Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que Le langage des fêtes jésuites dans l’Assistance de France (1588-1645) de Rosa De Marco a remporté le Prix Eugène Colas 2026 de l’Académie française.
iv + 358 p., ISBN 978-2-503-61012-2
L’ouvrage propose une analyse de l’implication des jésuites dans le renouvellement du langage des festivités urbaines en France (XVIe‑XVIIe siècles), à partir de l’étude d’archives inédites, de livres de fêtes et de documents iconographiques.
Review:
"In this lavishly illustrated monograph, Rosa de Marco studies the multi-media languages used by Jesuit festivals in France in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She analyzes an astonishing variety of types of Jesuit festivals: academic thesis defenses, religious processions, celebrations of royal marriages and funerals, allegorical musical performances, canonizations of Jesuit saints, emblem books, morality plays on the virtues and vices, and hagiographic dramas. (...) De Marco’s merit is to focus on the ephemeral artworks generated by the Jesuit festivals, such as the temporary arches and temples erected for a particular feast and then abandoned." (John J. Conley, S.J., in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 13 (2026), p. 124)