Scientific editor:Dahan (Jacques-Remi) Editorial manager:Alexandre (Didier) General director:Illouz (Jean-Nicolas)
Abstract: In Les Illuminés, Nerval uses the life of six eccentrics (Raoul Spifame, l'abbé de Bucquoy, Restif de la Bretonne, Cazotte, Cagliostro, Quintus Aucler), each a fellow partner in disgrace, to present his eulogy to madness and his celebration of dreaming and free thinking.