Perversion et imagination : la place de la nature dans deux romans de Révéroni Saint-Cyr

Nowadays lots of readers appreciate Jacques-Antoine de Révéroni Saint-Cyr\u27s Pauliska ou la Perversité moderne, published in 1798. This novel throws its persecuted protagonists through Europe when Russia invaded Poland a few years ago. Mad scientists and esoteric societies are involved in a quite sadistic plot. But it implies also a vision of nature that will be analysed through a comparison with another Révéroni\u27s novel, Sabina d\u27Herfeld ou les Dangers de l\u27imagination, 1797. Nature in the atmosphere of the gothic novel is compared to nature in the sentimental one