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Aux frontières de la Chronique : les Salons de Diderot (1769-1781)

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Summary:In the 18th Century, the Chronicle is considered as a simple narrative of past events classified in a chronological order. In the article *Chronique of the Encyclopédie, Diderot depreciates it. Only in the 19th Century, the term got its current meaning. However, by its attention on the debates of his time which he echoes in his Salons published in Grimm’s Correspondance Littéraire, Diderot may be considered as an author of chronicles. In this perspective, it seemed interesting to us to pay attention to the last Salons, particularly to the Salon de 1769, which juxtaposes without links between them two chronicles of different nature, art chronicle, and a chronicle of the life, without links to esthetical problems. The last Salons, indicates in a exemplary way the abandonment of the esthetic project of Diderot: to compete with the painter.
Subject:peinture description painting Salon Diderot (Denis) Chronique Chronicle
Country:Portugal
Document type:journal article
Access type:Open
Associated institution:Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses
Language:French
Origin:Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses

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