La correspondance de Jean Chapelain : témoignage d’une amitié sincère et utilitaire entre hommes de lettres

• Authors: Monika Kulesza

Title variants

EN

LETTERS OF JEAN CHAPELAIN: EVIDENCE OF HONEST AND USEFUL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MEN OF LETTERS

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

Jean Chapelain corresponded with the most well-known writers, intellectuals and men of power. He was an authority in literature, a critic and theoretician, he advised Colbert but, at the same time, he was an object of mockery, a person in need of support from his friends. The article describes Chape­lain’s relations with friends where the aspect of usefulness, granting favours, reading and reviewing one another’s works plays an important role in developing honest friendship.

Keywords

EN

friendship; Jean Chapelain; Guez de Balzac; Nicolas Heinsius; Gilles Ménage; sincere; useful Ménage; sincere, useful

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Romanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 64
• Pages: 35-45

Contributors

author

Monika Kulesza

• Université de Varsovie