Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Copte Georges Mélies

Georges Mélies

La Réforme protestante puis la Contre-Réforme catholique et enfin les « valeurs bourgeoises du XIXe siècle le tiennent en peu d’estime

The figure of Rembrandt dominates the century and his influence is evident on a whole generation of students and collaborators

small-scale portraits of kings first appear in the courts of Philip II and his son

Les Progymnasmata en pratique, de l'antiquité à nos jours. Copte Georges MéliesThe progymnasmata (preparatory rhetorical exercises) are a set of speech forms considered fundamental and complementary: in the most widespread list (that of Aphthonios), there are twelve of them: the fable, the story, the chria, the maxim, the contestation (and confirmation), the commonplace, the praise (and blame), the parallel, the ethopoeia, the description, the thesis and the proposition of law. Organized in a progressive series, supplemented by