Abstract: Why did the author of L’Interdiction make the Marquis d’Espard a sinologist? Is it because of his father’s taste for chinoiserie or because Balzac dreamed of publishing a Histoire pittoresque de la France? The real reason seems to be more literary. In the works of French missionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that Balzac read as a boy, we can find the ideas and images the novelist used to create the characters of d’Espard and Popinot.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
EAN:9782406082620
ISBN:978-2-406-08262-0
ISSN: 2649-2571
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08262-0.p.0099
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 07-27-2018
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: European missionaries in China, description of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Confucianism, French sinologists, Balzacian poetics
