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_aKaibara, Tomohiro _eauthor |
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_a Leifer, Dina _eauthor |
| 245 | 0 | 0 | _aMoncrif, the historian of cats. Masculinity and emotion in Enlightenment France |
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| 520 | _aAutrefois déconsidéré, le chat a aujourd’hui le statut privilégié d’animal de compagnie, au terme d’un long processus de valorisation amorcé au xviiie siècle. Cet article montre comment le premier livre consacré à cette espèce, Les Chats (1727) de François-Auguste de Paradis de Moncrif, contribua à ce changement. Là où le chat passait pour un sujet féminin et frivole, « l’historiogriffe » en fit un objet d’histoire, combinant deux modèles de masculinité, érudite et galante, dissociés par la Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes. L’érudition lui permit de critiquer la phobie des chats en renvoyant aux mœurs des Orientaux, mais aussi de citer maints amateurs et amatrices de la haute société française. Moncrif réunit ainsi une communauté émotionnelle livresque constituée de félinophiles estimables, hommes et femmes, pour démontrer qu’il est parfaitement juste et raisonnable de chérir un chat. | ||
| 520 | _aComparatively under-valued in the past, cats today enjoy privileged status as domestic pets, following a long process of reassessment that started in the eighteenth century. This article shows how the first book devoted to the species, Les Chats (1727) by François-Auguste de Paradis de Moncrif, contributed to this change. Previously, the cat was seen as a feminine and frivolous creature, but the “historiogriffe”, (historian of claws as contemporaries called him), took it as a historical subject, combining two models of masculinity, the erudite and the gallant, which had been kept apart in the Quarrel between the Ancients and Moderns. His erudition allowed him to criticize cat-phobia by referring to Oriental custom, but also to quote many admirers of cats of both sexes in high French society. Moncrif thus succeeded in bringing together a learned emotional community of cat-lovers, male and female, to show that it was perfectly justified and reasonable to be fond of a cat. | ||
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| 690 | _aQuarrel of Ancients and Moderns | ||
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| 690 | _aeighteenth-century France | ||
| 690 | _aemotion | ||
| 690 | _aMoncrif | ||
| 690 | _aQuarrel of Ancients and Moderns | ||
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| 786 | 0 | _nClio. Women, Gender, History | o 55 | 1 | 2022-11-02 | p. 69-90 | 1252-7017 | |
| 856 | 4 | 1 | _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-clio-women-gender-history-2022-1-page-69?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 |
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