La France satirisée, satyrisée et fragmentée L’autoreprésentation factionnelle au temps des guerres de Religion

The Reformists and Catholics who engaged in a never-ending war of pamphlets used an ancient literary weapon: satire. The fortuitous homophony which links satire with satyr encouraged the postulation of a peaceful perpetuation of the social body, founded on a hybrid concept. While partisans of the majority claimed that the corruptive minority should be extracted from the social body, the factional minority imagined themselves as members of a composed corpus mysticum: a satyrised France.