Bravo to Benoît Bolduc for his recent publications! His book, La Fête imprimée. Cérémonies et spectacles politiques (1549-1662), is under contract with Classiques Garnier and will be published this fall. Benoît has also published an article in conjunction with the “Versailles on Paper” exhibition at Princeton University : “Fêtes on Paper: Graphic Representations of Louis XIV’s Festivals,” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, LXXVI (1-2), 2014-15, pp. 211-241.

Congratulations to Michael Call for his new book, The Would-Be Author: Molière and the Comedy of Print, recently published with Purdue UP. Please see the description below :

Book Description

Congratulations to Francis Assaf for his recent publications.

Book chapters:

"Première journée : voir, dire et savoir". Un Autre dix-septième siècle : mélanges en l’honneur de Jean Serroy. Patis : Champion, 2014. pp. 41-51.

Articles:

Please join me in congratulating Steve Fleck on his new promotion ... to retired!

Steve Fleck promoted himself to retired status at CSU Long Beach and has moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Notwithstanding these shifts of status and venue, his article "Speaking Folly to Power: Molière's Moebius Saraband" was published in PFSCL and he looks forward to seeing his second book on Molière, to be published with Biblio 17, in print in the very near future. 

Congratulations to Vincent Grégoire, whose article « Emploi d’ ‘objets magiques’ et prédiction de phénomènes célestes dans les Relations des jésuites : une stratégie originale de conversion en Nouvelle-France au dix-septième siècle », will appear in 2016 in the Cahiers du XVIIème: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Bravo to Hélène Bilis for several recent accomplishments and new undertakings:

1. Her book -- Passing Judgment: The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine  --  is forthcomingwith University of Toronto Press in January 2016.

Please join me in congratulating Michèle Longino and Ellen Welch for the publication of selected essays from the 2014 NASSCFL Conference with Biblio 17.

Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity : Selected Essays from the 44th North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Duke University, edited by Ellen R. Welch and Michèle Longino. ISBN : 978-3-8233-6970-7

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Ellen R. Welch & Michèle Longino, Introduction

Luke Arnason wishes to announce a new endeavor to which he welcomes feedback and/or questions from our community. Luke has recently launched a YouTube channel devoted to harpsichord music. The channel, currently in the early stages of development, features two pieces by François Couperin along with a channel trailer. The long-term goal is to make the channel a platform for "vulgarising" the harpsichord that will include the following : harpsichord appreciation tutorials (how does the instrument, and the music written for it, work? What makes great harpsichord pieces great?

Bravo to Michèle Longino for the publication of her most recent book, French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseille-Constantinople (1650-1700), which came out with Routledge Press in March 2015. A description of the book is copied below:                      

French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire: Marseille - Constantinople (1650-1700)