Le journal au seuil de l’intimité
The recently published volume I of Journal, by Louis-François Guiguer, Baron of Prangins, demonstrates that journal writing was still a visible, factual, virtually public practice during the eighteenth century. Motivated by the desire to write in his own journal about his love for Matilda, whom he w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Pléiade (EA 7338)
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Itinéraires |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/610 |
| Summary: | The recently published volume I of Journal, by Louis-François Guiguer, Baron of Prangins, demonstrates that journal writing was still a visible, factual, virtually public practice during the eighteenth century. Motivated by the desire to write in his own journal about his love for Matilda, whom he would later marry, the young man prevaricates and uses cunning with this indiscreet form that is made for anything but writing about intimacy. “Personal journal” would have been a contradiction in terms during this era. |
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| ISSN: | 2427-920X |