TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1992//
TI  - "Death of beautiful youth" or youthful suicide in Geneva in the 18th century
JO  - Gesnerus
A1  - Porret, M.
SP  - 351
EP  - 369
VL  - 49
IS  - Pt 3-4
N2  - Whether it is the unhappy ending of family grief, the only solution to an unrequited love or due to some pathological behaviour, juvenile suicide horrifies the community of the Ancien Régime, which tends to interpret it as an "illness of the soul" characteristic of a youth that combines bodily vitality with moral frailty, but whose role would be nonetheless to ensure the morrows of mankind. Juvenile suicide underlines the flaws of social solidarity in the tightly knit community of the Ancien Régime, and it deepens the social resentment against willful death which, since 1774, has often been attributed to the harmful influence of the kind of "philosophy" or free will advocated by Goethe's unfortunate Werther.<p />  <p>Language: fr</p>
LA  - fr
SN  - 0016-9161
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -