Le viol chez François de Belleforest : une obsession politique
Rape by François de Belleforest: A Political Obsession

Summary/Abstract: While histoires tragiques rarely take rape as a subject, François de Belleforest gives this theme more frequent development than Bandello, Boaistuau or Rosset: his stories show how much this crime is universal, crossing times, spaces, cultures, religions. However, Belleforest does not insist on a passional causality, but emphasizes the eminently political character of an act that threatens the order of societies. It is not so much for him to denounce the most odious form of male domination, but to develop a historical discourse on the role of the Christian virtues as guarantors of the social order. The legal, social and political consequences do not serve to highlight the victims or to denounce the crime, but to glorify an order defended by Belleforest as a zealous Catholic.

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