Une source de la harangue duSupplément au Voyage de Bougainville:La description de l'Afriquede Dapper
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2003
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Dominique Lanni, « Une source de la harangue duSupplément au Voyage de Bougainville:La description de l'Afriquede Dapper », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.2003.2573
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The old Tahitian's speech in the famous episode of the old man's farewell is probably the best-known passage in Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bou¬ gainville. Although it is part of a classical tradition, this speech was rewritten many times in the course of nearly ten years. The present article demonstrates that Raynal, who was behind Diderot's writing of the Hottentot's speech in the third edition of the Histoire des deux Indes and the old Tahitian's speech in the Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, took his inspiration from a Hottentot speech in the French translation of Olfert Dapper's Description de l'Afrique.