“
Werewolf.
Man who is unsociable and lives isolated
.
Such a formula leaves you speechless.
It is not, however, from a horror film in which hardened bachelors would be taken for wild beasts.
It is unearthed in the “
figurative and familiar
”
sense
in Littré.
But not only.
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Let us quote Rousseau who, in his Confessions, compared himself to this curious creature: “
My mood became taciturn, I lived like a true werewolf.
"Let us also point out Madame de Sévigné who spent certain days" like a werewolf "or even Molière who made fun of spouses:"
You, if you know werewolf husbands, at least send them to school with us. .
"
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What is the origin of the word werewolf?
The werewolf has, in fact, a famous past that the dictionaries of the 21st century have forgotten.
Is it because it has haunted people's minds for too long that we wanted to make it disappear from the writings?
Truly, the vampire-killer beast at Stephenie Meyer and man-devourer at Stephen King
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