Le Marbre et la Cendre

L’oraison funèbre (1643-1715)

By (author) Anne Régent-Susini Series edited by Delphine Denis Series edited by Sophie Houdard

Book cover: Le Marbre et la Cendre

Extent: 648 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Lire le XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 96, 19

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(September 2026)

ISBN: 9782406211280

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $53.00

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Hardback (Published)

(September 2026)

ISBN: 9782406211297

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $150.00

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Is funeral oratory dead? The questions it raises remain pressing. How is collective memory constructed, and out of what precarious balances? This seemingly consensual and monolithic genre reveals, even in seventeenth-century France, multiple tensions.


Is funeral oratory dead? The questions it raises remain pressing. How is collective memory constructed, and out of what precarious balances? This seemingly consensual and monolithic genre reveals, even in seventeenth-century France, multiple tensions.

  • By (author) Anne Régent-Susini
  • Series edited by Delphine Denis
  • Series edited by Sophie Houdard