“Errer, en vraie kalmouke, à travers la steppe” Adèle and Xavier Hommaire de Hell ‘s Travelogue Through Southern Russia (1843-1845)

Upon their return from a scientific trip to Southern Russia between 1838 and 1843, Adèle and Xavier Hommaire de Hell wrote a travel book together, composed of narrative chapters by Adèle Hommaire de Hell and informative chapters by Xavier Hommaire de Hell. The hybrid character of this travel book invites to reconsider the poles of the feminine and the masculine, the literary and the scientific, the ancient and the modern and contributes to enrich the poetics of the travel book.