Abstract: This study considers representations of Italy in French works of the early nineteenth century. This body of writing gives rise to an original, modern, and paradoxical approach to neoclassicism which helps shape the patrimonial awareness of this era in search of identity.
Keyword: Littérature du premier xixe siècle, esthétique, histoire des idées, patrimoine, néoclassicisme, Italie, récit de voyage, Chateaubriand, Staël, Stendhal
