Rhétorique des discours politiques de Louis-Joseph Papineau, 1830- 1837

Can the political eloquence of Louis-Joseph Papineau, one of the great Canadian orators of the nineteenth century, be revived? There are still no significant studies on the logic of argumentation or on the image of a certain representation of the political crisis set by the orations of the Honorable Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower-Canada. The following thesis focuses on Louis-Joseph Papineau's political discourses of 1830-1837. By the analysis of the representations and the reasonings, of the argumentation, of the rhetorical functions fulfilled by the discourses and also by the analysis of the social vectors at work in these, this document establishes landmarks and proposes a topographical outlook of Papineau's political rhetoric. It seek;s to show the topic organisation and functioning of this rhetoric, in a nineteenth century setting of oratorical and political culture