L’image de l’Algérie dans les récits de voyage anglais de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècleNotre étude se propose d’examiner à la lumière de la théorie de l’orientalisme d’Edward Saïd la représentation de l’Algérie et des Algériens dans quatre récits de voyage anglais de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Il s’agit, en effet, de Through Algeria, A Winter in Algeria, Algeria as it is et The New Playground; or, Wanderings in Algeria respectivement de Mabel Sharman Crawford, Mrs. G. Albert Rogers, George Gaskell et Alexander Andrew Knox. L’étude explore ces récits de voyage afin de mettre en lumière la nature de la représentation de l’autre telle qu’elle est faite par ces voyageurs anglais qui ont séjourné durant un hiver dans l’ex-Régence ottomane, devenue une colonie française à partir de 1830. L’étude se divise en trois parties considérant tout d’abord le contexte historique du XIXe siècle, puis les voyageurs anglais et leurs récits de voyage, et enfin la représentation de l’autre. Elle révèle une représentation stéréotypée avec un discours orientaliste comme toile de fond. Fidèle à ce discours, l’attitude des voyageurs anglais envers les Algériens est ambivalente, fait de sympathie et de mépris.Mots Clés : récit de voyage- orientalisme, représentation- altérité- autre- Algérie- exotisme. / The Image of Algeria in the English Travel Writings of the Second Half of the XIX CenturyThe present study aims at exploring in the light of Edward Saïd’s theory of orientalism the image of Algeria and the Algerians in a set of English travel writings of the second half of the XIXth century, Through Algeria, A Winter in Algeria, Algeria as it is and The New Playground; or, Wanderings in Algeria respectively by Mabel Sharman Crawford, Mrs. G. Albert Rogers, George Gaskell and Alexander Andrew Knox .The study examines the nature of the representation of the other as produced by these English travellers who spent a winter in the former Ottoman regency which had become a French colony since 1830. The study is divided into three main parts which deal respectively with the historical context of the XIX century, the travellers and their travel writings and the other’s representation. The study reveals a stereotyped representation due to the background of the orientalist discourse.Key words: travel writing- orientalism- representation- otherness- Other- Algeria- exoticism.

The master thesis The Langue d'oc in the Scholarly Discourse Before and After The Great French Revolution considers the image of the Occitan language in the lexico-graphical and grammatico-graphical works that have been written between the beginning of the 18th and the mid-19th century. During this epoch, in the framework of a diglossic model, the language in question had been suffering a status of a dominated language. At the same time, however, it had awaken an interest of many scholars whose motivations for their studies ranged from a will to contribute to a proliferation of Francization to an effort to save the Occitan language and restore its own dignity. It is precisely this motivation, as well as the denominations which our authors had given to the language in question and also their strategies for its valorization or devalorization, that this text engages with. The socio-linguistic situation in the Pays d'Oc and the impact of The French Revolution and of its linguistic politics on the presence and the representation of the Occitan are also being examined. These phenomena are studied in the framework of a theory of the formation of nations by Miroslav Hroch as the phase A of the Occitan movement which had remained, at least during this phase, a purely cultural phenomenon, that is to say a...