TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tribout,Bruno
TI  - The polemical scene of life writing: The example of Guy Joly and the Cardinal de Retz
PY  - 2018///.
							
N1  - 32
N2  - A number of early modern memoirs have been reassessed as polemical works in recent scholarship. With this in mind, rather than looking at these works in isolation, there would also be much to gain by situating them in the context of the polemical exchanges that conditioned their creation. This article aims to use this approach in order to shed light on Joly’s Mémoires and their relationship with Retz’s Mémoires. In organizing the former work’s publication in 1718, the Regent sought to use its polemical power to hinder the popularity of Retz’s text (1717). Such an effort, however, distorted the polemical nature of Joly’s work, which proves to be a complex response to Retz’s. Even though Joly is critical of the cardinal when he appears to neglect his struggle against Mazarin or for his rights as archbishop of Paris, the author defends Retz’s political choices vigorously, while presenting a coherent image of his action to promote a well-balanced conception of monarchy
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-dix-septieme-siecle-2018-1-page-123?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -