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29 - English Language and Literature
Goldsmiths' College
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Chapter title
Entre vérité et fiction: le Discours de l'Entrée triomphante du Duc de Rohan en la ville de Castres, apres la publication de la Paix (1626)
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Presses de l'Universite Laval
Book title
Vérité et fiction dans les entrées solennelles à la Renaissance et à l'âge classique
ISBN of book
9782763786872
Year of publication
2009
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This is a study of a pamphlet aimed at the duke of Rohan, one of the most notorious protestant rebels in early seventeenth-century France. Under the guise of flattery, an imaginary event serves to expose the ambition and deceit of the duke and his brother, and the danger their actions represented for their protestant supporters and their kingdom. The study also shows the extent to which pamphlet literature demonstrates ‘how to do things with words’, in particular how falsehoods can be used not only to reveal the truth about individuals or their policies, but also to make things happen.
