Who says “I” in the Characteristics? The former criticism sometimes sought to reproduce the expression of a form of destitution in La Bruyère’s remarks. The peremptory voice, in a position of command, is rather a mask, an ethos: it is above all that of the Latin satirist that invective, vitreous and seeks to remedy the abuses of society, much more than that of a supreme censor who avoids the criticisms and criticisms he makes to the cab...