Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

analyse which has remained a major French preoccupation, while the dawning of individual consciousness – the moi – is detectable in the lyric poets and the chroniclers. Though satire was not a literary form, it was a spirit which would thrive and prosper and, because it looked outwards at the world, nurtured the growth of literary realism. In philosophy, conceptual thinking outside the theological tradition had been established. But above all, the literature of the Middle Ages linked France, on the

du digramme consonantique (deux consonnes correspondant à un seul son) : J. (Jean, Jacques, etc.), D. (Daniel, Denis, etc.), Ch. (Charles), Ph. (Philippe) Lorsque les lettres initiales sont suivies des consonnes R ou L, celles-ci sont notées : Cl. (Claude, Claudine, etc.), Fr. (François, Frédéric, etc.), Chr. (Christian, Christine, etc.) * On se sert de plusieurs procédés distincts pour indiquer le pluriel d'un mot abrégé : • addition de la marque du pluriel s - Mlles (Mesdemoiselles), Éds (éditions)