Christian rhetoric in the second half of the seventeenth century determined the course of a converted insinuation that aimed to reconcile the innocence of the dove and the shrewdness of the snake (Matthew 10: 16). Its shrewd methods are here examined in the Pensées, the Carême du Louvre, and Les Aventures de Télémaque.
CLIL theme: 3154 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage -- Stylistique et analyse du discours, esthétique