De l’être, du paraître et de l’avoir L’argent dans l’expérience dandie

This study examines the rapport between bourgeois ideology and dandyism, and explores the paradox between, on the one hand, the ideology of an accumulation of money and, on the other, a practice of outrageous squandering. Covering the different conceptions of individualism in the work of Chateaubriand, Stendhal, Balzac, and Baudelaire, this study highlights a “dandy” theory of grace which illuminates the notion of narcissism often applied to the dandy.