TY - EJOUR A1 - Krueger, Roberta L. TI - Antoine de La Sale’s Petit Jehan de Saintré and the Comte de Tressan - Libertinage, gallantry and French identity in an eighteenth-century adaptation T2 - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 2015 – 2, n° 30. varia JO - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies (ISSN 2273-0893), 30, 2015 – 2 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-6098-2.p.0329 SN - 2273-0893 SP - 329 EP - 351 AB - Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne, ­comte de Tressan (1715-1783) recast Antoine de La ­Sale’s Jehan de Saintré (1456) in “miniature” for the Bibliothèque universelle des romans in 1780. Close analysis of the ­author’s substantial revisions – cuts, explanatory footnotes, character development, narratorial interventions, and explicit reworkings of the plot – shows how Tressan refashioned a medieval courtly fiction to appeal to a broad range of eighteenth-century readers. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/02/24 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/cahiers-de-recherches-medievales-et-humanistes-journal-of-medieval-and-humanistic-studies-2015-2-n-30-varia-antoine-de-la-sale-s-petit-jehan-de-saintre-and-the-comte-de-tressan-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/06 ER -