Abstract
Scholars have long recognized Pierre-Daniel Huet’s (1630-1721) Traite de l’Origine des romans (1670) as a defensive piece in a polemic about the novel that preoccupied French moralists, salonnieres, and academicians throughout the seventeenth century. Jean-Pierre Camus (1582-1652), the bishop of Bellay who confirmed Huet in 1638, singled out «cet horrible pile d’Amadis» hailing from France’s rival across the Pyrenees, as «la Mere source, et comme le cheval de Troye de tous les romans». The ma...
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