Abstract EN:

The comparison between many different texts and the study of literary technique used by Marguerite Yourcenar when she evokes ancient history, show that contemporary history can be found everywhere in her works mixed with past and tradition. So, we had to define clearly Marguerite Yourcenar's originality and modernity as well as to analyse how she conciliates all that with a real classicism. After this research we can say that, from an artistic point of view as well as in the ideas, Marguerite Yourcenar is never very far from contemporary preccupations, events and facts, even when she is writing upon historical subjects. And through her picture of ancient history, she makes the twentieth-century history obvious and easy to be found out. Convinced of the universality of mankind everywhere in the world, and finding references of it in the antique philosophy, in the antique philosophy, in eastern metaphysics and in the twentieh-century sciences of life and physics, she sets up a humanism fitted to modern times