%0 Journal Article
%T Shame in Crébillon’s Lettres de la Marquise de M*** au Comte de R*** and the galanterie mondaine
%A Pawłowska, Maja
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2017
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.17.002.6896
%N Numéro 11 Acédie / Honte, malaise, inquiétude, ressentiment
%P 29-45
%K Lettres de la Marquise de M***au Comtede R***, Crébillon fils, eighteenth‐century frenchnovel, letter‐novel, galanterie mondaine
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2017
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/la-honte-dans-les-lettres-de-la-marquise-de-m-au-comte
%X In the Lettres de la Marquise de M*** Crébillon shows, through the Marquise’s reflections of shame, the opposition between the galant and the tender conceptions of love. Galant love is represented as a game and false feeling, but it has a primary importance in mondain’s way of life. Failure to fulfil a galant love rules is accompanied by true or false feelings of shame. The Marquise de M*** wants conform to the galant tone demanded by society, but she is also seeking for true, tender love, which is opposed to behavior of a milieu. Accordingly, her sensitivity and a system of values brings her to elaborate her personal, secret conception of shame.