‘Nous manquons de philtre!’ (Henry Céard, Terrains à vendre au bord de la mer): creuser la réception arthurienne, cinquante ans de romans français, de la mort de Wagner (1883) au Château d’Argol (1938)

Abstract Studying the reception of Arthurian literature in periods or genres that have a reputation for not being very Arthurian is not just a paradoxical project. The scarcity of Arthurian references in the French novels of the 1880s–1940s, which contrasts with the many well-known revivals of the second half of the twentieth century, must however be qualified by taking into consideration two groups of work: Wagnerian novels and Celtic novels. This article constructs and studies this double corpus, and interprets its current neglect in terms of literary canons.