Abstract: To make the beauty of the law shine, and to make its apprenticeship seem sufficiently appealing, certain jurists from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment - humanists in all senses of the term - responded brilliantly to the challenge to render the great genres of their discipline more literary.
Keyword: Droit et littérature, histoire du droit, épistémologie juridique, pluridisciplinarité, humanisme juridique, pédagogie juridique, interprétation du droit, symbolique du droit, mythes juridiques