"Renart the Counterfeit" is a reliquary novel, a work peppered with other works: it amplifies eight branches of the "Roman de Renart" by inserting stories in their entirety when they are short, in part when they are long, in the narration and in the speech of the characters. It is thus based on a form of "plural writing" or "crossing of writings" which ... characterizes Renardian writing. This practice, attested by other late satirical works, raises many questions about the author's intentions - homage or parodic diversion? - and about the way in which he worked, from memory or with books in front of him, by collage or recreation. In all cases, it testifies to a desire to offer in the framework of a novel a sum of the literature of the time, in accordance with the encyclopedic spirit animating the century. The texts inserted in the "Counterfeit" present a great generic diversity. ... Faced with the very seductive encounter of these two literary universes that were until then distinct, that of the "Roman de Renart", that of the fabliaux, we will question the presence of the fabliaux in the "Contrefait" and what it tells us about the intentions of the author and his writing practices. Our research will begin with an analysis of the version of the fabliau of the "Nonete" that it proposes, then we will broaden our quest to other fabliaux that are still unpublished, trying to understand why these texts are absent from the collections of fabliaux and why, conversely, the cleric of Troyes introduced them throughout his narration. - [Abstract]

Language: French

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