From Maribas to “Gaspard de la Nuit’s” Burgundian keepsake

By giving the sorcerer of “Départ pour le sabbat” the Burgundian name Maribas, Bertrand distanced himself from Romantic regionalism and discreetly pointed toward one of the genres behind the “nouveau genre de prose” he wanted to create: the almanac, conceived as an emancipatory weapon in the revolutionary tradition.