IDENTITY
La Sorcière
Other Nonfiction
Work Summary
A historical and polemical study of witchcraft that interprets the witch as a product of medieval oppression, poverty and resistance to ecclesiastical authority. Michelet combines history, imaginative reconstruction and social criticism in a deliberately sympathetic account of persecuted women.
Evidence Summary
The phrase remains available to him across years as a remembered metaphor.
Documented textual recurrence.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Jules Michelet
Work
La Sorcière
Years / Period
1883–1888
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
1883–1888 — Letters 300, 691, 695
Quoted / Copied · Quoted / remembered
Van Gogh repeatedly uses the lighthouse expression that the editors trace to La Sorcière.
Response: The phrase remains available to him across years as a remembered metaphor.
Connection: Documented textual recurrence.
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