Historical Figures in French Poetry for Children and Adolescents
The article is devoted to contemporary French poetry for young readers, namely to poems whose characters are historical figures from France and other countries. It deals with texts that contain names and sobriquets of French kings, emperors and other historical persons, as well as events related to them. Analysis has revealed the following characteristics proper to poems on historical themes: their connection with folklore, intertextuality, humour and irony, merging of fiction and reality, play on words.