Eric Rohmer, em defesa

de uma certa noção de "moralista"que ele define a partir da tradição literária: “le moraliste … someone who is interested in the description of what goes on inside man. He's concerned with states of mind and feelings. For example, in the eighteenth-century Pascal was a moraliste, and a moraliste is a particularly French kind of writer like Bruyère or La Rochefoucauld.”