Regards de femmes: l’Andalousie du XIXe siècle au féminin francophone

Women have a specific place in the list of French-speaking travellers who take Andalucía as their favourite destination. A dream place or a place full of local colour, far off orientalism deeply rooted in the French-speaking imagery, passed on by the ma tres en écriture , the Southern lands of the Bética region became the subject of a literary discourse which made up a canonic representation of the Muslim past, always longed for. From the work of the Belgian Juliette de Robersart, filtered by personal contributions in her traditional traveller style, to Maria Star′s cosmopolitan approach, through the French Marie Noémi Cadiot, a hurried tourist who followed the topics of genre, or the Swiss Mme de Gasparin, influenced by the Arabic-Andalou sian myth, these fearless women fit into a common desire of otherness and dépaysement .