The prewar faith and values, which contributed mostly to the Puritan morality, were abandoned; the social conventions were shaken or even overturned. People were suffering a spiritual barrenness, mental insecurity and physical recklessness, ...

Molière est un dramaturge auteur de comédies et un comédien et chef de troupe de théâtre français en France dans le XVIIe siècle. Issu d'une famille de la riche bourgeoisie marchande parisienne , Molière se consacre au théâtre ...

Jane Austen was very sensitive to what went on around her, though she lived in an uneventful, placid, and circumscribed environment. Her observations on the manners of her time and of her class were completely shown in her novels: Sense and ...

Balzac, tentant en vain de faire fortune, endetté presque tout au long de sa vie, connaît bien le pouvoir de l’argent ; dans son oeuvre, l’argent joue également un rôle important. Balzac est lié d’une manière obsessionnelle à l’...