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''Madame de La Carlière,'' sub-titled ''On the inconsequence of public judgement of our actions,'' is a fable written by the French writer Denis Diderot in 1772, and published for the first time in 1798.〔Œuvres complètes de Diderot éditées par Naigeon, Paris, Desray, 1798.〕 Preceded by ''This is not a fable'' and followed by ''Supplement to the Voyage of Bougaineville'', it forms a triptych of moral fables written in 1772〔Diderot indicated the end of his revisions in a letter to Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm dated the 23 September 1772.〕 that would appear in the Literary Correspondence in 1773.〔For more details on this triptych, we may read the introduction written for the article consecrated in the first volume, ''This is not a fable.''〕 ''Madame de La Carlière'' takes its name from the mother of Sophie Volland, Élisabeth Françoise Brunel de La Carlière.〔Raymond Trousson, Denis Diderot, Paris, Tallandier, 2005, p. 212.〕 In 1988, ''Madame de La Carlière'' was performed as a stage piece alongside Diderot's novel ''Rameau's Nephew'' at New York University, as part of a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man.〔Bernstein, Richard, "This Time, Bicentennial Is France's," ''The New York Times'', September 29, 1988.〕 ==Bibliography== * Laffitte M., ''Diderot : hésitations autour de la promesse (Histoire de Madame de la Carlière)''. In : ''Revue romane'' (ISSN 0035-3906), 1992, vol. 27, n°1, p. 90-103. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Madame de La Carlière」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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