Abstract
If black magic seems powerfull in the fictions of Chateaubriand, as we can see with Ondouré and the juggler in Les Natchez or Celtic incantations of Velléda’s ceremonies in Les Martyrs, it’s because they express the harmful seductions of paganism from which the author has to keep away. If there is white magic, it converts into magic of style: the seductions of the quill of « l’Enchanteur » are thus not so much intended to corrupt than to praise, through the magic of the verb, the divine « wonders » occuring in the wilderness and landscapes. It’s part of the work taking place in Génie du Christianisme and American fictions, operating a christianization of Nature, once pagan temple becoming cathedral: magic becomes for Chateaubriand an aesthetic which purpose is “reenchanting the world” (Claude Reichler) in a perspective of religious revival.
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