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- Title
An Unlikely Pair: Satire and Jansenism in the Sarcelades, 1731-1764.
- Authors
Choudhury, Mita
- Abstract
Between 1731 and 1764 unknown writer Nicolas Jouin eluded arrest and published fifteen satirical verses known as the sarcelades. The poems straddled the different areas of Jansenist political culture and the world of popular opinion and clandestine literature. Written in patois, the sarcelades featured the peasant Claude Fetu, who made ultramontane bishops, the Jesuits, and even the king the objects of derision and resentment. This character embodied certain Jansenist beliefs regarding the simple believer who bore witness on behalf of individuals persecuted for resisting the anti-Jansenist bull Unigenitus. The sarcelades suggest that theological debates had a place in the world of the impoverished and underrepresented, whose views were shaped both by spiritual conviction and material needs.
- Subjects
JOUIN, Nicolas; FRENCH verse satire; RELIGION &; literature; 18TH century French poetry; FRENCH satire; JANSENISM (Christianity); JANSENISTS in literature; FRENCH dialects; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
French Historical Studies, 2013, Vol 36, Issue 4, p543
- ISSN
0016-1071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00161071-2294874