Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: A ruling by the French Conseil d'Etat has just upheld the refusal to authorize the construction of a wind farm near the village of Illiers-Combray, on the grounds of the symbolic importance of the “literary landscape” created by Marcel Proust. Is the law putting itself at the service of literary heritage and landscape against the renewable energies advocated by ecology? The aim of this article is to examine the various interpretations that can be made of the recent Conseil d'État decision. I propose to shed light on some of the ambiguities surrounding the question of the patrimonialization of literary landscapes, according to the three dynamics revealed by this jurisprudential innovation: the ecological-patrimonial dynamic and its legal basis, the dynamic of linking territory and heritage, and the artistic-ecological dynamic.
DOI: 10.51777/relief21253
Author: Guy Saez
Institutions: Laboratoire Pacte, Université Grenoble Alpes
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405585494