Angélique de Longueval

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani speaks of Angélique de Longueval mainly in the series of workshops devoted to Nerval's novella Angélique (2017-2018), whose title heroine she is. He presents her as a young woman of the seventeenth century whose memoirs Nerval finds in the Archives1. This manuscript by the abbé's great-aunt takes the place of the book the narrator was looking for and could not find2. He traces her story: abducted by La Corbinière, she follows him across Europe dressed as a man3, as far as the Italian campaigns. He compares this woman who follows her husband to war with Nerval's mother4. He notes one difference, however: Angélique comes back to die. He also considers her confession bolder than those of Rousseau or Augustine5. Finally, he points out that the ruins of her castle are the official goal of the narrator's walk. In 2021, he briefly returns to her in connection with Nerval.

1. 1#4.2 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Nov 2017 · 1:09:58
2. 2L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 25:18
3. 3#4.5 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Feb 2018 · 28:56
4. 4#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 51:45
5. 5#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 14:41

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.