Repression and Expression opens with several studies that clarify aspects of French thought and
ideology from the Romantic pomp surrounding the executioner to Maurras on conspiracy. Other
articles examine themes and techniques in fiction and theater (Balzac Hugo Flaubert the
Goncourts Zola and Vallès). The section on «Revolutionary Pleasures» focuses on modes of
expression during the Directorate the July Revolution and the political banquets of 1847. The
final section groups studies on themes and conventions in poetry (Baudelaire Gautier Laforgue
Mallarmé) with theoretical considerations on rhyme and the genre of the «chanson».
