Plurilinguisme savant, plurilinguisme de cour Quelques réflexions sur l’emploi « funéraire » de l’italien en France sous les derniers Valois

In sixteenth-century France, Italian was considered to be the patrimonial language of kings claiming to be Italian princes. In addition to sixty Italian-language works published in Paris in this context, many Italian texts feature in poetic, encomiastic or funereal collections. This contribution reveals how, in the Tombeaux, a singular and multilingual genre, a polemic and ideological intention animates a paradoxical celebration of the French language.