Assujettissement de la Gazette à l’institution royale au XVII-ème
Submission of the Gazette to the Royal Institution in the 17th Century

Summary/Abstract: This article sets for itself to present the allegiance of the first political newspaper, published in France in the XVIIth century, to the regime of the time, as it transpires from the discourse of the preambule to the collection of the first year’s editions. As the mentality of the age in question demanded, Theophraste Renaudot, the founding father of the newspaper, presents it as an eulogy to the monarch Louis XIII and his flamboyant reign. Thus, this preambule pertains to the encomiastic genre whose traits will be traced out in the following article. The ethos of the author, that is his authority as initiator of the first newspaper in the kingdom of France, who addresses himself to the King, draws on this particular condition (equalled to the privilege) of being a subject of the almighty Roi. Discourse with a low degree of problematicity, if not reduced to none, the preambule is an offering made to the pathos of its addressee.

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