The anonymous story entitled Histoire prodigieuse d’un gentilhomme auquel le diable est apparu, et avec lequel il a conversé sous le corps d’une femme morte, advenue à Paris le 1 janvier 1613, published in 1613, became a ...

The paper is devoted to Eugène Delacroix, the greatest French Romantic painter, who combines the “external cold” and the “inner fire”, as described by René Huyghe. An analysis of selected fragments of his Journal brings ...

Charles Nodier was one of the leading advocates of the fraternity of artists in the 1830s, but his experience of life and work in artistic circles embracing writers, painters and composers was not limited to his own literary ...

The friendship shared by Mallarmé and Whistler is the point of departure for recalling several texts the poet devoted to the painter, especially the translation of Whistler’s lecture, Ten O’Clock (1885), in which the ...

Marie Krysinska’s novel, La Force du désir, for the longest time was read as a roman à clef, an ironic depiction of the Parisian artistic milieu. Krysinska, a composer, poet, and a writer, exposes a society riddled with ...

In the third and last part of Voyage en Orient 1850-1851, entitled L’Histoire de la Reine de Saba et de Soliman, prince des génies (The History of the Queen of Sheba and Soliman, prince of the geniuses), Gérard de Nerval ...