Écriture et action au XVIIe siècle : sur un corpus de mazarinades

Writing and Action in the 17th Century : On a Corpus of Mazarinades This article studies over 400 mazarinades concerning the town or the inhabitants of Bordeaux. The author begins by analyzing the rate of publication of these tracts and the circumstances in which they were produced. As is the case with most militant literature, the publication of the mazarinades was directly linked to the context of events: a mazarinade was in itself an event. Most of these texts form a network. Some of them are caught in an upward polemical spiral, spilling over from one argument to another in an invariable progression from ideas to men—hence it is important to identify the authors and their sponsors. These investigations reveal the existence of a milieu of frondeurs in Bordeaux whose literary style provides evidence of their political as well as intellectual beha­vior. Finally, in this perspective, the author examines the argumentative and literary functioning of an ill-defined notion, the "people, " and the use of historical references, whose effectiveness bears no relation to the vehemence with which they are introduced.Jouhaud Christian. Écriture et action au XVIIe siècle : sur un corpus de mazarinades. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 38ᵉ année, N. 1, 1983. pp. 42-64