Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, âmaÃ®tre Georgesâ and the Advance of Nature

Claude Blanckaert

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Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, âmaÃ®tre Georgesâ and the Advance of Nature

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385160_005

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Pierre Boitard (1789â1859), an ancient officer reconverted to natural history, is one of the first vulgarizers of a transformist doctrine based on the âmetamorphosisâ of matter and the âgenealogical tree of organizationâ. Since the mid-1830s, he takes up Le Diable boiteux by RenÃ© Lesage in order to give a literary form to a novel on the origins, founded on Lamarck. Contesting the system of catastrophes, claimed by Georges Cuvier (âmaÃ®tre Georgesâ), he carries his reader along into the abyss of time. He covers the lost worlds of the past ages of Earth and shows him the imperative march of Nature, growing more and more complex from period to period, since the formation of our globe 875,000 years ago.

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Biological Time, Historical Time

Transfers and Transformations in 19th Century Literature

Series:Â Faux Titre, Volume: 431

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004385160

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 Oct 2018

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