Abstract: Gérard de Nerval, the very model of the wayfaring poet, never actually visited Scotland. However, that country influences him via nodiérisme. At the age of fifteen, he writes “Poetry in imitation of Ossian,” evokes the Stuarts using the Château de Saint-Germain, then begins using a Scottish vein of thinking that will influence his themes, as is confirmed by one of his most celebrated poems, El Desdichado, as well as by certain visions from Aurélia.
