The Notes de voyages de Mérimée make so-called Celtic stones the archaeological object par excellence. Faced with the silence of stones and the hypotheses of Celtomaniacs, Mérimée opts for a highly detailed descriptive approach which acts in the service of archaeological knowledge by escaping the traps of myth.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques