L’expérience du temps dans les lettres de voyage de Madame du Boccage

The originality of Anne-Marie du Boccage’s travel letters from Italy is doubtless to be found in the philosophical and personal reflections on different experiences of time, which are reflect in the hybrid genre and aim at constructing her identity as an author. By reflecting on the links between past and present and those between cultural and individual memory, she aspires to immortality in her Lettres de voyage.