La honte dans les Lettres de la Marquise de M*** au Comte de R*** de Crébillon fils et la galanterie mondaine
Shame in Crébillon’s Lettres de la Marquise de M*** au Comte de R*** and the galanterie mondaine

Summary/Abstract: In the Lettres de la Marquise de M*** Crébillon shows, through the Marquise’s reflections of shame, the opposition between the galant and the tender conceptions of love. Galant love is represented as a game and false feeling, but it has a primary importance in mondain’s way of life. Failure to fulfil a galant love rules is accompanied by true or false feelings of shame. The Marquise de M*** wants conform to the galant tone demanded by society, but she is also seeking for true, tender love, which is opposed to behavior of a milieu. Accordingly, her sensitivity and a system of values brings her to elaborate her personal, secret conception of shame.

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