Ernest Renan’s Cahiers de jeunesse (1845–1846) date back to his spiritual crisis, his withdrawal from the college of Saint Sulpice, and his return to the secular world. From this laboratory of ideas, evidence of Renan’s intellectual background, would emerge his philosophical works and his novels of childhood.
Keyword: Histoire de la philosophie, littérature française du XIXe siècle, philosophie française au XIXe siècle, littérature d’idées, histoire des idées, éditions critiques.
