La figure de la sorcière dans la littérature du XIXe siècle (Jules Michelet, George Sand, Eliza Orzeszkowa)

The nineteenth century uncovered and analysed the tragic episodes of witch-hunting and ‘witch’ trials common in Renaissance Europe. Fascinating not only to historians, this subject also inspired men of letters who popularized the image of the witch as an old, ugly and evil person, who thus deserved her lot. Jules Michelet’s La sorcière of 1862 takes a very different approach. Simultaneously a literary and historical work, the book proved scandalous as it rehabilitated the figure of the witch, shedding favourable light on her image: it was the witch who was able to save a last spark of humanity in moments of despair; it was she who acted as comforter and healer to the people. In the context of nineteenth-century literature, certain works by female authors that focused on ‘witches,’ stand out. Whilst certain male authors (Michelet included) presented the witch as a figure from the past, who had finally perished in the 17th century, texts such as George Sand’s La petite Fadette (1848) or Eliza Orzeszkowa’s Dziurdziowie (1885), suggest that the end of witch trials did not imply an end to accusations, persecutions, and even executions of ‘witches’ – and, that in terms of culture, witchcraft or sorcery had not disappeared from the societies they knew.

Catalogue des tableaux et dessins provenant de l'atelier Jules Dupré

Jules Dupré. Précédé d'une notice par Paul Mantz

Cardinal Hohenlohe [Illustration]

Moses Jakob Ezekiel

Jules Verne [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Jules Adler

G. Kutna

Jules Adler [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Cardinal Vaughan : Erzbischof von Westminster

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Cardinal Vaughan [Illustration] : (Porträt)

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Ein Beitrag zu der verschollenen Kuzariübersetzung des Jehuda ben Cardinal

Isaiah Sonne

Bären und Levitenkanne auf dem Grabsteine Issachar Bermanns (1661-1736) in Halberstadt [Illustration]

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Druckerzeichen aus: Machsor Deutscher und polnischer Ritus [Illustration] : Prag 1661/1662 - Gedruckt von Jehuda ben Jaakob Bak

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Der Maler Jules Pascin

Aurelie Gottlieb

Jules Romains: Jemd(!) stirbt [Rezension]

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