Louis and Louise Aloysius Bertrand in a young women’s pension

In the subtitle of his play Louise, Aloysius Bertrand claims to imitate Madame Campan’s theater. Nevertheless, this rewriting is no mere plagiarism of young girls’ comedy: its generic hybridization, the major modification Bertrand performs when he cuts the end in such a way as to make the play lopsided, and the exaltation of marginality confirm that it is a singular play which fully belongs to a certain type of Romanticism and to Bertrand’s poetics.