La Gaiete, Caractere Francais ?: Representer La Nation Au Siecle Des Lumieres (1715-1789) - Paperback

by Jocelyn Huchette (Author)

A myth which has become attached to the eighteenth century, "French gaiety" was, for Voltaire's contemporaries, a literary and anthropological stereotype. By way of it, the approach taken here allows us to follow the progressive consecration of national representation in the field of law.