In his writings on the formation of language and of man, La Grammaire logique and La Science de Dieu, Jean-Pierre Brisset announces the truth about our creation, based on what he calls rigorous linguistic premises.
The final version of Hérodiade, upon which Mallarmé was working at the time of his death in 1898, replaces the well-known Ouverture Ancienne with a "Prélude" that focuses upon the presence of the recently decapitated John the Ba
Nodier's fullest discussion of style, L'Histoire du Roi de Bohème et de ses sept château (1830), is an open-ended debate between the characters Breloque (Reason) and Théodore (Imagination).