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“Nowadays Most Canards are Imported from the Russian Empire”: on a Piece of Newspaper News in 1844
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-1-225-255
Abstract
The first part of the article examines the background of the concept of ‘canard’, applied in France to popular non-periodical publications which reported incidents (often fictional), and to fictional news published in political daily newspapers. According to the testimony of various writers, including Balzac, such fictional news (‘canards’) in the first half of the nineteenth century was often associated with Russia. The second part of the article treats one of these ‘canards’, as reflected in two newspaper publications, ‘Press’ (Presse) and ‘Century’ (Siècle) in June 1844. These publications claimed that Emperor Nicholas I, who visited London at the end of May, went from there to Paris. The article shows why the Royal voyage to Paris could not have taken place and the reasons for the appearance of this ‘canard’ on the pages of the Paris newspaper.
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Vera A. Milchina, Cand. of Sci. (Philology)
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For citation: Milchina V.A. “Nowadays Most Canards are Imported from the Russian Empire”: on a Piece of Newspaper News in 1844 RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;(1-2):225-255. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-1-225-255
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