Plus vrai que la réalité La fiction historique d’Agrippa d’Aubigné. Hors de temps mais pas hors de propos

In nearly all his narrative works, Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné (1552-1630) adopts the position of an eye witness who is, above all, an active participant in the history of which he is also a scribe. The image he paints of the author is neither simply that of a wise man sitting at a desk ordering the events of the past, nor a rhetorician playing with words. The author emerges as an engaged individual who employs his rhetorical force for the sake of historical testimony.