on the methods of literary engagement with the crisis in Article 353 du code pénal, the most realistic novel by Tanguy Viel. Drawing on selected theories of the crisis, it analyses the way in which the ...

The end of the 19th century in France is marked by several crises, including the social crisis and the crisis of literature. Under these circumstances, Georges Rodenbach wrote a multi-part poem Les Vies encloses, which in ...