L'Insinuation convertie,: La colombe et le serpent

Christian rhetoric in the second half of the seventeenth century determined the course of a converted insinuation that aimed to reconcile the innocence of the dove and the shrewdness of the snake (Matthew 10: 16). Its shrewd methods are here examined in the Pensees, the Careme du Louvre, and Les Aventures de Telemaque.