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1882
Volume 68, Issue 3-4
  • ISSN: 0024-1415
  • E-ISSN: 2295-8991

Abstract

Abstract

Dans le tome XII de son , Jules Michelet attribue au de Corneille le rapprochement entre Louis XIII et Anne d’Autriche et la paternité du futur Louis XIV. Cette thèse audacieuse, voire provocatrice, confère à la pièce et à sa réception un rôle historique déterminant. Elle permet à Michelet de servir ses orientations politiques : l’inversion du processus historique auquel il se livre - l’oeuvre d’art non plus découlant de l’événement historique ou l’accompagnant, mais bel et bien le provoquant - destitue la grandeur royale soumise à une simple pièce de théâtre et désacralise l’image mythique de Louis XIV. Par ailleurs, la place que l’historien accorde au reflète l’importance que Corneille a acquise dans le premier xixe siècle, qui voit en lui le précurseur de l’écrivain romantique et l’inventeur de la liberté et du sublime dont les Romantiques font leurs idéaux.

Abstract

In the twelfth volume of his , Jules Michelet credits Corneille’s with the rapprochement between Louis XIII and Anne of Austria and the paternity of the future Louis XIV. With this daring, not to say provocative theory, he gives the play and its reception a decisive historical role which serves his political views: by reversing the historical sequence of events - the work of art no longer accompanying or resulting from the historical event but on the contrary causing it - Michelet undermines the royal grandeur by tracing its origins to a work of dramatic art and destroys the sacred aura surrounding the mythical image of Louis XIV. In addition, the emphasis that Michelet places on reflects Corneille’s importance during the first half of the nineteenth century, at which time he is seen as the precursor of the romantic writer and the inventor of the ideals of freedom and sublime espoused by the Romantics.

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