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29 - English Language and Literature
Goldsmiths' College
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)
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.