Écrire dans la langue de l’autre : Hermione Asachi-Quinet, traductrice et biographe
Writing in the language of the other: Hermione Asachi-Quinet, translator and biographer

Summary/Abstract: Brought up in a talented family that held a cosmopolitan salon attended by the great minds of the first half of the 19th century, Ermiona (in Fr. Hermione) Asachi took part in the cultural life of her time as a writer, translator and musician; she became Madame Edgar Quinet in July 1852 and campaigned alongside her husband to defend the principles of freedom and equality. Our paper first focuses on Hermione’s work as a translator before her voluntary exile in France, and then on her work as a biographer of the exile, and more specifically on Mémoires d'exilBruxelles-Oberland (1869) as evidence of the deep connection that united Hermione and Edgar: writing in and with the language of the other is not simply a matter of bringing the other party closer together, but of an uninterrupted dialogue. A continuation that also takes the form of a new edition, as part of a Hachette Livre - Bibliothèque nationale de France partnership designed to make accessible to a wider public treasures of France's literary and historical heritage drawn from rare collections of old books.

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