La femme au cœur du dialogue des cultures dans Leon l'Africain /

The purpose of our thesis is to show the important role of the woman in the novelistic autobiography of Leon l'Africain. Inspired by the Description de l'Afrique, written by the famous arab geographer Mohamed al-Wazzan ez-Zayyati, Maalouf converted this autobiography to a quest of a man in search of an identity exceeding the geographic, ethnic and religious boundaries. If he succeeded in arriving to the end of his journey, it's mainly due to the contribution of the woman who is present under different names and faces throughout the novel and who leads him to the dialogue of cultures