Regards de femmes: l’Andalousie du XIXe siècle au «féminin francophone»

Abstract

Women have a specific place in the list of French-speaking travellers who take Andalucía as their favourite destination. A dream place or a place full of local colour, far off orientalism deeply rooted in the French-speaking imagery, passed on by the «maîtres en écriture», the Southern lands of the Bética region became the subject of a literary discourse which made up a canonic representation of the Muslim past, always longed for. From the work of the Belgian Juliette de Robersart, filtered by personal contributions in her traditional traveller style, to Maria Star´s cosmopolitan approach, through the French Marie Noémi Cadiot, a hurried tourist who followed the topics of genre, or the Swiss Mme de Gasparin, influenced by the Arabic-Andalou­sian myth, these fearless women fit into a common desire of otherness and «dépaysement».