Abstract
PEGUY'S CONCEPT OF SOCIALIST UTOPIA. LEXICOLOGICAL STUDY OF CITÉ AND CITOYEN The last decade of the nineteenth century is marked by an intense interest in socialist Utopias. G. L. has selected two texts of the young Peguy : De la cité socialiste (CS, august 1897) and Marcel, Premier dialogue de la cité harmonieuse (CH, june 1898). Through the study of the vocabulary, he examines the way in which cité and citoyen fit into Peguy's concept of socialist Utopia. The analysis of specificities stikingly demonstrates the contrast between the two texts on six axes : temporal indications, evaluation, possibility of negations, the absence of technical vocabulary, the spiritual tone of an « axiology without axiometry », CH appears to be a « maximum Utopia » of Kantian type, in which the only rule is the harmony of wills. It is, among Peguy's works, a text which is marginal and without antecedent.