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Au cours de la premiere moitie du XIXe siecle, la litterature francaise s empare du theme de la peine de mort. Personnages de condamnes a mort, guillotines et scenes d execution envahissent subitement l espace litteraire non seulement romanesque, mais aussi theatral et poetique. Ce phenomene est bien entendu intimement lie a l essor du romantisme et a l engagement des ecrivains de la nouvelle ecole dans le debat sur l abolition de la peine capitale qui mobilise l intelligentsia francaise et europeenne de l epoque. Cet ouvrage analyse les origines et les enjeux a la fois historiques,...

If the eighteenth century was the age of reason and enlightenment, the nineteenth century was undeniably the age of movement. This tumultuous period in French history bore witness to the rise and fall of countless political movements, from revolutions and coups d'etat, to popular protests and the first workers' strikes. It was an age of economic movements as France embraced the new world of finance and banking, and underwent its own industrial revolution. Social mobility increased as a dynamic commercial bourgeoisie began to challenge the system of aristocratic privilege that neither the 1789...