"O unhappy child of an unhappy father! The quiet and proud forehead, though your heart shivers, Are you under the blow of rigorous edict? Have you braved anyone who never forgives?" Antigone must die. She knew it. By choosing to offer a burial to her brother, it is a rope that she slipped around her neck. But the daughter of Oedipus has decided to obey the law of the gods, not that of men. Not even Hemon, her lover, will be able to divert her from her fate. Professor of letters at the university, Elsa Marpeau presents here, according to Hegel's expression, "the noblest figure that appeared on earth".