„L’éclat du héros“ – Formen auratischer Repräsentation des Helden im Frankreich des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts zwischen Bild und Text (Mme de Lafayette, Diderot) Beitrag Andreas Gelz Comparatio, Volume 7 (2015), Issue 2, Page 217 - 236 [...] In the 17th and 18th century the term ‘éclat’ (blaze, resplendence) denominates an attribute essential to heroism, a characteristic element of the heroic act as well as a mode of appearence even of the nature of the hero itself. If in the 17th century a totalizing meaning of the word which expressed the historical and spiritual unity under the conditions of absolute power – the royal res [...]