Abstract: In the first volume of La Sorcière, published in 1862, Jules Michelet explores the emergence in medieval France of this enigmatic female figure, caught at the intersection of social marginality and literary myth, at a time of satanic practices and the Inquisition.
Keyword: Nineteenth-century literature, society, history of France, essay, historical investigation, historiography, social history, Middle Ages, witchcraft, history of women
