Retour sur les figures de seduction dans les « histoires tragiques » de Francois de Rosset

Abstract

Seduction, a word subject to a semantic evolution which is constantly changing over the centuries: first, a negative connotation, with a diabolical reverse, that of deception, error and sin, in which the first actor is the Smart. There follows love seduction which is also a game of fiction and false appearances, carried out in secrecy and simulation. The tragic stories of François de Rosset (1613) fit perfectly into this semantic journey. In these cruel and bloody tales edited forty times (1613-1758), one can read stories of diabolical possession and amorous seduction where the strategy of conquest obeys the code inscribed in Spanish love books.
Today the word seduction has a positive connotation that comes in infinity. What remains, however, is that aura of mystery and indecipherability that emerges from it, perhaps because of this discourse of untruth that goes back so far in time.