Les métamorphoses baroques : l’homme entre mutatio et Deus absconditus ou l’expression du bonheur suprême
Baroque metamorphoses: human being between mutatio and Deus absconditus or the expression of supreme happiness

Summary/Abstract: This article is trying to substantiate the validity of a single thesis: baroque metamorphoses ingeniously reveal a very optimistic outlook on death, rediviva in aethernum. Starting with Ovid, the forerunner of this continuous change, to Montaigne and Bergerac, in literature and art, the metamorphosis – an alter ego of the individual in an unstable era – is everywhere and it appears as a leitmotif. What about its status in French literature? Is there a literary connection between Ovid and Montaigne? Is Bergerac the chameleon of the French Baroque? Have the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles got a hidden meaning? These are only a few of the questions whose answer leads to the quintessence of Baroque metamorphosis.

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