Jean-baptiste rousseau, poete de la regence
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Abstract EN:
Devolted to jea n-baptiste rousseau, this thesis attempts to demonstrate in which way his works, issued from his study of the ancients and of the masters of french literature of the renaissance and of the 17th. Century, denote his familiarity with the bustling ideas of his times, and strategies of europeans courts, reval the way in which he influenced diplomacy and thoughts, and characterize through their polysemic aspects, the period of the regency is france as well as in europe. It attempts to analyse in the same way the poet's true character who, admired by some, criticized or persecuted by others, sought to prove that he was the victim of unjustified calumnies, and to teach the rules of a humanism conciliating platonist philosophy with the dogmas of the catholic church, using a discourse in which his christian convictions alternate with the most acute criticisms towards his detractors, adventurers and bad writers. Permintting the reader to rediscover his life and his works throughout literary, legal, historical and diplomatic studies,,it has for its last purpose to invite huim to "penetrate the fantastic world of poetry" and to give, j. -b. Rousseau his rightful tittle, that of "poet of the regency".
Abstract FR:
Consacree a jean-baptiste rousseau, cette these entend demontrer combien ses oeuvres nees de l'etude des anciens et des maitres de la litterature francaise de la renaissance et du xviieme siecle, marquent sa familarite avec les courants d'idees qui agiterent son epoque, ainsi que des strategies des cours europeennes, revelent son influence et son role dans les domaines de la diplomatie et des idees, et caracterisent par leurs aspects changeants ls temps de la regence en france comme en europe. Elle entend analyser egalement la personnalite meme du poete qui, aussi admire que critique ou persecute, n'a cesse dans un discours ou les convictions d'un homme profondement chretien alternent avec les critiques les plus vives a l'egard de ses detracteurs, des aventuriers et des mauvais ecrivians, de prouver qu'il etait victime de calomnies injustifiees, et d'enseigner les regles d'un haumanisme conciliant la philosophie platonicienne avec les dogmes de l'eglise catholique. Faisant redecouvrir sa vie et ses oeuvres au terme d'analyses litteraires, juridiques, historiques, diplomatiques, elle a enfin pour but d'inviter le lecteur a "entrer dans le monde merveilleux de la poesie" et de donner a j. -b. Rousseau le titre qui lui revient legitimement, celui de "poete de la regence".