Analyse Du Passage Du Miroir Dans Le Horla

his relations not only with God but with other men also gave a new urgency to his place in the world. New genres sprang up to accommodate a new spirit of curiosity: the ‘bestiary’ (in which animals conveyed Christian truths and moral lessons), the miroir, which gave advice to princes, women and soldiers, didactic songes, moralistic chastiements, collections of sententious proverbes au vilain and compilations on all manner of subjects. There were collections of canon and civil law and encyclopaedias