Le pretre mis a nu: Etude de la poetique du personnage dans les fabliaux erotiques (XIIe--XIVe siecles) Suivi du texte d'ecriture litteraire 'Adagio malgre lui'

The first part of this thesis is an analysis of the priest in a selection of erotic fabliaux written between the 12th and 14th centuries (Gombert et les deus clers, Le Prestre taint, Le Vilain de Bailluel and Le Prestre ki abevete). While the "anticlericalism" of the fabliaux is toned down by the differences between the types of the cleric and the priest, this analysis dwells on the figures of the deceived priest and the deceitful one. Through the study of the deceitful priest, it demonstrates that the duper offers a mise en abyme of the author and the jongleur in action, used by the fabliau to rehabilitate the fiction and to examine the power of speech and language, which helps unveil the "mecanic" of the genre and the types of medieval literature.;The second part of this thesis is a narrative text that uses some traits of the drama genre to create a distance between the reader and the characters, who live in a small village where a certain lack of interest for religion rules. These inhabitants will be thrilled by the announce and arrival of a young priest, Adagio. Soon, this newcomer will become the object of all discussions and all rumors, so much so that he will exist only through others' words.