Actions expectatives de l’écrit : « Mémoires » d’un valet de chambre du roi

• Main Author: Christian Jouhaud
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l'Histoire du Littéraire 2017-02-01
• Series: Les Dossiers du GRIHL
• Subjects: action; re-use; testimony; transmission; writing
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/dossiersgrihl/6645

Expectative actions of writing: the “Memoires” of a King’s valet. This paper seizes the concept of expectative action and puts it to the test of a seventeenth-century text: the mémoires of Marie Du Bois, a member of the gentrythe region of Vendôme and valet of kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV. In fact, the Du Bois family shares a thinking of what can be useful in the time to come, i.e. a speculation, which is mobilized in the a first place in the resort to writing itself, to its uses and re-uses. Five sets of themes are built to establish a basic typology of these writing practices which look forward. A the second part of this paper goes through this issue of re-employing as an expectant action a writing piece written more than twenty years before; this comes to question the construction of a thought of expectation as a projection of oneself in time, and the actions that make expectations successful by allowing to anticipate the outcomes.