L'objet de cette thèse est l'édition critique des relations de captivité des religieuses de port-royal, enlevées de leur monastère le 26 août 1664 par les autorités et détenues des couvents hostiles au jansénisme. disséminées dans divers manuscrits, ces relations demeurent méconnues, car leur corpus n'a pas encore été établi même si certaines d'entre elles furent éditées en 1724. il convient donc, après avoir établi leur corpus, de procéder à leur édition critique d'après leurs copies manuscrites qui trouvent à la bibliothèque de port-royal et à la bibliothèque nationale de France. nous présenterons une typologie de ces relations, une brève biographie de leurs auteurs, ainsi qu'une étude qui mettra en lumière les fondements politiques et théologiques du combat des religieuses contre le roi et l'Eglise, tel qu'il apparaît dans ces relations. nous analyserons également la place privilégiée qu'occupent ces relations dans l'importante production littéraire de port-royal /... / From Port-Royal to Jansenism through the captivity accounts’ (the ‘Relations de Captivité’) analyses the revolt of the Port-Royal nuns. Supported by the Grand Arnauld and the port-royalist network they refused to sign the formulary which condemned Jansenius’ augustinian theology. They dared oppose Louis XIV and the Pope, who relied on the Jesuits. The nuns describe their revolt in their ‘Relations de Captivité’, prison memoirs, which are both private and collective reports. We present here the first critical edition of those accounts. Our thesis examines the various episodes of the formulary case and the grounds for the nuns’ resistance – which served the Jansenists’ interest in the XVIIIth century (the abbé d’Etemare among others) when fighting against the Bull Unigenitus. The Jansenists devised an important historiography, as did Racine, the first historian of the nuns. They set up the nuns as myth and martyrs to their cause. The ‘Relations de Captivité’ herald the XVIIIth century Jansenism, the arguments of which can be noted in the nuns’ reports. Later on the nuns’ revolt aroused the interest of historians and writers, in France as well as abroad. Sainte-Beuve, Reuchlin, and Charles Beard devoted extensive studies to the subject. Montherlant, Julien Green, Charles Bobin were touched by the poetic streak of the accounts. There is another innovative element to it : the Port-Royal nuns are a landmark in the history of women in so far as they dared assert and justify themselves by writing their own story.

L’histoire de la pensée des signes se caractérise par une oscillation entre définition large et étroite de son objet. Le XVIIe siècle constitue par rapport à cette histoire une période charnière, marquée par la tendance à une conception particularisante du signe, qui exclut en particulier que les idées puissent être considérées sous cette notion. Mais ce retour ne se fait pas de façon homogène. C’est en effet à cette époque qu’apparaît, au sein de la scolastique tardive, un débat majeur autour de la définition du signe, qui se formalise par l’introduction, au sein des traditionnelles taxinomies, de la division entre ‘signum formale’, qui fait écho à la tendance médiévale à inclure les concepts sous le terme de ‘signes’, et ‘signum instrumentale’, qui correspond à une définition qui remonte à Augustin, et selon laquelle le signe est exclusivement sensible, et strictement différent de la chose signifiée. Cette thèse retrace les termes de ce débat scolastique tardif à partir du commentaire au Peri Hermeneias de Sebastião do Couto, afin de montrer que le XVIIe siècle se caractérise globalement par un retour à une conception strictement instrumentale du signe, qui se libère toutefois de la référence augustinienne qui lui avait donné lieu. Se démarquant de la voie qui avait fait de la Logique de Port-Royal le texte paradigmatique de la pensée sémiotique de l’Age classique, on montrera ainsi que celle-ci se définit par une translatio, visible surtout chez Bayle, Gassendi, et Hobbes, d’un modèle linguistico-psychologique à une sémiotique régie par le paradigme du signe naturel, emblématique d’une mutation de la logique désormais ordonnée au modèle de la physique. / All along its history, semiotic has oscillated between a large and a narrow definition of its object. The 17th century is, in this regard, a pivotal period, with a trend towards a narrower construal of the term ‘sign’, which, for most authors of that time,does not apply anymore to concepts and ideas. This move however is not an homogeneous one. The first half of the century witnesses, among late scholasticism, to an important debate about the definition of ‘sign’, stirred by the introduction, among traditional taxonomies, of the division between ‘signum formale’ and ‘signum instrumentale’. The former echoed the medieval inclusion of concepts under the category of ‘signs’. The latter matches the definition of Augustine, according to which the sign is exclusively sensible and strictly different from the thing signified. The reconstruction of the terms of this late scholastic debate, which originates in Sebastião do Couto’s commentary on Peri Hermeneias, shows that the 17th century authors have tended to return to a strictly instrumental conception of signs, but one from which the traditionnal Augustinian reference is absent. In contrast with the rather common interpretation according to which the definition of signs to be found in the Port-Royal’s Logic offered the new paradigm for representation, this works argues that the semiotic thought of this period is better defined as a translatio, especially visible among Bayle, Gassendi and Hobbes, from a linguistico-pschychological model to a natural semiotics, emblematic of a new logic that has been submitted to physical science.

Il nous reste aujourd’hui 358 lettres autographes et une copie écrites d’Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly à Angélique Angran de Fontpertuis. Ces lettres sont des documents précieux pour des raisons historiques, culturelles et littéraires. La mère Angélique de Saint-Jean était la dernière abbesse Arnauld de Port-Royal et une femme aux dons intellectuels extraordinaires : un « prodige », selon une autre grande épistolaire du XVIIe siècle, Mme de Sévigné. Je propose une édition critique complète des lettres annotées de cette religieuse à Mme de Fontpertuis, veuve et amie fidèle du monastère et de la famille Arnauld. Mon édition est précédée d’une introduction à cette correspondance remarquable. J’y examine d’abord la pratique de la lettre chez Angélique de Saint&Jean, dont les lettres traversent le silence et la clôture monastiques pour, selon l’expression de l’époque, « entretenir » son amie, qui se trouve dans le monde. Ma deuxième partie porte sur le thème de l’amitié dans les lettres :celles-ci servent d’écran sur laquelle l’attachement des deux femmes est projetée. Cette amitié est bien sûr une amitié chrétienne et spirituelle dans laquelle Angélique de Saint-Jean assume souvent le rôle de directrice spirituel. Toutefois, nous verrons que cette direction spirituelle est parfois réciproque. J’étudie dans une dernière partie le rôle de Dieu dans cette correspondance. Dieu est omniprésent, de la croix marquée en haut des lettres aux thèmes qui reviennent sans cesse : la retraite, la charité, la Providence, la maladie, et la mort. Cette amitié épistolaire entre les deux correspondantes se définit avant tout comme une amitié en Dieu. / We have today 358 extant autograph letters and one copy of a letter from Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly addressed to Angélique Angran de Fontpertuis. These arevaluable documents for historical, cultural and literary reasons. Mère Angélique de Saint-Jean was the last Arnauld abbess of Port-Royal, and her intelligence and education have established her as one of the great woman intellects of her time. A fellow seventeenth-century letter writer, Mme de Sévigné, refers to her a “prodigy”. My thesis is a complete critical edition of the letters written by Angélique de Saint-Jean to Mme de Fontpertuis, a widow and a loyal friend of Port-Royal and the Arnauld family. I precede this edition with an introduction to the correspondence, in which I examine firstly Angélique de Saint-Jean’stechniques of letter writing: her letters break through the monastic silence and enclosure toreach Mme de Fontpertuis, who lives outside the monastery walls, in the world. Secondly, Istudy the theme of friendship in the letters, which serve as a screen onto which theattachment of the two women is projected. This friendship is obviously a Christianfriendship, and a spiritual one in which Angélique de Saint&Jean often takes on the role ofspiritual director. We will see, however, that the spiritual direction can be reciprocal. Lastly,I look at the role of God in the correspondence: God is omnipresent, from the cross marked at the top of the letter to themes which crop up constantly: retreat, charity, Providence,illness, and death. The epistolary friendship between the two women can be defined as,above all, a friendship in God.

Texte remanié de : Thèse de doctorat : Littérature française et comparée : Paris 4 : 2004. / La page de titre porte en exergue : "Rien ne nous plaît que le combat" Bibliogr. p. [781]-805. Index.

This thesis examines French and English trade voyages and trade colonies in North American during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and French and English relations with Native Americans. The colonies of Port Royal, Jamestown, and Sagadahoc included members of previous French and English trade voyages and depended on the experience and information gained during trade voyages to formulate their economic objectives and colonial policies. French and English North American activity was intrinsically connected in this era through a plethora of amiable and competitive associations. National, transnational, and regional frameworks are all necessary in explaining Port Royal, Jamestown, and Sagadahoc. French and English interaction with Native American groups during these voyages and colonies was distinctly similar, and the diverse cultures of the native Mi’kmaq, Eastern Abenaki, Powhatans, and Armouchiquois, rather than the divisions between French and English culture, were central in shaping colonist-Native relations in the seventeenth century.

Cette recherche a pour point de départ l’important mouvement de traduction en Allemagne au tournant du XIXe siècle, et la critique par les penseurs allemands de la manière dont les Français traduisaient. Ceux-­‐ci se voient reprocher leur tendance à toujours traduire comme si l’auteur était français, refusant l’épreuve de l’étranger (Berman) que constitue la traduction. Ce conflit est philosophiquement problématisé en 1813 par F. Schleiermacher, qui montre que derrière ces approches du traduire s’affrontent des conceptions de la rationalité, du rapport de la pensée au langage, et de la subjectivité, mais aussi des conceptions de la culture, de la nation, et du rapport à l’étranger. À la lumière de ces analyses, nous réinterrogeons les conceptions de la traduction en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, où domine la pratique des « belles infidèles ». Nous nous intéressons aux soubassements théoriques de ces conceptions, ce qui conduit à accorder une attention particulière aux réflexions sur le langage menées à Port-Royal, et à la réflexion de Voltaire sur l’histoire. Nous étudions la question de la traduction de la philosophie en français à cette époque. Parallèlement, l’étude des premières traductions de Shakespeare en France et en Allemagne (Voltaire/Herder, Schlegel) montre comment se nouent réflexions sur la littérature, l’histoire, la pluralité des cultures – sur fond de volonté de s’émanciper, du côté allemand, de la domination culturelle française, et de remise en question de la pensée des Lumières. Revenant enfin sur les réflexions de Schleiermacher, nous étudions en quel sens elles définissent une éthique de la traduction et l’éthique à partir de la traduction, autour du concept d’hospitalité.En mettant en lumière la richesse des conceptions autour de la traduction en France aux siècles classiques, ce travail vise à redonner un intérêt à leur étude d’un point de vue philosophique, et en revenant sur cette critique allemande, à éclairer l’origine de réflexions contemporaines majeures sur la traduction et ses enjeux. / The investigation's starting point is the significant German translation's movement from the begining of the 19th century and the German thinkers criticism against the French practice of translation. The Germans reproach the French to translate a foreign work as if the author was french, thus refusing the very principle of translation, that is to confront to the Otherness (Berman). In 1813, F. Schleiermacher points the philosophical issues raised by the conflict opposing these two different approaches of translation, revealing that not only does such a conflict mirror the opposition between different ways of conceiving rationality, the relationship between language and thought, subjectivity, but also different ways of conceiving culture, nation, and the relationship to the Other and to foreignness. In the light of such analysis, we question the ways of conceiving translation in France in the 17th and 18th century, in which the practice of the "belles infidèles" prevails. We examine the theoretical groundings of these conceptions of translation, which leads to focus especially on the language studies conducted in Port-Royal and Voltaire's consideration about history. We study the issue raised by the French translation of philosophical work at the time. The confrontation of Shakespeare's first translations in France and in Germany (Voltaire/Herder, Schlegel) shows how a reflection on literature, history and cultural plurality builds up while at the same time, the Germans wish to emancipate from the French cultural domination and question the Enlightenment. We finally come back to Schleiermacher's thought to study in which way it contributes to define both an ethics of translation and an ethics based on translation, refering to the concept oh hospitality. By highlighting the depth and richness of thought surrounding translation in France in the 17the and 18th century, this work's aim is to restore an interest for studying its notions from a philosophical perspective. Furthermore, by going back to this German critique, this work is also concerned with shedding light on the origins of major conteporary thinking over translation and the issues at stake.

Estudo crítico e tradução da Primeira Parte da Lógica ou A Arte de Pensar, que ficou conhecida como Lógica de Port-Royal (1683), para a língua portuguesa. O estudo volta-se para a análise dos capítulos I a VIII da Primeira Parte e visa a explicitar o caráter híbrido desse manual de lógica, estruturado com o formato dos manuais de lógica escolásticos, inspirados no Organon aristotélico, e marcado pela recepção e vigência de teses cartesianas fundamentais. Embora o legado de Aristóteles se manifeste mais do que em seu formato, a Lógica de Port-Royal deve ser lida como um manual de lógica moderna naquilo que condiciona a sua inteligibilidade: a introdução de requisitos epistêmicos na determinação do domínio da lógica. No processo de reforma da lógica iniciado no século XV, Port-Royal se inscreve não apenas na crítica da concepção de lógica como instrumento para a demonstração silogística da ciência (como já o tinham feito, por exemplo, os lógicos renascentistas), mas na defesa da lógica como reflexão prática epistemicamente orientada, caracterizada pela tomada do juízo como ação mental definidora do domínio lógico. A presença de exigências epistêmicas deriva, em Port-Royal, da leitura de Descartes e do debate deste com Antoine Arnauld. Teses fundamentais do cartesianismo são arregimentadas para o projeto lógico de Port-Royal: a prioridade do pensamento sobre a linguagem; o desprezo da linguagem e da imaginação; a tese de que o uso de palavras derivaria da função, a um só tempo cognitiva e lógica, do juízo como definidora da lógica e, condicionando todas essas, a tese fundadora do cartesianismo enunciada na proposição Penso, logo sou. É a leitura arnauldiana do cogito cartesiano, defende este estudo, que dá a ver como se pode pensar o cartesianismo em lógica. A análise dos primeiros oito capítulos é temática, e a perspectiva reformista da Lógica de Port-Royal é apresentada no estudo da transição dos capítulos III para o IV, e do V para o VI, bem como do VII para o VIII. No capítulo VIII, o estudo se detém sobre o peculiar tratamento port-royaliano dos termos complexos. Em seguida, volta-se ao que configura o pressuposto subjetivo dessa concepção de lógica e à expressão representativa desse pressuposto, apresentados nos capítulos I e II da Primeira Parte do manual, onde os requisitos epistêmicos de uma lógica de ideias são apresentados e onde o caráter representativo dessas ideias obtém sua vestimenta gramatical (sujeito, predicado e adjetivo), veiculando determinações lógicas (coisa, modo da coisa, coisa modificada). Por fim, o estudo busca, na correspondência que Arnauld manteve com Descartes, em 1648, a origem e o fundamento da concepção de cogito que estará em vigor em Port-Royal, de maneira explícita, a partir de 1662. / Critical study and translation of the First Part of Logic or the Art of Thinking, known as Port- Royal Logic (1683), for the portuguese language. The study is focused on the analysis of chapter I to VIII of the First Part and aims to clarify the hybrid character of this manual of logic, which has the structure of scholastic logic manuals, inspired by the Aristotelian Organon, and the reception and effectiveness of key Cartesian theses. Although the Aristote’s legacy is far more importante than the shaping of the manual structure, the logic of Port-Royal should be read as a manual of modern logic in what conditions its intelligibility: the introduction of epistemic requirements in determining the domain of logic. In the process of reformism in logic started in the fifteenth century, the Port-Royal Logic is inscribed not only in the critic of the conception of syllogistic logic as a tool for the demonstration of science (as, for example, the renaissance has done), but also with the defense of logic as a kind of practical reflection epistemically oriented, characterized by tacking the judgment as the mental action by excellence, which defines the logical domain. The presence of epistemic requirements is derived from the impact of Descarte’s philosophy on Port-Royal and from his debate with Antoine Arnauld. Fundamental thesis of Cartesianism are regimented to the port-royalian conception of logic, as the priority of thought over language, the contempt of language and its origin, imagination, and, conditioning all these, the founder of Cartesianism thesis as stated in the proposition I think, therefore I am. The study argues that interpretation of the Cartesian cogito by Antoine Arnauld, mostly, offers a way to think Cartesianism in logic. The analysis of the first eight chapters is thematic, and the reformist perspective in Port-Royal's Logic is presented to study the transition of the III chapter to the VIII. Then, back up to the defended position, that is the assumption that the conception of subjectivity, of knowledge and the representative expression of this assumption are presented in Chapters I and II of the First Part of the manual. In these chapters are established the requirements of an epistemic logic of ideas and of the representative character of these ideas, which get its grammatical outfit (subject, predicate and adjective), conveying logical determinations (a thing, a manner of a thing and a modified thing). Finally, the study seeks in the correspondence that Descartes maintained with Arnauld, in 1648, the origin and the foundation of the concept of cogito which will be in force in Port-Royal, explicitly, from 1662.

Estudo crítico e tradução da Primeira Parte da Lógica ou A Arte de Pensar, que ficou conhecida como Lógica de Port-Royal (1683), para a língua portuguesa. O estudo volta-se para a análise dos capítulos I a VIII da Primeira Parte e visa a explicitar o caráter híbrido desse manual de lógica, estruturado com o formato dos manuais de lógica escolásticos, inspirados no Organon aristotélico, e marcado pela recepção e vigência de teses cartesianas fundamentais. Embora o legado de Aristóteles se manifeste mais do que em seu formato, a Lógica de Port-Royal deve ser lida como um manual de lógica moderna naquilo que condiciona a sua inteligibilidade: a introdução de requisitos epistêmicos na determinação do domínio da lógica. No processo de reforma da lógica iniciado no século XV, Port-Royal se inscreve não apenas na crítica da concepção de lógica como instrumento para a demonstração silogística da ciência (como já o tinham feito, por exemplo, os lógicos renascentistas), mas na defesa da lógica como reflexão prática epistemicamente orientada, caracterizada pela tomada do juízo como ação mental definidora do domínio lógico. A presença de exigências epistêmicas deriva, em Port-Royal, da leitura de Descartes e do debate deste com Antoine Arnauld. Teses fundamentais do cartesianismo são arregimentadas para o projeto lógico de Port-Royal: a prioridade do pensamento sobre a linguagem; o desprezo da linguagem e da imaginação; a tese de que o uso de palavras derivaria da função, a um só tempo cognitiva e lógica, do juízo como definidora da lógica e, condicionando todas essas, a tese fundadora do cartesianismo enunciada na proposição Penso, logo sou. É a leitura arnauldiana do cogito cartesiano, defende este estudo, que dá a ver como se pode pensar o cartesianismo em lógica. A análise dos primeiros oito capítulos é temática, e a perspectiva reformista da Lógica de Port-Royal é apresentada no estudo da transição dos capítulos III para o IV, e do V para o VI, bem como do VII para o VIII. No capítulo VIII, o estudo se detém sobre o peculiar tratamento port-royaliano dos termos complexos. Em seguida, volta-se ao que configura o pressuposto subjetivo dessa concepção de lógica e à expressão representativa desse pressuposto, apresentados nos capítulos I e II da Primeira Parte do manual, onde os requisitos epistêmicos de uma lógica de ideias são apresentados e onde o caráter representativo dessas ideias obtém sua vestimenta gramatical (sujeito, predicado e adjetivo), veiculando determinações lógicas (coisa, modo da coisa, coisa modificada). Por fim, o estudo busca, na correspondência que Arnauld manteve com Descartes, em 1648, a origem e o fundamento da concepção de cogito que estará em vigor em Port-Royal, de maneira explícita, a partir de 1662. / Critical study and translation of the First Part of Logic or the Art of Thinking, known as Port- Royal Logic (1683), for the portuguese language. The study is focused on the analysis of chapter I to VIII of the First Part and aims to clarify the hybrid character of this manual of logic, which has the structure of scholastic logic manuals, inspired by the Aristotelian Organon, and the reception and effectiveness of key Cartesian theses. Although the Aristote’s legacy is far more importante than the shaping of the manual structure, the logic of Port-Royal should be read as a manual of modern logic in what conditions its intelligibility: the introduction of epistemic requirements in determining the domain of logic. In the process of reformism in logic started in the fifteenth century, the Port-Royal Logic is inscribed not only in the critic of the conception of syllogistic logic as a tool for the demonstration of science (as, for example, the renaissance has done), but also with the defense of logic as a kind of practical reflection epistemically oriented, characterized by tacking the judgment as the mental action by excellence, which defines the logical domain. The presence of epistemic requirements is derived from the impact of Descarte’s philosophy on Port-Royal and from his debate with Antoine Arnauld. Fundamental thesis of Cartesianism are regimented to the port-royalian conception of logic, as the priority of thought over language, the contempt of language and its origin, imagination, and, conditioning all these, the founder of Cartesianism thesis as stated in the proposition I think, therefore I am. The study argues that interpretation of the Cartesian cogito by Antoine Arnauld, mostly, offers a way to think Cartesianism in logic. The analysis of the first eight chapters is thematic, and the reformist perspective in Port-Royal's Logic is presented to study the transition of the III chapter to the VIII. Then, back up to the defended position, that is the assumption that the conception of subjectivity, of knowledge and the representative expression of this assumption are presented in Chapters I and II of the First Part of the manual. In these chapters are established the requirements of an epistemic logic of ideas and of the representative character of these ideas, which get its grammatical outfit (subject, predicate and adjective), conveying logical determinations (a thing, a manner of a thing and a modified thing). Finally, the study seeks in the correspondence that Descartes maintained with Arnauld, in 1648, the origin and the foundation of the concept of cogito which will be in force in Port-Royal, explicitly, from 1662.

Estudo crítico e tradução da Primeira Parte da Lógica ou A Arte de Pensar, que ficou conhecida como Lógica de Port-Royal (1683), para a língua portuguesa. O estudo volta-se para a análise dos capítulos I a VIII da Primeira Parte e visa a explicitar o caráter híbrido desse manual de lógica, estruturado com o formato dos manuais de lógica escolásticos, inspirados no Organon aristotélico, e marcado pela recepção e vigência de teses cartesianas fundamentais. Embora o legado de Aristóteles se manifeste mais do que em seu formato, a Lógica de Port-Royal deve ser lida como um manual de lógica moderna naquilo que condiciona a sua inteligibilidade: a introdução de requisitos epistêmicos na determinação do domínio da lógica. No processo de reforma da lógica iniciado no século XV, Port-Royal se inscreve não apenas na crítica da concepção de lógica como instrumento para a demonstração silogística da ciência (como já o tinham feito, por exemplo, os lógicos renascentistas), mas na defesa da lógica como reflexão prática epistemicamente orientada, caracterizada pela tomada do juízo como ação mental definidora do domínio lógico. A presença de exigências epistêmicas deriva, em Port-Royal, da leitura de Descartes e do debate deste com Antoine Arnauld. Teses fundamentais do cartesianismo são arregimentadas para o projeto lógico de Port-Royal: a prioridade do pensamento sobre a linguagem; o desprezo da linguagem e da imaginação; a tese de que o uso de palavras derivaria da função, a um só tempo cognitiva e lógica, do juízo como definidora da lógica e, condicionando todas essas, a tese fundadora do cartesianismo enunciada na proposição Penso, logo sou. É a leitura arnauldiana do cogito cartesiano, defende este estudo, que dá a ver como se pode pensar o cartesianismo em lógica. A análise dos primeiros oito capítulos é temática, e a perspectiva reformista da Lógica de Port-Royal é apresentada no estudo da transição dos capítulos III para o IV, e do V para o VI, bem como do VII para o VIII. No capítulo VIII, o estudo se detém sobre o peculiar tratamento port-royaliano dos termos complexos. Em seguida, volta-se ao que configura o pressuposto subjetivo dessa concepção de lógica e à expressão representativa desse pressuposto, apresentados nos capítulos I e II da Primeira Parte do manual, onde os requisitos epistêmicos de uma lógica de ideias são apresentados e onde o caráter representativo dessas ideias obtém sua vestimenta gramatical (sujeito, predicado e adjetivo), veiculando determinações lógicas (coisa, modo da coisa, coisa modificada). Por fim, o estudo busca, na correspondência que Arnauld manteve com Descartes, em 1648, a origem e o fundamento da concepção de cogito que estará em vigor em Port-Royal, de maneira explícita, a partir de 1662. / Critical study and translation of the First Part of Logic or the Art of Thinking, known as Port- Royal Logic (1683), for the portuguese language. The study is focused on the analysis of chapter I to VIII of the First Part and aims to clarify the hybrid character of this manual of logic, which has the structure of scholastic logic manuals, inspired by the Aristotelian Organon, and the reception and effectiveness of key Cartesian theses. Although the Aristote’s legacy is far more importante than the shaping of the manual structure, the logic of Port-Royal should be read as a manual of modern logic in what conditions its intelligibility: the introduction of epistemic requirements in determining the domain of logic. In the process of reformism in logic started in the fifteenth century, the Port-Royal Logic is inscribed not only in the critic of the conception of syllogistic logic as a tool for the demonstration of science (as, for example, the renaissance has done), but also with the defense of logic as a kind of practical reflection epistemically oriented, characterized by tacking the judgment as the mental action by excellence, which defines the logical domain. The presence of epistemic requirements is derived from the impact of Descarte’s philosophy on Port-Royal and from his debate with Antoine Arnauld. Fundamental thesis of Cartesianism are regimented to the port-royalian conception of logic, as the priority of thought over language, the contempt of language and its origin, imagination, and, conditioning all these, the founder of Cartesianism thesis as stated in the proposition I think, therefore I am. The study argues that interpretation of the Cartesian cogito by Antoine Arnauld, mostly, offers a way to think Cartesianism in logic. The analysis of the first eight chapters is thematic, and the reformist perspective in Port-Royal's Logic is presented to study the transition of the III chapter to the VIII. Then, back up to the defended position, that is the assumption that the conception of subjectivity, of knowledge and the representative expression of this assumption are presented in Chapters I and II of the First Part of the manual. In these chapters are established the requirements of an epistemic logic of ideas and of the representative character of these ideas, which get its grammatical outfit (subject, predicate and adjective), conveying logical determinations (a thing, a manner of a thing and a modified thing). Finally, the study seeks in the correspondence that Descartes maintained with Arnauld, in 1648, the origin and the foundation of the concept of cogito which will be in force in Port-Royal, explicitly, from 1662.

During the seventeenth century, the Catholic Reformation sparked unprecedented growth in girls' educational opportunities with the opening of over five hundred new teaching convents. Yet, the active role girls played in these institutional and social changes is often overlooked. Even though girls' autobiographical writing from the seventeenth century is rare, prescriptive, educational, and biographical sources from convent schools are rich in details about girls' lives and vocational discernment. Upon leaving school, girls were encouraged to take either marriage or religious vows. Since orthodox Catholicism taught that salvation could only be received if one's life reflected God's will this decision was weighty. In fact, reformed convents tested their entrants to ensure that their vocations were freely chosen and not forced. Seventeenth-century girls' educational theorists shared this concern, and while they debated the details of curriculum, they agreed that only girls had the authority to articulate their own God-given vocations. At convent schools, girls encountered both models of female domesticity and women who were dedicated to religious life. The repeated affirmation of both of these paths created an atmosphere in which girls could legitimately choose either. Furthermore, the memories of vocational discernment recorded in nuns' lives offer evidence of plausible ways in which girls proved their callings to their communities. Focusing on religious vocation reveals how girls in the seventeenth century actively articulated their ideas, impacted their societies, and challenged adult authority. / Graduate / 2017-08-25 / 0330 / 0335 / 0520 / mjkort@uvic.ca