LA PERTINENCE DE LA VERTU DANS LA NOUVELLE ACTE DE PROBITÉ DE H. BAZIN

As a novelist interested in morals, passions and authentic values, Hervé Bazin excels in the art of psychological portraits and social paintings of moral ideals. In his short story "Acte de probité ", the author challenges the traditional acceptances of the virtue of probity by basing his story on antithesis and paradox. In this article, we aim to analyze the constitutive elements of the conceptual field of probity, delimiting its dominant and generally accepted elements, fixed in the dictionary definitions, which constitute the conceptual core of this mental unity. On the other hand, we also distinguish the contextual attributes of this same unit which are only manifested in the studied novel, and which make up the peripheral strata of the conceptual sphere considered.