“Allow me to make a comparison” Charles Nodier as comparatist in the Cours de Belles-Lettres

In Dole in 1808, Charles Nodier gave a series of fairly conventional and academic lectures in rhetoric and belles-lettres, but they were enriched by choices and personal taste marked by European literature: Shakespeare, Ossian, Goethe, Klopstock. . . Through this, Nodier brought attention to a new inspiration, sensibility, and aesthetic. His Cours marked an important stage in the diffusion of Romantic ideas in France.