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100 1 0 _aLyon-Caen, Judith
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245 0 0 _aType, Describe, Decipher: Giving Words to the Social World under the July Monarchy
260 _c2004.
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520 _aFrench society during the July Monarchy appeared to many contemporary observers as blurred and opaque. This perception gave rise to an increasing number of writings aiming to decipher social complexity, to capture society into a text. This paper sheds light on the convergence between these different forms of description and decoding. From novels by Balzac or by Paul de Kock to “tableaux de mœurs” in the style of Les Français peints par eux-mêmes, or social surveys about pauperism commissioned the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques, all these texts belong to a common descriptive regime whereby the urge to decipher social signs is combined to an attempt to map the reality into “types” in order to present a comprehensive “panoramic” view of society. This makes it possible to define, around 1840, a “panoramic moment” where literature was the medium of choice for producing knowledge and discourse about society.
690 _aliterature
690 _arepresentations
690 _aJuly Monarchy
690 _asocials inquiries
690 _asociety
786 0 _nRevue historique | o 630 | 2 | 2004-07-01 | p. 303-331 | 0035-3264
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-historique-2004-2-page-303?lang=en
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