Gaillardise, liberté et illustration de la langue française De Montaigne à Marie de Gournay

This article returns to the proper forms of the sublime Montaignien, in the light of the writings of Marie de Gournay. Her treatises on the defense of poetry emphasize the key aspect of the Montaignian research of a language that he says is not sublime, but « gaillard », through a moral and political vision of a history of the illustration of the French language that he continues to write.