Rats de ville et rats des champs Trois siècles de récritures, de Julien Macho à André Chénier

Jean Vignes produces a detailed examination of the processes by which this fable – of special interest to writers from the early Renaissance to the dawn of the Revolution – has been taken up, adapted, reformulated, and appropriated into discourse or text. His approach can be defined as comparative as he focuses his attention on the way in which certain elements are resurrected, rewritten, or abandoned from one fable to another, as well as stylistic variations.