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1.Le roman libertin : aperçu historique et tentative de définition --De la galanterie au libertinage : la naissance du roman libertin mondain --Dégradation : le roman libertin licencieux --La définition du roman libertin --2.La vie et les oeuvres de Claude Villaret --Homme de lettres --Comédien et défenseur du théâtre --Compilateur et historien --3.Le coq et ses poulettes : le libertinage et la polygamie --L'ambiguïté du statut social des personnages --La puissance de l'argent --Le compromis du libertinage avec le sentiment et la morale --La condition difficile des femmes --Les techniques du récit --4.L'histoire d'une parvenue : antipamela, ou mémoires de M. D. *** --Dans quel sens le roman de Villaret est-il "anti" Pamela ? --Une fille entretenue et son ascension sociale --Le tourbillon du désir --Les scènes dramatisées et le ton burlesque --5.L'essoufflement du petit-maître délicat et raisonné : histoire du coeur humain, ou mémoires du marquis de *** --Sous l'influence de Crébillon fils --L'originalité de l'Histoire du coeur humain --Les intrigues dramatisées et les scènes extravagantes --Face à une nouvelle tendance --6.L'art de vivre au jour le jour : la belle allemande ou les galanteries de Thérèse --Une oeuvre de collaboration --Une nouvelle héroïne --L'insouciance de la vie --La peinture de la société --La théâtralité du roman. From 1736 to 1738, Crebillon Jr. composed Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit . In 1740, Gervaise de Latouche publishes Le portier of the Chartreux. Today we consider them both libertine novels, not without some embarrassment. Admittedly, studies devoted decades ago to the libertine novel have allowed contemporary researchers to expand and specify the definition of gender, so that finding the two novels is no longer a problem; however, their divergence at the bottom and at the level of the form seems unquestionably enormous. Indeed, the libertine novel evolves constantly in the eighteenth century. Two currents, each of which represents worldly libertinage and licentious licentiousness, are formed and coexist. From the end of the 1740s, more and more licentious libertine novels were born. If there is a big difference between Les égarements du coeur et de l'esprit and Le portier des Chartreux is because they belong to two different currents. One wonders then why this division takes place within the libertine novel? Why does the number of libertine novels increase gradually? Chronologically the 1740s constitute a period of very marked evolution of the libertine novel. And the fictional creation of Villaret develops precisely in this period. As a witness to this moment of transition, Villaret erases a little, in his four novels, the demarcation between these two currents. Thus, through the study of the novels of Villaret, we will better understand this momentous moment in the evolution of the libertine novel, the reasons, the forms and the stake of this evolution. From here, we will also see that multiple links are woven between the two seemingly divergent currents, Doorman of Carthusians believed.--Translation of page 4 of Editions Kime
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