Item Detail
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8425
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5
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English
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The Image of Mormonism in French Literature : Part II
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BYU Studies
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Winter 1976
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16
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265-76
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"The first article in this study of image of Mormonism in French literature concentrated essentially on the period 1850-1866, a time of intellectual fervor in France during which the historians and the philosophers dissected Mormonism in "scientific fashion." We also touched upon Mormonism as it appeared in the popular tradition of the time and in travel accounts, which form a literature that continued more or less irregularly until the end of the nineteenth century. Although the Mormon theme is rare in French publication from 1900 to 1919, it is worthwhile to mention briefly certain interesting works of this period. In 1904 the journalist Jean d'Entraigues, after a visit to Salt Lake City, published a very laudatory article about the Mormons, using an amusing style to denounce the historical prejudices against the Latter-day Saints. In 1907, in a voluminous account of a journey across the United States, Jules Huret devoted no less than five chapters to Mormonism. These chapters contained interesting interviews with President Joseph F. Smith and with a number of distinguished Mormon women, all belonging to polygamous families. Also worth noting are two scholarly articles, one on Utah by L. Gallois, and another on the siege of Nauvoo by the historian George Tricoche. But it is the decade from 1920-1930 that gives us several works of considerably greater significance." [Publisher's abstract]
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Had for Good and Evil : 19th-Century Literary Treatments of the Book of Mormon
Mormon History
Mormonism in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Old Wine in New Bottles : The Story behind Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity