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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2015  
         
  Article:   SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON ANIMALS VIEWED BY FRENCH TRAVELLERS IN ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES IN THE 19TH CENTURY / QUELQUES CONSIDÉRATIONS SUR LA PERCEPTION DES ANIMAUX PAR LES VOYAGEURS FRANÇAIS DANS LES PAYS ROUMAINS AU XIXE SIÈCLE.

Authors:  MATHIEU MOKHTARI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Some Considerations on Animals Viewed by French Travellers in Romanian Principalities in the 19th Century. This paper aims at showing the French travellers’ perception of animals. Indeed, in the 19th century, many of them passed by areas inhabited by Romanians and described, amongst other things, animals. Thus we will point out the different ways of seeing animals used by those travellers : some of them only view animal as a product while others deem it worthy of attention and study it. This dichotomy between an utilitaristic vision and a scientific one will be central to this essay. Furthermore we also can find a few topoi in these travel journals, which indicates that authors consulted each other and included some of those motifs in their own books.

Keywords: animals, Moldavia, Wallachia, travel literature, 19th century, trade, picturesque, natural history, France 		 
         
     
         
         
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