Les Contes drôlatiques de Balzac, des contes à tous crins et de tout poil
Hair cornucopia in Balzac’s Contes drôlatiques

Summary/Abstract: In order to re‐evaluate the constraints itiposed by literary censorship to writers and painters after the Renaissance until the Restauration and Orleanist tionarchy, we offer this cotiparative analysis of the treattient of hair, hair style, body hair in Balzac’s La Cotiédie hutiaine where Balzac has to restrain hitiself to reach success and in his Contes drôlaBques, which takes place in the tiedieval period and the Renaissance, and etiulates the language and crudity of the titie. Balzac’s point of view is particularly interesting first because he is quite knowledgeable of literary and artistic expressions during the tiedieval age and the Renaissance with Aretino and Rabelais, and second because he lived during the titie when the daguerreotype appeared and tiade possible the representation of the body as it is, attempt that the anatomists of the Renaissance had also played with. However, with their droll stories, neither was Rabelais an anatomist nor was Balzac a common man.

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