Paul Lacroix and the seventeenth-century “libertins érudits”: The stakes of a nineteenth-century Romantic inventory
Charreire, Magali
Paul Lacroix and the seventeenth-century “libertins érudits”: The stakes of a nineteenth-century Romantic inventory - 2019.
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The inventory of seventeenth-century libertins érudits drawn up in the first half of the nineteenth century by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), a novelist and bibliophile, raises the question of the stakes involved in exhuming them. A sketch emerges from this marginal writer’s political and social aspirations, one of an instrumentalized rehabilitation of an earlier, equally marginalized group bound together by a shared culture of transgression. Lacroix drew extensively on the bibliographic and novelistic resource represented by the seventeenth-century libertins érudits, which provided him with critical editions, a serialized novel ( Le Singe: Histoire du temps de Louis XIV, 1666 [1842]), and a rich vein of bibliophilia.
Paul Lacroix and the seventeenth-century “libertins érudits”: The stakes of a nineteenth-century Romantic inventory - 2019.
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The inventory of seventeenth-century libertins érudits drawn up in the first half of the nineteenth century by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), a novelist and bibliophile, raises the question of the stakes involved in exhuming them. A sketch emerges from this marginal writer’s political and social aspirations, one of an instrumentalized rehabilitation of an earlier, equally marginalized group bound together by a shared culture of transgression. Lacroix drew extensively on the bibliographic and novelistic resource represented by the seventeenth-century libertins érudits, which provided him with critical editions, a serialized novel ( Le Singe: Histoire du temps de Louis XIV, 1666 [1842]), and a rich vein of bibliophilia.
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