“GUIRLANDE DE JULIE” AND COURTEOUS ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE FRENCH SALON CULTURE OF THE XVII-XVIII CENTURIES

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying “Guirlande de Julie”, the significant monument of courteous French literature and material culture created in marquise de Rambouillet’s “Blue salon”. The paper also analyzes masculine and feminine behaviour styles cultivated in aristocratic society. Salon anthropological ideal realized in everyday behaviour of aristocratic stratum representatives and in a number of literary texts was based on propagation of woman’s chastity and devaluation of the traditional masculine values. Complicated configuration of noble amorous rituals adopted in the XVII and XVIII centuries became one of the attributes of “high culture”. According to Ch. Montesquieu, it was inspired by the political system established in the country.

References

1. Монтескье Ш. де. Избранные произведения. М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1955. 800 с.
2. Скюдери М. де. Карта страны Нежности // Бюсси-Рабютен. Любовная история галлов. М.: Ладомир; Наука, 2010. С. 119-126.
3. Таллеман де Рео Ж. Занимательные истории. Л.: Наука, 1974. 316 с.
4. Элиас Н. Придворное общество: Исследования по социологии короля и придворной аристократии. М.: Языки славянской культуры, 2002. 368 с.
5. Castiglione B. Il libro del Cortegiano. Torino: Einaudi, 1965. 391 p.
6. Craveri B. L'Âge de la conversation. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. 496 p.
7. Krajewska B. Mythes et découvertes. Le salon littéraire de Madame de Rambouillet dans les lettres des contemporains. Paris - Seatle - Tübingen: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (Biblio 17), 1990. 249 p.
8. Livet Ch. Préсieux et précieuses: Caractères et mœurs littéraires du XVIIe siècle. La Guirlande de Julie. Cœuvres-et-Valsery: Ressouvenances, 2001. 442 p.
9. Sévigné M. de. Correspondance: 3 vol. Paris: Gallimard, 1973. Vol. 1. 1504 p.

Author information

About this article

Publication history

• Published: June 1, 2017.

Keywords

• французская аристократическая культура
• галантность
• Ю. д’ Анженн
• Ш. де Монтозье
• О. д’ Юрфе
• М. де Скюдери
• French aristocratic culture
• gallantry
• Julie d’Angennes
• Charles de Montausier
• Honoré d'Urfé
• Madeleine de Scudéry

Copyright

© 2017 The Author(s)
© 2017 Gramota Publishing, LLC

User license

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)