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André Blanc, « Le jardin de Julie », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1982.1405
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André Blanc : Julie's garden. A straightforward reading of the famous letter about Julie's garden in Clarens (La Nouvelle Héloïse, IV, Letter XI) is insufficient, for it is not a real landscape but the symbolic description of Julie's sexual organs. It is a hidden, closed, wet place, whose entry is difficult if not forbidden, without any phallic element (full-grown trees, straightlined avenues, or fountains), covered with bushes and creepers, cooled by meandering streams or still waters, and culminating in a woody hillock full of singing birds. Saint-Preux is allowed to enter this paradise in an innocent way and regress into a prenatal condition, thus transforming Julie from lover into mother.