TY - ECHAP A1 - Brix, Michel TI - « Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la tour abolie » - Nerval et la noblesse T3 - Carrefour des lettres modernes M1 - 1 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-5060-0.p.0061 SN - 978-2-8124-5060-0 SP - 61 EP - 73 AB - Gérard de Nerval’s nobiliary pretensions amount to an engagement. At base, the aristocracy is what is tasked with defending individuals against royal power. In the nineteenth century, the era of the traditional nobility’s decadence, the writer must replace the aristocracy as the intermediary between the power and simple citizens: this is, in any case, the desire formulated by Gérard de Nerval. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/04/20 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/lettres-de-noblesse-i-l-imaginaire-nobiliaire-dans-la-litterature-francaise-du-xixe-siecle-le-prince-d-aquitaine-a-la-tour-abolie-en.html Y2 - 2025/12/06 ER -