Myth- and Monarch-Making
Claire de Duras’s Pensées de Louis XIV (1827)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9612857 |
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| Authors | STACIE ALLAN (Tournissan, France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 235-247 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9468 • E-ISSN: 2046-2913 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/ajfs.2021.20 |
| OpenAlex | W4200456189 |
| Language | EN |
Louis XIV is one of the most captivating figures in French history despite his myth sitting uneasily alongside a modern Republican France. Louis XIV’s rarely read memoirs provide unique insight into the monarch’s role, demonstrating the tension between God-given right and the day-to-day duties of being a king. Novelist Claire de Duras used the memoirs to compile Pensées de Louis XIV (1827), a collection of seventy selected quotations. This article shows how Duras attempts to reconcile past and present, maintaining the mythical aura of the monarch while also portraying Louis XIV as a figure that might appeal to a post-Revolutionary, post-Imperial society
Appeal · Art · Art history · Humanities · Literature · Memoir · Mythology · Political science · European Political History Analysis · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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