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Congratulations to the authors featured in the newest volume of Early Modern French Studies (Volume 37, Issue 1, July 2015).

*Please note that effective January 2015, Seventeenth-Century French Studies changed its title to Early Modern French Studies to reflect an expansion in scope.*

http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/emf/37/1

Valérie M. Dionne, “Le Sourire canin de Montaigne et de La Mothe le Vayer, ou la vertu cynique du libertin”

Michael Meere, “Theatres of Torture: Martyrs, Pagans, and the Politics of Conversion in Early Seventeenth-Century France”

Tatiana Senkevitch, “The Portrait of the King’s Minister and the State of Collaboration”

Helena Taylor, “Ovid, Galanterie, and Politics in Madame de Villedieu’s Les Exilés de la cour d’Auguste”

Jean-Alexandre Perras, “Le ‘Siècle de la frivolité’: sur l’invention d’un lieu commun au XVIIIe siècle”

Bravo to Joseph Harris for his article in the most recent volume of French Studies:

"‘Dying of the Fifth Act’: Corneille's (Un)Natural Deaths"

French Studies (2015) 69 (3): 289-304 

http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/05/19/fs.knv075.abstract

Congratulations to the authors featured in the newest volume (XVI, 1) of the Cahiers du dix-septième :

http://se17.bowdoin.edu/cahiers-dix-septieme/2015-volume-xvi-1

Table of Contents

Alison Calhoun.  Corneille’s Andromède and Opera: Practice Before Theory ..........................1

Nathalie Freidel.  La ruse du nom, machination rhétorique dans Amphitryon de Molière ...... 18

Ralph Albanese.  Ruses et stratégies discursives dans L’Ecole des Maris  ..................................35

Christophe Schuwey.  Le Mercure galant : un recueil interactif ...................................................48

Herbert Morris.   The Absent and Present Serpent in Nicolas Poussin’s Spring ...........................63

Henry Cohen.  Racine’s Esther: In Praise of Historiographers and Historians ............................77

Sylvie Romanowski.  Teaching the Seventeenth Century at the Graduate Level .........................93

BOOK REVIEWS

Braider, Christopher. The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4426-4348-2. Pp. 340.   Reviewed by Ellen McClure..........................................................................109

Randall, Catharine. The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality.  Notre Dame, IN:  University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.  ISBN 978-0-268-04035-2. Pp. 178.   Reviewed by Jean Leclerc.................................................111

Winn, Colette H., ed. Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60329-089-0. Pp. viii & 440.  Reviewed by Kathleen Llewellyn.........................................................................113

Bravo à Rainer pour l'édition de son dernier numéro de PFSCL!

http://periodicals.narr.de/index.php/papers_on_french

Congratulations to Bernard J. Bourque for his book: All the Abbé’s Women. Power and Misogyny in Seventeenth-Century France, through the Writings of Abbé d’Aubignac (Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2015). [ISBN: 978-3-8233-6974-5]