Pudeur et liberté chez le traducteur Philéas Lebesgue

Philéas Lebesgue (1869-1958), a leading intellectual of “peripheral” foreign literature in France, passed as a French Brazilian writer in early twentieth century and wrote many chronicles in literary journals. How is this original intellectual distinct from other French translators of José de Alencar and Machado de Assis? And most importantly, how is his rapport with morals in literature expressed in his translations? We propose to analyze at first his career as an erudite and to demonstrate with close readings of extracts from his translations how he is or is not "modest" in his translations.