FRENCH 17

See French 17 (1997).

CHRISTOUT, MARIE-FRANÇOISE. "Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, duchesse de Bourgogne et les spectacles de cour, ballets-mascarades et bals." RHT 50.3 (1998), 237–248.

Marie-Adélaïde arrives at Fontainebleau in 1696 to marry the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Her gifts for dance and theatre cast a spell on the aging sovereign. C. studies her personal role as an actress, dancer and regular spectator in Versailles, Saint-Cyr, Marly, Fontainebleau and Paris, and the relationships which she had with the main artists of the stage.

CLARK, HENRY C. "Commerce, the Virtues and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth-Century France." FHS 21 (1998), 415–40.

A close study of the use of traditional moral language in attempting to shape, articulate or understand royal policies of commerce. The article focuses particularly on Antoine de Montchrestien's pioneering Traicté de l'économie politique (1615) and reveals a new appreciation of how the state becomes the main arbiter of a system of social values and of how other elements of society (the nobility, mercantile interests) need increasingly to define their own worth and status by reference to terms appropriated by the monarchy.

CLARKE, JAN. "Illuminating the Guénégaud Stage: Some Seventeenth-Century Lighting Effects." FS 53.1 (1999), 1–15.

Author examines the lighting environment for performances at the Guénégaud; traces a significant evolution in the use of lighting in the machine plays; and studies the way in which this reflects the evolution of the genre.

CLEARY, RICHARD L. The Place Royal Design in the Ancien Regime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Review: Jeremy Melvin in TLS 5010 (9 Apr. 1999), 37: Valuable addition to architectural history, with an unusual guide to 23 French cities with such urban places. Centers on the monarchy's involvement in such projects during the last 100 years, contains running commentary on Louis XIV's projects and architects.

CLERVAL, ALAIN. "Le courtisan entre la grâce du poète et l'hérésie du croyant." NRF 549 (1999), 227–238.

L'article examine l'association du libertinage avec les sens du dévergondage intellectuel. Selon C., nous sommes assez désarmés "s'il s'agit de préciser les contours d'un continent littéraire qui déborde les frontières chronologiques et formelles, celui du libertinage érudit, critique, d'inspiration philosophiques ou religieuse, satirique ou grotesque, tel qu'il remonte aux premières années du XVIIe siècle."

CLOULAS, IVAN and MICHELE BIMBENET-PRIVAT. Treasures of the French Renaissance. Trans.John Goodman. New York: Abrams, 1997.

Review: P. Emison in Choice 36.2 (1998), 302–303: "The decorative arts and architecture are beautifully photographed, in support of the thesis that what the French most valued in Renaissance culture was a luxurious manner of living, leading ultimately to the excesses of Louis XIV."

COHEN, RICHARD I. Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Review: J. Gutmann in Choice 36.2 (1998), 303: "C. attempts to place Jewish participation in the arts within a historical perspective.... He devotes a chapter to Jewish art patronage in 17th- and 18th-century Europe."

CONSIBEE, PHILIP. "Atticism in French Art." Burlington Magazine 141 (1999), 55–6.

An exhibition review of "Eloge de la clarté: un courant artistique au temps de Mazarin, 1640–1660" at the Musée de Tessé in Le Mans. C. indicates the exhibition "examines that rarefied current of classicism in mid-17th century French, or rather Parisian, art known as 'atticism'," and regrets only that the modest scale of the museum in question limited the scale of the exhibition. He also notes the surprising absence of any works by Claude, whose reputation in France was at its height during the period in question.

CORNETTE, JOEL. Chronique du régne de Louis XIV. Paris: SEDES, 1997.

Review: Kevin Ruth in FR 73 (1999), 149; Praises this unusually thorough (578pp.) year-by-year chronicle of events of all sorts in history and cultural history. Thematic and subject indices.

DALLET, JEAN-MARIE. Au soleil des vivants. Paris: Jean-Claude Lattès, 1998.

Review: J.-P. Amette in Le Point 1362 (1998), 111: Novel set in 17th c. Marseille. "Historiens sérieux, s'abstenir.... Rien de tel, que de prendre un morceau d'histoire, des rois, des sergents de ville, des bretteurs, des Turcs et des grands bateaux et de se laisser emporter dans les étranges feux d'artifice de la mémoire d'une époque qu'on aime, version Dallet...."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, ed. Politique et littérature en France au XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Actes du colloque international de Monopoli, 28 septembre-1er octobre 1995. Bari/Paris: Adriatica/Didier Erudition, 1997.

Review: Orest Ranum in PFSCL 26 (1999), 460–464: "A fine, important scholarly harvest in this volume, an honour for Giovanni Dotoli."

DUCHÊNE, ROGER. "Le nouveau Dictionnaire des Précieuses." PFSCL 26 (1999), 91–109.

Inventory of all the texts dated between 1638 and 1659 where the word "précieux" appears. The author concludes that at the moment when Molière popularizes the word, it is impossible to present the Précieuses as a cohesive group sharing common ideas and attitudes.

DUNETON, CLAUDE. Histoire de la chanson française. 2 vols. Paris: Seuil, 1998.

Review: Thierry Gandillot in L'Express 2470 (5–11 nov. 1998), 74–75: "Le show-biz est né au Pont-Neuf," contends the author, and shows it in sections on performers—Bruscambilles, Jean Farine, Desidério, Descombes, Baron Grattelard, Hiéronvous, Phillipot, Le Savoyard—their songs and their ethos. "Pas seulement un livre qui enchante, c'est aussi un livre qui se chante."

EKBERG, CARL J. French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Review: L. T. Cummins in Choice 36.3 (1998), 582: "In this well-researched and meticulously written study E. examines patterns of land holding, agricultural practices, and settlement in the Illinois country from the late 1600s until after the area became part of the US in the early 19th century. The geographical area included the French Colonial settlements of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Vincennes, Ste. Genevieve, St. Louis, and Prairie du Chien. The author discusses a unique system of long lot and common field agriculture that developed in this region, motivated both by the French cultural heritage and the specific needs of living in the upper Mississippi valley during the Colonial era. Settlement patterns in these communities revolved around a tripartite configuration of the nuclear village, open fields where a distinctive style of cereal agriculture predominated, and common lands for the grazing of animals. Such practices were not seen elsewhere in Colonial North America. The study also examines the cultural differences between the French mentalité and the assumptions held by citizens of the US that brought an end to this system in the decades after the Louisiana Purchase. This work breaks new ground and is a welcome addition to the literature."

ERNST, GERMANA, ed. Campanella, Tommaso. Monarchie d'Espagne. Monarchie de France. Trans.Serge Walbaum andNathalie Fabry. Paris: PUF, 1997.

Review: J.-P. Cavaillé in Revue philosophique (1998), 229–31: C. commends the work of G. Ernst in this translation of two of Campanella's important political texts, which underwent numerous rewritings and alterations during the author's lifetime.

FABRE, PIERRE-ANTOINE. "Les visions d'Ignace de Loyola dans la diffusion de l'art jésuite." MLN 114.4 (1999), 816–47.

". . . la réflexion que je propose sur le destin des visions d'Ignace de Loyola dans la diffusion de l''art jésuite' ne concerne pas seulement ce qu'il en est de la représentation des visions du fondateur de la Compagnie de Jésus sur différents supports, dessinés, gravés, peints; elle concerne également ce qu'il en est de la fonction de ses représentations dans la diffusion de 'l'art jésuite'." F. voudrait "à travers l'histoire de la venue au visible des visions d'Ignace de Loyola, esquisser quelque chose d'une genèse de 'l'art jésuite'."

FAGIOLI DELL'ARCO, MAURIZIO. Jean Lemaire pittore 'antiquario.' Rome: Ugo Bozzi, 1996.

Review: J.-C. Boyer in Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), 756–9: B. praises the large number of canvases catalogued by Fagioli dell'Arco, but cautions that the author may well have underestimated the problem posed by the confusion between Jean Lemaire and Pierre Lemaire, his contemporary.

FERRETTI, GIULIANO, ed. Philippe Fortin de la Houguette. Lettres aux frères Dupuy et à leur entourage (1623–1662). Florence: S. Olschki, 1997.

Review: C. Rizza in SFr 42 (1998), 566: An edition of more than 500 previously unpublished letters by Philippe Fortin de la Houguette, the author of a Catéchisme royal, a work that ought to have ensured him the position of Louis XIV's tutor. Of particular interest are the letters detailing the relations between the Dupuy family and Richelieu, l'affaire Cinq-Mars and the arrest and condemnation of de Thou. R. praises the rigorous introduction (which offers an interpretation of the political doctrines being elaborated during the crucial rise of absolutism), the exhaustive notes and the useful biographical index and critical bibliography. "An exemplary work both for its completeness and its methodological rigor an inexhaustible source of information concerning political and cultural life during the first half of the 17th century." With a preface by M. Fumaroli.

FERRETTI, GIULIANO. "Elites et peuple à Paris, 1642–1656. La naissance de l'historiographie sous Richelieu." Nouvelles de la République des Lettres 1 (1997), 103–130.

Review: C. Rizza in SFr 42 (1998), 566: A detailed examination of a series of texts (many of which were previously unpublished) from the time of Richelieu's death and that express opposing views of the cardinal as a tyrant and as the great statesman to whom France owed its unity and prestige. Feretti claims that during this period of French history, the image of Richelieu was a battleground on which two visions of the monarchy contended with each other for supremacy, up until the end of the Fronde.

FINKELMAN, PAUL, and JOSEPH C. MILLER, eds. Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery. New York: Macmillan Reference USA/Simon&Schuster Macmillan/Simon&Schuster and Prentice Hall International, 1998.

Review: C. S. McGowan in Choice 36.11/12 (1999), 1928: "The editors and contributors succeed in summarizing 'current knowledge about all forms of human bondage throughout the world.' Alphabetically arranged, signed articles are followed by cross-references and bibliographies that vary in length. Black-and-white illustrations and statistical tables are interspersed throughout the text and are included in the subject index. An alphabetical list of entries precedes the text, and a synopic outline follows it.... A time line of slavery, 25 maps, and a general bibliography are also included."

FORCE, P. "L'ère libérale commence-t-elle au XVIIe siècle?" Littératures Classiques 34 (1998), 267–278.

Is there an implicit liberalism (in the Adam Smith sense of the word) in the theories of mercantilism, interest, individualism of Hobbes and Locke.

GIBSON, WENDY. A Tragic Farce: The Fronde (1948–1653). Exeter: Elm Bank Pubs., 1998.

Review: Kathryn E. Wildgen in FR 72 (1999), 1132–33: Vividly written re-casting of the war into a 5-act format with lively summaries of action and collections of contemporary commentaries.

GOODKIN, RICHARD E. "Separated at Birth: The Man in the Iron Mask; or a Louis XIV for the Nineties." PFSCL 26 (1999), 319–326.

Communication delivered during the 1998 MLA Convention conference on "The Seventeenth-Century in the Media: Cinema, Television, World Wide Web, CD-ROM." Analysis of the 1998 film; reflection on the intersection between the courtly culture of Louis XIV's time and our own Zeitgeist.

GUELLOUZ, SUZANNE, ed. "L'Histoire au XVIIe siècle." Littératures classiques 30 (1997).

Review: Francine Wild in DSS 203 (1999), 391–392: This collection of essays sheds light on "l'importance de la production historique du siècle et de la réflexion sur l'Histoire qui l'accompagne." Articles by Hourcade, Poulouin, and Mansau, among others, explore problems of method and historiography; other articles look at works by specific historians such as Duchesne, Sorel, and Naudé. Reviewer notes "[O]n a donc un aperçu, sinon exhaustif, du moins extrêmement suggestif, de ce qu'a été l'Histoire au XVIIe siècle, en tant que savoir, en tant que pratique d'écriture, et... en tant que lieu culturel."

GUNN, J. A. W. Queen of the World: Opinion in the Public Life of France from the Renaissance to the Revolution. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1995.

Review: T. J. Hochstrasser in FS 53.2 (1999), 201–202: G. develops a thesis which challenges many of the basic currently orthodox assumptions that are associated with the concept of the growth of the public sphere before the onset of the Revolution. "Instead of locating the emergence of the tribunal of public opinion in the later eighteenth century during the period of parliamentary contestation, he argues that this phase represented merely the gradual loosening of control over a phenomenon that had in fact been a feature of political life in France since at least the era of Richelieu." This work "deserves careful consideration by all students of French eighteenth-century politics and culture."

HANNING, BARBARA RUSSANO. Concise History of Western Music, based on Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music. New York: W.W.Norton, 1998.

Review: W. K. Kearns in Choice 36.7 (1999), 1275–1276: "H. makes large cuts in the pre-18th-century sections dealing with theory, notation, and music peripheral to the Western tradition. She has reduced content within chapter sections by eliminating or drastically reducing information on minor composers, compositions, and genres."

HARDWICK, JULIE. "Seeking Separations: Gender, Marriages, and Household Economies in Early Modern France." FHS 21 (1998), 157–80.

Hardwick explores the choices and strategies of women seeking judicial separations prior to the Revolution, and reveals some of the grounds on which the political economies of Early-Modern households were contested and negotiated. The arcticle focuses on two hundred cases brought before an urban court of first instance in Nantes between 1598 and 1710, which indicate that at this level women were twice as likely to petition for separate property alone as they were to petition for separations of persons and property, and that petitions for separate property alone increased over time.

HARDWICK, JULIE. The Practice of Patriarchy: Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France. University Park: Pennsylvania State, 1998.

Review: D. C. Baxter in Choice 36.7 (1999), 1331: "H. ... eschews the world of the elite to focus on the less examined 'middling' class. Her subject is public notaries in Nantes, a town of 25,000, who struggled to maintain their economic and social position in the difficult years 1560–1660. Based on archival records ..., as well as an impressive array of secondary sources extending well beyond France, the author sets out to determine how the concept of gender shaped the nature of authority in family life and its implication for political culture, which saw the king posited as father of his people. The result is a highly sophisticated picture, seeking to explain rather than to judge patriarchal relationships. The author deftly depicts the role of bilateral kinship, customary law, equitable inheritance, expectations of good management, property ownership, and human relationships in both limiting as well as reinforcing the power of husbands and fathers over their families, while at the same time creating possibilities and challenges for women within the household structure, as spouses worked together for common goals. Strongly suggested for specialists of the period."

HARRISON, HELEN L. Pistoles/paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 1996.

Review: Kathryn Willis Wolfe in PFSCL 25 (1998), 612–614: Some reservations aside, "this is a study rich in insight... accessible even to students of the French seventeenth century who are not yet well versed in the economic and social history of the era."

HERMAN, DAVID. "Don Juan and Don Alejandro: The Seductions of Art in Pushkin's Stone Guest." CL 51.1 (1999), 3–23.

H. uses Pushkin's play to consider the figure regularly facing the statue within Pushkin's plots: a poet. He hopes to show that the "fixity of every statue is neatly complemented by what is for Pushkin the inherent mobility of the creative individual." The play's hero departs from the tradition of Don Juans who went before him, yet "in a way that illuminates rather than merely displaces them."

HOFFMEYER, JESPER. Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Trans.B. J. Haveland. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Review: K. Schonauer in Semiotica 120.3/4 (1998), 395–401: Discusses reading as "a human activity which takes place on both sides of the Cartesian rift."

HOLLIS, DANIEL W. The ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Utopian Movements. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1998.

Review: E. J. Green in Choice 36.6 (1999), 1045: "An introductory general reference work...covering major literary, philosophical, and practical doctrines. Non-Western thought is included, though H. emphasizes Europe and the US, where utopian thought has flourished.... A well-designed chronology of utopian thought follows the alphabetical section, but it begins in 1460... [hence] readers should not assume that the volume is comprehensive."

HOWELLS, ROBIN. "The Secret Life: Marana's Espion du Grand-Seigneur (1684–86)." FS 53.2 (1999), 153–166.

H. offers a general account of a French text published under the name of Jean-Paul Marana in the hope of bringing out its fascination as a piece of literature. "My first 'secret' is the specific identity of the work of 1684–86, the second, its hidden Enlightenment characteristics; the third, the secret as a central topos in the narrative writing of its own time, and the last the traces in the work of the personal myth of its author."

HUPPERT, GEORGE. The Style of Paris. Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightenment. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Review: David Parker in TLS 5032 (17 Sept. 1999), 26: Argues that the profusion of public schools "controlled by locally-elected officials and staffed by secular teachers," a group of intellectuals continuing the spirit of the Collèges de Coqueret and de Presles, and a dialectical and open-ended method of teaching explain the survival of dissident ideas into the early 17th century (and the emergence of the "honnête homme"). Reviewer questions the attachment of municipal oligarchies to progressive education and asserts that the culture of counter-reformation and absolutist French, Descartes notwithstanding, assured that the needed destruction of the authority of Aristotle could not be a French achievement. Interesting section on Père Garasse.

INGELHART, LOUIS EDWARD, comp. Press and Speech Freedoms in the World, from Antiquity Until 1998: A Chronology. Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1998.

Review: L. Kincaid in Choice 36.6 (1999), 1046: "I. presents, in chronological order, viewpoints and actions of groups and individuals who have supported or opposed freedom of speech and the press.... [C]hapters 1, 3 7, and 10 cover [nations other than England], excluding the US.... Events deemed significant generally are described in a brief sentence or two, without context or explanation of their importance, often leaving obscure their relationship to the topic."

J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM. Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: European Sculpture. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999.

Review: J. A. Day in Choice 36.11/12 (1999), 1935: One of a series of 7 volumes. "Begun in 1984, the Getty's European sculpture collection centers on postclassical work and is especially strong in mannerist and early Baroque bronzes. The collection is represented by 47 sculptures ranging in date from the 1470s to 1911.... 87 high quality, full-color plates. Each sculpture is treated lovingly in a brief but engaging catalog entry written by Peter Fusco, the founding curator of this collection."

JARRIGE, A.-S. Review of an exhibition entitled "Touches d'exotisme, XIVe à XXe siècles" at the Musée de la Mode, January 1999. Le Point 1374 (1999), 93:

Traces Asian and other influences on the Western wardrobe.

JARRIGE, A.-S. Review of an exhibition entitled "Saint-Cyr, Maison Royale" at the Grande Ecurie du Roi, Versailles, spring 1999. Le Point 1387 (1999), 145.

Exhibition retraces history of Saint-Cyr, including accounting books, documents autographed by Louis XIV, hymnals, notebooks, engravings, apothecary instruments, and personal souvenirs. "Un remarquable travail d'érudition."

JARRIGE, A.-S. Review of an exhibition entitled "D'un siècle à l'autre: Théâtre du Châtelet" at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Le Point 1388 (1999), 141:

Includes material on Châtelet as a royal prison in the 17th century.

JONES, CAROLINE A. and PETER GALISON with AMY SLATON. Picturing Science, Producing Art. London: Routledge, 1998.

Review: D. Topper in Choice 36.4 (1998), 677: "Many of the authors of these 19 essays are well known in their respective fields.... Nevertheless, the goal of bridging the gap between art and science is seldom reached, since most essays remain fixed in either the art or science mode, with at most a nod to the other. Thus, Svetlana Alpers's study of the artist's studio in the 17th century makes some suggestive comments on the scientist's laboratory as an analog, but the essay is mostly about the studio. In the essays that do manage to bridge the gap, the connection is often made through scientific illustration. A fascinating example is David Freedberg's study of the iconography of the bee in 17th-century Rome."

KLAIRMONT-LINGO, ALISON. "The Fate of Popular Terms for Female Anatomy in the Age of Print." FHS 22 (1999), 335–49.

Explores the history of popular terms for female anatomy in Early-Modern France and the controversy ignited by the publication in 1578 of Laurent Joubert's Erreurs populaires au fait de la medecine et regime de santé. The author indicates that "a close analysis of the terms suggests that they reflect the mentality which shaped the day-to-day realities of women's lives and women's own experience of their bodies."

KURITA, HIDENORI. "A visual source for Poussin's 'Sts Peter and John healing the lame man.'" Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), 747–8.

A discussion of several possible visual sources for the Poussin canvas, including Philips Galle's engraving of 1558, "Sts Peter and John healing the lame man."

LACHIEZE-REY, MARC et JEAN-PIERRE LUMINET. Figures du ciel. Paris: Seuil/Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1998.

Review: G. Lascault in QL 751 (1998), 14: Livre-catalogue publié en parallèle à l'exposition "Figures du Ciel" à la BNF, site François-Mitterrand. "Manuscrits, estampes, imprimés; clichés astronomiques récents; 'visualisations' de diverses structures cosmiques...; schémas et diagrammes sont donnés à voir. La maquette originale du livre comporte des dépliants et des pages 'asymétriques' qui permettent les confrontations des textes et des images. Par exemple, certains schéma sont étonnants. Dans un cahier d'observations (1595) Tycho Barhé observe une éclipse totale du soleil. Pour Descartes (1644), au centre, le système solaire est dominé par le Soleil, entouré d'un tourbillon.... Le Théâtre des comètes (1665) veut présenter les trajectoires des comètes depuis le Déluge jusqu'à l'année 1665.... Des textes intéressants sont cités," y compris les Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes.

LANGDON. HELEN. Caravaggio: A Life. London/New York: Chatto and Windus/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.

Review: Alan Jenkins in TLS 5010 (9 Apr. 1999), 14–15: Praise for evocation of particular genius and straightforward but multi-layered art historical and religious contexts of its production. Discussions of particular pictures are "sober and highly informed" but tend to underplay their homoeroticism, its sources, and discussion of it.

LAVEISSIERE, SYLVAIN. Pierre-Paul Prud'hom. NewYork/Paris: Metropolitain Museum of Art/Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998.

Review: F. A. Trapp in Choice 36.3 (1998), 510: "Richly illustrated and meticulously documented, its 15 chapters present the artist's career from its origins in the latter years of the Ancien Régime, through the tides of political and artistic fortune that ensued until his death early in the Restoration era. They treat the whole of his production, which centered on the allegorical and portrait subjects that primarily attracted him. His many illustrations and decorative ensembles are presented in that context, and his superlative skills as a draftman are duly emphasized.... This update of the record justly challenges a long and underserved neglect of a major individualist...."

LE SIEGE DE MONS PAR LOUIS XIV EN 1691. ACTES DU COLLOQUE DU 16 MARS 1991 SUR LE TRICENTENAIRE DU SIEGE DE MONS PAR LOUIS XIV (15 MARS–6 AVRIL 1691). Mons: Annales du Cercle Archéologique de Mons, 1992.

Review: B. Demoulin in RBPH 76.2 (1998), 613–14: " . . . ces actes du colloque consacré au siège de Mons, fort bien édités, seront utiles aux spécialistes des relations internationales, de l'histoire militaire, cartographique ou culturelle au siècle de Louis XIV."

LEHAN, RICHARD. The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Review: S. M. Nuernberg in Choice 36.2 (1998), 309: "L. ... sees the city as an evolving construct in Western literature, philosophy, urban history, and modernist art.... The author divides the volume into five parts: 'Reading the City/Reading the Text,' 'Enlightenment Legacy,' 'Modernism/Urbanism,' 'American RePresentations, and 'After The Waste Land.' She also includes ten illustrations, an epilogue, an extensive bibliography, and an author/subject/title index."

LEPROUX, GUY-MICHEL. "La corporation des peintres et des sculpteurs à Paris dans les premières années du XVIIe siècle." DSS 201 (1998), 649–668.

Author looks at the longstanding conflicts and rivalries between painters and sculptors, members of the same guild until the creation of the Académie.

LESNIK-OBERSTEIN, KARIN, ed. Children in Culture: Approaches to Childhood. New York: Macmillan, UK/St. Martin's, 1998.

Review: R. B. Stewart Jr. in Choice 36.6 (1999), 1047: "Psychologists, developmentalists, historians, anthropologists, and literary critics combine their experise to explore how and why different ideas about children have arisen throughout ... history...." Particularly interesting for its interdisciplinary slant.

LESTRINGANT, FRANK, éd. La France-Amérique (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles). Actes du XXXVe Colloque international d'études humanistes. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: W. Monter in BHR 61.1 (1999), 296–98: "This miscellany of papers, originally constituting a French celebration of the Columbus quincentenary, now appears in print six years after the original event." While praising a number of the thirty scholarly contributions to the volume, the reviewer challenges "the glaring omission, the large hole near the center of the subject being evaluated after many centuries." M. finds that "As a phrase in France, 'la France-Amérique' evokes a post-1830 enterprise in direct colonization of Africa. To someone in North America, where a sizeable share of Francophones are of African descent, it has an entirely different meaning, the Caribbean face of the failed French colonial enterprise across the Atlantic. And without confronting the issue of French colonial slaveholding in the West Indies, colloquies such as this also testify to a loss of French memory and of French conscience."

LOOME, ALBERT J. "The Destruction of Rubens's 'Crucifixion' in the Queen's Chapel, Somerset House." Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), 680–2.

The account of the destruction of Queen Henrietta- Maria's chapel at Somerset House, when puritan radicals in the House of Commons sought laws to abolish "diabolical religious paintings of Christ or the Virgin Mary." Loome successfully traced the fate of this painting thanks to the discovery of a "Relation" written by the friars of the Queen's chapel, first published in Jean Mauzaize's 3-volume history of the Capucins in 17th century France.

LOUGEE-CHAPPELL, CAROLYN. "'The Pains I took to Save My/His Family': Escape Accounts by a Huguenot Mother and Daughter after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes." FHS 22 (1999), 1–64.

A comparison of the escape accounts of two members of the Huguenot family Robillard de Champagné, mother and daughter. This article offers insights into what emigration meant to families and how women experienced expatriation or exile, as well as an investigation of the process through which memoirs are written and how historians can read them to best advantage.

LUGLI, ADALGISA. Naturalia et mirabilia. Les Cabinets de curiosités en Europe. Trad.M.-L. Lentengre. Paris: Adam Biro, 1998.

Review: J. Lacoste in QL 751 (1998), 16: Ce livre "fait revivre avec intelligence une période importante, et pourtant négligée, de l'histoire de l'art et de la science, les 'cabinets de curiosités' des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Cette étude ... est ... une réflexion d'ordre esthétique, riche d'illustrations étranges, sur le phénomène à bien des égards énigmatiques, de la collection.... Elle nous ramène à l'aurore de l'institution problématique du musée dont elle entreprend de faire rien moins que l'archéologie en dressant le portrait du collectionneur en artiste."

LYNN, JOHN A. Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610–1715. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Review: Joseph L. Allaire in FR 72 (1999), 963–64: The first truly comprehensive study of the armies of Louis XIII and XIV. Transformations, composition, weapon technologies and tactics (especially the shift from siege warfare and construction of forts) are presented clearly. A useful reference tool for literary studies.

See French 17 (1998).

MARLEY, DAVID F. Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1998.

Review: D. Auchter in Choice 36.6 (1999), 1045–1046: "Marley's comprehensive chronicle of 500 years of military conflict provides greater detail about wars fought on American continents than do standard military reference books."

MASSIP, CATHERINE. "L'édition musicale en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: un témoin illusoire du goût?" RFHL 100–101 (1998), 269–282.

"Miroir fidèle ou déformant, l'édition musicale est pourtant un remarquable témoin révélateur de l'évolution des formes et de la pratique musicale. . . . [I]l est temps de s'interroger sur les perspectives nouvelles que les publications de répertoires de sources réalisées depuis cinquante ans ont pu apporter."

MECHOULAN, ERIC, DANIEL VAILLANCOURT et MARIE-FRANCE WAGNER. "L'entrée dans Toulouse ou la ville théâtralisée." DSS 201 (1998), 613–637.

Studies the royal entry as theatrical performance in which the urban space is transformed "pour et par la cérémonie" into a spectacle of the monarch.

MELTZER, SARA and KATHRYN NORBERG, eds. From the Royal to the Republican Body. Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Review: n.a. in VQR 75.1 (1999), 8: Book discusses "...the politics of the body. This well-researched and well-written collection of essays is ... a welcome addition to this already substantial literature. In a chronologically ordered series of studies, major scholars from a number of different disciplines make a convincing case for the centrality of bodily practices, as well as metaphors, in the transition from royal absolutism to republicanism in France. One of the real strengths of this collection is its attention to the relatively neglected question of the role of dance in 17th- and 18th-century political culture (essays by Mark Franko, Susan Leign, and Susan McClary), as well as to such obvious corporeal topics as sexuality, punishment, medicine, and clothing. The essays are also consistently attentive to issues of gender and race. All in all, this volume persuades the reader of the importance of the body to the study of political culture."

Review: J. Black in JES 28 (1998), 414–415: "This exciting account of cultural identities and politics begins with a bold statement of the centrality of the subject: 'Few states were as body centered as seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. The rhetoric, rites, and rhythm of political life derived from bodies. Political discourse abounded in body metaphors.' Debate about these and other bodies provides an interesting way to explore beliefs and tensions in ancien régime France and to understand rising problems with the image of the Bourbon monarchy. The essays are methodologically acute and provoke much thought. At times the fascination with image is pushed too far, but the collection provides an insightful exploration of the culture of the period. Jeffrey Merrik indicates how the image of the royal body could be employed to criticize the monarchy—a theme of many of the essays; Abby Zanger considers images of Louis XIV at the close of the Mazarin period, explaining why there was a need to stress his potency; Mark Franko has a rather humourless discussion of Louis XIV's cross-dressing roles, with opaque passages ... Susan McClary considers the very different agendas of French and German composers of dance pieces, with a focus on the body. Joseph Roach discusses the Code Noir and links this to control over black bodies. Thomas Kaiser looks at criticism of Louis XV.... A stimulating collection."

MILLER, PAVIA. Transformations of Patriarchy in the West, 1500–1800. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Review: S. Bailey in Choice 36.10 (1999), 1859: "In this major contribution to European social history M. has succeeded in doing to history what Richard Wagner did to music—weaving together powerful motifs with dramatic results. She traces such major themes as the rise of fraternalism, the emergence of bureaucracy, the growth of capitalism, and the evolution of modern schooling. All can be said to have triumphed at the cost of patriarchal domination. What shifts have taken place in the West in the mechanisms of social control? She finds that external coercion has given way to internal restraint, and that what appears to be a regimentation is triumph of gyroscopic engineering. This is a fascinating and impressive argument, one that owes much to historical materialism but goes beyond it. Impressive, too, is the way that M. shows that domination, while becoming internalized, remains strongly gendered."

MINOIS, GEORGE. History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999.

Review: n.a. in VQR 75.3 (1999), 82: "This global study traces the ethical, political, literary, and judicial controversies surrounding the problem of suicide from antiquity to the end of the Enlightenment. M. tells a story of Western culture's complex and discontinuous attitudes toward self-murder. One continuity, however, ... is the inverse relationship between state power and the political opposition to suicide."

Review: J. A. Kegley in Choice 36.11/12 (1999), 2022: "Based on a variety of sources from religious and philosophical texts to judicial proceedings and personal journals, M.'s illumnating study shows that Western culture's attitude toward voluntary death has been contradictory and highly ambivalent.... M. discusses how the debate on suicide began with Shakespeare's Hamlet, in a time of doubt and conflicting values. It continued until the 19th century.... M. describes suicide historically as a class phenomenon: suicides among the elite were fewer in number but tolerated by society, which saw them as done for nobler reasons...; among the common people suicide resulted from excessive physical, moral, and emotional suffering and remained stable but subject to 'judicial savagery'."

MOINET, ERIC, JEAN-PIERRE CUZIN, ELISABETH MARTIN and CLAIRE BARRY. Le Saint Sébastien soigné par Irène de Georges de La Tour. Orléans: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1998.

Review: P. Conisbee in Burlington Magazine 141 (1999), 291–2: Essays concerning 'St. Sebastian tended by Irene', of which there are ten known copies. The review deals mainly with a dossier-exhibit mounted by E. Moinet around the Orléans copy of the painting.

MONOD, PAUL KLEBER. The Power of Kings. Monarchs and Religion in Europe, 1589–1715. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

MUCHEMBLED, ROBERT. La société policée. Politique et politesse en France du XVIe au XXe siècles. Paris: Seuil, 1999.

Review: A.-G. Slama in Le Point 1385 (1999), 100–102: Selon R.M., "la cause du déclin actuel de la civilité serait à imputer à la décomposition de la nation, à l'affaiblissement de l'Etat et de la loi.... A lire M., il semble que ce soit d'abord la noblesse de robe et la bourgeoisie cultivée des villes, et non la cour, qui, de François Ier à Louis XIII, aient donné le ton. Les lecteurs français du Courtisan de Baldassare Castiglione, publié à Venise en 1528, étaient des citadins irrités par les mœurs brutales des nobles guerriers. Ce modèle a été diffusé par les académies, les gazettes et les salons. Il a façonné la figure typiquement française de 'l'honnête homme.' Le génie de Louis XIV est d'en avoir fait un instrument de pouvoir politique, en le fixant dans l'étiquette de la cour. En 1664, sous la plume de Nicolas Faret, la culture de l'honnête homme, faite de maîtrise de l'agressivité et de féminisation des valeurs masculines, est devenue un 'art de plaire à la cour.' Arbitre de bon ton, le Roi-Soleil règle les conduites et les modes de consommation."

MUNSTERBERG, HUGO and MARJORIE. World Ceramics: From Prehistoric to Modern Times. New York: Penguin Studio, 1998.

Review: A. C. Garzio in Choice 36.10 (1999), 1774: "This abbreviated pictorial history of ceramics, from 6,000 BCE to the present day, at first glance might seem too compressed, encompassed in 11 very brief chapters, including a foreward, preface, and short bibliography. On the other hand, the curtailed narration of various periods that have enriched this field of human endeavor might well be the answer for the novice student in ceramics, a general art buff, or a beginning collector. Almost 200 outstanding color photographs should encourage further exploration in this important art field."

NACHISON, BETH. "Absentee Government and Provincial Governors in Early Modern France: The Princes of Condé and Burgundy, 1660–1720." FHS 21 (1998), 265–97.

An examination of the absentee government of the princes of Condé in Burgundy illustrates the means by which the governors maintained effective power from a distance: an active network of provincial clients who made regular trips back and forth to the court in order to keep the princes in daily contact with provincial affairs. Nachison notes that "provincial governors under Louis XIV continued to occupy a critical space between the royal court and the local elites regardless of where they resided."

NATIVEL, COLETTE, éd. Centuriae latinae. Cent une figures humanistes de la Renaissance aux Lumières offertes à Jacques Chomarat. Genève: Droz, 1997.

Review: Y. Bellenger in BHR 60.3 (1998), 832–35: " . . . la promenade humaniste [philologues, philosophes, médecins, juristes, théologiens] qui nous est offerte couvre effectivement trois siècles, dans la mesure où elle part du XIVe siècle. Inaugurée par l''incursion médiévale' de Lulle, parfaitement justifiée en effet, elle va de Pétrarque à la fin du XVIIe siècle." Notices classées par ordre alphabétique; aucun tableau chronologique.

NORA, PIERRE, ed. Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past. English language edition edited byLawrence D. Kritzman;trans.Arthur Goldhammer. Vol. III: Symbols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Review: C. Todd in JES 28 (1998), 414–415: Study of symbols of identity which still inform French perception of the past today. "Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Pierre Babelon and Edouard Pommier present three places originally linked to the monarchy: Rheims, the Louvre, and Versailles..., Michel Winock and François Azouvi show the disputed memories of Jeanne d'Arc and Descartes..., Marc Fumaroli presents the universality of the French language before being deprived of its royal roots. The English-language version is again well-produced, with an elegant well-written translation. Again, there are comments to elucidate terms not immediately comprehensible to an English-speaking audience."

PASQUIER, ETIENNE. Les Recherches de la France, édition critique établie sous la direction de Marie-Madeleine Fragonard et François Roudaut. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1996.

Review: Christian Jouhaud in DSS 202 (1999), 203–204: The first modern edition of Pasquier's work, this book reproduces the 1665 edition and includes an introduction, glossary, index and bibliography. The annotation is relevant "sans jamais glisser vers le commentaire bavard." Reviewer emphasizes "l'importance et la superbe qualité de cette édition qui permet enfin de lire et de comprendre Pasquier."

PEI, IEOH MING. "Les métamorphoses du Louvre." RDM (septembre 1999), 90–92.

"Ce texte est extrait d'une conférence prononcée le 10 avril 1999, à l'auditorium du Louvre, dans la série 'Musée-musées'."

PEKACZ, JOLANTA T. "The Salonnières and the Philosophes in Old Regime France. The Authority of Aesthetic Judgement." JHI 60.2 (1999), 277–297.

By examining two operatic quarrels of the 18th-c., the author demonstrates how women came to be excluded from aesthetic arbitration and did not maintain "their roles as guardians of propriety and good manners for the philosophes."

PELLEGRINI, ROSA GALLI. "Turcs et turquesques nell'Ibrahim di Georges de Scudéry." Lo Straniero. Mario Domenichelli and Pino Fasano, eds. 2 vols. Rome: Bulzoni, 1997. 2: 555–67.

Review: C. Bernazzoli in SFr 42 (1998), 566–7: After emphasizing the literary value and the typically baroque thematics of Ibrahim, Pellegrini spends some time describing the political project which contributed to the genesis of Scudéry's first novel: due to the official participation of France in the Thirty Years' War, in the context of which good relations with the Ottoman Empire were indispensable, Richelieu put some effort into reestablishing ties with the oriental world during the first decades of the 17th century. Scudéry took it upon himself to stimulate the interest of his readers towards the east by conveying a positive image of the Turk, and of Suleiman II as the ideal monarch. P. then examines the narrative devices used by Scudéry to carry out his plan.

PELLETIER, MONIQUE, et al. Couleurs de la Terre. Paris: Seuil/Bibliothèque de France, 1998.

Review: G. Lascault in QL 751 (1998), 14: Livre-catalogue publié en parallèle à l'exposition "Couleurs de la Terre" à la BN, site Richelieu. "A la fin du XVIe et au XVIIe siècle, les cartes géographiques japonaises donnent à voir des montagnes arrondies, des sites ennuagés et étincelants de poudre d'or, des vagues stylisés. En France, sous Louis XIV, apparaissent les premiers plans en relief, outils pédagogiques et stratégiques des paysages en réduction. Pour limiter le nombre de forteresses, Vauban, en 1670, suggère au roi de 'faire son pré carré'...."

PERELLA, LISA. "French Song in the 1660s." SCFS 20 (1998), 83–94.

Valuable discussion of the growth, development, and social place of songs over the decade with special attention to the formative influences of the composition and especially the method of Bacilly.

PERROT, MICHELLE. Les femmes ou les silences de l'Histoire. Paris: Flammarion, 1998.

Review: C. Dauphin in QL 751 (1998), 20: "Le parcours prend ici la forme d'un recueil d'articles, présenté comme autant de jalons dans un des courants les plus foissonnants de l'historiographie récente.... Les 'silences' imposés aux femmes se conjugent au propre comme au figuré, dans leur présence au monde et dans la culture écrite, dans l'opacité des traces comme dans l'opération historiographique curieusement frappée de cécité à leur égard.... La chronologie aurait pu servir de fil directeur, elle s'impose en filigrane." Ce livre "offre une autre lecture de l'histoire des femmes. L'agencement de ces éclats de recherche, dans une perspective nouvelle, thématique et chronologique, montre que le théâtre des 'ombres silencieuses' reste le lieu bouillonnant de rêves et d'espoirs, l'amorce d'une appropriation de la mémoire.... [L]'histoire des femmes ainsi restituée sert de fil d'Ariane pour revisiter les problèmes posés en tout temps: travail, pouvoir, souffrance, violence, séduction."

PIERRARD, JEAN. "La peinture des bords de l'eau." Review of an exhibition entitled "La marine à voile de 1650 à 1890" at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen. Summer 1999. Le Point 1401 (1999), 76.

PIERRARD, JEAN. Review of "Miroirs du Grand Siècle. Exposition à la Fondation Mona-Bismark," July 1999. Le Point 1395 (1000), 129.

Gravures du Grand Siècle, venues de Boston, y compris: Callot, Brébiette, Daret, Tortebat, Bellange, Le Lorrain, La Hyre, Mellan, Huret, Nanteuil, Samuel Bernard.

PIERRARD, JEAN. Review of the "Exposition de Desportes" at the Marly, July 1999. Le Point 1395 (1999), 139.

Positive review overall.

PIERRARD, JEAN. Review of an exhibition celebrating the 17th-c. architect François Mansart, Archives nationales, fall-winter 1998–1999. Le Point 1362 (1998), 125.

"Une exposition qui retrace les grandes étapes de sa carrière.... Indispensable pour comprendre ce qui, pendant deux siècles et demi au moins, va constituer l'axe direct de l'architecture française."

PIERRARD, JEAN. "La sublime fabrique du Bernin." Review of an exhibition of the works of Bernini in Italy, fall 99. Le Point 1407 (1999), 86–88.

Includes discussion of "la maquette intacte de la statue du Roi-Soleil."

PILLORGET, RENE et SUZANNE. "Un présent posthume du Cardinal Mazarin au duc Auguste de Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1661)." RFHL 100–101 (1998), 243–268.

L'article examine le Catalogue des livres de l'Imprimerie royale que Mazarin avait destiné pour le duc de Brunswick. "[L]a composition de cet envoi de livres correspondait à la volonté de servir le prestige français."

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "Relations de missions et intertextualité: les voies de Paul Lejeune et de Christian Leclercq." PFSCL 25 (1998), 497–509.

Pioffet shows how the two Jesuits' "relations de missions" from New France manage, beyond their diverging viewpoints, to establish a "répertoire axiologique, en vertu duquel les protagonistes du récit sont appréhendés et rapatriés dans la sphère des valeurs européennes."

POMMIER, EDOUARD. Théories du portrait. De la Renaissance aux Lumières. Paris: Gallimard, 1998.

Review: Karl Cogard in DSS 203 (1999), 406–408: The first part of this book studies Italian theories of the portrait; the second focuses on the paradoxical status of the portrait during le grand siècle. Considered a genre mineur under Louis XIV, the portrait was nonetheless a propaganda tool and very much in vogue as a literary and plastic art form. Reviewer writes "[L]oin de n'être qu'un chapitre de l'histoire de l'art, l'auteur montre l'importance du portrait, que n'ont d'ailleurs jamais démentie les plus grands peintres, en le plaçant dans un cadre philosophique, socio-historique et anthropologique."

POWELL, KIRSTEN H. Fables in Frames: La Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Review: Terence Allott in FS 53.1 (1999), 73–74: The nineteenth century witnessed an upsurge of interest in La Fontaine. "Powell tackles the issues of why and how fables appeared in art during that period. She concentrates particularly on illustrators and caricaturists who transformed the material inherited from La Fontaine into commentaries, usually subversive and sceptical, upon contemporary social and political questions. . . . The strength of Powell's book lies in that minute attention to graphic detail which characterizes the art historian."

PRAKASH, OM. European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Review: D. L. White in Choice 36.6 (1999), 1113: "P. examines the trading operations of the European East India Companies and private European traders in Asia between 1500 and 1800.... The book concentrates on the Portuguese, Dutch, and British, but it also includes material on the lesser French, Danish, and Ostend companies while considering Asia-Europe and inter-Asian trade, both official and private.... [T]his work must be the starting point for anyone investigating the nature of premodern, European relations with the subcontinent."

RADICE, MARK A, ed. Opera in Context: Essays on Historical Staging from the Late Renaissance to the Time of Puccini. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus, 1998.

Review: J. Girdham in Choice 36.2 (1998), 328: Includes contributions on 17th-century theaters in Paris. "The essayists discuss how physical attributes of the various theaters, from the buildings themselves to specific stage sets and machinery, influenced productions." Thorough bibliography.

RANUM, PATRICIA, OREST RANUM, et ROBERT DESCIMON, eds. Jean le Boindre, Débats du parlement de Paris pendant la minorité de Louis XIV. Paris: Champion, 1997.

Review: Pierre Ronzeaud in PFSCL 26 (1999), 231–32: This publication is according to the reviewer "une fort utile opportunité de contextualisation de la parole littéraire politique (dès pamphlets aux Mémoires en passant par le théâtre de Corneille ou même les "Triolets" de Saint-Amant)...".

RAPLEY, ROBERT. A Case of Witchcraft: The Trial of Urbain Grandier. Montreal/Buffalo: McGill/Queen's, 1998.

Review: R. B. Barnes in Choice 36.8 (1999), 1525: "The sensational story of Urbain Grandier (d.1634), priest of Loudun in western France, and his trial and execution for sorcery has been told and retold many times .... R., an independent scholar, has studied virtually all the relevant sources, both primary and secondary, as well as a considerable background literature on early modern witchcraft, politics, social tensions, and gender relations.... R.'s reconstruction of the sexual, political, and legal entanglements that led to Grandier's buring at the stake is generally persuasive, if still quite speculative. He disputes some aspects of the tale as traditionally told, and offers a few genuinely original insights. Scholars of the period will find that he often oversimplifies complex background in order to tell a good story." Nonetheless, "a very good read."

RAYMOND, GINO. Historical Dictionary of France. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998.

Review: S. F. Roberts in Choice 36.10 (1999), 1766: "R.'s dictionary seeks to illuminate France's rise, decline, and important role in world affairs and culture.... The contemporary emphasis is the dictionary's greatest strength.... Useful features include a map of regions, a list of monarchs and presidents...."

ROBERTS, HELENE E., ed. Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.

Review: M. Nilsen in Choice 36.3 (1998), 492: "R.'s encyclopedia provides a key to original narratives from myth, religion, and literature that have been used in art, but unlike most sources, it focuses on actions and concepts rather than characters.... How actions, situations, and concepts have been treated through history and in different cultures constitutes the core of 120 alphabetical entires by 42 contributing scholars. Related topics, selected works of art, and a compact bibliography conclude each section.... This monumental source reflects the shift from art history focused on connoisseurship to a current concern for the context of a work of art and the insight it provides into the history, economy, politics, and culture of the time and place in which it originated.... [T]he scholar's companion in the study of iconography."

ROSENBERG, PIERRE. "Poussin's Roman Beginnings." Burlington Magazine 141 (1999), 191–3.

Review of the exhibition "Nicolas Poussin: I primi anni romani" at the Palazzo degli Esposizioni in Rome, a "daring and stimulating" exhibition based around the rediscovery of the long lost "Destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem" in 1995.

SALVATORE, PHILIPPE. La chasse sous l'Ancien Régime. Paris: Fayard, 1996.

Review: Christian Desplat in RHMC 46 (1998), 373–75: On a subject that would seem already exhaustively treated, a brilliant rereading of historical sources resulting in an especially solid depiction of hunting's relation to society. Traces the chaotic detail of legal regulation, rules and conventions, the collaboration of booksellers-printers in Part I; Part II, "d'une remarquable nouveauté" examines the table of "bons et mauvais gibiers," the humanization of nature, and the status of animals.

SMITH, BONNIE. The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Review: S. S. Arpad in Choice 36.7 (1999), 1317: "S. begins by challenging historians' claims that the modern, scientific, professional methods of history allow them to practice a 'value-free' science. In a series of eight essays, she demonstrates the ways in which history is gendered, arguing tht 'the coupling of science and politics is the quintessential installation of sexual difference at the core of professional history'." Ranges across many Western countries.

SMITH, PAMELA. "Science and Taste: Painting, Passions, and the New Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Leiden." Isis 90 (1999), 421–61.

Remarkable essay paralleling the practice of the new science by Sylvius, professor of practical medicine (16581672) and pioneer in its institutionalization with his taste in art collecting and the display of it in his Leiden residence. Explores the subject of medical quackery in Brouwer, the personification of the senses in Jan Molenaer's series, the illusionism of Dou. Memorable collection of 16 illustrations from the 140 or so paintings owned. This methodologically rich study deserves to stand in the company of Panofsky's of Galileo.

SOLE, JACQUES. Les origines intellectuelles de la Révocation de l'édit de Nantes. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 1997.

Review: L Bergon in BHR 61.1 (1999), 322–23: "Il faut saluer la volonté de Jacques Solé de mettre à la disposition d'un plus large public, et sous une forme allégée, le résultat de ses travaux dans ce domaine. On peut regretter toutefois l'absence totale de notes, ou plutôt l'obligation de se reporter à sa thèse pour obetnir des éclaircissements ou des renseignements." Bibliographie "pas remise à jour."

See French 17 (1998).

SOMVILLE, PIERRE. "Le poison de Britannicus." ECL 67 (1999), 255–8.

Somville attempts to show "la vérité esthétique" of the account given in Tacitus of the death of Britannicus, comparing the known effects and problems of poisoning by white arsenic ("anhydride arsénieux") with the textual evidence presented by Tacitus.

SOURCES ET FONTAINES DU MOYEN AGE A L'AGE BAROQUE. ACTES DU COLLOQUE TENU A L'UNIVERSITE PAUL VALERY DE MONTPELLIER (MONTPELLIER III) LES 28, 29 ET 30 NOVEMBRE 1996. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: D. Duport in BHR 61.2 (1999), 614–15: "Pour l'âge baroque: à Versailles, on ne célèbre plus l'artifice qui imite la nature, mais la machine qui contrôle tous les flux (C. Fricheau); Larmes et lavement de pieds ou les effets de la Grâce dans les 'Elévations sur Marie-Madeleine' de Bérulle (Ch. Belin); douze sonnets de Georges de Scudéry sur la Fontaine-de-Vaucluse mèlent pétrarquisme, baroque et rêverie mélancolique (E. Duperray); dans 'Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon' de La Fontaine, l'eau organise une réflexion sur le langage et le désir de voir (M. Baschera); qu'en est-il de l'eau dans le roman de 1660 à 1680? (I. Trivisani-Moreau); eaux purifiantes et eaux d'illusion dans tous les spectacles musicaux aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (A. Fiaschi); sur la représentation contemporaine des fontaines dans l'opéra baroque (Ch. Deshoulières)."

SOUTHALL, AIDAN. The City in Time and Space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Review: P. O. Muller in Choice 36.11/12 (1999), 1994: "Ambitious in its broad sweep and written both elegantly and insightfully, this book aims to trace the long and complex thread of urbanism over the past eight millennia.... The 'time' element is given major priority, but the literature treating 'space' has not been adequately engaged.... Following a pair of introductory chapters, the heart of the book treats Greece and Rome; Europe's feudal cities; ... and the transformation of the Western city from feudalism to capitalism and 'on to the apocalypse'." Only 11 illustrations.

STERLING, CHARLES, et al. The Robert Lehman Collection: V. 2: Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century European Paintings: France, Central Europe, the Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain. Princeton, NJ: Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Princeton University Press, 1998.

Review: J. I. Miller in Choice 36.10 (1998), 1773: "There are some significant works among the collection's 42 non-Italian paintings within the given time span... [S]tudents and scholars will appreciate the extended discussions summarizing the recent scholarship."

SUMMERFIELD, CAROL and MARY ELIZABETH DEVINE, eds. International Dictionary of University Histories. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.

Review: M. Lorenzen in Choice 36.2 (1998), 298: "Treating the history of more than 200 institutions of higher education throughout the world, this book's entries give capsule descriptions of the schools, photographs of some part of the campus, four- to five-page histories, and bibliographies for further reading.... The institutions were selected both for their historical significance and because they represent different political, religious, ideological, or communal goals."

TE BRAKE, WAYNE. Shaping History. Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500–1700. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Review: J. Black in JES 28 (1998), 411: "A wide-ranging and important contribution to the understanding of early modern European history. Te Brake... skillfully links social and political developments to provide an account of social politics that suggests an ongoing process of popular pressure and interaction with state formation, rather than an episodic series of uprisings, whether revolutionary or reactive.... Te Brake certainly demonstrates the value of placing accounts of developments in particular states in a wider context.... Much of the fascination of this important book rests in its ability to provoke thought."

THIROUIN, LAURENT. L'aveuglement salutaire: Le réquisitoire contre le théâtre dans la France classique. Paris: Champion, 1997.

Review: Henry Phillips in FS 53.1 (1999), 61–62: T. lacks references to commentary concerning the same aspects of the debate reproduced in his book. Reviewer has reservations about the interpretation of the question of ritual and the place of Saint Charles Borromée in the quarrel in France. Nevertheless T. demonstrates well the paradoxes of certain arguments of moralists and brings out the originality of Nicole.

TROUT, ANDREW. City on the Seine: Paris in the Time of Richelieu and Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Review: Marc Bertrand in FR 72 (1999), 586–87: More than the architectural history suggested by the title, this book works on many levels to constitute a social history of the urban space, a contestatory space of power struggle, reform, and commercial enterprise. Merits a place on the bookshelves of any lover of Paris.

See French 17 (1997).

URL: http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html. Art Images for College Teaching (AICT).

Review: R. P. Meden in Choice Supplement 36 (1999), 71: "The site is organized into five primary chronological and cultural groupings, each of which is divided into subcategories according to historical/style periods, providing a series of screens displaying thumbnail image exerpts, all with a brief caption. Clicking on any thumbnail will open a full screen of that image, along with descriptive information.... Contents of the disks, or portions thereof, may be downloaded into institutional or personal electronic image files for noncommercial purposes and may be adapted or reconfigured."

URL: http://www-lib.usc.edu/~retter/main.html. The Lesbian History Project: Links to Lesbian History.

Review: E. Broidy in Choice Supplement 36 (1999), 158: Laundry list of names; however, many important links. "An enormous undertaking. With more concentrated focus on the promotion of lesbian history and less emphasis on lists of who may or may not have been lesbian, this could become one of the more significant history-focused sites on the Web."

URL: http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/. Map History/History of Cartography: The Gateway to the Subject.

Review: C. C. Kolb in Choice Supplement 36 (1999), 158: Site devoted to the study of early maps. Includes "General Guide to various aspects of map history and Links to Relevant Web Sites. The coverage of topics relating to cartography both in the US and Europe is excellent."

URL: http://www.harbrace.com/art/gardner. Gateway to Art History.

Review: N. M. Lambert in Choice Supplement 36 (1999), 73: Sites relevant to the study of art history, "placed... in the context of the chapters from Gardner's Art Through the Ages..., hundreds of links to sites around the world."

URL: http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/mushist/. Music History 102: A Guide to Western Composers and Their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present.

Review: B. A. Thompson in Choice 36.7 (1999), 1276: Divided into 6 parts based on time period. Contains "thumbnail sketches of each era, with references to some 30 representative composers in all. Sound bites are presented on RealPlayer audio, which gives a brief exposure to specific works but lacks depth and is less than ideal in sound quality."

VAN STRIEN, KEES. Touring the Low Countries. Accounts of British Travelers, 1660–1720. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999.

Review: Alastair Hamilton in TLS 5011 (16 Apr. 1999), 40: Itineraries arranged by cities including some that became French (Dunkirk, Arras, Douai, Calais). A good introduction gives interesting information on contemporary guidebooks, travalers' financial accounts, as well as journal entries. A fine counterbalance to the savagery of contemporary official propaganda.

VAN DER CRYSSE, DIRK. Chardin le Persan. Paris: Fayard, 1998.

Review: Roger Zuber in BSHPF 145 (1999), 210–12: "Ouvrage définitif," gracefully written, based on a considerable collection of unpublished documents that allow for the first time a full reconstruction of Chardin's activities in London.

VIDAL, CLAUDINE et FREDERIC PILLEBOUE, éds. La Paix de Vervins, 1598. Société archéologique et historique de Vervins et de la Tiérache, 1998.

Review: B. Nicollier in BHR 61.1 (1999), 323–25: Volume sorti à l'occasion du quatrième centenaire du traité de Vervins: "fort utile pour étudier et enseigner l'histoire diplomatique de la fin du XVIe siècle."

WERTHEIMER, MOLLY MEIJER, ed. Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.

Review: Criticism 41.4 (1999), 151–153: W. examines "women's rhetorical history and the ways that women have affected traditional rhetorical theory from their positions of marginality." 18 essays; 5 sections. First "focuses on the patriarchal conditions that historically rendered the voices of women silent." Second "is a sample of rhetorical pratices" over the centuries. Third "deals specifically with women's writing that was sanctioned by religious beliefs." Fourth "examines the strategies that women have used to appropriate intellectual and educational territories previously held exclusively by men." Fifth concentrates on 20th c.

WILKIN, REBECCA. "Les mots et les choses 'aux Hurons': L'archéologie d'une rencontre." FLS 25 (1998), 55–75.

Article deals largely with Colbert's aggressive colonization of Quebec. Includes observation that colonization marked a domain where "l'Etat se mêle de ce qui avait été le domaine exclusif de l'Eglise." Among the topics mentioned in the essay are Colbert's displeasure with the Church at how slowly Amerindian peoples assimilated French culture. Of note also is author's emphasis on language as a colonization strategy. Originally, Champlain believed that teaching French to the native populations would suffice in terms of their Europeanization. When this technique failed, the Jesuits decided to "captiver les 'coeurs&courages' amérindiens par leurs propres langues." Wilkin then discusses the various lexical, grammatical, written, and rhetorical barriers native languages presented to the French. For both Colbert and the Jesuits, this "impuissance verbale" contributed significantly to the failure of the Europeans to acculturate peoples of the New World.

WINE, HUMPHREY. "Claude Lorrain." Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), 858–9.

An exhibition review of "Claude Lorrain and the ideal Landscape" in the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo. Wine calls it an "ambitious exhibition... accompanied by a well-produced catalogue," but notes the surprising absence of any of Claude's port scenes of the late 1630's and 1640's.

WINTHROP, JOHN. The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630–1649. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Review: n.a. in VQR 73.4 (1997), 128: Includes first governor of Massachusetts' commentary on "relationships of the English colonists to their native Dutch, and French, neighbors."

WOLFE, KATHRYN WILLIS AND PHILIP J. WOLFE, eds. Humanisme et politique: lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères. Vol. II: 1646–1649. PFSCL/Biblio 17, 103 (1997).

Review: Antonella Amatuzzi in PFSCL 26 (1999), 247–248: "Une bibliographie sélective complète ce travail d'édition sérieux auquel il faut rendre hommage."

Review: Mark Bannister in FS 53.2 (1999), 203: These 84 letters provide a picture of the factors that affected French interests in Rome during the decade. "Dupuy's accounts of the reactions of the French, Spanish and ecclesiastical communities in Rome to political events elsewhere provide a valuable insight into the tensions that exercised a strong influence on policy-making in Paris. . . . [A] very useful contribution to our knowledge of the period."

Review: C. Rizza in SFr 42 (1998), 338: A collection of 84 letters sent by C. Dupuy to his brothers from Rome in 1647–49. R. indicates the letters deal mostly with relations between France and Rome: the contrast between the policies and practices of Innocent X and Mazarin, and the decline of the Barbarini family after the death of Urban VIII. Praiseworthy for the numerous and precise notes accompanying each letter.

YARROW, PHILIP. "Henriette d'Angleterre." SCFS 20 (1998), 95–107.

Thoroughly documented and pleasantly written portrait of the personal charms of the princess and the mind that was receptive to and influential on the writers of her time. Valuable judgments on the "speculative" nature of some traditional anecdotes.

ZANGER, ABBY. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

Review: E. Goldsmith in SubStance 28.1 (1999), 133–135: Z. argues that Louis XIV's marraige "set in motion the process of fiction-making that was to become so crucial to the spectacle of sovereign power under the sun king." Z. studies images of kinship, what she calls a "marriage archive," including pamphlets, almanacs, news accounts, etc., and maintains that "the more ephemeral commentaires on the marriage gave voice to a public fascination with the spectacle of power in the making, providing both harmonious and competing interpretations of the event and, above all, of its significance in the life of the young king.... Z. shows how the Infanta's initiation to the French court involved a symbolic conquest and refashioning of the Spanish by the French." The last two chapters discuss Corneille's Conquête de la Toison d'or and Madeleine de Scudéry's Célinte as "literary conversations about the power of the young king at the founding moment of his reign.... Z. shows how Scudéry manages to rehabilitate and defend curiosity against a strong philosophical tradition condemning it. Thus Scudéry was already exploring the interactive nature of ceremonial display, and arguing for a view of political spectacle that takes fully into account the importance of different forms of response to it, from the authorized published interpretations to the casual conversations of salon women. Like Scudéry, Z. proposes an approach to the mythology of royal power that emphasizes the multiplicity of voices that responded to and contributed to its construction. More than this, though, her study documents and argues convincingly for an understanding of ceremonial moments that do not simply work to symbolically buttress the power of those that stage them. Such occasions have also always offered opportunities for individual onlookers to promote their own particular interests, which were not necessarily in harmony with those that the ceremonial occasion was designed to sustain."

Review: Helen L. Harrison in PFSCL 26 (1999), 244: "It is the mark of a good book to raise questions as well as answer them. Zanger has made an important contribution to seventeenth-Century studies."

ZANGER, ABBY. "Perspectives on the 1660s Monumentalities: Print Culture and the Fictions of Sovereignty in the Marriage of Louis XIV." SCFS 20 (1998), 109–23.

Exploration of the construction of the king's image in the coverage of the marriage for which an exclusive privilege was given to François Colletet and the printer J.-B. Loyson. Material is also in large part included in author's Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fiction and the Making of Absolute Power (1997).

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. Les cérémonies de la parole. L'éloquence d'apparat en France dans le dernier quart du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: B. Papàsogli in SFr 42 (1998), 571–2: P. praises this "courageous" study which is divided into three sections, each of which describes one of the principal forums of "l'éloquence d'apparat": the Academies (Parisian and provincial), the Parlements (Parisian and provincial), and the "municipality" in its more complex ramifications. "A research of extraordinary breadth... which presents classical France as a theatre in which stock roles are played with subtle variants in an unchanging comedy." P. is generally favorable to the study (she does note that the topic is perhaps a bit too broadly defined, and excludes entire sectors of "l'éloquence d'apparat", such as the "oraison funèbre"), and commends Zoberman for maintaining a "firm grip on the sprawling material."