The curious doctrine of Gaffarel Political reading of the Curiositez inouyes (1629)

When Jacques Gaffarel published his Curiositez inouyes in 1629, the editorial gesture scandalized the Sorbonne. If the work contains philosophical elements that are problematic from a confessional point of view, it is above all its relationship to the polymorphous notion of curiosity that suggests the necessity of a political reading. Gaffarel took advantage of an ambiguous lexical zone to take a stand against Garasse's Doctrine curieuse (1624).