ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book presents a summary of a part of this book by pointing that what is a metaphor for René Char ought more properly to be considered a metonymy for François Guizot. In the nineteenth-century context, real inheritance certainly becomes exemplary of wider social questions. The book expresses that far from distracting the readers from their wider significance, close scrutiny of literary texts' engagements with the precise contours of inheritance law and related discourse can reveal more about just how certain metaphors came to work in the way they did. It considers the wills that are relatively rare in modern France that has everything to do with the prescriptive successional regime of the Civil Code. The bulk of this regime was formed in the legislative and social upheaval which determined Guizot's choice of vocabulary in expressing the predicament of political modernity.
