The aim of this contribution is to answer the question of why in Jardin maures [Moorish Gardens], a collection of short stories written by a French writer and painter of the colonial era, Aline Réveillaud de Lens (1881-1925), ...

The article deals with the image of crisis as it is presented in Rachilde’s autobiographical text Dans le puits, written during the First World War. The book offers an insight into the author’s perception of the war, of ...

Recent work by science historians has shown that environmental awareness is not unique to our “reflexive modernity”. As early as the 15th century, human agency was envisaged as a factor of change in various climate theories ...

French New Novelist Michel Butor defies the optimistic vision of four elements of nature developed by his ancient professor of philosophy in Sorbonne, Gaston Bachelard, between 1938 and 1961. Bachelard considers air, water, ...

Benoît Gonon, author of three collections of short stories, is almost completely unknown today. As one of the epigones of the genre of short story in the 17th century, Gonon writes his stories to moralize and edify his ...

One of the important problems raised in the works by Marguerite Duras is a specific opposition to rationalism, understood as the loss of meaning and absurdity of human existence in the face of the tragedy of World War Two. ...

Degenerates! by Michel Provins is a particular work in the repertoire of the French theatre of social protest. Inspired by the medical treatises on cases of “degeneration”, the playwright decides to paint the portraits of ...

Victor Hugo, a man of combat, repeatedly adopted the posture of the “one against all” in his political life as well as in his literary life. Contempt, coupled with irony and a fierce sense of polemic, then appears to be a ...

In his book De l’humanité, de son principe et de son avenir (1840), Pierre Leroux seeks to establish the “true definition of religion”, aiming at a synthesis of the religious traditions of humanity and modern philosophy. ...