Des Illustres Françaises aux Mémoires de Challe Questions d’identité

This article studies the echoes between the Illustres françaises and the Mémoires by Challe, taking as its object the scene of retrospective retreat by way of which the narrator or memorialist returns to the past. We examine whether the same narrative ethic is used for the novel’s narrator, laden with conversations, as for the memorialist in his Mémoires, laden with anecdotes.