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ADAMS, ALISON. "Georgette de Montenay and the Device of the Dordrecht Printer, François Bosselaer." BHR 63.1 (2001), 63–71.

Analysis of Georgette de Montenay's emblem 8 as a source for the reformist printer Bosselaer.

ARBOUR, ROMEO. Les femmes et les métiers du livre en France, de 1600 à 1650. Chicago-Paris: Garamond Press & Didier Erudition, 1998.

Review: A. Berstein in DSS 209 (2000), 721: Divided into two parts, this book presents in narrative and statistical form a portrait of 208 women involved in the book trade as editors, publishers, and booksellers. It provides detailed information about the professional activity of the women as well as biographical data. Also included is a list of publications attributable to each woman. "Un précieux instrument de travail" for cultural historians as well as historians of the book, notes the reviewer.

Review: S.C. Toczyski in CdDS 8.1, 191–93. A welcome addition to a body of work on the history of the book, specifically the unexplored role of women (mostly widows) in publishing. Author divides study into two halves, the first examining the daily activities of women in publishing and documenting their careers in the book trade, the second indexing the names and production of people figuring in the first half. A "truly impressive reference work" only marred by a presentation that makes perusal difficult, and the absence of a list of works published by women.

BENSELER, DAVID P. and MOORE, SUZANNE S. "Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States : 2000." MLJ 85, no.3 (2001), 432–50.

Lists first by discipline, then by institution, then by author. Not separated into periods.

CAYROU, GASTON. Dictionnaire du français classique. La langue au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Livre de Poche, 2000.

Review: E. Pieiller in QL 796 (du 15 au 30 novembre 2000), 26: First published in 1923, the Livre de Poche edition is a new edition of the second edition from 1924. "Cayrou recense deux mille deux cents mots, excluant ceux dont le sens n'a pas varié, et les termes trop rares. Chacun est défini par l'un des dictionnaires de la fin du XVIIe, le Richelet, le Furetière..., sans que l'auteur s'interdise pour autant rectification ou éclaircissement, si besoin est, des exemples, choisis de préférence chez les poètes, viennent embellir chaque notice, que complètent enfin parfois des explications étymologiques ou des précisions charmantes. Ce lexique est idéal pour protéger de tout contresens la lecture de Retz ou de Bossuet, mais également pour se réjouir l'esprit..."

CHAURAND, JACQUES, ed. Nouvelle histoire de la langue française. Paris: Seuil, 1999.

Review: P. Skärup in RevR 35.1 (2000), 131: J.-P. Seguin se charge du 17e–18e siècles pour ce manuel qui "peut être lu aussi bien par le grand public intéressé que par les étudiants de français. . ."

DESAN, PHILIPPE. "Editer et publier les Essais au XVIIe siècle." CAEIF 51 (1999), 205–223.

C. Rizza reviews Desan's contribution to this volume of ACTES in SF 130 (2000), 149 as highly appreciated for the light it sheds on author-editor-reader relations, the type of editions disseminated throughout the entire 17th c., and the taste, interests, and culture of the public.

DUBOIS, ELFRIEDA and SHORT, J.P. Years Work in Modern Language Studies, v. 60 (1998). Modern Humanities Research Association, 1999. 17th c. section, pp. 114–41.

FEREY, ERIC and FORT, SILVAIN.. Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIIe–XXe siècle). Année 2000 Paris: PUF, >2001.

17th C. section, pp. 74–124. Also issued as no. 3 of RHL (2001). 17th c. section, pp.458–508. Much expanded vol.(749 pp.), including name and title indices.

FOURNIER, NATHALIE. "Expression et place des constituants dans l'énoncé en français classique : la relation sujet-verbe et la relation verbe-objet." LF 130 (2001), 89–107.

Demonstrates that seventeenth-century, classical French is a distinct, key period in French diachronic linguistics because it solidifies the structure of the verbal phrase and excludes many "free patterns" found in old, middle French.

FOURNIER, NATHALIE. Grammaire du français classique. Paris: Belin Sup, 1998.

Review: I. Landy-Houillon in DSS 209 (2000), 743–745: More than a description of the French language from L'Astrée to Télémaque, this book constitutes "une réflexion théorique qui fît d'un recensement de faits de langue vieux de trois siècles un véritable objet scientifique actuel." Fournier's approach incorporates post-Saussurian linguistics, linking diachrony and synchrony, with the goal of tracing the evolution of the language. Abundant are the scrupulously referenced examples from literature, dictionaries, and grammar manuals of the period. "Indispensable" for students and scholars, this "panachronique" grammar "dispenserait aussi bien de tout autre manuel. . .," writes the reviewer.

FRAISSE, LUC, ed. Le manuscrit littéraire. Son statut, son histoire, du Moyen Age à nos jours. Paris: Klincksieck, 1998.

Review: N. Hepp in DSS 209 (2000), 729–731: Four articles are devoted to the 17th century: "L'Original des Pensées de Pascal avant et après Victor Cousin" (J. Mesnard); "[. . .] Le sort des correspondances de Mme Palatine" (D. Van Der Cruysse); "De la Vie du Cardinal de Rais aux Mémoires" (H. Carrier); and "Quelques manuscrits de lettres du XVIIe siècle" (R. Duchêne). Reviewer notes that all four studies identify the precarious status and frequent ill-fate of original manuscripts until a very recent epoch and comments "que nos lecteurs sachent, eux, quel plaisir ils trouveront, en même temps qu'un grand enrichessement de leurs connaissances, à découvrir une à une ces études qui, en dépit de leur convergence, sont très diverses."

GETZLER, PIERRE et JACQUES ROUBAUD. Le Sonnet en France des origines à 1630. Matériaux pour une base de données du sonnet français. Supplément à Vaganay. Paris: Inalco [Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales], 1998.

Review: A. Gendre in BHR LXIII, 2 (2001), 417–19: Supplément à l'ouvrage de Hugues Vaganay, Le Sonnet en Italie et en France au XVIe siècle, essai de bibliographie comparée (Lyon, Facultés catholiques, 1902–03; Slatkine, 1966. "Le nouvel ouvrage contient en effet tout 'Vaganay' (partie française) . . . mais il l'enrichit de manière significative. . . Quant à la partie complètement nouvelle (les trente premières années du XVIIe siècle), elle comprend 1218 entrées."

GIRAUD, YVES. "Les humeurs d'un lexicographe: P. Richelet, critique des écrivains de son temps." TL 13 (2000), 113–131.

Richelet's satirical and at times incongruous remarks are given full attention here as Giraud presents a "vue d'ensemble de l'inventaire" as well as an analysis of Richelet's intent, critical attitude and scope. Positive judgments may be found, for example, on Ablancourt (his protector), Pascal, Vaugelas and Voiture, in addition to the more often sarcastic condemnation, the Mercure galant "ne contient que des pauvretés" and its author, de Visé, "est selon M. de La Bruyère immédiatement au-dessous de rien", (121). Giraud finds the pertinence of Richelet's remarks "loin d'être toujours évidente" (130), yet judges him a "bon lexicographe et caricaturiste plaisant" (131).

GOYA, JOSÉ MANUEL LOSADA. Bibliographie critique de la littérature espagnole en France au XVIIe siècle. Présence et influence. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: S. Guellouz in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 199–201: "Tous au demeurant s'accorderont à voir dans ce qui peut être considéré comme une véritable somme l'outil le plus perfectionné qui ait jamais été donné en la matière."

GREENSPAN, EZRA and JONATHAN ROSE, eds. Book History. Vol. 2. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Review: J. Feather in LQ 71 (2001), 403–405: An annual collection of essays by North American and European scholars; the topics cover five centuries and include numerous essays on readership (readers and reading) and intellectual property rights. Particularly interesting for dix-septiémistes would be an essay by Trevor Howard-Hill which examines the circulation of plays in manuscript form in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Feather: "Greenspan and Rose are to be congratulated on an excellent and stimulating volume."

KLAPP, OTTO. Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft. Vol. 37 (1999). Ed. by Astrid Klapp-Lehrman. Frankfurt: V. Klostermann, 2000. 17th c. section, pp. 285–355.

KRAMER, MICHAEL. "Les Armes de Caïn: Une expression sous enquête diachronique." Neophil 84 (2000), 165–187.

Found in various 17th c. texts such as Cramail's Comédie des proverbes (1633), A. Oudin's Curiositez françoises, C. F. Préfontaine's L'Orphelin infortuné (1660–61) and in Furetière's Dictionnaire (1690), as well as in extrabiblical medieval traditions (some think Cain may have killed Abel with the jawbone of an ass), the phrase receives remarkable attention here. Kramer's "historique" includes French, British and Flemish translations/adaptations of the Bible, the fine arts and literary works. Detailed commentary follows tables of examples, dates and Cain's weapon/s (a veritable panoply). Lengthy bibliography.

LORIOT-RAYMER, GISELE. "Dissertations in Progress," FR 74 (2000), 426–38. 17th c. entries, pp.429–30 (progress), 435–36 (defended).

37th annual listing; accounted for in PFSCL thesis bibliography. See Part I: Roberts, W.

LOSADA GOYA, JOSE MANUEL. Bibliographie critique de la littérature espagnole en France au XVIIe siècle. Présence et influence. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: C. Rizza in SF 130 (2000), 148: Ample and generally meritorious bibliography complements those of Fuché-Delbosch and Cioranescu. Organized alphabetically by Spanish authors, the volume includes editions, translations, adaptations and quotes by French 17th c. authors. Bibliography, index of authors and works.

MARTIN, HENRI-JEAN et collab. Mise en page et mise en texte du livre français. La naissance du livre moderne (XIV–XVIIe siècles). Paris: Ed. du Cercle de la Librairie, 2000.

Review: J.-F. Gilmont in BHR 63.1 (2001), 134–136: Excellent travail de synthèse sur l'histoire du livre français et de la lecture.

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE, ed. Les enfants de la Truche. La vie et le langage des argotiers. Quatre textes argotiques (1596–1630). Toulouse: Société de littératures classiques, 1998.

Review: P. Debailly in DSS 210 (2001), 168: The four texts are La Vie généreuse des Mercelots, Gueuz et Boesmiens (1596), la Quinziesme des Serées by Guillaume Bouchet (1597 edition), le Jargon ou langage de l'argot reformé (1632), and Responce et complaincte au Grand Coesre sur le Jargon de l'argot reformé (1630). Glossaries are provided as well as the historical, sociological, and literary context of these works. "Mais l'intérêt majeur de ce corpus reste l'argot lui-même, langue technique, transgressive et secrète, 'à la fois instrument de dissimulation et signe de reconnaissance.'" The reviewer writes that Nédélec "nous procure aussi des instruments pour mieux appréhender le courant comique et 'satirique' des premières décennies du XVIIe siècle. . .."

PLAZENET, LAURENCE. L'Ebahissement et la délectation. Réception comparée et poétiques du roman grec en France et en Angleterre aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, n.d.

Review: S. Michon in BHR 63.1 (2001), 137–139: Ouvrage érudit et bien documenté en deux parties: "une première partie consacrée à l'étude de la réception du roman grec conduit, en second lieu, à une analyse des poétiques propres à ce genre."

QUEMADA, BERNARD et JEAN PRUVOST, eds. Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française et la lexicographie institutionnelle européenne. Actes du colloque international 17, 18 et 19 novembre 1994. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: W. Ayres-Bennett in MLR 96.11 (2001), 180–181: Colloquium of European lexicographers celebrates the tercentenary of the Academy's 1694 dictionary. Volume divided into four sections: section one treats the first edition of the dictionary, while section two treats the second through the eighth editions; section three "looks at lexicography activity in Italy, Spain, Britain, Germany, Portugal, Russia, and Catalonia, and its relationship to that of the French Academy, whilst the fourth examines current Academic and institutional projects for dictionaries."

QUENOT, YVETTE. Jean de La Ceppède. Bibliographie des Ecrivains Français, 15. Paris/Rome: Memini, 1998.

Review: C. Bernazzoli in SF 130 (2000), 151: First bibliography on this important baroque poet whose work has received increasing critical attention since the early 20th c. Sections on manuscripts, editions, translations, bibliographies, biographies, book reviews, desiderata and thematic divisions: theology / exegesis, meditation /spirituality, poetics/ rhetoric, baroque perspectives.

ABERNETHY, DAVID B. The Dynamics of Global Dominance. European Overseas Empires 1415–1980. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Review: J. Black in JES 30 (2001), 107–08: A "profoundly ahistorical work that treats the past in a very present-minded fashion." Abernethy argues that Europeans distinguished themselves by a triple assault on other societies. Targets were indigenous governance institutions, economic systems and ideas and values giving meaning to life. Black credits Abernethy with giving greater attention to religion than is usual in studies of this sort, but finds little new or well-grounded in this book.

ARDITI, JORGE. A Genealogy of Manners: Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1998.

Review: L. Seifert in CdDS 8.1, 175–177. Book traces a three-stage transformation of manners, from medieval courtoisie, reflecting Church authority, to the control of "honor" by the monarch in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to the following centuries étiquette, which "expresses the aspirations of aristocrats for autonomous identities constituted through relations within their own group." Reviewer finds the chapters dealing with seventeenth-century France alternately unoriginal (Arditi's analysis of Le Cid) and tantalizing but incomplete (the discussion of honnêteté); nevertheless, concludes that the book's sweep makes it an important contribution.

BARBICHE, BERNARD and SEGOLENE DE DAINVILLE-BARBICHE. Sully. L'homme et ses fidèles. Paris: Fayard,1997.

Review: K. Malettke in HZ 271 (2000), 473–74: Excellent and conclusive, this volume is certainly the definitive biography of Sully, written by Dainville-Barbiche,and Barbiche, the latter one of the best scholars of Renaissance and 17th C. French history and the author of the earlier 1978 Sully biography. The new biography extends Barbiche's earlier treatment whose focus had been on the years 1598–1610. Chronologically ordered chapters treat subjects as diverse and important as "Sully intime", the Sully myth, and so forth. Considerable attention to new archival research informs this remarkable volume which also includes maps, genealogical charts, a considerable account of Sully's network, bibliography and index.

BARZUN, JACQUES. From Dawn to Decadence. Five Hundred Years of Western Cultural Life: 1500 to the present. New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

Review: L. Martines in TLS 5109 (Mar 2 2001), 26–27: Past five hundred years divided into four stages, marked by four revolutions: Luther's revolt, rise of absolute monarchy, "liberal" revolutions of the Enlightenment, and social transformation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Barzun's performance has a "remarkable natural grace, as he negotiates his way in and around scientific developments, literary texts, musical forms and ideas." Also "a sinewy and limpid prose," "a keen eye for trends and historical configurations, and a delightfully ironic gloss." Discussion of French classical drama mentioned as one of many strengths of this book.

BEAUR, GERARD. Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle: inerties et changements dans les campagnes françaises entre 1715 et 1815. Paris: Sedes, 2000.

Review: BCLF 624 (2000), 2254: "Ce livre retrace dans tous ses aspects l'évolution des campagnes françaises depuis la fin du règne de Louis XIV jusqu'en 1815."

BEGUIN, KATIA. Les princes de Condé. Rebelles, courtisans et mécènes dans la France du Grande Siècle. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 1999.

Review: C. Blanquie in DSS 209 (2000), 724–725: A study of Henri II, Louis II, le Grand Condé, and Henri-Jules. First part devoted to the Fronde condéenne from 1630–1659. Second part covers the rehabilitation of Condé and "la microsociété qui bénéficie de sa protection." The third part discusses princely patronage from 1660–1709. The reviewer notes that the portrait elaborated by Béguin diverges from the standard vision of Louis XIV's regime and praises her extensive research and "elegant and precise" language.

BELY, LUCIEN. La société des princes, XVIe–XVIIIe siècles. Paris: Fayard, 1999.

Review: J. Solé in DSS 211 (2001), 329–330: This lengthy tome presents an exhaustive study of all aspects of princely life, from identity and family ties to the ruling of nations. The first part casts a microscopic regard at the prince "en sa simple humanité, en son intimité." Childhood, general education, and training for his princely responsibilities form the subject of this section. The second section adopts a macroscopic perspective, looking at sovereigns as they acted on an international stage. The third part analyzes the relationships between sovereigns: the protocols and ceremonial elements of their meetings and royal entries. A work of traditional political history, this book nonetheless raises new questions, according to the reviewer.

BENOIT, ROBERT. Vivre et mourir à Reims au Grand Siècle (1580–1720). Arras: Artois Presses Université, 1999.

Review: S. Beauvalet in DSS 211 (2001), 335: A study of the pestilence and epidemics that ravaged Reims. The author catalogues the various illnesses, evaluates their devastating effects, and discusses the measures undertaken to combat them. Benoît studies the city as the locus of the origin and diffusion of illness. For each crisis, Benoît lists loss of life and analyzes the demographic consequences.

BERTAUD, MADELEINE, ed. Architectes et architecture dans la littérature française. Paris: Klincksieck, 1999.

Review: C. Skenazi in BHR 62.2 (2000), 479–481: Trente-deux études d'un colloque organisé par l'ADIREL les 23–25 octobre 1997. M.-O. Sweetser "esquisse enfin la fortune des métaphores architecturales, de Du Bellay à Saint-Amant en passant par Malherbe pour dégager divers aspects politiques, sociaux, moraux d'une pratique qui valorise l'ordre, la mesure et la raison."

Review: L. Sabourin in RHL 101 (2001), 366–68: Brief mentions of several contributions on the seventeenth century (d'Urfé, La Fontaine, M. de Scudéry), containing information on "l'usage symbolique que la littérautre peut faire de l'architecture" and "la relecture des architectures au fil des générations et des besoins littéraires."

BERTRAND, ANNE. "Art and Politics in Counter-Reformation Paris: The Case of Philippe de Champaigne and his Patrons(1621–1674)." DAI 61/12 (2001), 4585.

Contesting typical readings of Champaigne's oeuvre as Jansenist, author shows how the painter's patronage reveals Counter-Reformation political and religious agendas; Champaigne's "work fulfilled the pictorial needs and requirements of this movement in France."

BLACK, JEREMY. From Louis XIV to Napoleon. The Fate of a Great Power. London: UCL Press, 1999.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 271 (2000), 488–89: Mixed review indicates problems and questions with this chronological, dense and unusually detailed history of events, particularly as it relates to Louis XIV. Fuchs characterizes the treatment as introductory and inferential, rather than factual (488).

BOUWSMA, WILLIAM J. The Waning of the Renaissance: 1550–1640. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001.

Review: T. K. Rabb in TLS 5124 (Jun 15 2001), 28: Bouwsma argues that as early as 1550, leading figures are beginning to reject traditions of Renaissance, even while they still investigate such themes as the limits of knowledge and the nature of time. Demand for order arises as an antidote to the insistent uncertainties and doubts of the time. Rabb considers "Order in Religion" to be best chapter in book. Reviewer praises convincing linkage of intellectual issues and institutional developments, but regrets tendency to play down scientific developments and social, political and economic context.

Review: D.C. Baxter in Choice 39, 1 (2001), 194: Inspired by Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages, this study asks why and how the Renaissance came to an end. It examines the Renaissance ideal of creativity and cultural freedom, and the internal contradictions involving personal identity, shifting interests, decline in confidence, and heightened anxiety within this ideal. Focuses on a cyclical view of human thought that moves through creativity, intellectual suffocation, and renewed freedom.

BOYER, MARC. L'Invention du tourisme, XVIe–XIXe siècles: origine et développement du tourisme dans le Sud-est de la France. La Tour-d'Aigues: L'Aube, 2000.

Review: BCLF 628 (2001), 28: "L'apparition du tourisme reflète l'évolution socioculturelle de l'Europe depuis le XVIe siècle. . . . Les sites à visiter ne constituent pas des données, mais des acquis culturels. Le voyage culturel connaît un certain développement avec la pratique du Grand Tour, qui au XVIIe siècle couronne l'éducation d'un jeune gentilhomme."

BRENDLE, FRANZ. Dynastie, Reich und Reformation. Die württembergischen Herzöge Ulrich und Christoph, die Habsburger und Frankreich. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1998.

Review: D. Stievermann in HZ 271 (2000), 749–50: Judged highly illuminating and praised for its results as a model for research, Brendle's work examines dynasties, kingdoms and the Reformation. New formulations of sources, in particular, archives in Paris and Munich.

BRESE-BAUTIER, GENEVIEVE, et al, eds. La Sculpture française. Renaissance et temps modernes. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1998.

Review: R.-H. Bautier in CRa (janvier-mars 1999), 391–392: "Ces volumes constituent véritablement une somme prodigieuse correspondant à plusieurs milliers de sculptures françaises que conserve le Musée pour ces époques. Cet important instrument de travail "fournit, en effet, le sujet et la description de chacune des oeuvres, leurs dimensions et leur photographie, leur origine (quand elle est connue), les collections dont elles ont fait partie, leur bibliographie."

BRUNON, HERVE. "De l'image à l'imaginaire: notes sur la figuration du jardin sous le règne de Louis XIV." DSS 209 (2000), 671–690.

Not a study of gardens as figured in literature but rather an analysis of pictoral representations of the gardens of Marley and Versailles. Discerns two principal modes of depiction: paysagère, that "prend en compte ses usages, la vie sociale dont il forme le cadre. . ." and architectonique, which describes the garden "selon un regard qui arpente et met à distance, le fixer dans un temps suspendu et abstrait. . .."

CAPLAN, JAY. In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France. Chicago and London: UP of Chicago, 1999.

Review: C. Todd in MLR 96.2 (2001), 501: "With the help of copious critical notes in which he reviews the opposing opinions of many historians, Caplan ably describes how the traditional hierarchy of absolutism was constructed around public image, with private truths studiously ignored, and with no image more important than that of the Sun King, even though this had begun to disintegrate even before the latter's death in 1715."

CARLIN, CLAIRE L. "Imagining Marriage in the 1690's." PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 167–176.

Study of the literary and non-literary texts which exemplify the nuptial imagination at the end of the century, the "product of a century and a half of exploration of an institution suffering from the effort of trying to absorb change."

CHAPMAN, SARA. "Patronage as Family Economy: The Role of Women in the Patron-Client Network of the Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family, 1670–1715." FHS 24 (2001), 11–35.

Discusses the many crucial roles played by Marie de Maupeou, Suzanne Phélypeaux de Ponchartrain, Éléonore de La Rochefoucauld-Raye in the political, social, and economic success of their family.

CHAUDHURY, SUSHIL and MICHEL MORINEAU, eds. Merchants, Companies and Trade. Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Review: J. Osterhammel in HZ 270 (2000), 761–62: Mixed review of this collection which focuses on merchant empires, rivalry and cooperation.

COHEN, SARAH R. Art, Dance, and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Régime. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Review: C.E. Foster in Burlington 1177 (2001), 228: "While grounded in an understanding of dance, the project Cohen takes up in this clearly written and beautifully produced book addresses the broader subject of bodily display—in her words the 'artful body.' Using dance and related concepts of bodily presentation, as evident in texts, dance notation, festival and fashion prints, the author explores the connexions of the performing body to more familiar images and monuments of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. [. . .] Although one could question a few specific points. . . her overall discussion . . . is well-argued [. . .] Her book will be an important point of departure for investigations into how spectacle evolved beyond the period she covers."

Review: J. Prest in TLS 5110 (Mar 9 2001), 20: This ambitious project traces manifestations of the courtly body in "dance, architecture, garden design, traceries, dance notation, fashion prints and painting." Court ballet provides the paradigm for studying other visual media. The author finds that with the advent of the proscenium stage, ballet became a picture with the king as "metaphorical and literal axis." Cohen then argues for a "gradual shift" from the kingly body and Versailles to a decentralized social aristocracy. Images of the aristocratic body "gradually reached out to a wider public in Paris." Analogies between media are at times insightful, but, according to Prest, sometimes overstated.

CONTAMINE, PHILIPPE, ed. Guerre et concurrence entre les états européens du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: PUF, 1998.

Review: N. Ohler in HZ 270 (2000), 139–40: Judged very praiseworthy, diverse in methodology and overlapping the usual boundaries of disciplines, periods, countries, the volume's strong point is its broad and deep consideration of the early modern era. Excellent source materials in tables, maps, bibliography, and indices.

CORNETTE, JOEL, éd., avec la collab. de LAURENT BOURQUIN, HERVE DREVILLON, PIERRE SERNA et al. Histoire de la France politique. La Monarchie entre Renaissance et Révolution: 1515–1792. Paris: Seuil, 2000.

Review: BCLF 631 (2001), 791: Cornette "nous offre une remarquable synthèse des connaissances actuelles sur la monarchie française à l'époque moderne. . . . Il s'agit, pour l'essentiel, de comprendre les dynamiques qui ont profondément transformé l'institution monarchique entre le règne de François Ier et celui de Louis XVI." On regrette "l'absence de bilan à la fin de certains chapitres."

CORNETTE, JOËL. Le roi de guerre. Essai sur la souveraineté dans la France du Grand Siècle. Paris: Payot (Petite Bibliothèque), 2000.

Review: E. Pieiller in QL 800 (du 15 au janvier 2001), 26: First published in the Payot & Rivages collection in 1993, it now appears in the Payot Petite Bibliothèque collection. "Cette étude des relations entre la guerre, l'Etat et la violence sociale permet de saisir comment on est passé de l'Etat guerrier et justicier du XVIIe à l'Etat administratif et gestionnaire du XVIIIe, quel rôle la violence d'Etat dans le système de légitimation du pouvoir royal, et tout aussi bien comment les stratégies de sacralisation du Roi-Guerrier ont paradoxalement peu à peu permis un processus de laïcisation progressive." Reviewer praises the diversity of the author's approach: "c'est ainsi une compréhension plus globale, et où prennent place les contradictions porteuses de l'avenir, qui nous est offerte."

CORNETTE, JOEL. Versailles. Le palais du roi Louis XIV. Paris: Sélection du Reader's Digest, 1999.

Review: A. Walch in DSS 211 (2001), 330–332: Richly illustrated, this book offers at once a visit of the chateau and an evocation of the reign. The reviewer notes that the book wavers between political analysis and art history, linking these rather artificially at times. A useful synthesis, nonetheless, the book will be particularly useful to teachers and students.

CROPPER, ELIZABETH and CHARLES DEMPSEY, eds. Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 617: This prize-winning book (Mitchell Prize in 1997 and Morey Award in 1998) is now available in paperback. Examinations of background, friendships, social life and theory shed light on Poussin's painting. Includes as well chapters on Poussin's innovations especially as regards the affections and on his neoclassicist aesthetic.

CROXTON, DEREK. Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe. Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643–1648. Setinsgrove:Susqueanna UP, 1999.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 271 (2000), 477–78: Mixed review praises insights, for example on the question of alliances in French politics, as correct and important, yet Duchhardt is not completely convinced of Croxton's interpretation of impressive sources, especially as concerns military strategies.

DAMIEN, ROBERT. Bibliothèque et Etat. Naissance d'une raison politique dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Paris: PUF, 1995.

Review: H. Merlin-Kajman in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001), 183–185. "On restera sceptique devant tant de simplifications abusives qui concernent à la fois la perspective historique et philosophique."

DEMANDT, ALEXANDER, ed. Stätten des Geistes. Große Universitäten Europas von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Köln: Böhlau, 1999.

Review: N. Hammerstein in HZ 271 (2000), 391–92: Highly readable and informative overview of important European institutions, including those in Paris.

DI MARE, DANIELA. "In imagine homo pertransit. Painted portrait and sacred image in early seventeenth-century French novels." DAI 60/11 (2000), 4028.

Examines the problematics of the painted portrait in the early novel, showing how it raises questions of both identity and representation. Situates texts by d'Urfé, Gomberville, Sorel and Camus within a contemporary debates on sacred images.

DOLAMOR, JAMES, ed. Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 1999.

Review: C. Smith in MLR 96,3 (2001), 847–48: "This volume honours its dedicatee by reflecting his interests in French thought, especially in its political implications, with the verve and vigour that was the stamp of this passionate enquiry." Article by D. Shaw explores the important role of law in Molière's Tartuffe, though reviewer thinks Shaw overemphasized the influence of Orléans in the dramatist's training.

DUBOST, JEAN-FRANÇOIS and PETER SAHLINS. Et si on faisait payer les étrangers? Louis XIV, les immigrés et quelques autres. Paris: Flammarion, 1999.

Review: M. Touzery in DSS 208 (2000), 537–539: A study of the 1697 tax imposed on foreigners and their inheritors designed to pay for the War of the League of Augsburg. Authors explore the conception and execution of the tax as well as its philosophcial and economic consequences and present sociological data about those targeted for the tax and those exempted from it.

DUC, ALEXIA ELISABETH. "De la Fidélité héroïque à la sociabilité mondaine: Pour une lecture des 'Mémoires' du Cardinal de Retz." DAI 61/10 (2000), 4016.

Argues against the prevailing view of de Retz as a nostalgic aristocrat, showing him instead indebted to ideas (sociabilité, esprit, honnêteté) circulating in salon circles at dates later that the times de Retz supposedly describes. "[E]ven as the Mémoires explicitly denounce court society and absolute monarchical power, they implicitly adopt court society's moral and social values and the ideology that monarchical power engenders."

DUCHENE, ROGER. Ninon de Lenclos, ou la manière jolie de faire l'amour. Paris: Fayard, 2000.

Review: A. Niderst in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001), 186. ". . .c'est de la belle et bonne histoire, aussi entraînante qu'éclairante, et qui montre que les biographies qui se lisent avec le plus de plaisir, sont les plus érudites et les plus réfléchies."

ERTMAN, THOMAS. Birth of the Leviathan. Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP, v1997.

Review: L. Schorn-Schütte in HZ 270 (2000), 694–96: Ertman picks up an oft studied topic in this extremely wide-ranging treatment, from the 10th to the 18th century. An entire chapter is devoted to France. Society with its three orders, local governments and above all, his notion of "Social Capital" receive stimulating analysis.

ESKERDJIAN, DAVIS. Review of Le Dieu caché. Exhibit at French Academy of Villa Medici, Rome, until January 21, 2001. TLS 5092 (Nov 3 2000), 6.

Show on French religious painting of the seventeenth century. Claude Lorrain solitary notable absence. Philippe de Champaigne definitely "star of the show," but reviewer also praises works of the "best artists of the second division," particularly Eustache Le Sueur.

FERGUSON, DEAN T. "The Body, the Corporate Idiom and the Police of the Unincorporated Worker in Early Modern Lyons." FHS 23 (2000), 545–575.

Draws parallels between early modern discourse on the body (follows Foucault, Bakhtin, Laqueur, and others) and Lyons's efforts both to regulate previously unplaced laborers and to exclude these workers from the juridical and socially superior guilds.

FEYEL, GILLES. L'Annonce et la nouvelle: la presse d'information en France sous l'ancien régime (1630–1788). Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000.

Review: W. Doyle in FS 55.3 (2001), 383–84: In this authoritative study, Feyel tells the story of the development of the press in early modern France, from Renaudot's Gazette to the eighteenth-century Affiches de Paris, and he "demonstrate[s] conclusively that, by the 1780s, the total regular circulation of papers of information was around 70,000, reaching a readership which he estimates at perhaps half a million."

FINNEY, PAUL CORBY, ed. Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Review: B.D. Spinks in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1224–25: Spinks appreciates the collection, richly illustrated, which grew out of a 1998 conference at Princeton's Center of Theological Inquiry. Diverse contributions treat both theory and practice range geographically from England and Europe to the New World, and "dispel the idea that Calvinism made no contribution to the visual arts." Of particular interest to 17 th c. scholars is Hélène Guicharnaud's essay on distinctive features of Huguenot temples, "practically all destroyed after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685" but thanks to her careful examination of "plans, drawings and contractual documents", these buildings come alive for us, and it is clear, by their interior decoration, that "loyalty to God and King" was essential to the Calvinist tradition.

FONTANE, L., G. POSTEL-VINAY, J.L. ROSENTHAL, et P. SERVAIS, éds. Des Personnes aux institutions. Réseaux et culture du crédit du XVIe siècle au XXe siècle en Europe. Actes du colloque "Centenaire des FUCAM." (Mons, 14–16 novembre 1996). Louvain: Bruylant-Academia, 1997.

Review: A. Gueslin in RBPH 78,2 (2000), 626–27: ". . . l'intérêt essentiel du colloque est de proposer une réflexion sur les pratiques des agents économiques en matière de crédit à l'aune des nouvelles problématiques concernant le coût de l'information ou l'information imparfaite."

FRANKO, MARK and ANNETTE RICHARDS, eds. Acting on the Past: Historical Performances Across the Disciplines. Hanover and London: Wesleyan UP, 2000.

Review: A. Martin in TDR 170 (2001), 172–173: Focuses on performance practices prior to the eighteenth century. Disciplines treated include sculpture, dance, processionals, prosthetics, opera, musical notation and monastic liturgy. Editors intend to make uncertainties of past performances interpretive resources, so that "act and text can be summoned to redefine one another." Each piece is "well-honed conceptually and complete in its scholarly representation."

FREY, LINDA S. and MARSHA L. FREY. The History of Diplomatic Immunity. Colombus: Ohio State UP, 1999.

Review: U. Lappenküper in HZ 271 (2000), 697–99: Impressive treatment of diplomatic immunity from antiquity until the last years of the 20th C. Praiseworthy use of literature and source materials, a focus on prominent events, laws and conventions, discussions of the meaning of various theorists, and analyses of influence of juridical decisions characterize this excellent work.

GARRAWAY, DORIS LORRAINE. "The Libertine Colony: Ethnographies of Creolization in the French Caribbean, 1617–1797." DAI 62/02 (2001), 580.

"[E]xplor[ing] the colonial Caribbean as it was represented by French and Creole missionaries, historians, and travelers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries," author shows "how discourses of savagery, degeneracy, and hybridity circulated with respect to French Creoles as well as members of the subjugated classes."

GERMA-ROMANN, HELENE. Du "bel amour" au "bien mourir." Le Sentiment de la mort chez les gentilshommes français (1515–1643). Genève: Droz, 2001.

GHIOSSO, LAURA. "La 'prétendue république' entre les ambitions de Charles-Emmanuel II de Savoie et les intérêts de Louis XIV: une solution pour l'affaire de Genève." S Fr 130 (2000), 110–117.

Ghiosso has analyzed, for their important social and political content, the rich correspondence between Monseigneur Albert Bailly and Madame Royale Christine de France. Only published in 1992 by L. Giachino, these letters, along with material in other collections and archives to which Ghiosso refers, allow her to share insights of a family introduced into the French court: the De Brisacier. Ghiosso also transcribes two texts from the Archives of Torino relating as well to important social, political and religious negotiations.

GIROUARD, MARK. Life in the French Country House. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Review: S. D. Blackford et al. in VQR 77.3 (summer 2001), 114: "In his latest book, Mark Girouard has achieved again in France what he has done so many times before with similar subject matter in England. One of Britain's most distinguished architectural historians, he has chronicled (...) the lives and times of the French country house and those who dwelled within. From their medieval origins through the grandiose chateaux of Francis I, from the Old Regime to modern times, Girouard is an expert and witty companion as he leads Francophiles and the uncommitted alike on a journey that is both light and substantive at the same time. While the author explains how architecture changed to suit new tastes and needs, he does not slight those who peopled the buildings he describes. The well-born and their servants all receive their due and figures like Voltaire and the Sun King himself enliven the text. (...) A great read."

GORONZY, KRIEMHILD, EIKE JARNUT, RITA BOHLEN and FRANZ BOSBACH. Acta Pacis Westphalicae. Ser. II Abt. B: Die französischen Korrespondenzen. Bd. 3: 1645–1646. Münster: Aschendorff, 1999.

Review: A.V. Hartmann in HZ 271 (2000), 478–79: Abundant and comprehensive, this continuation of the publication of important correspondence is based on some 300 documents from, predominantly, Paris archives and those of the Ministère des affaires étrangères. The 86 page index gives an idea of the extensiveness of this splendid volume.

GRÄF, HOLGER THOMAS and RALF PRÖVE. Wege ins Ungewisse. Reisen in der Frühen Neuzeit, 1500–1800. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1997.

Review: U. Küppers-Braun in HZ 270 (2000), 472–74: An outgrowth of a seminar on the theme of the voyage in Early Modern Times, the volume is conceived as a reader and reference book, answering questions regarding travelers, modes of travel, directions of voyages, and so forth. Use of wide-ranging sources informs this book for a lay public.

GRELL, CHANTAL. Histoire intellectuelle et culturelle de la France au Grand Siècle (1654–1715). Paris: Nathan, 2000.

Review: BCLF 627 (2000), 2717: ". . . l'ouvrage donne une représentation cohérente de la vie culturelle et littéraire de la France de Louis XIV, en parvenant à pallier la fragmentation des recherches historiques et à échapper dans le même temps à un certain schématisme dont font souvent preuve les manuels littéraires."

GRELL, CHANTAL, WERNER PARAVICINI and JÜRGEN VOß, eds. Les Princes et l'histoire du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle. Bonn: Bouvier, 1998.

Review: M. Völkel in HZ 271 (2000), 451–54: Acts of the 1996 Colloque of l'Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin and the Institut Historique Allemand. Highly informative, the product of 36 authors from 11 nations, the volume represents an important gain for European historiography. Includes essay by Orest Ranum on the crisis of doubt in the 17th century.

HARAN, ALEXANDRE Y. Le Lys et le globe: Messianisme dynastique et rêve impérial en France aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2000.

Review: M. J. Heath in BHR 63.1 (2001), 188–189: Haran demonstrates "how myth, legend, prophecy, hagiography and historiography were enlisted in the service of Henri IV and his two successors, in order to devalue the pretensions of the Habsburgs of both Germany and Spain and to assert the privileges of the most ancient surviving Christian dynasty."

HASELER, JENS and ANTHONY McKENNA, eds. La Vie intellectuelle aux Refuges protestants. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: D. Monda in S Fr 132 (2000), 597: The acts of a colloque at Münster (25 July 1995) which began an impressive scholarly investigation of the intellectual life of Huguenots in 17th and 18th C. Essays are diverse and wide ranging from a consideration of Bayle's history of Reformed churches to studies of history of the Francophone public in Prussia, and so forth. Important interdisciplinary contributions on history, philosophy, literature, and ideas.

HEPP, NOEMI. Mémoires et autres inédits de Nicolas Goulas, gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du duc d'Orléans. Paris: Champion, 1995.

Review: A. Vandenbulcke in RPBH 77.5 (1999), 1237–1238: Hepp "comble les lacunes de l'édition Constant en publiant les treize chapitres des Mémoires (p. 25–182) où l'auteur parle de ses origines, de sa famille, de sa jeunesse. Ce récit nous livre un tableau très riche d'une famille de robe parisienne au XVIIe siècle et fournit une quantité de données représentatives d'une génération et de son milieu."

HSIA, RONNIE PO-CHIA and ROBERT W. SCRIBNER, eds. Problems in the Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Europe. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997.

Review: B. Roeck in HZ 271 (2000), 455–58: Wide-ranging volume with generally superior individual essays treats numerous aspects of the theme from God's law to social history of Protestant clergymen and hexes. Roeck notes his concern with problematic theoretical points of departure.

HUPPERT, GEORGE. The Style of Paris. Renaissance Origins of the French Enlightment. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999.

Review: G. Walther in HZ 271 (2000), 208–09: Judged congenial, elegant, and brilliant, this volume is a synthesis of Huppert's earlier works on the philosophy of history, the elite and schools in Renaissance, France. Treats the collèges and Jesuit education, Ramus, La Boëtie, Estienne Pasquier, the geometric method, and so forth.

JOURNAL DE LA FRANCE ET DES FRANÇAIS. CHRONOLOGIE POLITIQUE, CULTURELLE ET RELIGIEUSE DE CLOVIS À 2000. Paris: Gallimard / Centre National du Livre, 2001.

Review: C. Jones in TLS 5138 (Sep 21 2001), 12: A welcome reference by nine eminent French historians. Primarily useful for people wishing to check a fact or a date. Political history provides the guiding thread for organization. The text is interspersed with features on individuals, objects or groups. Jones regrets an "alarming lack of interest" in history of women and gender.

KAHN, DIDIER. "Inceste, Assassinat, Persécutions et Alchimie en France et à Genève (1576–1596): Joseph du Chesne et Mlle de Martinville." BHR LXIII,2 (2001), 227–59.

"L'objet de cet article est de faire toute la lumière possible sur les relations qui lièrent cette femme [Louise Robot, dame de Martinville] à Joseph Du Chesne, tant sur le plan des moeurs et de la vie privée ... que sur celui de l'expérience au laboratoire et de la quête du grand oeuvre, sur laquelle ces manuscrits projettent un éclairage documentaire d'autant plus intéressant qu'ils n'étaient destinés qu'à un usage privé."

KEMP, MARTIN andMARINA WALLACE,curators. Spectacular Bodies. The art and science of the human body: From Leonardo to now. Hayward Gallery (London) until January 1, 2001.

Review: J. Hall in TLS 5092 (Nov 3 2000), 6–7: Over 300 exhibits from fifteen countries. Main focus on anatomy. Curators believe that "From Renaissance until the late nineteenth century, there was an 'intimate union' between artistic and medical imagery." Representations for medical purposes were done by practicing artists, while science informed representations in art. Hall questions suggestion that study of anatomy was more relevant for art than live models and antique sculpture.

KEMP, MARTIN and MARINA WALLACE. Spectacular Bodies. The art and science of the human body: From Leonardo to now. Catalogue of Hayward Gallery exhibit. London and Los Angeles: Hayward Gallery and U of California P., 2000.

See above.

LABORDIERE, J.-M. Reconnaître les façades: Du Moyen Age à nos jours, à Paris. Paris: Massin, 2000.

Review: BCLF 631 (2001), 691: Ouvrage qui présente "les spécificités de l'architecture privée à Paris" et qui ne néglige pas "de souligner les mutations, techniques ou sociales, qui s'opèrent à certains moments: apparition de l'immeuble locatif au XVIIe siècle..."

LAURSEN, JOHN CHRISTIAN and CARY J. NEDERMAN, eds. Beyond the Persecuting Society. Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment. Philadelphia: U of Penn P, 1998.

Review: M. Maurer in HZ 270 (2000), 474–75: Maurer warmly welcomes this collection of essays on the problem of tolerance which includes three divisions: the Middle Ages, the Sixteenth Century, and the Seventeenth Century. Pierre Bayle receives particular mention.

LE LEYZOUR, PHILIPPE, ALAIN DAGUERRE DE HUREAUX, et collab. Les Peintres du Roi, 1648–1793. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000.

Review: BCLF 626 (2000), 2365–66: "Les six articles exposent les origines intellectuelles (le modèle italien, traité par Edouard Pommier) et politiques de l'Académie [royale de peinture et de sculpture], les modalités de réception des artistes, les principes directeurs de l'enseignement dispensé (par Antoine Schnapper), ainsi que les collections de tableaux et leur présentation dans les diverses salles occupées par l'institution."

LEVI, ANTHONY. Cardinal Richelieu and the Making of France. Constable, 2000.

Review: D. Porter in TLS 5101 (Jan 5 2001), 28: Porter finds little here to confirm the need for a new biography, although an interesting hypothesis is proclaimed to be the central theme. Richelieu, according to Levi, outlived his age, which was molded by positive, optimistic and heroic convictions about human potential. The cardinal is studied in the context of the "strong resurgence and incipient collapse of the euphoric moral and religious values of early seventeenth-century France... Levi's hypothesis is striking but it sits unconvincingly in the framework of a largely conventional book."

LORENZ-SCHMIDT, SABINE. Vom Wert und Wandel weiblicher Arbeit. Geschlechtsspezifische Arbeitsteilung in der Landwirtschaft in Bildern des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1998.

Review: U. Rublack in HZ 270 (2000), 410–11: Originating as a Hamburg dissertation, Lorenz-Schmidt's study combines two methodological aims: the historical account of information and gender history. Focus is on rural work of women in representations and broad sheets of the 15th through the 17th centuries. Illustrates and corroborates numerous aspects of research in this field, although it offers little in the way of new perspectives.

LORIZZO, LOREDANA. "Cardinal Ascanio Filomarino's Purchases of Works of Art in Rome: Poussin, Caravaggio, Vouet and Valentin." Burlington 1180 (2001), 404–411.

Recent information found in the Archivio di Stato in Rome gives insight into Ascanio Filomarino's patronage of the arts, including French painters Vouet, Poussin and Valentin de Boulogne.

MARIN, LOUIS. Sublime Poussin. Ed. Daniel Arasse et al. Trans.Catherine Porter. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999.

Review: J. Tansey in SCN 58.3 (2000), 271–274: A translation of Marin's unfinished treatise on Poussin and the notion of the sublime (originally published posthumously under same title by Seuil in 1995). Includes ten papers published between 1970–1988, Marin's outline, and "superb descriptions of about 20 of Poussin's paintings." Reviewer writes: "This book will be of interest to art historians and theoreticians alike for its detailed descriptions. All students in the humane studies who relish bold, fresh methods for interpreting texts, images, and practices will find much here for use and inspiration. It is a slim volume, at times lyrical, not excessively packed with jargon, and well-translated."

MAROTEAUX, VINCENT. Versailles, le roi et son domaine. Paris: Picard, 2000.

Review: BCLF 631 (2001), 791–92: ". . . les terres sur lesquelles furent bâties les nombreuses résidences royales (Versailles bien sûr, mais aussi les Trianon, Marly, Meudon et bien d'autres) constituent un vaste domaine foncier dont la constitution, la gestion, l'histoire tout court, viennent d'être explorées ici pour la première fois d'une manière systématique."

MEDICK, HANS and TREPP, ANNE-CHARLOTT, eds. Geschlechtergeschichte und allgemeine Geschichte. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven. Mit Beitr.V. Karin Hausen,Lynn Hunt,Thomas Kühne et al. Göttingen: Wallstein,1998.

Review: S. Burghartz in HZ 270 (2000), 409–10: Focus of this collection of diverse essays is methodological-gender history and general history. Includes both retrospectives and proposals for future research.

MEEK, CHRISTINE, ed. Women in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 207–210. ". . .ces essais édités par Christine Meek représentent une contribution très stimulante à l'histoire des femmes sous l'Ancien Régime, et ils seront lus par les dix-septiémistes avec autant d'intérêt que de profit."

Review: R. Reynolds-Cornell in BHR LXIII, 2 (2001), 398–401: Conference organized at Trinity College reconsiders thesis of Jacob Burckhardt according to which women enjoyed equality with men during the Renaissance. Four studies devoted to the seventeenth century: S. Fegan, "Hidden pleasures: the representation of the prostitute in seventeenth-century Dutch painting"; C. Baxter, "Repression or liberation? Notions of the body among the nuns of Port-Royal"; S. Reid, "Writing motherhood in the reign of Louis XIV; D. Conroy, "Tragic ambiguities: gender and sovereignty in French classical drama."

MELVILLE, GERT and PETER VON MOOS, eds. Das Öffentliche und das Private in der Vormoderne. Köln: Böhlau, 1998.

Review: P. Schuster in HZ 270 (2000), 697–99. Some twenty-four authors treat the public and the private referring to Habermas's work as point of orientation and/or tension. Dimensions include: religious, philosophical, literary, and social. An inspiring and ingenuous collection.

MERRICK, JEFFREY and BRYANT T. RAGAN, eds. Homosexuality in Early Modern France. A documentary collection. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2000.

Review: G. Woods in TLS 5122 (Jun 1 2001), 32: A "remarkable collection which vastly expands our sense of the sexual history of Europe." Editors have chosen "a wide range of religious, judicial, political, philosophical and literary texts dealing with male and female homosexuality." "Terrifying narrative" of consequences of homosexual love. Reviewer's one criticism is use of contemporary American slang to translate the "nuanced detail of French attempts to speak about the unspeakable."

METAYER, CHRISTINE. Au Tombeau des secrets: les écrivains publics du Paris populaire, Cimetière des Saints-Innocents XVIe–XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Albin Michel, 2000.

Review: P. Higonnet in TLS 5117 (Apr 27 2001), 36: The first part of this book provides a history of the cemetery while the second examines it as the site of public writing, where the illiterate could confide their secrets to the écrivains publics. These writers helped those who needed missives and quasi-legal documents. The cemetery also had its connections to crime, since the public writers sometimes provided forgeries. Higonnet finds this a most useful contribution to the history of pre-revolutionary Paris.

MILLER, PETER N. Peiresc's Europe. Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Review: T.K. Rabb in TLS 5124 (Jun 15 2001), 28: Deals with world of antiquarians in the early seventeenth century and with the Provençal gentleman Nicolas de Peiresc, an adept of universal knowledge who corresponded with elite of Europe's arts and letters on almost all significant intellectual issues. Peiresc represents faith that learning will lead to moral uprightness and that all values can be grounded in the wisdom of the past. Miller investigates the justification of the antiquarian enterprise, its moral, political, religious and intellectual implications, and reasons for its popularity and decline.

Review: S. D. Blackford et al. in VQR 77.2 (spring 2001), 52: Explores the life of Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc. "In successive chapters it charts the exemplary character of his life (especially as pictured in his friend Gassendi's biography of him), his vision of the connections between learning, politics, and virtue, his theology, and his antiquarian's delight in historical study, even as he recognized the futility of history's charge." Blackford enthusiastically recommends Miller's work: "written with wit and vigor, this work has few pages that are without a new idea, a surprising discovery, a suggestive analogy, an abiding insight into the life of the mind as a life lived in public."

Review L. Brockliss in French History 15 (2001), 112–113: "[A]n account of the role played by Peiresc [. . .] in the creation of an image of the antiquarian, which aimed to make this relatively new activity sociably acceptable." Contributes to our understanding of the 17th-century Republic of Letters; however Brockliss finds that "Miller tries to hard to contextualize his account of the antiquarian ethic" and that the work would have benefited had its author extended his study to Peiresc's influence on Boyle.

MOMBELLO, GIANNI,dir. Albert Bailly, La correspondance. Vols. I et II. Aoste: Académie Saint-Anselme, 1999.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 130 (2000), 152: Valuable correspondence from the years 1643–1650 relating to politics and literature alike, is transcribed by Luca Giachino (vol. I) and Paola Cifarelli (vol. II). Highly useful historical and philological introductions and notes.

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

Review: W. Reinhard in HZ 271 (2000), 470–71: Judged stimulating, precise and persuasive, Monod's volume impresses also by its judicious knowledge and use of the literature. Chronological organization around the epoch years 1610, 1637, 1660 and 1690.

MÖRKE, OLAF and MICHAEL NORTH, eds. Die Entstehung des modernen Europa 1600–1900. Köln: Böhlau , 1998.

Review: H. Durchhardt in HZ 270 (2000), 146–47: A variety of perspectives on the rise of modern Europe are found in this volume, number 7 of the collection Wirtschafts-und Sozialhistorische Studien. Subjects include: power systems, popular politics, family structures, economics, and so forth. Durchhardt indicates the learned quality of the volume while noting certain reservations.

NEWTON, WILLIAM R. L'Espace du roi: La cour de France au château de Versailles, 1682–1789. Paris: Fayard, 2000.

Review: J. Rogister in TLS 5094 (Nov 17 2000): Studies in detail the "vast area of the palace where the monarch graciously housed his immediate family, his princely relatives, his leading courtiers, his ministers and his favourites." Records changes in size and occupancy of over 300 apartments. The "nugget of correspondence" reproduced for each set of rooms helps readers to rediscover "a Versailles of public splendour and private squalor." High praise for the research, but Rogister wishes that the publishers had used Newton's numbering system for the rooms in the accompanying plans of the palace.

Review: R. Abad in DSS 211 (2001), 333–334: Newton catalogues and describes the totality of the apartments in Versailles, the inhabitants of each apartment, their period of residency, and finally the many renovations and additions made to the chateau. In a brief introduction, Newton notes that "la distribution des appartements fut un instrument de puissance entre les mains de Louis XIV, mais qu'elle se transforma en piège politique sous le règne de Louis XV et Louis XVI." A valuable reference work for admirers of the chateau and scholars of both material history and the nobility.

NIJENHUIS, ANDREAS. "L'instrumentalisation des Provinces-Unies dans l'iconographie de Versailles." DSS 210 (2001), 75–98.

Scrutinizes the crucial ideological role played by Holland in the articulation of royal politics as depicted in the series of images found in the Galerie des Glaces.

NORDMAN, DANIEL. Frontières de la France. De l'espace au territoire XVIe–XIXe siècle. Paris: NRF-Gallimard, 1998.

Review: J. Poumarède in DSS 208 (2000), 536–537: Argues that borders were "legal fictions"and that the vocabulary applied to the kingdom remained identical to that used for other territories. The central and original feature of the work lies in its in-depth analysis of the processes through which the boundaries of France were fixed over time. Nordman also shows that the state deployed "l'argument linguistique pour légitimer sa politique de rassemblement des territoires francophones."

OEXLE, OTTO GERHARD and WERNER PARAVICINI, eds. Nobilitas. Funktion und Repräsentation des Adels in Alteuropa. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1997.

Review: K.-H. Spieß in HZ 270 (2000), 407–08: Nobility is the concept that structures this volume, the acts of a colloquium celebrating the 70th birthday of Karl Ferdinand Werner. Although most of the wide-ranging essays focus on earlier periods, the volume does touch on the 17th C.; of particular interest is G. Schmidt's essay analyzing the nobility in leadership positions during the Thirty Years' War.

PANTIN, ISABELLE. Les Fréart de Chantelou. Une famille d'amateurs au XVIIe siècle entre Le Mans, Paris, et Rome. Le Mans: Création et Recherche, 1999.

Review: I. Trivisani-Moreau in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 215–217. "En nous introduisant dans la famille mancelle des Fréart, Isabelle Pantin nous fait suivre au long du XVIIe siècle la vie de trois frères. . .grands amateurs d'art. . ."

PARSONS, JOTHAM. "Money and Sovereignty in Early Modern France." JHI 62 (2001). 59–79.

Moves beyond mercantilism to demonstrate that after 1600, French economic theorists recognized that money was scientific, rational, and a matter of state, and that they were aware of the differences between France and the Roman Empire and therefore of the specificity of French monetary policy. Monetary theorists "developed a detailed notion of monetary economics as a specialized discipline, and above all they placed money and economic policy in the context of a multi-national system of commercial states. In so doing, they sought to comprehend and control not just money but the modern state itself."

PIETSCHMANN, HORST. Geschichte des atlantischen Systems, 1580–1830. Ein historischer Versuch zur Erklärung der "Globalisierung" jenseits nationalgeschichtlicher Perspektiven. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1998.

Review: J. Osterhammel in HZ 270 (2000), 700: A "plaidoyer" for the dovetailing of European and extra-European history.

PIQUE, NICOLAS et GHISLAIN WATERLOT, eds. Tolérance et Réforme: éléments pour une généalogie du concept de tolérance. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.

Review: F. de Maublanc in RDM (mai 2001), 188–189: Les textes proposés "retracent avec beaucoup de clarté et de précision les effets de la Réforme sur le concept et la pratique de la tolérance." Au 17e siècle, la mise en perspective historique et conceptuelle comprend l'oeuvre de "Hugo Grotius, des pasteurs de la fin du XVIIe siècle (Pierre Durieu, Pierre Du Bosc, Jean Claude, Etienne Merlat), et enfin des protestants exilés au Refuge (Pierre Bayle, pour l'essentiel) après la révocation."

POWELL, JOHN S. Music and Theatre in France, 1600–1680. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2000.

Review: J. Prest in TLS 5110 (Mar 9 2001), 20: Book praised as "solid, scholarly research and thorough documentation, supplemented by some intelligent and informed guesswork." Treats various lyric theatrical genres in own right rather than as precursors to opera. Book has three parts: "Music and Public Theatres in Paris," "The Place and Function of Music and Dance in French Plays, and "Music and the Theatre of Molière." An epilogue argues that Le Malade imaginaire provides a parody of Lully's Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bacchus. "One hopes that this worthy volume will serve as a basis for further research in the area."

PROUST, JACQUES. L'Europe au prisme du Japon XVIe–XVIIIe siècle. Entre humanisme, Contre-Réforme et Lumières. Paris : Albin-Michel, 1997.

Review : G. Siary in RLC 297.1 (janvier-mars 2001), 170–176 : The study reconstitutes the portrait that Europe offered of itself to the Japanese in a deliberate manner through its writing and its art from the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth. The author studies the reception of European ideas and techniques in the transmission of Catholic religion, western philosophy, medecine and natural sciences in Japan. "Mais les techniques d'analyse comparée de J. Proust 镄 l'anthropologie culturelle, la sémiologie artistique, la mythologie, la traductologie, l'archéologie du savoir 镄 font mouche. Voilà un livre coloré, érudit, souvent mordant, très iconoclaste, qui ouvre sur une histoire comparée vraiment universelle des idées."

RAMSEY, ANN W. Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540–1630. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 1999.

Review: R. A. Mentzer in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1230–31: Essentially praiseworthy, Ramsey's ambitious and complex analysis is judged promising, imaginative and fresh. The wills of over 1200 Parisians provide Ramsey with an extensive basis for her "evaluation of Leaguer religious performance." Selected wills are closely examined and interconnections between liturgical and social spheres are superbly made. For the sophisticated scholar, Ramsey's volume presumes a certain familiarity with the subject.

RANDALL, CATHARINE. Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.

Review: B. D. Spinks in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1224–25: Theology and space are intertwined in Randall's technical examination of architecture and gardens of the 16th and 17th c. Imaginative (perhaps a bit too much so according to Spinks) and far-ranging study relates the structure of the Institutes to architectural constraints of Reformed architects commissioned at times to build Catholic structures. Argues for an "encoded Calvinist understanding of space."

REINHARD, WOLFGANG. Geschichte der Staatsgewalt. Eine vergleichende Verfassungsgeschichte Europas von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. München: Beck, 1999.

Review: G. Dilcher in HZ 271 (2000), 385–90: Crucial study has important place in discourses of knowledge relating to history, justice and politics. This history of executive power and sovereignty treats the relation of the monarchy with the formation of supreme power, that of the government with symbols of institutions, opposing powers, the church, power politics, diplomacy and on to modern times with an analysis of crisis. Dilcher admires the seriousness and vigor of this remarkable project.

ROBERTS, J. M. Histoire illustrée du monde. Vol. 1 Le monde ancien. Vol. 2 Le monde moderne. Paris: Larousse, 2000.

Review: M. Havelange in ECl 69 (2001), 197: While it touches on much more than the seventeenth century, this reference tool may be useful in its scope and presentation. Havelange: "Une abondante illustration dont il faut souligner l'attrait et l'excellente présentation, des tableaux chronologiques et des cartes enrichissent cette fresque historique sans doute ambitieuse, mais que les éditions Larousse étaient à même de nous offrir avec l'excellence qu'on leur connaît."

ROCHE, DANIEL, éd. Paris, ville promise: mobilité et accueil à Paris (fin XVIIe–début XIXe siècle). Paris: Hermann, 2000.

Review: BCLF 624 (2000), 2039–40: "L'intérêt majeur de cette étude réside dans la perspective adoptée sur le sujet. Il ne s'agit pas seulement de décrire les conditions de vie des migrants, mais de prendre le point de vue du lieu d'accueil—Paris—, et de voir comment la société et le pouvoir ont fait des populations migrantes des objets de préoccupation et de surveillance."

ROSENBERG, P. Seventeenth-Century French Drawings at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Burlington 1178 (2001), 313–314.

Over 100 drawings which included artists such as Poussin, Huret, and Le Brun, as well as many lesser known figures. Rosenberg notes that while there were "many fresh discoveries," the absence of certain well-known works prevented the formation of "a truly complete picture." Rosenberg adds that the catalog is quite thorough; although he would like to see added to it a list of all the 17th-century drawings owned by the École.

SABATIER, GERARD. Versailles ou la figure du roi. Paris: Albin Michel, 1999.

Review: R. Descimon in DSS 211 (2001), 332–333: Adopting the viewpoint and approach of a political historian, Sabatier offers detailed descriptions of various decorated and sculpted interiors of the palace and analyzes the allegorical political message contained therein. Sabatier provides a multifaceted response to the main questions posed: "pourquoi le sens s'est-il perdu dès la fin du règne de Louis XIV, pourquoi le 'fanatisme de l'absolutisme' était-il possible?"

SALVI, CLAUDIA. D'après nature: la nature morte en France au XVIIe siècle. Tournai: La Renaissance du livre, 2000.

Review: BCLF 630 (2001), 472: Ouvrage à la fois cultivé et savant qui permet "de comprendre l'évolution d'un art à travers une de ses pratiques les plus codées, qui a su assimiler les normes esthétiques du baroque et du classicisme avec la même facilité."

SANDERS, JULIE. "Caroline Salon Culture and Female Agency: the Countess of Carlisle, Henrietta Maria, and Public Theatre." TJ 52 (2000), 449–64.

Influence of French court, via Henrietta Maria, on English stage. Says Henrietta Maria brought French court brand of préciosité to England. Cites influence of Nicolas Faret's L'Honnête homme and Jacques du Bosc's L'Honnête femme.

SCHILLING, HEINZ. Die neue Zeit. Vom Christenheitseuropa zum Europa der Staaten,1250–1750. Berlin: Siedler, 1999.

Review: H. Durchhardt in HZ 270 (2000), 405–07: Judged comprehensive and conclusive, Schilling's work covers topics such as economy, administration, political powers, culture and religion. Found to be magisterial, Durchhardt admires Schilling's remarkable synthesis of such a wide-ranging subject.

SCOTT, TOM, ed. The Peasantries of Europe from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries. London: Longman, 1998.

Review: H. Kaak in HZ 270 (2000), 143–44: Welcome collection of essays by English and American scholars on the theme of peasantries, not peasants. Less consideration of national peasantries and more of European peasantries. French scholars will appreciate in particular the essay of J. Dewald and L. Vardi. Diverse collection includes treatment of subjects such as, but not limited to, economics, the state, climate, culture and religion.

STAINES, JOHN DAVID. "The tragic histories of Mary Queen of Scots: Rhetoric and politics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." DAI 62/03 (2001), 1036.

An analysis of the rhetorical responses to the deposition and execution of Mary Queen of Scots in narrative produced in England, Scotland and France. Argues that the controversies and debates created were formative of a modern public sphere. French works considered include various "histoires tragiques," Montaigne, Montchrestien, and Lafayette.

STEINBERG, SYLVIE. La Confusion des sexes. Le Travestissement de la Renaissance à la Révolution. Paris: Fayard, 2001.

Review: G. Vigarello in Esprit (août-septembre 2001), 245–46: "Loin de toute référence ludique ou dérisoire, le travestissement permet ici d'aller au coeur d'une question sociale décisive: la vision de la différence homme-femme et son changement durant la période moderne."

STEARNS, PETER N. Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350–2000. New York: Scribner, 2001. 6 vols.

Review: T. Rabb in TLS 5138 (Sep 21 2001), 4–5: Collection of more than 200 essays, each focusing on a period, group, place, or topic. A chronology, biographical dictionary and index are also included. An "omnivorous approach" seems to take all of history, including history of elites, as social history. Rabb finds the essays excellent, but the selection of topics idiosyncratic. Most contributors concentrate on historiographic trends rather than on substantive information. Still, an "enormously useful" publication.

TALLON, ALAIN. La France et le concile de Trente (1518–1563). Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1997.

Review: I. Mieck in HZ 271 (2000), 191–92: Praiseworthy for its clarity and extensive documentation, Tallon's volume fills many lacunae as he treats The Council of Trent, its birth and conception in France's diplomatic structures and politics.

TARIC ZUMSTEG, FABIENNE. Les Sorciers à l'assaut du village de Gollion (1615–1631). Lausanne: Editions du Zèbre, 2000.

Review: BCLF 627 (2000), 2718–19: "La chasse aux sorcières et sorciers fut un phénomène courant et très répandu dans le pays de Vaud (Suisse) du XVe au XVIIIe siècle, au moment où culture populaire et culture savante étaient encore fortement mêlées."

TEBBEN, MARYANN. "Speaking of Women: Molière and Conversation at the Court of Louis XIV." MLS 29.2 (1999), 189–206.

Tebben analyzes the role of women and particularly salonnières in French society of the time of Louis XIV as reflected in three of Molière's plays, Les Précieuses ridicules, La Critique de l'Ecole des femmes, and Les Femmes savantes. She shows how "each of his plays affirmed the power of female conversation as urgent social problems to be remedied with Molière's special skill at ridicule."

TISCHER, ANUSCHKA. Französische Diplomatie und Diplomaten auf dem Westfälischen Friedenskongreß. Außenpolitik unter Richelieu and Mazarin. Münster: Aschendorff, 1999.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 271 (2000), 482–83: Mixed review of this systematically rather than chronologically organized treatment of French diplomacy and diplomats. Appreciates the panorama of available source materials and the insights on diplomatic networks.

UOMINI, STEVE. Cultures historiques dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998.

Review: D. Venturino in DSS 209 (2000), 732–734: Uomini argues that despite the admittedly marginal status of such authors as Gaubertin, Saint-Lazare, Baudier, Grenaille, and Varillas, their works, by virtue of their popular success, teach much about how historical writing was conceptualized and defined. Uomini focuses on three types of polygraphie historique: l'histoire tragique (1600–1640), l'histoire romanesque (1620–1660), and l'histoire anecdotique (1640–1680), all of which "partagent le même souci: dévoiler l'histoire cachée, montrer au public les ressorts inconnus ou masqués des grands événements, dans un but d'édification morale et de justification politique." Although the reviewer faults Uomini's jargon-filled prose, he praises the comprehensive textual analyses and the use of Hayden White's theories of historical narrative.

VIGARELLO, GEORGES. A History of Rape: Sexual violence in France from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2001.

Review: S. Lees in TLS 5126 (Jun 29 2001), 27: Lees disputes claim that this is first history of rape. Finds work "somewhat sketchy and anecdotal" but "littered with interesting insights." "The most serious weakness of Vigarello's book is the lack of feminist perspective, regrettable in view of the extensive analysis of rape by feminists."

VILLIERS, PATRICK. Les Corsaires du littoral: Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne, de Philippe II à Louis XIV (1568–1713). Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000.

Review: BCLF 631 (2001), 789–90: "Patrick Villiers montre dans le détail les relations qui existent entre ces marins corsaires et les vaisseaux du roi, d'Espagne d'abord, de France ensuite, leurs méthodes, leurs relations entre eux (originalité dunkerquoise, les corsaires font alliance) et vis-à-vis de leurs prises."

WIDAUER, H. "Sébastien Bourdon at the Musée Fabre (Montpellier) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Strasbourg)." Burlington 1173 (2000), 795–797.

Organized by Jacques Thuillier, a leading expert on Bourdon, and Michel Hilaire, with accompanying book by Thuillier (Sébastien Bourdon, 1616–1671. Catalogue critique et chronologique de l'œuvre complète, Paris 2000). "[Thuillier's] book goes well beyond the exhibition in its aim to be both monograph and catalogue raisonné, and will provide a sound basis for future research, while neither effort nor expense was spared to assemble major works for the exhibition from Berlin, Budapest, Munich, Madrid, New York, Paris, and Washington. These were complemented by lesser-known paintings and drawings from French provincial museums."

WILLIFORD, CHRISTA. "A Computer Reconstruction of Richelieu's Palais Cardinal Theatre, 1641." ThR 25 (2000), 233–47.

Williford has created a computer model of Richelieu's theatre. Author hopes that this initial digital form will be expanded and revised "as scholarly opinion dictates." Digital model allows viewing of different parts of the theatre from different perspectives. Article includes reproductions of the model.

WINN, COLETTE H., ed. Règlement donné par une dame de haute qualité à M*** sa petite-fille, pour sa conduite, & pour celle de sa maison: avec un autre règlement que cette dame avoit dressé pour elle-mesme. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1997.

Review: A. J. Strange in FR 74.2 (2000), 364–365: Reestablishes the "distinctive contribution to women's instructional literature" made by Schomberg (1600–1674) in two treatises, written for her granddaughter, on the duties of the wife and mother. Winn's "valuable" and "instructive" critical edition, including introduction and comprehensive bibliography, informs Schomberg's treatment of child rearing, household supervision, and social conduct.

ZARUCCHI, JEANNE MORGAN. "Royal Dominion Over Time: The Tapestries of the Four Seasons." CdDS 8.1, 157–68.

Examines the Gobelins tapestries of the Four Elements and Seasons made in the 1660; shows how they promote the idea of Louis XIV's sovereignty over nature, as well as give us information on the origins of Charles Perrault's belief in the primacy of the present over the past.

ADAM, MICHEL. L'Eucharistie chez les penseurs français du dix-septième siècle. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2000.

Review: BCLF 631 (2001), 627: "Ce livre de spécialistes, concernant un sujet ardu se révèle absolument nécessaire à celui qui veut comprendre les débats philosoophiques et théologiques qui ont secoué le XVIIe siècle."

ADAMS, ALISON and STANTON J. LINDEN, eds. Emblems and Alchemy. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 1998.

Review: R. Ganim in CdDS 8.1, 212–16. Ten interdisciplinary essays that "explore the relationships between text, image, and alchemical practice." "A significant contribution" examining subjects such as mnemonics, gender, architecture, spirituality, frontispieces, and alchemical allusions in Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe.

ALET, MARTINE. "La mélancolie dans la psycho-physiologie du début du XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 447–471.

Definition of the concept of melancholy in the medical field and the moralist discourse at the beginning of the 17th Century.

ALMQUIST, KATHERINE ANN. "The concept of probable opinion in rhetoric and the law from Montaigne to Pascal." DAI 60/12 (2000), 4399.

Through an analysis of Montaigne's "Apologie de Raymond Sebond" and Pascal's Lettres provinciales, shows "how the concept of probable opinion shifts from probity to plausibility in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century French civil and canonic jurisprudence." Argues that Pascal responds to the Jesuits' extreme skepticism not through a return to dogmatism, but by appealing to "the verisimilar notion of opinion which is held by his opponent and his audience alike."

BERTOLINI, SONIA. "Gabrielle Suchon: une vie sans engagement?" AJFS 37.3 (2000), 289–308.

An attempt to shed light on the life, work, and theories of Suchon. Discusses numerous archival documents discovered by Bertolini, including descriptions of the professional activities of Suchon's father, a certificate authorizing Suchon's transfer to the Jacobin monastery at Langres, and another clarifying details about the lives of two of Suchon's aunts. Examines the publication circumstances and reception of Suchon's Traité de la Morale et de la Politique (1693) and Le Célibat volontaire ou la vie sans engagement (1700) in which Suchon "proposait aux femmes la voie du célibat volontaire et dénonçait avec force les mariages arrangés et les vocations forcées." Bertolini demonstrates that much work needs to be done on this important social theorist. Archival documents are reproduced in an appendix. (Article is followed by a short bibliographic note on S. by Wallace Kirsop [pp. 309–11]).

BIRELEY, ROBERT. The Refashioning of Catholicism, 1450–1700; A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic U of America P, 1999.

Review: M. M. Bullard in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1221–23: Welcomed as a "fresh, updated assessment of religious life in the early modern Roman church," Bireley's study is organized around major changes, in authority, economics, society, missionary zeal, humanistic culture and in the need for reform made evident by the Protestant Reformation.

BLAY, MICHEL. Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe. Trans.M.B. DeBevoise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Review: Antoni Malet in Isis 91 (2000), 778–779: Praises the work as a "useful repository of important texts and insightful commentary," but regrets that there is little historicization of the concepts discussed. Notes that the book ends with a long epilogue devoted primarily to Fontenelle's Elemens de la géométrie de l'infini (1727).

BLUM, PASCALE and ANNE MANTERO, éds. Poésie et Bible de la Renaissance à l'âge classique 1550–1680. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 302: Diverse and highly useful, with indices, an appendix on music, bibliography, the volume is organized into sections on: "Une Nouvelle Poétique," "Mises en Scène Bibliques," "Libertés, Constraintes, Polémique," and "Formes du Lyrisme."

BOITANO, JOHN F. "Startling Revelations From the Orient: Martino Martini's Histoire de la Chine." CdDS 8.1, 19–28.

Author reinserts Martini's forgotten text into the religious controversies of the day regarding the richness of the Chinese cultural heritage. Although not devoid of bias, his account of travels "forced the Occident to re-examine, to re-define, and to expand ultimately the very foundations of Christianity."

BOURG, JULIAN. "The Rhetoric of Modal Equivocacy in Cartesian Transsubstantiation." JHI 62 (2001) 121–140.

Taking the Eurcharist as a kind of litmus test, shows how Descartes elaborates "original positions" within scholastic language. "The rhetoric of modal equivocacy shows the presence of contextual negotiations in the content of Cartesian philosophy—why Descartes had to say certain things, what he said, and how he said them were all mixed up. Ambiguity was part of the equation. His long-standing reputation as a thinker of univocity notwithstanding, the case of modes and Cartesian transubstantiation warrant consideration of Descartes as a thinker of equivocacy." Shows how Descartes used the traditional category of "mode" in equivocal ways in order to accommodate the innovations in his philosophy.

BOUVERESSE, JACQUES. "Mathématiques et logique chez Leibniz." Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 54, #2, Avril-Juin 2001, 223–246.

The author demonstrates the modernity of Leibniz's concepts of proof and provability.

BRULIN, MONIQUE. Le verbe et la voix. La manifestation vocale dans le culte en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Beauchesne, 1998.

Review: D. Dinet in DSS 211 (2001), 343–344: Featuring religious expression as it is spoken, read and sung, this study analyzes spoken prayer, "la manifestation extérieure de la foi et de la vie intérieure du chrétien" and the Christian lyricism of hymns. Brulin is especially interested in the theories of vocal art. The reviewer criticizes some factual and stylistic imperfections and notes that inclusion of recent research on monastic orders would have provided data for a deeper analysis of actual practices.

BRUNEAU, MARIE-FLORINE. Women Mystics Confront the Modern World: Marie de l'Incarnation (1599–1672) and Madame Guyon. State University of New York Press, 1998.

Review: V. Worth-Stylianou in FS 54.4 (2000), 504–5: Marie-Florine Bruneau "achieves valuable insights" as she "examine[s] the transformations which mystical and writing practices underwent" during the seventeenth century, and "explore[s] the social significance of female mysticism in Western tradition." Bruneau's approach to her subject derives from two very different sources, the work of Michel de Certeau and that of Caroline Walker Bynum. While "this study is lucid, well-researched on the level of individual texts," the reviewer regrets that "one is left with the feeling of having read two separate case histories; interesting points of similarity and contrast" between Marie de l'Incarnation and Madame Guyon "are not systematically followed up."

BRUNET, PHILIPPE. "L'acte de mîmêsis." Littérature 122, juin 2001, 90–99.

Meditating on mimesis implies astonishment at scholarly avoidance of Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and at Aristotle's Poetics' avoidance of theatrical reality; avoidances which perhaps point to ". . .the avoidance of mimesis as an actualization, a mode of reintroducing, revisiting, reliving, representing myth."

CAGNAT-DEBOEUF, CONSTANCE. Bossuet. Sermons. Le Carême du Louvre. Ed. établie et annotée par Constance Cagnat-Debœuf. Paris: Gallimard (Folio-Classique), 2001.

Review: E. Pieiller in QL 812 (du 16 au 31 juillet 2001), 29: A new edition of Bossuet's Lenten sermons of 1662. "Bossuet a trente-cinq ans, lorsqu'il prononce devant le Roi et la Cour ces Sermons de Carême à la chapelle du Louvre. (...) Les Sermons de Carême sont un événement mondain, et ceux qu'écoute le Roi sont particulièrement 'glorieux' et... risqués. Bossuet ne manque certes pas d'audace, et le Roi, qui n'aime guère les reproches, se dispensera des derniers Sermons. Aujourd'hui encore, ce courage dans l'accusation voilée est parfaitement perceptible, même si ce qui nous touche plus particulièrement, c'est la rhétorique de l'effroi, c'est la mise en scène de 'l'homme déchu', c'est la vigueur d'une culpabilisation systématique, où l'orateur lui-même se met en cause, et en jeu, et en crise."

CERTEAU, MICHEL DE. The Possession at Loudun. Transl.Michael B. Smith. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Review: H. Phillips, in French History 15 (2001), 111–112: "[A] fine translation that never intrudes" of a work whose thesis "is that the 'truth' of history is elusive, even illusory." De Certeau finds that the possession is directly related to the period of historical transition in which it occurred, and uses this theory to address the issue of whether "discourse creates the event rather than the reverse," a discussion in which the historian's role is called into question.

CHAUZAT, F. et al., eds. Protestants en Vaucluse, XVIe–XIXe siècles. Archives départementales de Vaucluse: Catalogue de l'exposition au Palais des Papes à Avignon sept.-déc 1998.

Review: H. Genton in BHR 62.2 (2000), 414: "Le catalogue retrace dans l'ordre chronologique les conditions de la profession de foi des protestants dans le Vaucluse. . ."

CLERO, JEAN-PIERRE AND NIDERST, ALAIN, eds. Le Végétal. Textes réunis par Jean-Pierre Cléro et Alain Niderst. Rouen: Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 1999.

Review: Marie-Odile Sweetser in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 180–182: "Ce très riche volume offre des perspectives fraîches et stimulantes dans des textes d'une grande variété."

COIRAULT-NEUBURGER, SYLVIE. La confusion du bien et du mal. Le diable imitateur. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.

Review: M. Adam, in RPFE 1141 (2001), 272: Raises questions such as: are good and evil as opposite as they appear? Is the human soul capable of recognizing the good? How do we tell the original from its imitation, for example in the "geste créateur"? Coirault-Neuburger's multi-faceted response to these questions includes analyses of 17th-century writers La Bruyère and La Rochefoucauld as she explores the roles that vanity, simulation, and duplicity play in formulating our response to these issues.

CONSTANTINI, MICHEL. "Les fragments stagyrites." Littérature 122, Juin 2001, 6–29.

"This fictive and abundantly annotated "translation" is a reconstruction from notes from a close reading of —mainly—the first four chapters of Aristotle's Poetics in the 1980 edition of Roselyne Dupont-Roc and Jean Lallot (Seuil-Paris). It purposes to demonstrate Aristotle's modernity—in particular his semiotic modernity."

CRISTIN, OLIVIER et DARIO GAMBONI, eds. Crise de l'image religieuse. Krisen religioser Kunst. Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1999.

Review: A. Tallon in BHR 63.1 (2001), 165–166: Communications pluridisciplinaires d'un colloque tenu à Göttingen les 18–20 mars 1994 et qui "couvrent un espace chronologique extrêmement large, du Haut Moyen Age à la période la plus contemporaine." Article de M.-H.Froeschlé-Chopard à propos de la Provence, "De l'image protectrice à l'image enseignante. Une mutation du sentiment religieux au XVIIe siècle."

CROXTON, DEREK. Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe. Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643–1648. Setinsgrove:Susqueanna UP, 1999.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 271 (2000), 477–78: Mixed review praises insights, for example on the question of alliances in French politics, as correct and important, yet Duchhardt is not completely convinced of Croxton's interpretation of impressive sources, especially as concerns military strategies.

DAGEN, JEAN, éd. Entre Epicure et Vauvenargues: principes et formes de la pensée morale. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: J. Campbell in FS 55.2 (2001), 238–39: "This is the first volume in a projected new series which seeks to focus on ethical issues in early modern texts." Among the essays featured here are Jean-François Lecoq's "refreshingly clear" account of "how internal tensions in Locke's philosophy were reflected in the evolution of moral philosophy in France," Béatrice Guion's "illuminating" essay on Pierre Nicole, and David Bensoussan's "delightful essay on Saint-Evremond's style as a moralist." There are also two "stimulating 'theatrical' piece[s]," Anne Larue's 'Théâtre du monde et théâtralité des supplices' and Camille Guyon-Lecoq's 'La Morale à l'opéra: Fontenelle et la tragédie lyrique."

DEAR, PETER. Revolutionizing the Sciences. European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500–1700. Basingstoke: Paigrave, 2001.

Review: J. Black in JES 31, 108–10: Dean sees that a "natural" philosophy firmly directed towards the control of the world is in place by the time of Newton's death. Explores the importance not only of research and discovery but also of the integration of knowledge into systems. Shows how new political and administrative structures sprang from new understanding of the world.

DEMANDT, ALEXANDER, ed. Stätten des Geistes. Große Universitäten Europas von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Köln: Böhlau, 1999.

Review: N. Hammerstein in HZ 271 (2000), 391–92: Highly readable and informative overview of important European institutions, including those in Paris.

DENVILLAIRS, LAURENCE. "La Première Méditation de Descartes et le De beata vita d'Augustin. " RMM, 2 (avril-juin 2001), 119–132.

The author shows that the First Meditation is written from a reading of Augustine's first confessions, that is to say the De beata vita. The augustinian source is certified by Régis who immediately connects the divine attributes of God as they are stated in Descartes' Meditations to Augustine's theology.

DE VALENCE, FRANCOISE. Médecins de fortune et d'infortune: des aventuriers français en Inde au XVIIe siècle: témoins et témoignages. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2000.

Review: BCLF 624 (2000), 2256: "En dépit de questionnements intéressants, la rareté des analyses donne parfois au livre l'aspect d'un catalogue, au demeurant riche d'informations, en particulier dans la troisième partie, qui répertorie la pratique indienne de la médecine (les maladies et les remèdes) telle qu'elle fut observée par ces 'médecins d'aventure'. . ."

DIEFENDORF, BARBARA B. "Contradictions of the Century of Saints: Aristocratic Patronage and the Convents of Counter-Reformation Paris." FHS 24 (2001), 469–499.

Implies that some modern studies of 17th-century convents wrongly depict them as tightly controlled by misogynistic ecclesiastics. Shows that individual donors were in fact responsible for construction and eventual success or failure, and that the women in charge could manage them as they pleased.

DI MARE, DANIELA. "In imagine homo pertransit. Painted portrait and sacred image in early seventeenth-century French novels." DAI 60/11 (2000), 4028.

Examines the problematics of the painted portrait in the early novel, showing how it raises questions of both identity and representation. Situates texts by d'Urfé, Gomberville, Sorel and Camus within a contemporary debates on sacred images.

FAYE, EMMANUEL, ed. Descartes et La Renaissance. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 950: Collection of essays from the 1996 Colloque de Tours examines Descartes' works in the context of Renaissance humanism and the history of ideas. Hermeneutic and doctrinal studies complement examinations of rhetoric, medicine, representation, and so forth.

Review: M. Gauna in FS 55.3 (2001), 381–82: The papers presented here are "grouped under six headings that give a very fair idea of the vast scope of this colloquium, namely: Descartes and Peter Ramus; Montaigne, Charron and Descartes, from human doubt to divine omnipotence; Continuities and Ruptures from the Renaissance to Descartes; Similitude and Representation; Physics, Mechanics and Medicine; Hermeneutic Enquiries and Doctrinal Confrontations." The reviewer concludes, "All in all a most worthy volume, but certainly not an easy read [...]."

FICHANT, MICHEL. Science et métaphysique dans Descartes et Leibniz. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1998.

Review: S. Roux in RdS 122.1 (2001), 210–214 : Treize études publiées entre 1990 et 1996 ; le seul texte à proprement parler inédit est une courte préface où Fichant s'attache à dégager rétrospectivement les principes qui ont orienté son travail. Trois de ces articles sont consacrés à Descartes, neuf à Leibniz, un à Cassirer : ce dernier prolonge la préface par un examen critique de l'histoire pratiquée par Cassirer.

FINNEY, PAUL CORBY, ed. Seeing Beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Review: B.D. Spinks in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1224–25: Spinks appreciates the collection, richly illustrated, which grew out of a 1998 conference at Princeton's Center of Theological Inquiry. Diverse contributions treat both theory and practice range geographically from England and Europe to the New World, and "dispel the idea that Calvinism made no contribution to the visual arts." Of particular interest to 17 th c. scholars is Hélène Guicharnaud's essay on distinctive features of Huguenot temples, "practically all destroyed after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685" but thanks to her careful examination of "plans, drawings and contractual documents", these buildings come alive for us, and it is clear, by their interior decoration, that "loyalty to God and King" was essential to the Calvinist tradition.

GONTIER, THIERRY. "Le corps humain est-il une machine?" RPFE 1140 (2001), 27–53.

Uses Cartesian theories concerning the human body to introduce a new way of looking at the issues of "bio-power" and sovereignty of the body as defined by Foucault and Agamben.

GREGORY, BRAD S. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.

Review: S. Covington in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1226–27: Praiseworthy for its theological, historical and textual analyses, Gregory's impressive volume (over 500 pages) treats martyrdom (and anti-martyrologies) among Anabaptists, Protestants and Catholics in England, France and the Low Countries. Covington admires Gregory's "truly innovative work" on the Anabaptists whose martyrdom is distinguished through songs as a "form of memorialization."

GREGORY, TULLIO. Genèse de la raison classique, de Charron à Descartes. Trad. de l'italien parM. Raiola. Paris: PUF, 2000.

Review: BCLF 627 (2000), 2530: ". . . dans la continuité historique et intellectuelle de la pensée humaniste de la Renaissance—c'est la thèse centrale de T. Gregory—, les divers courants ou figures du libertinisme peuvent apparaître ensemble comme un creuset d'où émergea ce qu'on nomme couramment la 'raison classique'."

GREINER, FRANK, ed. Aspects de la tradition alchimique au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international de l'Université de Reims-Champagne (28 et 29 novembre 1996). Paris: S.E.H.A., 1998.

Review: L. M. Principe in Isis 91 (2000), 782–783: Calls the collection an excellent book, citing several articles on the intersection of alchemy and the scientific revolution, including Descartes. Also mentions Bernard Joly's article on Etienne de Clave and Sylvain Matton's contribution on alchemy and the Jesuits, as well as a final section on alchemy and the fine arts.

Review: A. Arrigoni in SFr 132 (2000), 585: of interest to students/scholars of medicine and philosophy as well as literature, Greiner's work reviews the alchemic tradition, analyzes its representatives, illustrates its literary fortune, examines style and discourses. Influences on literature are investigated, in particular on Camus and Gomberville.

GUENANCIA, P. L'intelligence du sensible. Paris: Gallimard, 《 NRF Essais 》, 1998.

Review: L. Devillairs in EP 1 (Jan.-Mars 2001), 124–125: First six chapters study what author identifies as the "epistémologie de la distinction" (as opposed to "dualisme") in Descartes. Second part examines the links between feeling and reflection, "amour" and "générosité." Author focuses on the question of free will; Devillairs suggests that Descartes's views on Providence should also be more fully considered.

HAMOU, PHILIPPE. La mutation du visible. Essai sur la portée épistémologique des instruments d'optique au XVIIe siècle. vol. I: Du Sidereus Nuncius de Galilée à la Dioptrique cartésienne. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires de Septentrion, 1999.

Review: S. Mazauric in DSS 211 (2001), 366–368: Part I is devoted to the "révélation galiléenne" and its legacy in Gassendi, Hevelius, and Huygens; the second part traces its repercussion in Képler and Descartes. The reviewer emphasizes and lauds the novelty of Hamou's approach: rather than yet another study ("une énième enquête") of the causes of the scientific revolution in the 17th century, this book investigates one of its "symptoms" and proposes a "symptomatologie" rather than an "étiologie." The author's goal: analyze "la fonction épistémologique de l'emploi de ces instruments [d'observation]." The book's rigor and precision are persuasive, but the reviewer questions the author's decision to focus on Sidereus Nuncius to the exclusion of Galileo's other works.

HASELER, JENS and ANTHONY McKENNA, eds. La Vie intellectuelle aux Refuges protestants. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: D. Monda in S Fr 132 (2000), 597: The acts of a colloque at Münster (25 July 1995) which began an impressive scholarly investigation of the intellectual life of Huguenots in 17th and 18th C. Essays are diverse and wide ranging from a consideration of Bayle's history of Reformed churches to studies of history of the Francophone public in Prussia, and so forth. Important interdisciplinary contributions on history, philosophy, literature, and ideas.

HAYES, JULIE CANDLER. Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Review: M. Calder in MLR 96.3 (2001), 822–23: "Cross-sectioning an impressively diverse range of textual genres, Julie Candler Hayes pursues her reinterpretation of the Enlightenment's 'esprit systématique' with consistency and focus. The guiding thesis is that the system-building impulse, the epistemological need for rationalizing and classifying the world, contained within itself the potential for its own subversion." The author tracks the systematizing project "through the correspondences of Elizabeth of Boehmia and Descartes, Desjardins and Villedieu and Graffigny and Devaux..."

HUREL, DENIS-ODON and RAYMOND ROGE, eds. Dom Bernard de Montfaucon. Actes du Colloque de Carcassonne, octobre 1996. Editions de Fontenelle, 1998.

Review: P. Castagnetti in DSS 211 (2001), 341–343: Author of l'Antiquité expliquée and Monuments de la Monarchie française, Montfaucon is a little-known disciple of Jean Mabillon. Primarily biographical in its approach, this collection of articles by a diverse range of participants strives to present an image of the man "dans sa globalité."

JONES, MATTHEW LAURENCE. "Technical Subjects: Mathematics and Natural Philosophy as Spiritual Exercises in Descartes, Pascal and Leibniz." DAI 61/09 (2001), 3742.

Argues that the technical difficulties with the experiments of these thinkers stem from their relation to spiritual exercises. "The innovative uses and defenses of algebra in Descartes, experimental narrative in Pascal and infinite series in Leibniz, all new written forms designed to help overcome the insufficiencies of postlapsarian language and thought, were defended as ways simultaneously to gain knowledge and to cultivate the self."

KELLEY, DONALD R., ed. History and the Disciplines. The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Rochester NY: The Univ. of Rochester Press, 1997.

Review: J-P Cavaillé in RPFE 1140 (2001), 92–94: Aims to show how history is used, from the Renaissance through the Enlightenment, to legitimize various disciplines. Each essay focuses on the cultural, historical, and institutional contexts in which the "knowledge" essential to a particular discipline was (re)defined. Cavaillé only regrets that the editor and essayists deliberately avoid the history of philosophy.

KNOBLOCH, EBERHARD. "Déterminants et élimination chez Leibniz." Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 54, #2, Avril-Juin 2001, 143–164.

A technical study of Leibniz's use of indices in algebra.

KRONICK, DAVID A. "The Commerce of Letters: Networks and 'Invisible Colleges' in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe." LQ 71 (2001), 28–43.

Demonstrates the important role of correspondence, as opposed to publication, in circulating and disseminating scientific knowledge. Proposes new approach to investigating these "networks" or "invisible colleges."

LAURSEN, JOHN CHRISTIAN and CARY J. NEDERMAN, eds. Beyond the Persecuting Society. Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment. Philadelphia: U of Penn P, 1998.

Review: M. Maurer in HZ 270 (2000), 474–75: Maurer warmly welcomes this collection of essays on the problem of tolerance which includes three divisions: the Middle Ages, the Sixteenth Century, and the Seventeenth Century. Pierre Bayle receives particular mention.

LESNE-JAFFRO, EMMANUELE. ed. Fléchier et les Grands Jours d'Auvergne. Actes d'une Journée d'étude, Université Blaise Pascal-Clermont-Ferrand, 3 octobre 1997. Biblio 17 122, 2000.

Review: "Les Mémoires sur les Grands Jours d'Auvergne, d'Esprit Fléchier sont le prétexte d'une réflexion pluridisciplinaire, qui permit de réunir, à l'Université de Clermont-Ferrand, autour d'un récit exceptionnel, des spécialistes de l'histoire politique, religieuse, juridique et littéraire du XVIIe siècle (. . .) Les études réunies dans ce volume permettent de mesurer l'exacte place d'un texte discret mais essentiel pour la connaissance de l'histoire et de la littérature du XVIIe siècle."

LESTRINGANT, FRANK. Une sainte horreur, ou le voyage en Eucharistie (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle). Paris : P.U.F., coll. "Histoires," 1996.

Review : Lestringant writes a history of the significance of the Eucharist for Catholics and Protestants from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The controversy arose from discussions of the degree of the presence of flesh in the sacred ritual. "Erudition précise et colorée à la fois, la rigueur de l'analyse et la verve du récit donnent à ce "voyage en Eucharistie" son attrait et sa profondeur. L'historien des religions, le spécialiste de littérature moderne, l'anthropologue et tout simplement le lecteur désireux de mieux connaître les racines de notre modernité y trouveront plus que leur compte."

LURIA, KEITH P. "Separated by Death? Burials, Cemeteries, and Confessional Boundaries in Seventeenth-Century France." FHS 24 (2001), 185–222.

Describes varying ways in which Huguenots and Catholics shared burial practices, cemeteries in "confessionally mixed communities." Focuses on both coexistence and conflict.

LUTHY, CHRISTOPH. "The Fourfold Democritus on the Stage of Early Modern Science." Isis 91 (2000) 442–479.

Argues that "the observed polyvalence of the early modern concept of 'atomism' is related to the considerable polyvalence of the revived figure of Democritus." Explores the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century views of Democritus as a natural philosopher and atomist, the laughing philosopher, the moralizing anatomist, and finally, the alchemist.

MADEC, GOULVEN. Le Dieu d'Augustin. Paris: Cerf, 1998.

Review: L. Devillairs in RdS 122.1 (2001), 207–210: Très référencée, l'ouvrage constitue une excellente introduction à la lecture d'Augustin. L'auteur propose d'examiner l'idée de Dieu dans les œuvres de l'évêque d'Hippone. 《 La thèse réside en l'affirmation de l'origine exclusivement biblique des conceptions augustiniennes : le Dieu d'Augustin n'est en rien différent du Dieu des Ecritures, la pensée de l'évêque d'Hippone est avant tout une méditation sur la Bible.  》

MARGUERITE DU SAINT-SACREMENT. Correspondance (Lettres reçues à son sujet). Présentée par Sœur Marie-Françoise Grivot. vol. I (1631-1648), Forelle, 1997.

Review: J. Deprun in DSS 211 (2001), 339: 360 letters or letter fragments, some never before published, all carefully annotated. An introduction outlines the extraordinary richness of this correspondance, and a preface underscores its cultural merit.

MARTIN, CATHERINE. Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: BCLF 627 (2000), 2716: "A partir de vastes recherches dans les archives, Catherine Martin a étudié, selon un plan rigoureux, d'abord la compagnie [de la propagation de la foi] de Paris; puis la mise en place et le fonctionnement de celles de Grenoble, d'Aix, de Lyon et de Montpellier; en enfin, l'évolution de l'ensemble de ces associations [travaillant à l'éradication du protestantisme]."

MATHIEU-CASTELLANI, GISÈLE. "La colère d'Aristote-Défense et illustration d'un emportement plus doux que le miel. . ." Littérature 122, Juin 2001, 75–89.

"Anger for Aristotle is the exemplary passion; it is also one for which he shows considerable indulgence, in not approval, while analyzing it in terms of its logic. These considerations make its study and the study of its posterity valuable."

MAXWELL-STUART, P.G., ed. The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 294: Valuable for its compilation and translation (in many cases of the first time) of 16th and 17th c. documents relating to diverse aspects and practices of the occult and suggestive of its role in the developing world view of these periods. Extensive bibliography.

MECHOULAN, HENRI, ed. Menasseh Ben Israël. De la fragilité humaine et de l'inclination de l'homme au péché. Paris: Cerf, 1996.

Review: A. Goosens in RBPH 77.5 (1999), 1220–1221: Ce texte du rabbin amstelodamois "destiné à faire l'apologie du libre arbitre face à la prédestination" est "d'une importance non négligeable dans la compréhension des débats théologiques soutenus dans les Provinces-Unies au XVIIe siècle..."

MENN, STEPHEN. Descartes and Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

Review: L. Devillairs in RdS 122.1 (2001), 207–210: "La thèse générale qui y est développée consiste à montrer que la métaphysique augustinienne a fourni à Descartes le fondement et le principe de légitimation d'une physique non-aristotélicienne.  》

MOREAU, DENIS,trans. Antoine Arnaud. Textes Philosophiques. Paris: PUF (collection "Epiméthée), 2001.

Review: J. Lacoste in QL 811 (du 1er au 15 juillet 2001), 20–22: "Défenseur intransigeant de la conception augustinienne de la grâce efficace, qui seule peut sauver et vient de Dieu seul—il est l'auteur d'un ouvrage sur De la nécessité de la foi en Jésus-Christ pour être sauvé—Arnaud se plaît également à s'engager dans les disputes philosophiques de son époque, qui sont étroitement liées à ces problématiques religieuses. Ce qui le conduit à discuter par lettres et par opuscules avec Malebranche, Leibniz et surtout Descartes, aux Méditations duquel il a adressé vers 1640 des 'Objections'—les Quatrièmes—que leur destinataire jugea être 'les meilleures de toutes.'" As for the edition, the reviewer qualifies Moreau as "le savant éditeur de ces textes."

NIDERST, ALAIN. "La géométrie et les réalités: à propos des Elements de la géométrie de l'infini de Fontenelle." Revue d'Histoire des Sciences, 54, #2, Avril-Juin 2001, 247–254.

Niderst proposes a reading of various documents relating to Fontenelle's purposed synthesis of Leibniz's and Newton's systems.

NUBOLA, CECILIA and ANGELO TURCHINI, eds. Fonti ecclesiatiche per la storia sociale e religiosa d'Europa: XV–XVIII secolo. Bologna: Mulino, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 954: Reevaluates sources and their use for this discipline. Sections on 1)use of computers in historical research, 2) pastoral visits and 3) diverse research subjects such as the construction of morality, spiritual justice, popular religion, and so forth.

Review: T. Deutscher in BHR LXIII,2 (2001), 362–65: Twenty presentations from an international colloquium (November 28–30, 1996) on the theme of pastoral visitations. The volume "provides a valuable update on recent publications and research employing acts of visitations and other ecclesiastical sources in France, Italy, and Germany. It develops new perspectives on such matters as the role of the confessional in the development of spirituality in the late medieval and early modern era. It is, in sum, a worthwhile addition to the social and religious history of Catholic Europe."

O'MALLEY, J. W. et al., eds. The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999).

Review: W. Monter in BHR 62.3 (2000), 787–788: "This thick and rich volume is the outgrowth of an international conference held at Boston College in 1997, devoted to the pre-1773 Society of Jesus' 'way of proceeding', particularly as it affected their approach to the arts and sciences, and its various manifestations in the multiple Jesuit encounters around the globe." Reviewer notes many useful contributions but agrees with one of the conference summarizers that the focus on the external rather than internal history of the Jesuits "'missed the problem of their motives, and the problem of the successive versions of their specific identity'."

PEARL, JONATHAN L. The Crime of Crimes. Demonology and Politics in France 1540–1620. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 1999.

Review: M. Closson in BHR 62.2 (2000), 500–503: ". . . son but a été de replacer la 'démonologie française'— c'est-à-dire les ouvrages traitant des pouvoirs des démons et donc de la sorcellerie— dans le 'contexte politique, religieux et intellectuel' des Guerres de religion." C. trouve que l'ouvrage "tout en proposant quelques pistes intéressantes et peut-être pas assez explorées—tels les liens entre les auteurs d'ouvrages démonologiques et les partis politiques et religieux de l'époque—ne contient donc malheureusement guère d'arguments de nature à convaincre un lecteur de la thèse qu'il défend."

PETEY-GIRARD, BRUNO. "De l'oraison mentale au sermon intérieur: la petite rhétorique méditative du révérend-père Coton." PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001), 45–60.

Analysis of the rhetoric of meditation in Coton's Sermons sur les principales et plus difficiles matières de la foy.

PIQUE, NICOLAS et GHISLAIN WATERLOT, eds. Tolérance et Réforme: éléments pour une généalogie du concept de tolérance. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000.

Review: F. de Maublanc in RDM (mai 2001), 188–189: Les textes proposés "retracent avec beaucoup de clarté et de précision les effets de la Réforme sur le concept et la pratique de la tolérance." Au 17e siècle, la mise en perspective historique et conceptuelle comprend l'oeuvre de "Hugo Grotius, des pasteurs de la fin du XVIIe siècle (Pierre Durieu, Pierre Du Bosc, Jean Claude, Etienne Merlat), et enfin des protestants exilés au Refuge (Pierre Bayle, pour l'essentiel) après la révocation."

PLATELLE, HENRI, ed. Journal d'un curé de campagne au XVIIe siècle. Villeneuve d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 1997.

Review: J. Dugnoille in RBPH 77.5 (1999), 1221–1222: Rédition du journal d'Alexandre Dubois qui "constitue une source précieuse pour connaître la vie sociale, la pratique religieuse, la perception des événements, dans un village du nord de la France au tournant des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

POLI, SERGIO. "Vendetta e pena capitale nella narrativa francese del primo seicento," in de Romanis, Roberto and Rosamaria Loretelli, eds. Il Delitto narrato al popolo. Palermo: Sellerio, 1999.

Review: M. Rossi in S Fr 132 (2000), 586: Poli reconstructs, through able analyses of 17th c. histoires tragiques, the evolution of the concept of the criminal of the time along with heterogeneous themes and topoï, Poli makes certain structural constraints. Important not only for light it sheds on a "tormented culture, but also on a society in full transformation."

POULOUIN, CLAUDINE. Le Temps des origines: l'Eden, le déluge et "les temps reculés". De Pascal à l'Encyclopédie. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: B. Chédozeau in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 219–220: "Cet ouvrage permet de comprendre comment le temps des origines a pu se penser en termes sécularisés. Il éclaire d'un jour nouveau les textes "de Pascal à l'Encyclopédie."

Review: J. Leigh in FS 55.1 (2001), 90–91: "In this fascinating book, Claudine Pouloin recalls attempts to identify the sites described by Genesis, hence reconciling them with a newly sophisticated geography, and efforts to understand the origins of non-Christian nations and fables." The author shows that "the continuing absence of these sites began to discredit the Bible as the unique, unquestionable source of information about the origins of humanity, while the emergence of new lands and peoples in the Christian consciousness...threatened it further." Pouloin's study is not limited to French thinkers: it is also "richly informed by the work of...Hobbes, Spinoza and Newton."

POUTET, YVES. Originalité et influence de saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle. 2 vols. Paris-Rome: Frères des Ecoles chrétiennes, 1999.

Review: P. Martin in DSS 211 (2001), 339–340: A series of 33 articles published between 1960–1998, this book examines the pedagogical endeavor of La Salle, its roots and legacy. Poutet underscores the originality of La Salle and traces his affiliation with earlier spiritual leaders by means of a comparison of his work to that of Anne de Xainctonge and François de Sales. The reviewer concludes ". . .cette publication éclaire le travail de Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, mais elle le dépasse pour nous plonger dans l'histoire de l'éducation, de la spiritualité ou des circuits de diffusion de la culture."

PREVOT, JACQUES. Libertins du XVIIe siècle, vol. 1. Paris: Gallimard, 《 Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 》, 1998 (vol. 2 forthcoming).

Review: D. Leduc-Fayette in RPFE 1140 (2001), 55–60 ("Les esprits forts au 'Grand Siècle'"): Leduc-Fayette briefly gives history of the evolving definition of "libertin" before examining Prévot's work, which is described as "un ensemble polymorphe qui juxtapose des écrits relevant de genres hétérogènes: poésie, roman, apologie érudite, traité philosophique et dialogue érotologique!" In Leduc-Fayette's words, an anthology that is "fort riche," containing many hard-to-find texts that have rarely or never been published, in-depth critical analysis, and an excellent "index de langue."

RAMSEY, ANN W. Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540–1630. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 1999.

Review: R. A. Mentzer in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1230–31: Essentially praiseworthy, Ramsey's ambitious and complex analysis is judged promising, imaginative and fresh. The wills of over 1200 Parisians provide Ramsey with an extensive basis for her "evaluation of Leaguer religious performance." Selected wills are closely examined and interconnections between liturgical and social spheres are superbly made. For the sophisticated scholar, Ramsey's volume presumes a certain familiarity with the subject.

RAMOND, CHARLES. Spinoza et la pensée moderne. Constitutions de l'objectivité. Préf.Pierre-François Moreau. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998.

Review : P. Séverac in RdS 122.1 (2001), 214–5 : 《  Ramond étudie des mots (perfection, puissance, affirmation, utilité. . .) ; cette manière de se tenir au plus près des textes, de les comparer entre eux, permet de saisir les évolutions, les ressemblances et différences entre théories, ainsi que les points d'achoppements, les difficultés—parfois non résolues—auxquelles se sont confrontés un ou plusieurs auteurs  》 (comme Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Pascal, et Hobbes).

RANDALL, CATHARINE. Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.

Review: B. D. Spinks in Ren Q 53 (2000), 1224–25: Theology and space are intertwined in Randall's technical examination of architecture and gardens of the 16th and 17th c. Imaginative (perhaps a bit too much so according to Spinks) and far-ranging study relates the structure of the Institutes to architectural constraints of Reformed architects commissioned at times to build Catholic structures. Argues for an "encoded Calvinist understanding of space."

ROMANO, ANTONELLA. La Contre-réforme mathématique, constitution et diffusion d'une culture mathématique jésuite à la Renaissance (1540–1640). Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1999.

Review: E. Poulle in BHR LXIII,2 (2001), 446–48: Romano "s'est attachée à démonter le mécanisme par lequel les Jésuites se sont trouvés amenés à créer un enseignement scientifique qui n'avait pas été prévu par leur fondateur et comment cet enseignement a acquis un rôle emblématique, puisque les Jésuites en sont venus à confisquer, pratiquement, la tâche de former les élites techniques du gouvernement royal en France."

ROUSSET, BERNARD. Geulincx entre Descartes et Spinoza. Afterword byP.-F. Moreau. Paris: Vrin, 1999.

Review: J.-P. Babin in DSS 209 (2000), 746: Posthumously published, Rousset's unfinished book provides the historical and biographical data necessary to understand Geulincx the man and his work and offers a systematic analysis of Geulincx's philosophy. The reviewer writes, "au cours de cet exposé et surtout dans les notes, est ébauchée la confrontation avec le spinozisme: si l'auteur n'aura pas eu le temps de la développer, il reste des perspectives éclairantes sur le dialogue qui s'est instauré, à travers leurs œuvres, entre les deux penseurs."

SCHILLING, HEINZ. Die neue Zeit. Vom Christenheitseuropa zum Europa der Staaten,1250–1750. Berlin: Siedler, 1999.

Review: H. Durchhardt in HZ 270 (2000), 405–07: Judged comprehensive and conclusive, Schilling's work covers topics such as economy, administration, political powers, culture and religion. Found to be magisterial, Durchhardt admires Schilling's remarkable synthesis of such a wide-ranging subject.

SEDGWICK, ALEXANDER. The Travails of Conscience. The Arnauld Family and the Ancien Régime. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998.

Review: L. J. Taylor in Ren Q 53 (2000), 265–66: Valuable for the light it sheds on a 2000 year period of French history, Sedgwick's work identifies family traits (some due to Calvinistic influences), studies women's roles and devotions, and examines tensions among the men arising from ambition. Taylor would have appreciated more contextual analysis and less detail.

SERFATI, MICHEL. "Mathématiques et pensée symbolique chez Leibniz." Revue d'Histoire des Sciences", 54, #2, Avril-Juin 2001, 165–221.

Analysis of what Leibniz called "symbolic thought" in his mathematical system, and considered to be a main part of his system of the world.

TALLON, ALAIN. La France et le concile de Trente (1518–1563). Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1997.

Review: I. Mieck in HZ 271 (2000), 191–92: Praiseworthy for its clarity and extensive documentation, Tallon's volume fills many lacunae as he treats The Council of Trent, its birth and conception in France's diplomatic structures and politics.

TOLLET, DANIEL, ed. Les textes judéophobes et judéophiles dans l'Europe chrétienne à l'époque moderne. Paris: PUF, 2000.

Review: F. Laplanche in DSS 210 (2001), 165–166: Actes of a 1995 colloquium held at the Sorbonne, the eleven articles are sub-divided into three groups: "Points de vue catholiques," "Points de vue réformés," and "Littérature et société." The diverse collection is characterized overall as "excellent" by the reviewer.

TOMA, DOLORES, ANCA CHRISTODORESCU and VLAD ALEXANDRESCU, eds. Autour de Descartes. Bucarest: Ed. Crater, 1998.

Review: M. Devaux in DSS 210 (2001), 178–179: Approximately twenty articles drawn from a 1996 colloquium, organized according to four rubrics: "Epistémologie cartésienne et rationalité;" "Parcours sceptique et métaphysique cartésienne;" "Esprit cartésien et langage;" "Morale et passions." The section devoted to language bears exclusively on Port-Royal, and the last section is primarily biographical.

WALCH, AGNES. "Du singulier à l'universel: La Perfection de l'amour selon Catherine Lévesque (1616–1693)." DSS 209 (2000), 703–718.

Inspired by marriage treatises penned by clerics, Lévesque's little-known devotional text discusses the ideal form of conjugal love. Walch identifies the singular nature of the text-secular and female-authored-and analyzes the theoretical and experiential underpinnings of Lévesque's marriage tract.

WILKIN, REBECCA MAY. "Feminizing Imagination in France, 1563–1678." 61/10 (2001), 4020.

Argues that literary, philosophical and medical texts of the early modern period demonstrate a changing conception of the nature and function of the imagination, specifically with respect to gender ideology. Shows that most male thinkers, concerned with issues such as witchcraft, epistemology and the influence of the novel, tended to disparage the imagination by branding in feminine, whereas Lafayette was able to appropriate the category to different ends. Other authors include Ronsard, Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Boileau, Huet and Sorel.

WOLLENBERG, JORG. "Richelieu et le système européen de sécurité collective. La bibliothèque du Cardinal comme centre intellectuel d'une nouvelle politique." DSS 210 (2001), 99–112.

Focuses both on the content of Richelieu's vast collection as well as how the Cardinal read, characterizing the latter as pragmatic: books must not simply instruct but inspire action. The vast collection of Protestant literature is seen as proof of Richelieu's desire to persuade by the superiority of his arguments founded on a solid knowledge of Calvinist thought.

ABRAHAM, CLAUDE. "Comment peut-on être femme?" PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 135–140.

Study of the literary portraits "au féminin", where what matters is "l'art de plaire," defined as the skill necessary to contribute in a positive way to everything that presents itself, to contribute to her milieu "de façon à le laisser meilleur qu'avant. . ."

ADAMS, ALISON and STANTON J. LINDEN, eds. Emblems and Alchemy. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 1998.

Review: R. Ganim in CdDS 8.1, 212–16. Ten interdisciplinary essays that "explore the relationships between text, image, and alchemical practice." "A significant contribution" examining subjects such as mnemonics, gender, architecture, spirituality, frontispieces, and alchemical allusions in Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe.

ARTIGAS-MANANT, GENVIEVE AND ANTHONY MCKENNA, eds. Tendences actuelles dans la recherche sur les clandestins à l'âge classique. (La lettre clandestine 5). Paris: Presse de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1997.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 75, 1 (2001), 162–63: Examines the role played by Gassendi in the history of thought of the seventeenth century. The goals of the editors "consiste à établir des 'liens entre la pensée religieuse, la pensée philosophique et l'histoire clandestine des idées à l'Age classique'." Part One includes information on clandestine philosophical literature and a detailed bibliography; Part Two contains the texts of papers given at a conference on the topic held at Paris XII-Créteil. Introduction by Robert Darnton.

ASSAF, FRANCIS B. La mort du roi. Une thanatographie de Louis XIV. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999.

Review: B. Chédozeau in IL 52.4 (2000), 46: Using the concept of the king's ceremonial body, author studies the complex discourses surrounding the death of the king. "On lira avec intérêt cette étude érudite, révélatrice, sur le plan littéraire, de l'évolution des mentalités en un domaine éminement symbolique."

Review: P. Ronzeaud in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 602–603. ". . .F. Assaf, alliant érudition et originalité interprétative, explore le croisement des déterminations historiques, idéologiques et culturelles dans un corpus de textes consacrés à la mort, aux obsèques et à la célébration posthume de Louis XIV."

Review: J. Sole in DSS 208 (2000), 552–553: A somewhat lukewarm review that faults Assaf's over-dependence on "maîtres à la mode" (Barthes, de Certeau, Marin, Apostolidès). First part of book, devoted to body of the king, follows in the line of Kantorowicz's work and is clear but not new. The second part examines the funeral orations themselves; distinct chapters focus on funeral orations in French and in Latin, religious and secular. The analyses of foreign funeral orations "témoignent de beaucoup d'intelligence historique et de finesse littéraire." Another chapter studies "vitupérations"—contemporary works, serious and humorous, that are hostile to "la mémoire du soi." The reviewer concludes: "Un fort intéressant appendice contenant différents textes du temps et notamment les plus irrespectueux, donc les plus savoureux. . .complète ce travail. Je persiste à penser qu'il [Assaf] aurait pu mieux le traiter en nous faisant davantage grâce des méthodes théoriques d'approche et en se plongeant plus dans le trésor documentaire d'époque, abordé avec moins de respect pour les autorités à la mode.. et plus de confiance en ses propres moyens d'analyse."

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 96.3 (2001), 822: Study of the two-fold public image of Louis XIV following his death—triumphalist official commemorations and popular derision. "What sets this book apart from other works concerned with the image of Louis XIV, is Assaf's purpose in analysing his abundant material in the light of the notion of the king's two bodies as propounded by Ernst Hartwig Kantorowicz, in The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Princeton, NJ: Princieton University Press, 1957)."

AUERBACH, ERIC. Le Culte des passions. Essais sur le XVIIe siècle français. Introduction et traduction parDiane Meur. Paris: Macula, 1998.

Review: F. Sick in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000), 604–605: " . . .des études qui peuvent être considérées comme des études de base sur l'époque. . ."

BALLESTRA-PUECH. Les Parques. Essai sur les figures féminines du destin dans la littérature occidentale. Toulouse: Editions Universitaires du Sud, 1999.

Review: E. Skad in E Cr 40 (2000), 97–98: Judged "une riche contribution aux études comparistes et mythocritiques", Ballestra-Puech's able study (Skad compliments "la souplesse et a dextérité avec lesquelles textes, images et bibliographie critique sont maniés") treats four symbolic "composantes" of the myth throughout Western literature. La Belle au bois dormant receives particular attention.

Le Baroque en question (s). Littératures classiques 36 (1999).

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 130 (2000), 149–151: This important number of Littératures classiques is of great value as a point of reference for all future studies of the baroque. Subdivided by themes and geography, the rich essays by distinguished scholars treat subjects as diverse as religion, the body, the baroque and Italy, music, genres, rhetoric and so forth. A final essay invites critics to respond to numerous questions and suggests possible perspectives for future inquiry.

BEAULIEU, JEAN-PHILIPPE, AND DIANE DESROSIERS-BONIN, eds. Dans les miroirs de l'écriture. La Réflexivité chez les femmes écrivains d'Ancien Régime. Montreal: Université de Montréal, 1998.

Review: G. Samson in RHL 101 (2001), 343–44: Summary review contains brief mentions of contributions on Marie de Gournay, Sévigné, and Madeleine de Scudéry.

BERTAUD, MADELEINE, ed. Architectes et architecture dans la littérature française. Paris: Klincksieck, 1999.

Review: C. Skenazi in BHR 62.2 (2000), 479–81: Trente-deux études d'un colloque organisé par l'ADIREL les 23–25 octobre 1997. M.-O. Sweetser "esquisse enfin la fortune des métaphores architecturales, de Du Bellay à Saint-Amant en passant par Malherbe pour dégager divers aspects politiques, sociaux, moraux d'une pratique qui valorise l'ordre, la mesure et la raison."

Review: L. Sabourin in RHL 101 (2001), 366–68: Brief mentions of several contributions on the seventeenth century (d'Urfé, La Fontaine, M. de Scudéry), containing information on "l'usage symbolique que la littérautre peut faire de l'architecture" and "la relecture des architectures au fil des générations et des besoins littéraires."

BERTAUD, MADELEINE. Le dix-septième siècle. Littérature française. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Collection Phares. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1998.

Review: B. Chédozeau in IL 52.3 (2000), 64. "[C]et ouvrage très classique" is aimed mainly at a general audience of beginning students. "Une synthèse récapitulative rapide et sûre," complemented by a bibliography and several "tableaux synoptiques."

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 606–607: "On ne saurait trop recommander cet excellent ouvrage aux enseignants et à leurs étudiants. . ."

Review: J.-P. Collinet in DSS 209 (2000), 745–746: Revised, and containing an updated bibliography, Bertaud's synthesis of 17th-c. literature continues to be a valuable tool for students and the general reader, according to Collinet (who reviewed the original edition eight years ago). Organized chronologically and divided into two parts covering the first and second half of the century, each part contains general introductory chapters followed by chapters devoted to poetry, theatre, and the novel.

Review: C. Rizza in SFr 132 (2000), 585: Particularly recommended to students and the general public for the clarity of its exposition and richness of information. Ample discussion of the baroque and manierist.

BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE, ed. Poétiques du burlesque. Actes du Colloque international du Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures Modernes et Contemporaines de l'Université Blaise Pascal. Paris : Champion, 1998.

Review : R. Horville in RSH 259.3 (2000), 275–278 : This collection of thirty-seven presentations contains an informative introduction, which constitutes an overview of the ambiguous term "burlesque", and a useful index of terms and names. The third section, "Le Siècle d'or du burlesque" covers literary manifestations in the second half of the sixteenth century and in the seventeenth. Authors studied include Rémy Belleau, Gongora, Charles Sorel, Saint-Amant, Scarron, Boileau, and La Bruyère. This is a collection whose "la richesse, la diversité et la qualité sont, comme on l'a vu, impressionantes."

BESSIERE, JEAN et DANIEL-HENRI PAGEAUX, eds. Formes et imaginaire du roman: Perspectives sur le roman antique, médiéval, classique, moderne et contemporain. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: L. Milne in MLR 95.4 (2000), 1169: "Organized in three parts of increasing length, the essays address, first, the 'genealogy' of the novel in Greek antiquity (in a fascinating article by Sophie Rabau), the Libro del Pelegrino (1508) and Mme de Lafayette; second, some novelistic genres in the nineteenth century; third, some innovations of the twentieth century. The principal focus of the second and third sections is French, but they include material that transcends national boundaries . . .." Expressed aim of the editors is to contribute to "a 'poétique historique' by consistently setting the literary analysis of texts in the appropriate socio-historical and intellectual context." Reviewer cites uneven quality of this collection of presentations to the Séminaire de Littérature générale et comparée de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Review: P. Andrès in S Fr 132 (2000), 660–61: Includes seven studies on the problematics of genres and eight on the problems of the novel, all reflections of the Centre d'Etudes du Roman et du Romanesque de l'Université Jules Verne de Picardie. In general clear and well documented, the articles focus on limits and boundaries between genres. 17th C. Scholars will especially appreciate the essay on the "croisement entre romanesque et poétique" in La Fontaine's Les Amours de Psyché, by Alain Génetiot.

BLUM, PASCALE and ANNE MANTERO, éds. Poésie et Bible de la Renaissance à l'âge classique 1550–1680. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 302: Diverse and highly useful, with indices, an appendix on music, bibliography, the volume is organized into sections on: "Une Nouvelle Poétique," "Mises en Scène Bibliques," "Libertés, Constraintes, Polémique," and "Formes du Lyrisme."

BOILLET, DANIELLE and DOMINIQUE MONOCOND'HUY, eds. Discontinuité et/ou hétérogénéité de l'oeuvre littéraire. Les Cahiers FORELL, no. 8.

Review: C. Torelli in S Fr 132 (2000), 656: The acts of a "journée d'études" (1996) on the concept of heterogeneity in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian literature during the 15–17th C. Scholars of the "grand siècle" will appreciate the essays on Père Le Moyne's Peintures morales and on l'Astrée of Honoré d'Urfé.

BOTS, HANS, ed. Critique, savoir et érudition à la veille des Lumières. Le Dictionaire (sic) historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1647–1706). Amsterdam: APA-Holland UP, 1998.

Review: P. Fuchs in H Z 271 (2000), 201–03: Some 24 essays round out these erudite Acts of an international colloquium celebrating the tricentenary of Bayle's dictionary. Fuchs comments on the original spelling with one "n" (Dictionaire). Essays treat a wide-range of themes from the organization of the dictionary to its reception, alterity, the dictionary as "magasin et protocole de la République des Lettres" (205), entries and subjects treated in the dictionary (Descartes and animals for example).

BOUVIER, MICHEL. La Morale classique. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 55.2 (2001), 240–41: "[Bouvier] has tracked down some four hundred works written by authors he calls 'moralistes' during the first part of Louis XIV's personal reign and he has distilled their view of mankind into two parts (man and society) with chapters on self-knowledge, the different ages of man, the difference between the sexes, the passions (especially love), the virtues, social status, politics, government, the King, the court, the nobility, war, justice, and the church...This is a learned and dense work of reference in which readers will find an intellectual backdrop against which better-known writers can be more fully appreciated." The reviewer regrets, however, that the author provides "little sense of the formal differences between the writers considered."

BRODY, JULES. Lectures classiques. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press, 1996.

Review: H. Phillips in FS 55.1 (2001), 86–87: A collection of previously-published but updated articles by "one of the best readers of seventeenth-century texts in the academic domain." Among these "classics" of literary criticism are essays on Racine's tragedies, "brilliant accounts of Molière's comedies, which highlight the tension between ethics and aesthetics in the France of Louis XIV," and "an absolutely stunning exploration of Pascal's fragment 'Disproportion de l'homme.'" The reviewer concludes: "Read this volume, and see what can be done with words."

BURY, EMMANUEL. Littérature et politesse: l'invention de l'honnête homme 1580–1750. Perspectives littéraires. Paris: PUF, 1996.

Review: B. Norman in FR 74.2 (2000), 363–364: A "convincing" and "erudite" analysis of the evolving relations between literary representation and morality from the late Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Drawing upon the work of Montaigne, d'Urfé, Scudéry, Pellisson, Sarasin, Corneille, Balzac, Molière, La Rochefoucauld, Rousseau, Voltaire, and others, Bury argues that "literature becomes a source for moral education as modern works begin to replace ancient ones as key elements in the formation of taste and values."

Cahiers Maynard 20 (2000), 198 pages.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 132 (2000), 586–87: Highlights the diverse contribution of this issue, such as on "Maynard et la mort", Spanish culture in Maynard, "phrase et métrique. . .", punctuation, Maynard's encomiastic odes, etc. Useful bibliography of last 20 years by William Roberts.

CANEPA, NANCY, L., ed. Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1997.

Review: C. R. Montfort in FR 74.5 (2001), 995–996: A collection of essays that examines the Italian and French origins of the fairy tale, demonstrating that it is a genre "firmly entrenched in cultural history." Essays treat the role of Italian tradition in the transformation from "oral" to "literary" tales and its influence on early modern French writers, the baroque elements of Perrault's Contes, the representation of gender and the forces of ideology, the place of nostalgia, utopia, and subversion, the relation of the merveilleux and the vraisemblable in the seventeenth century, the textual evolution of "Puss in Boots" over the centuries, and cross-dressing in d'Aulnoy. A last section focuses on parodic fairy tales in the eighteenth century. Canepa's "multidisciplinary view of the early history of the genre is an excellent read which hopefully will entice future scholars to fill the unavoidable gaps."

CARLIN, CLAIRE, ed. La Rochefoucauld, "Mithridate," Frères et sœurs, "les Muses sœurs:" Actes du XXIXe Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.

Review: S. Ferrari in DSS 210 (2001), 175–176: A collection of thirty-seven articles "d'une richesse exceptionnelle, non seulement par sa grande variété, mais aussi par l'originalité de certains des sujets abordés."

CASALS, MARIE-NOELLE. "La vérité comme indice dans trois poétiques du premier XVIIe siècle: Jean Vauquelin, Pierre de Deimier, Jean Chapelain." DSS 210 (2001), 19–33.

Studies the place of truth, understood as the result of an intellectual process, in the poets' choice of subject, representation, and allegorical interpretation.

CAYUELA, ANNE,trad. Jorge de Montemayor. Les sept livres de Diane. Paris: Klincksieck, 1999.

Review: A. Sancier-Chateau in BHR 62.3 (2000), 782–783: ". . . l'intérêt majeur de cette tradution est bien, selon nous, d'éclairer la naissance d'un genre et de permettre l'étude précise des influences de La Diane sur L'Astrée, roman qui connut au seuil du XVIIe siècle en France un succès comparable à son modèle espagnol."

CHAMAYOU, ANNE, ed. Les lettres ou la règle du Je. Artois Presses Université, 1999.

Review: B. Beugnot in DSS 210 (2001), 172–173: Three of the six essays are devoted to seventeenth-century authors: "Une figure de la désunion: le rapport je/vous" (F. Calas on Guilleragues' Les Lettres portugaises); "Guez de Balzac, 'Narcisse' épistolier: problèmes d'analyse" (H. Merlin); "Correspondance et succès littéraire: la politique des lettres de Guez de Balzac" (C. Jouhaud). The reviewer concludes: "En prolongeant les travaux existants et en ouvrant plusieurs voies, ce fascicule fait espérer de nouvelles explorations."

CHAUVEAU, JEAN-PIERRE, GÉRARD GROS and DANIEL MÉNAGER, eds. Anthologie de la poésie française. Moyen Ħge, XVIe siècle , XVII siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 2000.

Review: P. France in TLS 5108 (Feb 23 2001), 28: Finds this and companion volume, covering the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, to be something of a "national warehouse." Wider range, but less coherence than Gide's one volume anthologie of 1949. The early seventeenth century benefits from the interest in the baroque. Libertins and Jesuits are both well-represented.

Review: BCLF 626 (2000), 2399–2400: "Une occasion perdue de donner une oeuvre de référence, une oeuvre qui dresse le bilan de la poésie française et de son rôle dans la littérature mondiale." On reproche à cette anthologie (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade) "des déséquilibres absurdes: à l'évidence, on a voulu représenter toutes les périodes à égalité." Pour le XVIIe siècle, on traite les poètes baroques mais "ne mentionne que trop rarement des poèmes licencieux."

CHOLAKIAN, PATRICIA FRANCIS. Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2000.

Review: C.E. Campbell in Choice 38, 9 (2001), 1634: A study of six writers of mémoires, Marguerite de Valois, Mlle de Monpensier, Hortense and Marie Mancini, Jeanne Guyon, and l'Abbé de Choisy. In order to examine how women writers represented themselves in the seventeenth century, the author deals as much as possible with the writers' original texts rather than the altered versions created by male editors.

CLOSSON, MARIANNE. L'Imaginaire démoniaque en France (1550–1650): Genèse de la littérature fantastique. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: BCLF 628 (2001), 97: "Ce gros ouvrage remarquablement aisé à lire, placé sous l'invocation de Lovecraft, revendique la naissance de la littérature fantastique pour les récritures des démonologies, qui peuplent le XVIe et le XVIIe siècle de récits étranges, parfois éloignés de la stricte théologie mais pleins des fantasmes et des peurs des lecteurs de tous les milieux."

CONNON, DEREK, AND GEORGE EVANS. Anthologie de pièces du Théâtre de la foire. Surrey, England: Runnymede Books, 1996.

Review: J. Vos-Camy in CdDS 8.1, 198–200. "Connon and Evans do not wish to give an historical overview of the development of the théâtre de la foire so much as to provide a variety of examples of the genre in order to give the reader a general impression of the types of plays making up the repertory of the foires." Collection foregrounds plays dealing with restrictions placed upon this theater by established theaters and plays whose themes were typical of the repertory. An excellent tool for students and scholars.

CONROY, JANE. Terres tragiques. L'Angleterre et l'Ecosse dans la tragédie française du XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999.

Review: E. Minel in RHL 100 (2000), 1213: Examines representations of British history in both well- and lesser-known tragedies. Author examines the question of whether religious or Classical schemas were imposed on ostensibly English subject matter, and of if such plays might be said to constitute some sort of theatrical innovation. Reviewer lauds author's style and complementary matierials (tableaux, bibilographie, index), while regretting an over-reliance on "la problématique coutonienne de l'oeuvre miroir (ou écho) de la politique" which occludes consideration of "les enjeux esthétiques de la tragédie française."

COURCELLES, DOMINIQUE DE, éd. Littérature et exotisme: XVIe–XVIIIe siècle. Etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes, I. Paris: Champion, 1997.

Review: W. Williams in FS 54.4 (2000), 503: This collection of four lectures on the theme of exoticism in early modern European writing includes Frank Lestringant's "brief but persuasive account of the bleak journey of the term 'exotique' from Rabelais to Léry," Barbara Vinken's presentation of "gender anxiety" in Rousseau's writings on the seraglio, and Michèle Longino's "fine, broad-ranging, and carefully argued reading of Le Cid in relation to French texts about the Ottoman Empire."

CSUROS, KLARA. Variétés et vicissitudes du genre épique de de Ronsard à Voltaire. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: C. Jomphe in BHR LXIII,2 (2001), 436–38: Excellent outil de travail qui "envisage d'un même souffle quelque 350 oeuvres littéraires françaises et 130 écrits théoriques français et étrangers, ce qui lui permet de saisir le poème historique dans toute la variété et la mouvance de ses formes." Deux mises en garde: la synthèse théorique ne porte que sur le XVIIe siècle; et le 'Tableau chronologique et typologique des poèmes' "ne peut être dissocié des passages correspondants dans l'ouvrage, sous peine d'engendrer des erreurs d'interprétation quant à l'appartenance générique de certaines oeuvres."

Review: S. Macé in DSS 211 (2001), 355–356: The author begins by raising key questions of a historical and generic nature, thereby identifying the specificity of the corpus and interrogating the "boundaries of the genre." Included are analyses of the discrete but related forms poème historique and poème encyclopédique, and finally the poème sacré. The third section explores the causes for the failure of the épopée à la française. Csuros rejects previous explanations and argues that "l'abondance (excessive) des réflexions théoriques sur le sujet . . .est une des causes majeures de l'échec du genre." The "vast panorama" provided by this book makes it a required starting point for further research.

DAGEN, JEAN, ed. La Morale des moralistes. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: F. Briot in RSH 260.4 (2000), 257–258: "Ces actes du colloque du même nom tenu à la Sorbonne les 9 et 10 novembre 1994 sous la responsabilité de Louis Van Delft et Jean Dagen sont pour une très large part centrés autour d'une triade magique (Pascal, La Rochefoucauld et La Bruyère), et les commmunications privilégient tantôt des questions de contenus, tantôt des questions de formes et de genres. Autant donc tout de suite préciser que ce sont celles qui problématisent et articulent ces deux approches qui paraissent les plus riches et les plus fructueuses."

Review: N. Hammond in FS 54.4 (2000), 506: "In spite of the fact that this volume has not made a smooth transition from conference hall to published proceedings. . . this is a hugely satisfying collection of essays." "Of the seventeenth-century papers, those by Mesnard, Bury (on humanism and anti-humanism), Bernard Beugnot (on poésie morale), André Tournon (La Fontaine), Oskar Roth (on honnêteté and retraite), and Philippe Sellier (characteristically perceptive on pictural and literary vanités) are all valuable pieces of scholarship."

DANDRY, PATRICK. "De l'imaginaire du jardin classique." DSS 209 (2000), 563–600.

Argues for the harmonious convergence of two conceptual frameworks (mimetic and hermeneutic) underlying notions of the garden; scrutinizes the multiples ways in which "le jardin s'est modelé sur les formes du discours et réorganisé, à la Renaissance, sur les modèles d'ordre et de régulation d'éloquence."

D'ANGELO, FILIPPO. "La follia del tiranno nella tragedia francese del Seicento." S Fr 130 (2000), 3–24.

Detailed examination of nine plays of the early 17th c. (before Andromaque) featuring scenes of madness demonstrates the ample use of this theme (contrary to the general view of critics). Highlights dramatic, psychological and ideological constraints as well as variants in the particular tragedies. Plays are examined in relation to literary and medical theories, both of Antiquity and the 17th c.

DAY, SHIRLEY JONES, ed. Writers and Heroines: Essays on Women in French Literature. Berne: P. Lang, 1999.

Review: G. Samson in RHL 100 (2000), 1221: A collection whose theme is the image of women in literature; contains several contributions on the seventeenth century, including treatments of Guilleragues, Lafayette, and D'Aulnoy.

Review: P. Bousquet in DSS 210 (2001), 173–175: Collection of nine essays, three of which bear specifically on seventeenth-century authors (Guilleragues, Lafayette, d'Aulnoy), but all of which will interest specialists of the period, notes the reviewer, because of the omnipresence of the Princesse de Clèves. The theme of female heroism, its definition and expression, runs through all the articles. Other chapters examine Christine de Pizan, Challe, Crébillon fils, Tencin, Beaumont, and Charrière. "Ce recueil, malgré quelques analyses centrées autour de grilles de lecture parfois trop exclusivement féministes, psychologiques, voire psychanalytiques, qui délaissent quelque peu, par moments, l'analyse littéraire, contient des articles de bonne qualité, soulève des questions fort pertinentes et attire notre attention, de façon originale, sur des œuvres parfois méconnues."

Review: F. Piva in S Fr 132 (2000), 596–97: Praiseworthy treatment of often neglected women authors: Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de la Force. Piva appreciates Day's rigors, balanced treatment and intelligent critical reflections.

DEBAISIEUX, MARTINE, ed. Le Labyrinthe de Versailles. Parcours critiques de Molière à La Fontaine. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1998.

Review: R. Racevskis in SYM 54.3 (2000), 197–198: Two-part volume dedicated to Alvin Eustis "uses the metaphor of the Minotaur's shadow to evoke the murkiness and uncertainty that lurk beneath the magnificence and apparent symmetry of the 'Grand Siècle'. . . ." Molière is the subject of the seven articles (Goodkin, Sweetser, Hubert, Spencer, Gaines, Abraham, Greenberg) that constitute the first part of the work. The second part presents articles on Louis XIV (Boursier), Descartes (Tobin), Descartes and Scarron (Debaisieux), Préfontaine (Assaf), Mme de Guyon (Bruneau), Jeanne des Anges (Bryson), and La Fontaine (Rubin). All the analyses "touch on some element of disorder, ambiguity, or divergence from the norms that have traditionally defined seventeenth-century French culture."

Review: H. Stone in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 613–614: "These articles. . .offer a fitting tribute to a beloved professor and colleague."

Review: P. Shoemaker in CdDS 8.1, 189–90. A collection of essays in memory of Alvin Eustice, organized around the topics "autour de Molière" and "les égarements du Grand Siècle," "most of the contributors share a common goal: a critical reevaluation of our understanding of seventeenth-century culture that privileges notions such as conflict, contradiction, and contestation rather than the traditional "Classical" categories of simplicity and normative order." Essays are representative of a broad variety of critical approaches; a "a thoughtfully edited, coherent, and rich collection."

DEBAISIEUX, MARTINE and GABRIELLE VERDIER, eds. Violence et fiction jusqu'à la Révolution. Travaux du IXe colloque international de la Société d'Analyse de la Topique Romanesque (SATOR), Milwaukee-Madison, septembre 1995. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1998.

Among the seventeenth-century contributions are M. Bertaud on Gomberville's Polexandre; M. Laugaa on Desmaret's l'Ariane; D. Riou on Le Roman comique; H. Goldwyn on Le Grand Cyrus and R. Nunn on Clélie; C. Marin on "plaisir et violence" in d'Aulnoy's fairy tales.

DENIS, BENOIT. Littérature et engagement: de Pascal à Sartre. Paris: Seuil, 2000.

Review: BCLF 623 (2000), 1764: Selon Denis, il existe "une littérature engagée" et "une littérature d'engagement": "Sur cette base, Benoît Denis entreprend une recherche qui fera le bonheur de ceux qui souhaitent relire les classiques sous un nouvel éclairage."

DENIS, DELPHINE. "Du Parterre aux Promenades: une scène pour la littérature au XVIIe siècle." DSS 209 (2000), 655–670.

Metonym for the authority of the monarch, parks and gardens legitimize the new and contested genre of littérature galante and serve as locus for critical discussions of literature and its effects. Texts considered include La Promenade de Versailles (Scudéry), La Promenade de Saint-Cloud (Guéret), and La Promenade de Saint-Germain (Le Laboureur).

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA L. "Silent object or speaking subject? Variations on the theme of la vieille in early seventeenth-century French texts." DAI 61/11 (2001), 4407.

Examines the figure of the old woman in the first half of the century, opposing representations in which the vieille speaks to others in which she does not. Argues that in some cases woman's speech can have a "potentially nefarious effect on the male-dominated world." Treats works by Théophile de Viau, the Sieur de Sigogne, Maynard, Saint-Amant, Régnier, and Sorel.

DIDIER, BEATRICE,dir. Précis de littérature européenne. Paris: PUF, 1998.

Review: M. Rossi in S Fr 132 (2000), 656–57: Offers a panorama of recurrent themes and indicates specificities according to national differences. Part one, "Méthodes", indicates possible methodologies for the study and teaching of literatures of European culture; part two, "Espaces", reconstructs national traditions and influences (including, for example, hebraïque; part three, "Le Temps", traces the history of movements. For example C.G. Dubois's article on "La Renaissance en Europe"; part four, "Les formes", furnishes a detailed and precise panorama along with a complex chronology of the great dates of European literature.

DONOVAN, JOSEPHINE. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405–1726. New York: St. Martins' Press, 1999/2000.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 618: Brief review only indicates focus of Donovan's study, the early modern period, and scope, from Christine de Pizan to Jane Austen (countries included are Italy, Spain, France and England).

DUBOIS, ELFRIEDA. "Quelques aperçus sur l'épître spirituelle au XVIIe siècle." TL 13 (2000), 101–111.

Nuanced presentation of several diverse and remarkable bodies of correspondence, including those of Bérulle, François de Sales, P. Hercule Audiffret, Jean Duvergier de Hauranne, Gaston de Renty, saint Jean Eudes, saint Vincent De Paul, Jean Mabillon, Marie de l'Incarnation and Agnès Arnauld. Instructive as to historical and social conditions as well as revelatory of the mind of letter writer and recipient, there are, at times, comments on the genre itself (P. Hercule Audiffret offers seven conditions of a religious letter, 104).

DUCHENE, ROGER. Mon XVIIe siècle: de la marquise de Sévigné à Marcel Proust.

Cent articles parus entre 1961 et l'an 2000; Extraits de biographies et autres ouvrages; Six cent lettres de femmes; Mémoires du CMR17. Diffusion Klinksieck.

EKMAN, MARY C. "Opening the Account: Initiatory Strategies and Noble Identity in Early Modern Women's Memoirs." FLS 26 (1999), 27–35.

Examines how women legitimized their participation in the traditionally male genre of memoirs. Using principally the example of Marguerite de Valois, concludes that women memorialists foreground their nobility while also maintaining a gendered space of difference.

EMELINA, JEAN. Comédie et tragédie. Nice: Publications de la Faculté des lettres, arts et sciences humaines, 1998.

Review: H. Allentuch in FR 74.3 (2001), 565–566: A collection of thirty-one articles published by Emelina over several decades that treat comedy and tragedy in a wide variety of contexts. Divided into several categories — "esthétique," "thèmes," "auteurs divers," Molière, and "au-delà du dix-septième siècle" — the essays examine the "painful pleasure" offered by tragedy, the themes of the child, the sea, the exotic, geography, and death in seventeenth- century theater, the work of Robert Garnier, Weber's 1990–91 staging of Le Misanthrope, and Flaubert's play Le Candidat. The volume also contains four pieces published in Nice-Matin, including a commemoration of Beckett. A "fine collection of a senior scholar's papers" that displays "much intelligence and openness of spirit."

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 54.4 (2000), 507: "Anyone with an interest in seventeenth-century theatre will be delighted that a substantial proportion of Jean Emelina's articles published over the last three decades have been brought together in this one volume." Subjects covered include aesthetic issues, general themes in seventeenth-century theater, and individual dramatists; among these, the articles on Molière "reveal Emelina's acute sensitivity to Molière's comic art, and in particular to his verbal wit."

FAYE, EMMANUEL, ed. Descartes et La Renaissance. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 950: Collection of essays from the 1996 Colloque de Tours examines Descartes' works in the context of Renaissance humanism and the history of ideas. Hermeneutic and doctrinal studies complement examinations of rhetoric, medicine, representation, and so forth.

Femmes savantes, savoir des femmes. Du crépuscule de la Renaissance à l'aube des Lumières. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: S. Poli in S Fr 132 (2000), 588–89: The acts of the September 1999 Colloque de Chantilly is dedicated to the memory of Linda Timmerman and contains 19 contributions and a useful index. In three sections: "Réalités / Savoirs", "Regards d'hommes", and "Discours de femme: portraits", the theme of the volume is examined in rich and diverse essays on subjects ranging from law and fiction, education, rhetoric, demonology, subversion of savoir, painting, journalism, and so forth.

FERREYROLLES, GERARD,dir. Littérature et religion. Littératures classiques 39. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: A.M. Mazziotti in S Fr 132 (2000), 598–99. Important issue focuses on the expression of religious culture in 17th C. : the essays are structured in three sections: 1) the presence of religious themes in profane literature, 2) specific genres such as apologetics and sacred eloquence and 3) mystical writings. Extremely rich and varied essays ranging from considerations of theater and opera to the novel, poetry, Pascal's pari, Bossuet's homiletics and so forth.

FINN, THOMAS P. "Reputation and Imaginary Identity in Le Menteur and La Verdad sospechosa." CdDS 8.1, 44–57.

Examines how liars fashion identities different from those normally assigned them in Corneille's and Alarcón's comedies.

FLAMARION, EDITH, ed. P. Charles Porée, De Theatro (1733), avec la traduction en regard du P. Brumoy, Discours sur les spectacles. Présenté et annoté parEdith Flamarion. Toulouse: Société de Littératures Classiques, 2000.

Review: P. Gethner in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 189–190: "This is a thoughtful and serviceable edition that belongs in every university library."

FREDERIC, MADELEINE et SERGE JAUMAIN, éds. La Relation de voyage. Bruxelles: Université libre de Bruxelles, 1999.

Review: W. L. Chew III in RBPH 78.2 (2000), 617–619: Volume resulting from a seminar for philology and history students organized by Belgian and Canadian scholars "specializing in the study of both factual and fictional travel accounts on (and/or written in) Canada, from the early 17th century to the present." Contributions "situated at the intersection of historical and literary scholarship."

GARNIER, BRUNO. Pour une poétique de la traduction. L'Hécube d'Euripide en France de la traduction humaniste à la tragédie classique. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999.

Review: B. Halévy in IL 52.3 (2000), 62–63: Using translation theory, author shows how versions of Euripides's Hecuba performed from the 16th to the 18th centuries modified the original. Argues that the "traduction poétique" of the humanists was in fact richer than the increasingly philological treatment dispensed by the 18th century.

GENETIOT, ALAIN. "Fonctions du dialogue dans quelques genres lyriques au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 9–30.

Study of some of the functions and goals of dialogues in 17th Century French lyrical poetry. The author focuses on the eglogue (Frénicle, Pellisson, Deshoulières), satire (Angot, Boileau) and the fable (La Fontaine).

GETZLER, PIERRE et JACQUES ROUBAUD. Le Sonnet en France des origines à 1630. Matériaux pour une base de données du sonnet français. Supplément à Vaganay. Paris: Inalco [Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales], 1998.

Review: A. Gendre in BHR LXIII, 2 (2001), 417–19: Supplément à l'ouvrage de Hugues Vaganay, Le Sonnet en Italie et en France au XVIe siècle, essai de bibliographie comparée (Lyon, Facultés catholiques, 1902–03; Slatkine, 1966. "Le nouvel ouvrage contient en effet tout 'Vaganay' (partie française) . . . mais il l'enrichit de manière significative. . . . Quant à la partie complètement nouvelle (les trente premières années du XVIIe siècle), elle comprend 1218 entrées."

GODWIN, DENISE, THERESE LASSALLE and MICHELE WEIL, eds. Actes du Dixième Colloque International, SATOR, Johannesburg, 1996. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, 1999.

Essays by D. Kuizenga, "Cherchez l'artiste: artistes et objets d'art dans l'œuvre de Mme de Villedieu"; N. Boursier, "Fonctions romanesques du portrait dans Zaïde et La Princesse de Clèves"; A. DeFrance, "Objets d'art et artistes dans les contes de fées de Mme d'Aulnoy."

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH C. Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647–1720: From Voice to Print. Ashgate, 2001.

Review: C.E. Campbell in Choice 39, 3 (2001), 515: A study of Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges, Jeanne Guyon, Hortense and Marie Mancini, and Mme de Villedieu that examines the role played by women in the development of new genres of writing — from memoirs to private letters to fictionalized autobiographical narratives. Attributes the proliferation of women writers in the period to the enclosed carrosse and the state postal system.

GOLDSTEIN, CLAIRE B. "Building the Grand Siècle: The Context of Literary Transformations from Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles (1656–1715)." DAI 61/10 (2001), 4017.

Contests prevailing views of Versailles as a materializations of Louis XIV's particular absolutism by looking at Fouquet's Vaux-le-Vicomte as Versailles' model. Author gives special consideration to "the dynamic of erasure and reinscription that characterized Versailles's artistic reappropriations." Considers texts by La Fontaine, M. de Scudéry, Félibien, and Molière, as well as the garden design of Le Nôtre.

GOODKIN, RICHARD. Birth Marks: The tragedy of primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille and Jean Racine. U of Pennsylvania P, 2000.

Review: M. Slater in TLS 5120 (May 18 2001), 26: Goodkin "draws on psychological and social explications of family relationships" to demonstrate that primogeniture is "important on stage even if whole families aren't portrayed." Family members all display characteristics of birth position. Slater finds this a promising line of approach but says author "seduced by his thesis into cavalier disregard for factual accuracy." Some of Goodkin's sibling figures seem far-fetched. Book makes "stimulating reading" but shows "disregard for texts under discussion, misrepresenting them again and again."

Review: A. Wygant in FS 55.3 (2001), 385–86: "In this study, Richard E. Goodkin argues that the social, legal and psychological practice of primogeniture provides a template for reading seventeenth-century French tragedy. The attendant questions of birth order and inheritance, moreover, may be used as a wedge to separate a first generation of tragedy writing, exemplifying feudal values and favouring the first-born, from a second generation, exemplifying market values and favouring younger siblings." The reviewer finds the focus of the analysis "productive" and views "this grand plot-thematic reading" as "a valiant negotiation between the transcultural and the historically specific [...]."

Review: C.E. Campbell in Choice 38, 5 (2001), 912: Examines the two Corneilles and Racine in the context of sibling rivalries for power and/or influence. The author reveals the role played by primogeniture in the seventeenth century "by comparing the siblings presented in the play [and] contrast[ing] the portrayal of them by the Corneille brothers, especially when they have dramatized the same story."

GOULBOURNE, RUSSELL. "The Bacchic Sign: Wine in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy." CdDS 8.1, 143–156.

Observes that the seventeenth century marked the first time alcohol abuse was seen as a major problem, and examines representations of drunkenness in Molière, Regnard, Rotrou, and others.

GRANDE, NATHALIE. Stratégies de romancières. De Clélie à La Princesse de Clèves (1654–1678). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: D. Denis in RHL 100 (2000), 1211–12: Book tries to answer the question of why so many women were drawn to a genre as criticized as the novel, and whether an "écriture féminine," bearing specific characteristics, can be discerned in this production. Author examines a corpus of 31 novels, which illuminate the status of the romancière; both the representation of women in women's works and indivdual careers of the authors are considered. A. Viala's "sociopoétique" is combined with "la problématique américaine du 《 genre 》 (genre/gender), ici abordée avec autant de solidité que de prudence." Very favorable review (despite occasional unnamed "réserves") that welcomes especially "l'intérêt des pistes ouvertes, la richesse des propositions et le souci constant d'apporter nuances et correctifs aux thèses avancées."

Review: D. Kuizenga in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 191–193: "Stratégies de romancières constitue une contribution importante au dialogue critique sur le roman au XVIIe siècle."

Review: B. Piqué in S Fr 132 (2000), 595: Treats not only well known women authors such as Mme de Lafayette, Mlle de Scudéry, Mlle de Montpensier and Mme de Villedieu but less known ones as well in this period: Mme de La Roche — Guilhen and Mme de Campan. Grande's examination is guided by a sociopoetic methodology and sheds much light on a period important for the quantity of its production and for the emergence of a "scrittura narrativa al femminile" Piqué praises Grande's perspicacious analyses and the richness and coherence of the study. Useful annexes.

Review: D. Denis in IL 53.1 (2001), 43–44. A work that takes its place in a growing body of scholarship on women novelists, concentrating on texts between Clélie (1654) and Clèves (1678), including the production of little-known novelists. Grande's analysis is organized as 1) close readings of the works' representation of women and the world; 2) a sociological look at the condition of the woman writer, and 3) a reflection on the viewpoints that the novel permitted women to advocate. Aside from the study's documentary value, reviewer appreciates especially the author's ideological moderation (on say the "feminism" of Scudéry) and her concern with the tensions presiding over the woman novelist. Reviewer regrets, however, "la dimension parfois systématique d'une démarche tentée d'appliquer mécaniquement les outils sociopoétiques d'Alain Viala."

GRASSI, MARIE-CLAIRE. "Introduction". E Cr 40 (2000). 3–6.

This preface by the editor of the Winter issue of E Cr not only summarizes and highlights the several contributions of the special number but sets forth the "ambitieuse question" which guided the authors: "Dans son rapport avec la littérature, peut on saisir l'évolution de la lettre du XVIIe au XXe siècle?"(3). Reminds the reader that "une histoire littéraire de la lettre. . . reste à écrire" and suggests various "pistes de recherche" (5–6).

GRASSI, MARIE-CLAIRE. Lire l'épistolaire. Paris: Dunod, 1998.

Review: J.G. Altman in E Cr 40 (2000), 97–98: Intended audience of Grassi's volume is French university students but Altman finds it "of considerable value to all students and scholars" because of its broad range of references. Sections treat of historical perspectives (Pascal, Guilleragues and Sévigné receive particular attention), rhetoric, style (some five types of style are illustrated—"natural" style of Sévigné, for example, letters and literature (Lafayette is treated here) and finally a section of excerpts from recent scholarship "opens up their critical perspectives on the relationship between epistolary literature and political history, art history and literature theory."

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 75, 1 (2001), 162–63: A useful introduction to the problem of epistolarity aimed at beginning university students. The author carefully lays out technical terms related to letter-writing and gives a diachronic history of epistolary practice from antiquity to the modern period before examining different genres such as the "lettr[e] d'amour, lettre-confession, lettre polémique et pamphlétaire, curieuse et 'exotique' . . . didactique enfin."

GREENBERG, MITCHELL. Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French Absolutism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2001.

Review: C.E. Campbell in Choice 39, 1 (2001), 124: Argues that absolutism in seventeenth-century France was closely related to images of the body. Examines works by Molière, pornography (L'Ecole des filles and L'Académie des dames), the cross-dressing l'Abbé de Choisy, mysticism and Marie de l'Incarnation, and Racine.

GREINER, FRANK. Les Métamorphoses d'Hermès. Tradition alchimique et esthétique littéraire dans la France de l'âge baroque (1583–1646). Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: A. Arrigoni in SFr 132 (2000), 585: of interest to students/scholars of medicine and philosophy as well as literature, Greiner's work reviews the alchemic tradition, analyzes its representatives, illustrates its literary fortune, examines style and discourses. Influences on literature are investigated, in particular on Camus and Gomberville.

Review: N. Heather in FS 55.3 (2001), 380–81: Greiner traces the influence of the alchemical tradition on prose and poetic works of the baroque period; he shows how the discourse of alchemy "challenged readers to enter the world of deciphering texts in a way which might bring them closer to deciphering mysteries of the universe." The section on poetry considers the work of Nuysement, Gamon and Beauvallet; the part of the study dealing with prose examines the writings of Dom Belin, Gerzan de Soucy, Domayron, and Camus, and presents as well an "enlightening" analysis of Béroalde de Verville's Le Voyage des princes fortunez [...]."

GRODEK, ELZBIETA, ed. Ecriture de la Ruse. Publication de la SATOR, Société d'Analyse de la Topique Romanesque, XIIIe colloque, Toronto, mai 1999. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi, 2000.

D. Maher on le travestissement in the 17th c.; C. Rolla on "les romanciers 'rusés'" in the first part of the 17th c.; N. Arbach on L'Astrée; D. Kuizenga on "les ruses des Annales galantes."

HANNON, PATRICIA. Fabulous Identities: Women's Fairy Tales in Seventeenth-century France. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.

Review: M. Longino in E Cr 40 (2000), 111: Praised as "finely documented and well-written", attentive to both "primary materials and secondary sources", sensitive, erudite and suggestive for future studies. Methodology is that "of a well-grounded feminist persuasion". Argument is grounded in history, stylistics, ideology and close literary analysis. The authors were not engaging in "escapist activity" but claimed " for themselves Cartesian subjectivity" and broke with "confining prescriptions" (Reviewer).

HASELER, JENS and ANTHONY McKENNA, eds. La Vie intellectuelle aux Refuges protestants. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: D. Monda in S Fr 132 (2000), 597: The acts of a colloque at Münster (25 July 1995) which began an impressive scholarly investigation of the intellectual life of Huguenots in 17th and 18th C. Essays are diverse and wide ranging from a consideration of Bayle's history of Reformed churches to studies of history of the Francophone public in Prussia, and so forth. Important interdisciplinary contributions on history, philosophy, literature, and ideas.

HAUTCOEUR, GUIOMAR. "La nouvelle espagnole en France au XVIIe siècle : traduction et évolution du roman." RLC, 294.2 (avril-juin 2000), 155–174.

The author studies the reception of the Spanish novela of the Golden Age in France during a period when French writers were distancing themselves from the long chivalric and heroic romances and were adopting the format of the short novel. The author argues that French novelists followed the Spanish model for its length and its examination of psychological motives.

HERMAN, JAN and PAUL PELCKMANS, eds. L'épreuve du lecteur. Livres et lectures dans le roman d'ancien régime. Actes du VIIIe colloque de la Société d'Analyse de la Topique Romanesque, Louvain, mai 1994. Louvain-Paris: Editions Peeters, 1995.

The essays devoted to the seventeenth century cover a wide range of authors. Included are A. Niderst on "Le danger des romans dans les romans du XVIIe siècle"; D. Maher on "Lecture et écriture au XVIIe siècle: le cas de La prétieuse"; D. Kuizenga on reading and books in Villedieu's Mémoires de la vie d'Henriette-Sylvie de Molière; G. Verdier on "Grimoire, miroir: le livre dans les contes de fées littéraires."

HODGSON, RICHARD G. "Etat présent des études sur le roman français du dix-septième siècle en Amérique du Nord." IL 52.4 (2000), 3–8.

An annotated bibliography of recent (1995–1998) North American work (including unpublished theses) on D'Urfé, Madeleine de Scudéry, Sorel, Scarron, Villedieu, and Lafayette.

HOFFMANN, KATHRYN. Society of Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power During the Reign of Louis XIV. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.

Review: T.P. Finn in CdDS 8.1, 178–181. "Hoffmann confidently guides the reader through a wide variety of seventeenth-century texts, deftly untangling their points of intersection and tracing the creation and subsequent crumbling of Louis XIV's reign as a kingdom of pleasure built on words." Book examines the power myths of Louis's memoirs, the erotics of subjugation in Racine, desire in Molière, the democratization of knowledge in Pascal's Provinciales, and the satires, burlesques and unauthorized works that saw to it that "Louis XIV's reign would ironically be consumed in the dreamscape of desire, pleasure and power it created, but could no longer control." Entertaining and educational, according to reviewer.

HOWARTH, WILLIAM D., et al., eds. French Theatre in the Neo-Classical Era: 1550–1789. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Review: J. Pallister in SCN 58.3 (2000), 268–269: A "browser's paradise," this reference tool contains "an abundance of documents," arranged by date and by subject, and a thorough index. Divided into four sections, Part I: 1550–1630, Part II: 1630–1680, Part III: 1680–1715, Part IV: 1715–1789. Covers such rubrics as "Humanist Drama," "Theatre in the Provinces," "Actors and Acting," "Mise en scène and Costume," "Authors and their Critics," among many others. The reviewer writes: "The whole contains excellent illustrations of commedia dell'arte and the like, as well as diagrams of theater architecture. An immense, annotated bibliography, divided into source-references for documents and secondary sources and studies accompanies the work. This book comes highly recommended as a resource and reference tool, and should be in every university and college library in the country."

JOLIBERT, BERNARD. La Commedia dell'arte et son influence en France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999.

Review: BCLF 623 (2000), 1755–56: "Cet ouvrage, d'un style alerte et bien informé, brosse un tableau clair des composantes de la comedia dell'arte, de son évolution sur trois siècles et des hypothèses principales relatives à son origine et à sa nature. Le dernier chapitre renouvelle la lecture du théâtre classique comique français."

JOUHAUD, CHRISTIAN. Les pouvoirs de la littérature. Histoire d'un paradoxe. Paris: Gallimard, 2000.

Review: A. Arrigoni in S Fr 132 (2000), 590: Dense examination of key figures — Chapelain, Sorel, Desmarets de Saint — Sorlin among others — sheds light on relation between politics and 17th c. literature. Focus is on the second decade of the 17th c. with its several impertant querelles. Also studied at length are political texts and the figure of Guez de Balzac.

KELLER, EDWIGE and THÉRÈSE LASSALLE, eds. Histoire et narrativité. L'Europe en représentation dans la littérature du XVIIe siècle. Lyon : Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 1999.

Review : B. Vanhouck in RSH 262.2 (2001), 277–279 : "Avouons-le: cette orientation donnée au recueil est décevante et, aussi bien, regrettable. Non que la poétique des genres ne nous intéresse pas — elle constitue bien une question cruciale pour toute étude du roman au XVIIe siècle; mais il est facile, s'agissant des rapports entre roman et histoire, de s'engager dans d'infinies redites qui tiennent parfois d'un fâcheux égarement. [. . .] Les conclusions de la plupart des articles ont de quoi laisser sceptique, tant il est vrai que les problématiques adoptées sont désormais des classiques, qui reprennent sans les renouveler les analyses antérieures de Claude Dulong et d'Andrée Mansau." Treated in this volume are Jean-Pierre Camus, Mlle de Scudéry, d'Assoucy, Mme de Lafayette, Saint-Réal, and Fénelon.

KELLER, EDWIGE. Poétique de la mort dans la nouvelle classique (1660–1680). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: G. Giorgi, in IL 52.4 (2000), 45: Author uses the theme of death to demarcate the "roman héroique" from the "nouvelle classique," showing how death in these years becomes more and more of a structuring principle. The hero of the nouvelle is more vulnerable than his or her baroque counterpart, thus producing a Jansenist, rather than Stoic, worldview. Giorgi commends the author for interdisciplinary methodology and the breadth of the corpus chosen.

Review: C. Cagnat in DSS 211 (2001), 362–363: Part I is a quantitative description of the presence of death in the corpus, embellished with numerous charts and graphs, indicating, for example, "the sex of the deceased by the sex of the author" and "the sex of the deceased by the date of the work." The second section examines the role of death in narrative structure, and the third looks at the representation of death in esthetic, rhetorical and symbolic terms.

KINTZLER, CATHERINE. "L'opéra, révélation et trahison du théâtre." Racine et/ou le classicisme. Actes du colloque conjointement organisé par la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature et la Société Racine." Ed. Ronald Tobin. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17 (2001), 73–89.

Kintzler examine "le rapport de familière étrangeté qu'entretiennent le théâtre classique et son opéra. L'opéra est une partie intégrante du théâtre classique dont il présente la face cachée, ou plutôt les faces cachées. En un mot, l'opéra accuse le théâtre" en montrant "ce qui est à l'extérieur du théâtre, extériorité de marginalité, extériorité de cosmologie."

KRAMER, MICHAEL. "La Comédie des Proverbes et les Curiositez françoises d'A. Oudin: un lieu privilégié." PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 490–499.

Study of the link between Oudin's 1640 work and the earlier Comédie des proverbes.

KRONEGGER, MARLIES, ed. Esthétique baroque et imagination créatrice. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1998.

Review: E. Minel, RHL 100 (2000), 1209–1210: 20 articles organized around baroque topics such as the theater of the world and movement. Insists that the baroque is not limited to the first half of the 17th century, but has a "vocation universelle."

LABIO CATHERINE. "Woman Viewing a Letter." E Cr 40 (2000), 7–12.

Focuses on an often neglected area of epistolary scholarship, the letter as object (its physical properties, in part). Labio treats Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, comparing the letter's "literary representation with the six works by Vermeer that focus on a woman reading, writing or receiving a letter." Labio cites Donna Kuizenga's 1976 study of narrative strategies (French Forum) and concludes:"Generic, unreadable, and heuristically unreliable, the letter as text and icon poses a threat that keeps its interpreters guessing—and moving"(II).

LAFOND, JEAN. Lire, vivre où mènent les mots. De Rabelais aux formes brèves de la prose. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: M. Escola in DSS 211 (2001), 360–361: A collection of previously published essays that explore the poetics of formes brèves and the esthetic of discours discontinu, among other topics. Lafond's wide-ranging corpus includes the prologue of Gargantua, the third book of the Essais, the dream of Francion, and the Lettres portugaises. A recent article is entitled "De la morale à l'économie politique: La Rochefoucauld, les moralistes jansénistes et Adam Smith." The reviewer concludes "ces essais se lisent comme autant de leçons de méthode dont la réunion fait sens."

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. Arcadies malheureuses. Aux origines du roman moderne. Bibliothèque et littérature générale et comparée, vol.12. Paris : Champion, 1997.

Review : U. Schulz-Buschhaus in ZRP 117.1 (2001), 111–115 : This is a comparative study of Italian, Spanish, and French pastoral romances. Among the French romances studied are Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée, Nicolas de Montreux's Bergeries de Juliette, Belleforest's Pyrénée, Du Croset's Philocalie, Henry du Lisdam's Histoire ionique, and Vital d'Audiguier's Flavie. The author studies the development of the pastoral romance and the heroic romance. According to the reviewer, this study can be recommended as the best one on the topic to date and as a model of historical-literary scholarship.

LEBRAVE, JEAN-LOUIS et ALMUTH GRESILLON, éds. Ecrire aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris: CNRS, 2000.

Review: BCLF 630 (2001), 496: "Ce recueil participe donc du développement de la critique génétique, en fournissant des outils méthodologiques pour s'y initier en même temps que des études concrètes de manuscrits jusque-là peu ou pas étudiés sous cet angle. . ."

Littérature classiques. "La périodisation de l'âge classique" no. 34, automne 1998.

Review: D. Venturino in DSS 209 (2000), 731–732: The seventeen articles adopt various subjects and critical perspectives: less-frequently studied genres (the emblem), genres considered "minor" (short stories and tales), religion, culture and its institutions. Taken together, the articles suggest that the traditional and accepted parameters are somewhat less than useful, "mais on s'efforce de contenir la fluidité des événements et des pensées spécifiques à l'intérieur de cadres chronologiques construits sur mesure. . .."

LOUVAT, BENEDICTE. La Poétique de la tragédie classique. Paris: SEDES, 1997.

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 74.3 (2001), 570–572: A well-articulated study that is "indispensable à tout lecteur de tragédie classique." Intended for both secondary and more advanced students, the book's three sections ("Analyse et synthèse," "Texte et méthodes," and "Repères et outils") "présent[ent] la mécanique de la tragédie classique." Louvat carefully summarizes the consitutent parts of tragedy, larger esthetic principles necessary to the comprehension of seventeenth-century theater, such as la vraisemblance, and more specific dramatic procedures having to do, for example, with the invention of the subject or the political dimension of the genre. Louvat provides useful textual examples to illustrate tragedy's basic elements: "le lyrisme tragique dans Les Juives, l'exposition de Nicomède, le récit dans Iphigénie, la structure judiciaire du Cid, le quiproquo tragique de Venceslas, la catastrophe dans Phèdre et la récriture de Corneille pour Œdipe."

LYONS, JOHN D. Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 1999.

Review: J. Campbell in FS 55.2 (2001), 242–43: In this "invigorating reappraisal," "it is [Lyons's] achievement not only to elucidate the different twists and turns of seventeenth–century poetics, but so clearly to expose the failure of the attempt to impose a theoretical discourse on practising dramatists." Lyons "reminds us that the so-called 'classic' doctrine ... did not exist as such in the seventeenth century," and he demonstrates that "there was an underlying assumption, shared by dramatists and pundits alike, that tragic form is shaped by and for the needs of its audiences [...]."

Review: D. Clarke in MLR 96.2 (2001), 496–497: Four-part study intended "to dispel the notion that the 'classical doctrine is a monolithic set of formulae later executed in the brilliant tragedies of the reign of Louis XIV'." The first section on "Regularity" provides "a particularly sharp analysis of Corneille's pragmatism"; the second section on "Passion in the Age of Reason" argues that "'passionate feeling rather than careful reasoning is the theoretical aim of [seventeenth-century French] tragedy'"; the third section on "The Tragic Story" treats "'incoherences and disagreements sufficient to justify what he terms the 'non-formation of French classical doctrine'"; and the final section on "The Unities and the Classical Spectator" explores "poetic limitations on action, place, and time as the means to effecting a compromise between the independent reality of the tragic scene and the dramatist's concern with matters of audience reception." Reviewer would have appreciated a "clearer historical and socio-political framework" in this otherwise "penetrating" study.

Review: E. M. Zimmerman in FR 75, 1 (2001), 163–65: Examines the writings of d'Aubignac, La Mesnardière, Corneille, Scudéry, Chapelain, and the authors surrounding the Querelle du Cid on tragedy. Revises the notion that classical "rules" were rigid formulas that restrained all authors after 1640. Lyons analyzes the role played by "catharsis" in the theater, and slippages in the meaning of "plaisir" during the century. Discussions of "la vraisemblance," "la bienséance," and the unities contribute to a more general reassessment of received critical doctrines about theories of the tragic in the classical period.

MAITRE, MYRIAM. Les Précieuses: naissance des femmes de lettres en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999.

Review: A. R. Larsen in FR 74.4 (2001), 799–801: Premised on the notion that there is no critical consensus on the existence and literary importance of the précieuse since no seventeenth-century woman ever lobbied for the term or even defined it, Maître's study examines contemporary statements about la préciosité. She argues that the phenomenon is less a body of characteristics common to all précieuses than "'un jeu de forces, un lieu d'affrontement et de réglage mutuel de certaines des tensions qui traversent le siècle, la cour et le champ littéraire'." Beginning with the construction of a myth of preciosity in Louis de Roederer's 1838 Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la société polie en France, Maître treats seventeenth-century satires of and paeans to the précieuse, the ambiguous position of the précieuse in the literary field, and contributes to a redefinition of la préciosité "à travers une analyse des rapports entre préciosité et idéal galant, mettant en jeu tous les aspects de la vie mondaine... et de la question de l'amour." An exhaustive and impressive book "qui joint l'agrément à l'utilité."

* MANDELBROTE, SCOTT. "Représentations bibliques et édéniques du jardin à l'âge classique." DSS 209 (2000), 645–654.

Argues that reformers in England, seeking to improve agricultural output—"de ramener la terre à sa fertilité première"—turned to the Bible for a conceptual framework and even technical advice. "Choisir les bonnes plantes et les bonnes méthodes de culture était indispensable pour le perfectionnement tant matériel que spirituel."

MARINER, FRANCIS. Histoires et autobiographies spirituelles: Les Mémoires de Fontaine, Lancelot et Du Fossé. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (PFSCL/Biblio 17), 1998.

Review: N. Paige in CdDS 8.1, 182–84. Author examines a number of memoirs written by Port-Royalistes, as well as other texts where one finds a Jansenist theory of the use of the "I." Book concentrates on the various justifications proposed for the transgressive act of writing autobiographically when the self is supposedly "haïssable" (Pascal). A clear an elegant study, which reviewer feels might have had wider appeal had it attempted to place such texts within a broader history of autobiography and subjectivity.

MARTEL, JACINTHE ET MELANÇON ROBERT, éds. Inventaire, Lecture, Invention: mélanges de critique et d'histoire littéraire offerts à Bernard Beugnot. Montréal: Université de Montréal, 1999.

Review: J. Lafond in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 631–636: "Ces Mélanges témoignent d'une richesse de thèmes, de points de vue et de pratique qui répond à la diversité des approches critiques, mais aussi à l'étendue du domaine couvert par la recherche de Bernard Beugnot, au double versant des XVIIe et XXe siècles tout spécialement."

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 55.1 (2001), 85: Bernard Beugnot's wide-ranging interests are represented in this collection of twenty-nine essays, offered as a tribute to the distinguished scholar on the occasion of his retirement. The contributions include five pieces on Guez de Balzac, "including erudite bibliographical essays by Zuber, Arbour, and Jehasse." Of the five essays dealing with literary history, Emmanuel Bury's "subtle account" of the uses of rhetoric is particularly "impressive." The ten essays on seventeenth-century writers include "an intelligent and sympathetic account of d'Aubignac's Pratique du théâtre by Forestier, a philological reading by Brody of the Discours de la méthode, and suggestive remarks by van Delft on the theatricality of Les Caractères."

MATHIEU-CASTELLANI, GISELE. La Rhétorique des passions. Paris: PUF, 2000.

Review: M. Hawcroft in MLR 96.3 (2001), 813–14: Author explores rhetoric and the passions in early modern France. The first half of the study provides an account of rhetorical theory, "stressing always how the passions insinuate themselves into the various parts of rhetoric." The second half "aims to show the influence of rhetorical theory, and particularly of the passions" in texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

MAZOUER, CHARLES, éd. Recherches des jeunes dix-septiémistes. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2000.

Review: BCLF 626 (2000), 2397–98: ". . . il s'agit d'offrir une tribune à de jeunes doctorants ou à des docteurs tout frais émoulus, travaillant tous sur un matériau commun, la littérature française du XVIIe siècle, plus particulièrement celle du 'siècle de Louis XIV' qui se taille la part du lion." Cette vingtaine de contributions constitue "un véritable coup de sonde dans les études classiques."

MCMAHON, ELISE NOËL. Classics Incorporated: Cultural Studies and Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1998.

Review: E. McClure in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 636–637: "Unfortunately, McMahon's creative approaches to these familiar texts often promise more than they deliver."

Review: N.M. McElveen in CdDS 8.1, 185–188. A cultural materialist reading of texts by Corneille, Molière, Racine and La Fontaine "against less familiar contexts: dance manuals, cookbooks and shopping guides, and medical discourses of seventeenth-century France." Author concentrates especially on representations of the body in seventeenth-century culture, showing how the issues involved in canonical works are similar to those addressed in ephemera. Reviewer, though positive, maintains that the author is occasionally distracted by the interest of her popular sources and sometimes fails to link the latter to the literary texts.

Review: H. Phillips in FS 55.2 (2001), 242: "The claims of the book are to integrate the literary work back into culture, essentially by reading literary discourse through more or less familiar texts or contexts, like medical discourse in the case of Racine or cookbooks in that of La Fontaine." The reviewer, however, finds that the book promises a great deal more than it delivers, and that only one of the essays is truly "revealing": this piece, on "monstrosity in Racine as related to views of women in childbirth," "reveals what a sensitive commentator McMahon really is."

MELVILLE, GERT and PETER VON MOOS, eds. Das Öffentliche und das Private in der Vormoderne. Köln: Böhlau, 1998.

Review: P. Schuster in HZ 270 (2000), 697–99. Some twenty-four authors treat the public and the private referring to Habermas's work as point of orientation and/or tension. Dimensions include: religious, philosophical, literary, and social. An inspiring and ingenuous collection.

MILKOVITCH-RIOUX,CATHERINE. "Ecritures féminines de la guerre; Feminine Representations of War." E Cr 40 (2000), 3–8.

Although this number of E Cr on war focuses on its modern representations, the opening article by its editor sends the interesting reader, quite properly, to two works by the distinguished dix-septiémiste Philippe Sellier (his essay "Le modèle héroïque de l'imagination" in Pierre Brunel's Dictionnaire des mythes littéraires, 1988 and his own volume Le Mythe du héros, 1990).

MOMBELLO, GIANNI,dir. Albert Bailly, La correspondance. Vols. I et II. Aoste: Académie Saint-Anselme, 1999.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 130 (2000), 152: Valuable correspondence from the years 1643–1650 relating to politics and literature alike, is transcribed by Luca Giachino (vol. I) and Paola Cifarelli (vol. II). Highly useful historical and philological introductions and notes.

NATIVEL, COLETTE, ed. Femmes savantes, savoir des femmes. Du crépuscule à l'aube des Lumières. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: C. Hampton in MLR 96.2 (2001), 495–496: Collection of nineteen papers on feminist epistemology from the colloquium held at Chantilly (September 22–24, 1995) is divided into three sections: "'Réalités/Savoir', 'Regards d'hommes' and 'Discours de femmes/Portraits'. Encounters between women and learning/knowledge, are thus situated in a number of clearly delineated contexts: skills, erudition and professional competencies displayed by early modern women; male acknowledgement of, and interaction with, 'savoirs' proper to women; and the complex relationship of women writers with the world of texts in its many forms."

Review: D. Denis in RHL 100 (2000), 1218–20: Contains three sections, treating: 1) "le contexte historique et culturel dans lequel peut se développer un savoir féminin"; 2) praise or hostility directed towards the femme savante by men; 3) individual portraits of women of learning (Marguerite de Valois, Scudéry, Villedieu, Dacier, Guyon, Du Noyer). A "riche ensemble" reflecting the influence of L. Timmermans.

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000), 641–643. "Par la diversité des situations, des prises de position et des réactions qu'il évoque, ce livre illustre excellemment que les femmes ont accédé au savoir par des trajets multiples et souvent détournés, pour faire entendre des voix originales et toutes différentes, quoique de plus en plus volontaires et affirmées."

Review: J. Conroy in FS 55.2 (2001), 234: "This authoritative collection brings important specific contributions...to our knowledge of the limitations placed on women's intellectual development and how they transcended that handicap." These nineteen studies range from essays on exceptional women such as Marguerite de Valois, Elisabeth de Bohème, Mlle de Montpensier, Mme Dacier, Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Villedieu and Elena Cornaro Piscopia, to pieces on the status of widows in law and in the world of publishing. Contributors include Colette Winn, Philippe Salazar, Emmanuel Bury, Christian Biet, Nathalie Grande, Jean-Charles Darmon, Henriette Goldwyn and René Démoris.

NEEMAN, HAROLD. Piercing the Magic Veil: Toward a Theory of the Conte. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999.

Review: F. Ringham in FS 54.4 (2000), 509–10: "Harold Neeman's work offers an impressive overview of the complexity of the genre and of its critical reception. The study approaches its subject from two angles, considering first synchronic and diachronic definitions and then contemporary systems of interpretation...Throughout this work, Neeman unites attention to socio-cultural history with discussion of individual critical theories." Though thorough and informative, however, the work "lacks rigour and promised coherence."

NIDERST, ALAIN. "L'Enjouée Plotine, Madame de Maintenon, Madeleine de Scudéry et Ninon de Lenclos." PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 501–508.

The author proposes the idea that "l'enjouée Plautine" whom Madame the Maintenon invites to dinner is none other than Ninon de Lenclos.

NIDERST, ALAIN. Essai d'histoire littéraire: Guilleragues, Subligny et Challe. Des "Lettres portugaises" aux "Illustres françaises". Paris: Nizet, 1999.

Review: BCLF 623 (2000), 1761: Niderst remet en cause que Guilleragues est bien l'auteur des Illustres françaises et propose Subligny. "Quant aux Lettres portugaises, elles seraient bien de Mariana Alcaforado, et Subligny en aurait été le traducteur."

Review: T. Lassalle in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 212–213: "Ce bref ouvrage a le décousu d'une oeuvre de délassement. . ."

NORTON, GLYNN P., ed. The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Vol. III, The Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Review: R. Arab et al. in Ren Q 53 (2000), 294–95: When this collection is complete, all of Western literary history from antiquity to the present will be surveyed. Volume 3 covers the period from the late Middle Ages to the late 17th c. and is highly useful for its "emergent discourse of poetics," "contexts of criticism" (socio-political factors), challenging "voices of dissent," and formative trends and national developments. Extensive bibliography and index.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS. D. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001.

Review: D.A. Collins in Choice 38, 11/12 (2001), 1966: Study of the "autobiographical mentality" that underlies the work of Augustine, Montaigne, and the mystics Teresa of Avila, Jean de Labadie, Antoinette Bourgignon, Jeanne Guyon, and Jean-Joseph Surin. Although it identifies differences between these writers, the study "ascribes to them an overarching preoccupation: their self-consciousness about self-consciousness." The author "discusses with finesse and sensibility the evolution of an ever-growing irrepressibility of self-representation, of 'being interior' culminating in the unabashed (figurative) nuditarianism of J.J. Rousseau."

PAVESIO, MONICA. Calderón in Francia. Ispanismo ed italianismo nel teatro francese del XVII secolo. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2000.

Review: F. Sick in PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001) 218–219: " . . .on regrette (. . .) que Pavesio se contente de noter seulement les données. On aurait aimé avoir des commentaires plus explicites sur les rapports entre l'évolution de la dramaturgie et celle de la mise en scène. . ."

PICCIOLA, LILIANE. "Traduire Don Quichotte au début du XVIIe siècle." RDM (avril 2000), 137–147:

L'auteur analyse les traductions françaises de Don Quichotte par César Oudin en 1614 (la première partie du roman) et de François Rosset (deuxième partie du roman) en 1618 et note "un désappointement certain dû tantôt à une réception timide du traducteur tantôt à sa réaction réformatrice devant un roman complexe."

PIGEAUD, JACKIE. "Les quatre livres des Jardins du Père René Rapin." DSS 209 (2000), 601–626.

A comparative study of Rapin's poem, originally written in latin, that situates it with regard to several authors of Antiquity, notably Virgil, and emphasizes the poem's "modernist" elements.

PLANTE, CHRISTINE. L'épistolaire, un genre féminin? Paris: H. Champion, 1998.

Review: D. Denis in DSS 208 (2000), 553–554: A highly favorable review of fifteen essays first presented as conference papers. Planté's clear introduction juxtaposes the question of the literary status of correspondance and that of the relationship between the sexes. Rather than adopting quantitative or qualitative approaches ("immanentistes"), considered naïve and duplicitous by the reviewer, the authors propose historical studies grounded in representations and cultural models. The four articles devoted to the 17th c. feature studies of Scudéry (M. Maître); "l'imaginaire stylistique de la lettre féminine" (I. Landy-Houillon); la lettre féminine and its the penetration into the public and political sphere (D. Hasse-Dubosc); and a synthesis that looks at masculine theories of the letter and the pratique mondaine of correspondance (R. Duchêne). Other chapters cover the Enlightenment through Romanticism.

POISSON, JEAN-MARC. Introduction to the 1998 MLA Convention Session on Libertines and Homosexuality. PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000), 417–419.

POLI, SERGIO. "Vendetta e pena capitale nella narrativa francese del primo seicento," in de Romanis, Roberto and Rosamaria Loretelli, eds. Il Delitto narrato al popolo. Palermo: Sellerio, 1999.

Review: M. Rossi in S Fr 132 (2000), 586: Poli reconstructs, through able analyses of 17th c. histoires tragiques, the evolution of the concept of the criminal of the time along with heterogeneous themes and topoï, Poli makes certain structural constraints. Important not only for light it sheds on a "tormented culture, but also on a society in full transformation."

POMPEJANO, VALERIA. Seduzioni e follie. Forme della presenza italiana e spagnola nell'elaborazione del classicismo francese. Fasano : Schena, 1995.

Review : M. Pavesio in RLC 294.2 (avril-juin 2000), 243–244 : The four studies in this volume analyze plays and a preclassical text, all composed before 1660, which have as a common thread an interest in the amorous and cultural "elsewhere" extending to the extreme limit of madness and which illustrate the passage from Baroque to Classicism and the formation of Classical taste. Authors studied include de Beys, Cervantes, and Guillaume Colletet.

RAMSDEN, MAUREEN A. "The Play and Place of Fact and Fiction in the Travel Tale." FMLS 36 (2000), 16–32.

As it "focuses on the different levels at which fact and fiction constantly and necessarily interact in life and in discourse" (16), Ramsden's study complements studies which limit themselves to particular levels or genres as well as those studies which examine differences between the use of fact and fiction, such as in the latter case, Georges May's L'Autobiographie en France (1970) (16). Ramsden's treatment is in two parts, first, from an historical perspective, including the etymological, and second, focusing on travel literature as a particular area of discourse. 17th c. French references include: Lafayette, Descartes, Gabriel Foigny. Short but helpful bibliography includes Philip Stewart's Imitation and Illusion in the French Memoir-Novel, 1700–1750.

RANUM, OREST. "Documenting a Document: Desmarests de Saint-Sorlin, Scarron, and Christine of Sweden." FLS 28 (2001), 1–11.

Looks at three letters addressed to Christine of Sweden in an attempt to ascertain how contemporaries understood the documentary status of letters.

RAPLEY, ROBERT. Witchcraft. The Trial of Urbain Grandier. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.

Review: M. Greengrass in DSS 211 (2001), 338–339: "Interprétant l'affaire de Loudun comme un procès judiciaire plutôt que comme une possession diabolique, Rapley nous conduit à mieux apprécier à quel point ce procès pouvait accumuler les éléments disparates-rivalités ecclésiastiques, juridictions controversées, et factions politiques au niveau national." The reviewer praises the representation of the historical and juridical context but finds fault with the author's portrayal of the religious backdrop, which, according to the reviewer, is too infused with twentieth-century skepticism. Destined for a popular audience, the book adopts alternately a novelistic and historical style.

RAUSEO, CHRIS. Moeurs et maximes: personnifications, représentation et moralisation théâtrales du "Gran teatro del mundo" au "Malade imaginaire". Heidelberg: C. Winter Verlag, 1998.

Review: M. Baschera in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 644–646: ". . .cette étude aurait sans doute nécessité une conclusion générale et approfondie où l'auteur aurait ramassé les fils dispersés ici et là pour en former un tissu argumentatif convaincant, capable de fonder l'hypothèse formulée au début du livre."

REVAZ, GILES. "La 《 veuve captive 》 dans la tragédie classique." RHL 101 (2001), 213–26.

Reads Mairet's Sophonisbe as a "tragédie 《 exemplaire 》", since it is founded on a mariage that cannot take place because of a political obstacle. Traces this component of tragedy in works of Corneille, Racine, and others.

REYFF, SIMONE DE. L'Eglise et le théâtre. L'exemple de la France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1998.

Review: L. Thirouin in DSS 211 (2001), 345–347: The reviewer begins by identifying several of the book's weaknesses, notably its "hybrid" form; it attempts to address both scholarly and popular audiences (hence the absence of notes and references). Nonetheless the reviewer finds strengths in the even-handed and condensed overview of the main elements of the quarrel as well as in the author's suggestive personal interpretations. The author's religious "convictions" and "préoccupations spirituelles" are at once a limit and a richness of the work.

ROLLA, CHIARA. "Stratégies narratives, XVLLe XIXe siècles." S Fr 131 (2000), 245–254.

Rolla's analysis of Le Tombeau des romans by Francois Dorval-Langlois sieur de Facan (1626) sheds light on the "statut de genre narratif naissant " (254). Rolla places a good deal of importance on this text in conjunction with the numerous "paratextes" of the some 1200 short stories and novels in the first forty years of the century. Facan considers the novel superior to other literary genres, in particular as the novel establishes a relation with history. Reminding us that Plato had recommended les " mensonges profitables", Facan insists on the aptness of the novel to " passer un message sérieux. . . snas demander au lecteur trop d'efforts" (R. 250). Rolla indicates a number of points on which Facan anticipates Huet and Segrais.

ROYE, JOCELYN. "La figure du pédant et le pédantisme de Montaigne à Molière." IL 52.4 (2000). 30–36.

Summary of author's thesis (Paris X-Nanterre), which shows the figure of the pedant to be at the heart of a "mutation profonde de la nature et de la fonction du savoir." Argues that the critique of pedantry is situated at the moment in which humanist learning, based on the accumulation of knowledge, gives way to the new criterion of "discernement," thus paving the way for the philosophes of the Enlightenment.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE and ALICE STROUP, EDS. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, vol. 4: Utopia I: 16th and 17th centuries. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press, 1998.

Review: D. Duport in RHL 100 (20002), 1209: Volume explores the specificity of French utopias, neglected because of the achievement of More. "Plus qu'un genre, le voyage utopique révèle le fonctionnment d'une pensée dissidente."

SCHRODER, VOLKER. "Entre l'oraison funèbre et l'éloge historique: l'hommage aux morts à l'Académie française." MLN 116,4 (2001), 666–88.

Esquisse du développement de l'éloge funèbre à travers le 17e siècle et ses avatars au 18e siècle. Schröder s'intéresse aux "pratiques commémoratives en usage sous l'Ancien Régime, et les différentes notions de 'grandeur' qu'elles impliquent." Trois parties: L'Académie à l'église: l'impasse de l'oraison funèbre; L'Académie au Louvre: l'invention des séances de réception; D'un siècle à l'autre: l'Académie face à l'éloge historique.

SHOEMAKER, PETER. "'Mentir (pas très) subtilement': Hyperbolic Discourses in Early-Modern France." PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 527–549.

Study of hyperbole, from the Renaissance to the Classical period, showing that this figure "provides key insights into understanding the status of rhetoric during this complex and transitional period in modern thought."

SPICA, ANNE-ELISABETH. "Le motif horticole dans la symbolique humaniste et l'emblématique." DSS 209 (2000), 627–644.

Identifies the uses to which the garden is put in emblem books and argues that the garden is a "mirror" of emblem book itself, both composing in a similar manner "dans un espace bien délimité et humainement maîtrisé l'ordonnance visible d'un discours en images."

SPIELMANN, GUY. "Le Mariage classique, des apories du droit au questionnement comique" Littératures Classiques 40, "Droit et Littérature," p. 223–258.

SPIELMANN, GUY. "Pour une syntaxe du spectaculaire aux XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles." Les Arts du spectacle de la fin du Moyen-Age au début du XVIIIe siècle. Paris, Champion, 2000

STILL, JUDITH. "Genlis's Mademoiselle de Clermont: a Textual and Intertextual Reading." AJFS 37.3 (2000), 331–347:

Argues that important intertextual connections to La Princesse de Clèves and La Nouvelle Héloïse may be detected in Mademoiselle de Clermont (1802) by Caroline Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis (Mme de Genlis) (1746–1830). Though she inherits from Lafayette and Rousseau several familiar themes, including love blocked by social obstacle, marriage based on rational choice rather than passion, critique of social class through criteria other than class, Genlis "rewrites her predecessors by introducing a number of pointed plot shifts, by reframing certain key episodes, and by her use of language." Concludes that Genlis's historical novel warrants reading and analysis in the critical context of canon formation since it examines issues of sex and class as these relate to the feminist recognition of literary genealogies based on the work of women.

STONE, HARRIET. The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Review: M.C. Ekman in CdDS 8.1, 210–11. Traces the classical episteme and the making of knowledge in a variety of literary and scientific texts. Readings of Racine, Molière, Descartes, Lafayette and others tend to emphasize, in the reviewer's phrase, "the circular and destabilizing process of the search for knowledge in representation." "Well argued and well written," study is a model of discursive analysis.

SOULIER, DIDIER, ed. Le Baroque en question(s). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: E. Minel, RHL 100 (2000), 1209–10: Containing "une belle et nette introduction" as well as "une copieuse bibliographie de synthèse," the collection of 19 articles leads the editor to the conclusion that "le classicisme ne doit plus être considéré comme une limite, mais comme un moment à l'intérieur de l'histoire baroque," and that its trademark mixing of genres requires a pluridisciplinary criticism.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Avatars du couple, in l"Histoire littéraire, ses méthodes et ses résultats: Mélanges d'Histoire offerts à Madeleine Bertaut, ed. Luc Fraisse, Genève, Droz, 2001, pp. 315–25.

TERNAUX, JEAN-CLAUDE. Lucain et la littérature de l'âge baroque en France: citation, imitation et création. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000. BCLF 629 (2001), 300–301:

Ternaux "propose une étude des procédés de citation et d'imitation de la Pharsale de Lucain dans la littérature française de l'âge baroque (dont il repousse les limites jusqu'en 1664!)." Ouvrage érudit; "lecture fine des textes."

THILL, ANDREE, ed. La Lyre jésuite. Anthologie de poèmes latins. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: M. Fumaroli in CRa (novembre-décembre 1999), 1372–1373: "Cette anthologie présente une partie de l'abondante production des plus célèbres poètes latins jésuites du XVIIe siècle: Hermann Hugo, Mathias Casimir Sarbiewski, Jacob Balde, Denis Petau, François Vavasseur, René Rapin auxquels a été joint un pape élève du Collège romain, Urbain VIII Barberini."

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

Review: B. Guion in DSS 211 (2001), 344–345: The reviewer notes that the "grand mérite" and "originalité" of this book lie in its serious approach to the theories and arguments of the anti-theatre camp. Rather than dismissing them as anachronistic, Thirouin analyzes the historical, literary, religious, and anthropological underpinnings of the opposition to the theatre. The reviewer concludes with unabashed praise: "L'ouvrage, on le voit, est riche de perspectives stimulantes qui vont à contre-courant de nombre d'idées reçues sur la querelle du théâtre. Quand on la croit anachronique et fastidieuse, Laurent Thirouin s'emploie à ruiner ces deux préventions en montrant la complexité de l'argumentation mise en jeu. . .ainsi que l'actualité de plusieurs de ses enjeux pour notre 'société de spectacle.'"

TORTORELLO-ALLEN, JAMIE ELIZABETH. "The Scepter in Her Hand: Dangerous Queens in French Seventeenth-Century Tragedy." DAI 61/02 (2000), 631.

Examines how dramatists used the figure of the dangerous queen to explore issues of sovereignty, tyranny, and the transfer of power. Argues that although "the dangerous queen is ultimately defeated by a stronger man," one cannot conclude that plays "offer a straightforward condemnation of women who attempt to transcend the roles assigned to them," since the portrayals "contain esthetic elements that undermine the political exemplum." Treats plays by Corneille, Rotrou and Racine, as well as Mazarinades and treatises by Richelieu, Bossuet and others.

TRAUB, VALERIE with assistance fromTHERESA BRAUNSCHNEIDER. "Recent Studies in Homoeroticism." ELR 30 (2000), 284–329.

Comprehensive descriptive bibliography of recent studies ranging from "initiating studies" such as John Boswell's 1980 Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality and Adrienne Rich's theoretical "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" Signs 5 (1980), 631–60, to "General Studies" (Anthologies, Monographs and Reprints), "Gender-Specific Studies", "Studies of Individual Writers", and "State of Criticism." An appendix features a non-descriptive bibliography of "English Renaissance Texts and Histories", "Performance and Film Criticism", and, of particular interest to 17th c. scholars, "Studies in Related Fields" such as Katharine Park's "The Rediscovery of the Clitoris: French Medicine and the Tribade, 1570–1620" in The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio (1997).

TRZEBIATOWSKI-ELIOT, PEGGY DANIELLE. "Madame de Lafayette and Marguerite de Navarre: A particular attachment." DAI 62/3 (2001), 1048.

Examines the structural and narrative parallels between Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves and the Heptaméron's tenth novella. Through circumstantial and internal evidence (especially comparison of the protagonists and the narratives' endings), Trzebiatowski-Eliot argues that Lafayette uses Marguerite de Navarre as a maternal literary model.

Utopie 1 (16th and 17th centuries), EMF, vol. 4. Ed. David Lee Rubin. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press, 1998.

Review: P. Gauthier in DSS 211 (2001), 356–357: A collection of essays that has the merit of studying "works generally absent from specialized bibliographies." A. Stroup identifies the need to study utopia as a genre and a critical frame of mind. T.J. Reiss juxtaposes la Boétie's Discours sur la servitude volontaire and the works of Hobbes. Other articles consider works by Foigny, Veiras, Poussin, and d'Urfé. "Au total, une livraison stimulante, notamment par l'ouverture des œuvres étudiées," concludes the reviewer.

VAN DELFT, LOUIS, ed. Les Moralistes. Nouvelles tendances de la recherche. XVIIe siècle Janvier-Mars 1999 no. 202, 51e année.

Review: B. Piqué in S Fr 130 (2000), 154: Rich and welcome issue devoted to new tendencies of research on the moralists, coordinated by an eminent specialist. Themes and methodological approaches include: le monde, l'honnête homme, la conversation, socio-politics, linguistics, orality, dialogue, classical models, spirituality, medicine, science and emblematics.

VAN ELSLANDE, JEAN-PIERRE. L'Imaginaire pastoral du XVIIe siècle: 1600–1650. Paris: PUF, 1999.

Review: J. Mallinson in FS 55.3 (2001), 382–83: "This important study casts new light on the world of pastoral and its immense popularity in the early seventeenth century. Drawing not only on d'Urfé's canonical novel, but also on material in other forms (theatre, poetry, painting), Dr. van Elslande argues that pastoral does not just represent a haven of moral optimism in a France riven by religious conflict and debate, but that it serves too as a way of articulating and exploring...the dilemmas raised by Counter-Reformation spirituality and free thought. [...] At the centre of this world (and of van Elslande's argument) is the metaphor of the game" as "a defining feature of pastoral life."

VERSINI, LAURENT. Le Roman épistolaire. Littératures modernes. Deuxième édition corrigée (première version 1979). Paris: PUF, 1998.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 75, 1 (2001), 162–63: After several introductory chapters on the history of the epistolary genre, the author examines the role played by women and the novelist Richardson on European traditions of romans épistolaires. Includes analyses of Guilleragues, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Laclos, as well as many nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors. This study "constitue une somme en tous points remarquable, un modèle du genre."

VUILLERMOZ, MARC, ed. Dictionnaire analytique des œuvres théâtrales françaises du XVIIe siècle. Paris: H. Champion 1998.

Review: C. Triau in DSS 209 (2000), 739–740: For each of the 166 dictionary entries, five rubrics are analyzed: type of play ("les morceaux de formes diverses qui peuvent orner la pièce—stances, lettres en vers. . .—sont également précisés"), characters ("liste, schéma relationnel. . .et tableau de présence scène par scène de chacun des personnages"), structure of the plot, place, and time ("nombre de vers par scène, schéma des liaisons des scènes, durée totale de l'action et données temporelles"). Reviewer points out limitations of this "rigid" analytical framework yet identifies its value as a research tool particularly for quantitative studies.

Review: C. Berrone in S Fr 130 (2000), 149: Vuillermoz's team of scholars examines 166 plays, all those of Pierre Corneille, Molière, and Racine as well as certain plays of Reynard, Rotrou, Thomas Corneille, Du Ryer, Quinault, Scarron, Georges de Scudéry, Tristan and Chappuzeau. The notices concern themselves with genres intérieurs, characters, plot, the bienséances, time and place, etc. Highly useful to scholars and students alike, the volume complements and modernizes Lancaster's standard study of theatre.

Review: J. Clarke in FS 55.1 (2001), 86: An alphabetical listing of 166 seventeenth-century plays, each described by use of a grid with the following headings: "Type," "Personnages," "Structure de l'intrigue," "Lieux" and "Temps." The volume also includes various charts and indexes, as well as summaries of the plays. The reviewer finds the author's use of pictograms to illustrate relationships between characters "one of the most interesting aspects of this approach." The reviewer's main criticism concerns the author's criteria for selecting these 166 plays from the body of over one thousand dramatic works published during the seventeenth century.

VUILLERMOZ, MARC. Le Système des objets dans le théàtre français des années 1625–1650: Corneille, Mairet, Rotrou, Scudéry. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: BCLF 628 (2001), 101–102: Analyse détaillée de 83 pièces de théâtre du deuxième quart du XVIIe siècle: "l'objet théâtral est à comprendre au sens large de 'matériel manipulable', certains éléments du décor ou des costumes étant susceptibles de conquérir le statut d'objet dans un espace scénique déterminé où l'objet a une fonction de caractérisant ou de surdéterminant." Une bibliographie imposante mais qui "recèle des légertés . . . des oublis, et des erreurs incompréhensibles dans un travail de qualité..."

WAGNER, M-FR and P.-L. VAILLANCOURT, eds. De la grâce et des vertus. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998.

Review: B. Chédozeau in IL 52.4 (2000), 44: A collection of articles covering the subjects of grace and virtue from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. An ambitious work on frequently overlooked issues, which could have done more to link the title categories, "qui en fait sont étudiées séparément."

WILKIN, REBECCA MAY. "Feminizing Imagination in France, 1563–1678." DAI 61/10 (2001), 4020.

Argues that literary, philosophical and medical texts of the early modern period demonstrate a changing conception of the nature and function of the imagination, specifically with respect to gender ideology. Shows that most male thinkers, concerned with issues such as witchcraft, epistemology and the influence of the novel, tended to disparage the imagination by branding in feminine, whereas Lafayette was able to appropriate the category to different ends. Other authors include Ronsard, Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Boileau, Huet and Sorel.

WOLFZETTEL, FRIEDRICH. Le Discours du voyageur. Le Récit de voyage en France, du Moyen Age au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: PUF, 1996.

Review: F. Lestringant in RHL 101 (2001), 364–365: Reviewer remarks the necessity of a panoramic work on travel literature before Romanticism, while noting the danger in amalgamating works of different genres on the pretext they contain travel: this "illusion téléologique" underlies much of Wolfzettel's perpective. While noting many inaccuracies in the portions of the work trating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the reviewer is considerably more favorable to the treatment of the seventeenth ("quand la prétendue supériorité française fait reculer en définitive la compréhension des autres civilisations") and eighteenth centuries.

WORTH-STYLIANOU, VALÉRIE. Confidential Strategies: The Confident in French Tragic Drama. Genève: Droz, 1999.

Review: E. Minel in RHL 100 (2000), 1214: "très belle" analysis of the "rôle génétique du confident dans l'élaboration d'une structure d'action dramatique." The work, whose theoretical perspecitive is that of J. Scherer and G. Forestier, "montre que le Confident ne tend pas seulement à devenir un protagoniste 《 ouvert 》 des héros (et à s'abolir en tant que simple convention théâtrale), mais qu'il se stabilise en une figure intermédiare de traître: conseiller machiavélique, rival caché, mauvais conseil."

Review: H. Phillips in FS 55.1 (2001), 87–88: "This book...enters into the world of what at first appears mere functionality in order to reveal a rich seam of interest and variety" as the author "move[s] away from the perspective of character" to analyze the confident "in terms of strategy." This study's strengths include its "historical breadth" and "the number of examples used to illustrate the evolution of the confident...Many individual analyses stand out, but none more so than a discussion of the issues surrounding Mithridate, a good instance of the use or absence of the confident underlining important aspects of meaning."

WOSHINSKY, B. and R. HEYNDELS. L'autre au XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17), 1999.

Review: C. Rollain S Fr 132 (2000), 590–92. Detailed review of this volume — the acts of the fourth CIR 17 meeting (Miami, 1998) — gives an idea of the very rich and diverse presentations in section on "Voyages et cartographie", "Droit et Théâtre", "Les Moralistes", "Rhétoriques", "Genre et sexualité", "Philosophie," "Religion er mysticisme" and "Literature". The conference was further "assaisonée" by major lectures by C. Biet, Ph. -J. Salazar and Ph. Sellier. B. Woshinsky and R. Heyndels are to be congratulated for the excellence of both conference and acts.

WYGANT, AMY, ed. New Directions in Emblem Studies. Glasgow, Glasgow Emblem Studies, 1999.

Review: A. Saunders in BHR 63.1 (2001), 139–40: Innovative collection of essays: ". . .in its resolutely theoretical and cross-disciplinary approach it does make a significant contribution to the field of emblem studies, opening up new directions, as its title suggests." See L. Hinds article, "From emblem to portrait: early modern notions of selfhood in novels by Honoré d'Urfé and Charles Sorel."

ZIMMERMANN, MARGARETE, and ROSWITHE BÖHM, eds. Französische Frauen der Frühen Neuzeit (Dichterinnen, Malerinnen, Mäzeninnen). Darmstadt: Wuissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1999.

Review: J.-F. Kosta in RHL 100 (2000), 1220: A group of "monographies en miniature" of women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who had an impact on the domains of literature, history, painting, and patronage. Not a simple catalog, the book comprises entries that attempt to answer questions about the conditions that made it possible for women to exercise such a cultural role.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 271 (2000), 740–42: Wide-ranging volume whose essays treat French women of the early modern era. Numerous entries on the 17th C., from rulers to writers. Fuchs would have appreciated more of a role for Huguenot women and a deeper treatment of the others.

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

Review: P. Shoemaker in CdDS 8.1, 204–207. Though the late seventeenth century has generally been viewed as a bleak time for public eloquence (due in part to the rise of print and the declining prestige of print), this study shows how public oratory took on a new social context and function. "[E]xamines the ritual function of eloquence in five distinct social milieux: the Académie Française, the provincial academies, the parlement de Paris (and related institutions in the capital), provincial parlements, and municipal institutions." Reviewer feels that the work, though a meticulous and clear "documentary achievement," would benefit from a more solid theoretical apparatus concerning ceremony and ritual, and broader comparisons (with other types—notably sacred—of oratory).

Review: Ph.-J. Salazar in PFSCL XXVII, 53 (2000) 661–662. ". . .un ouvrage à ranger dans sa bibliothèque et à compulser souvent."

ADORNO, FRANCESCO PAOLO (U. de Salerno, Italy). Un livre sur Arnauld pour Belles Lettres, et un ouvrage sur la pensée politique de Port-Royal.

ARENBERG, NANCY (Arkansas). "Mirrors, Cross-Dressing and Narcissism in Choisy's Histoire de Madame la Contesse des Barres (24 pp.).

ARNAUD, VANESSA H. (California-Los Angeles). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Bk., 1715: l'annee de la mort de Louis XIV (Accepted by Grenoble PU). Forthcoming: "Voyageurs français dans le Levant au XVIIe siècle: regards sur/de l'Autre," in CIR-17 conference proceedings. "L'Irréel dans le réel: le cas des histoires comiques," in conference proceedings; "Le réalisme en question(s) au XVIIe siècle." General introduction to the volume of conference proceedings. See also Part VI: CAHIERS DU 17e and SE 17.

BAYLEY, PETER (Gonville and Caius C., Cambridge U., UK). Bks., "Bossuet the Orator," (primarily a study of the oeuvres oratoires along the lines of arts. I have published since 1980; planned for many years, probably to be completed in 2003/4, to coincide with the tercentenary of Bossuet's death). Ed., with Richard Parish (Oxford), "Saint-Simon in his 18th C. context" (A specially commissioned issue of Studies on Voltaire and the 18th Century, containing essays from a range of invited specialists).

BOITANO, JOHN F. (Chapman U.) MS. in progress on Pascal's Pensées and 17th C. French libertinage.

BOLDUC, BENOIT (Toronto). Forthcoming: (1) La Chair et l'effroi. Andromède dans les spectacles baroques en France et en Italie (1587–1712), for Fall '01. (2) Iphigénie: de la vaine éloquence à l'artifice efficace," in Actes de Santa Barbara. (3) Louis Petit de Julleville et ses collaborateurs devant le Temple Classique," in L'Influence d'un livre: Louis Petit de Julleville, architecte de l'héritage linguistique et littéraire français, pour Champion,'01. (4) "Among Gods and Monsters : Poetry, Music and the Marvelous in French Tragédie Lyrique," au colloque "Gods, Men and Monsters, "à New College, Oxford, le 4 avril 2001. (5) "L'intermède comme intermédiaire du sens. Deux commentaires allégoriques de l'Amoroza Innocenza (1623) de Silvestro Branchi" (pour '02. (6) "Daphné et la tradition du drame musical à la Renaissance," pour le colloque La Fontaine et l'héritage de l'Europe humaniste de la Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, Institut de France à Paris 11/01. (7) "La pastorale italiana e il rinascimento del teatro francese," étude pour le colloque "Rinascimento e Rinascimenti" à l'Université degli Studi di Napoli, 6/02. (8) Livre, "La pastorale dramatique au XVIIe siècle: laboratoire de l'invention," pour '03. See also "Supplementary Bibliographies," NASSCFL 2001.

BOUSQUET, PHILIPPE (U.de Poitiers). 1. Les femmes illustres au XVIIème siècle, autour principalement du genre des galeries de femmes parues à l'époque. Etude en collaboration, en cours, associée à une rédition prévue, sur support informatique, de plusieurs galeries de femmes du XVIIème (Le Moyne, Scudéry). 2. Le dramaturge Pierre Du Ryer, rédition critique, en collaboration, sur support informatique, de l'ensemble de ses pièces de théâtre.

BURCHELL, EILEEN.(Marymount C.-Tarrytown). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME (C 17). Journal accessible exclusively on-line in HTML format, beginning with vol. VIII,1 (in preparation). Contact Francis Assaf (706) 542–3164/ <fassaf@arches.uga.edu>.

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria). Forthcoming: Ed., special issue of Dalhousie French Studies, Le Mariage sous l'Ancien Régime. "Misères et épines dans la forêt nuptiale au tournant du siècle," in D'un siècle à l'autre (Fasano: Schena). "Imagining Marriage in the 1690s," PFSCL. "Les Soeurs Mancini en Méditerranée," Biblio 17. "Gérer son mariage au XVIIe siècle : l'exemple de Jeanne de Schomberg," Dalhousie French Studies. "L'enfer des amoureux : les complaintes des mal-mariés au XVIIe siècle, " Biblio 17. "Transforming the Myth of Marriage in Early Modern France," in Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture and Change, Delaware UP, '02. "La nuit du couple: la dissolution du mariage dans l'imaginaire des XVIe et XVIIe siècles," in Penser la nuit, ed. Dominique Bertrand. "Le Spectacle de l'impuissance: les 'Congrez' au XVIIe siècle," in Theatrum mundi : mélanges offerts à Ronald W. Tobin. EMF/Rookwood Press, '03. "Le classicisme est-il un nationalisme? Corneille et Racine vus de l'Amérique à la fin du XIXe siècle." "Chaînes, combats, tempètes: métaphores dans quelques traités catholiques au XVIIe siècle." "Préciosité et théologie: l'amour conjugal dans La Clélie et dans quelques traités catholiques sur le mariage," Bk in progress: L'imaginaire nuptial en France, 1550–1715.

CARSON, JOE (St. Andrews U., Scotland). Ed., Paul Scarron. Théâtre complet, for Droz, Geneva, in '03–04. (First complete ed. to include all nine five-act plays since the early 18th C. It will also include the available fragments of incomplete plays).

CARTMILL, CONSTANCE (U. Manitoba). Arts., "Madame de Sévigné et les maximes du mariage," in La Femme sous l'ancien régime (Dalhousie French Studies, in press; ed. Claire Carlin); "La Providence au féminin: jansénisme ou mondanité?," in La Femme au XVIIe siècle (Biblio 17, ed. Richard Hodgson); "In Search of the Western Sea / A la recherche de la mer de l'ouest." Transl. of the journals and letters of La Vérendrye (ed. Denis Combet, Great Plains Publications / Les Editions du blé). Ed., "Travel Narratives / Récits de voyage // Women's Writing / Ecriture des femmes. Selected Papers Presented to the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, 1996–2000"; "Reflets de la baie d'Hudson: Récits de voyage dans le Nord-Ouest du Canada aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècle" [Anthology of letters and journals of French explorers of the Hudson's Bay, for '02)]. Paper, "La rhétorique épistolaire au service du discours de l'altérité: L'Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale de Bacqueville de La Potherie (1722)". for the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric, U. Laval.

CHAREIX, FABIEN (U. de Lille/ CNRS-UMR). Transl., Cosmothereos de Christian Huygens (accepted for '02, PU du Septentrion, Lille); Bk. on the Life and Works of Galileo Galilei (accepted and completed, for Armand Colin, Paris).

CIR 17 2002 (Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe Siècle). 7e Colloque International "L'Afrique au XVIIe siecle. Mythes et réálités," 3/14–16/02, U. de Tunis. Wolfgang Leiner, Président du CIR 17; Pierre Ronzeaud, Secrétaire général. Contact Alia Baccar, Président/ 19, rue de la Kahéna, Tunis 1082, TUNISIE. Fax (216–2) 286 515; e-mail <alia.baccar@planet.tn>. Dues $25/ 150 FF, to Treasurer [See Norman, Buford]. Publ., Répertoire International des Dix-Septiémistes, 2000.

CLARKE, JAN (Durham). Forthcoming: "The Hôtel Guénégaud Auditorium According to the Theatre's Account, in French Classical Theatre Today" (Rodopi, 2001). "De Louison à Fanchon: des enfants acteurs et leurs costumes chez Molière et à l'Hôtel Guénégaud," for Le Nouveau Moliériste. "Towards a realisation of the Salford protocol: early modern French theatre imagery," with Barry Russell (online publication of theatre imagery, funded by the British Academy ('01–02). Contributions to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (2001). The Guénégaud Theatre in Paris (1673–1680). Vol. 3: the Demise of the Machine Play (Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, '02). Isabelle and Colombine: book-length study of the lives and roles of Françoise and Catherine Biancolelli ('03). Women Theatre Professionals in France in the 17th and 18th Centuries (for Cambridge University Press, '05?). A History of Theatre in France, with David Whitton (for Cambridge UP).

CMR 17. (tapez http://cmr17.free.fr/).

CONROY, DERVAL (Trinity C., U. Dublin). Bk., Ruling Women: Gender, Government and Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century France (completed; projected date of publication: '02/03) [examines the conflicting discourses surrounding the notion of female sovereignty and the debate concerning government by women in 17th C. France. Bk., Theatrical Amazons: Gender Transgressions and Cross-Dressing in 17th C. Drama [examines the representation of the warrior woman in grand siècle drama (Rotrou, d'Aubignac, Mareschal, Gilbert, Desfontaines)]. Ed., with C.E.J. Caldicott, Racine: The Power and the Pleasure (Dublin: University College Dublin Press). Arts., "Constructions of Anne of Austria in Seventeenth-Century Pamphlet Discourse," in Pawns and Players: Women and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Dublin: Four Courts Press). "In the beginning was the Image: reading the frontispiece in 17th C. feminist texts," for SCFS. "Mapping gender transgressions? Representations of the warrior woman in 17th C. drama," in La Femme au XVIIe (Biblio 17).

COURSE, DIDIER (Hood C.). Bk., D'or et de pierres précieuses: les paradis artificiels de la Contre-Réforme en France. Livre sur propagande politique et religion (utilisation des images précieuses dans la littérature dévote, for '02–03). Ed., Discours de la vanité de Marie Stuart.

COURT, MARC (U. Paris). Panygeriques Royaux:: Claudel, Ronsard, Malherbe, et la Célébration du Roi. Jeanne d'Arc au Théâtre, du Mystère du siège d'Orléans au règne de Richelieu. Corneille.

DAHLINGER, JAMES H., SJ. (Le Moyne C.). Paper on the Requiem Mass. Art., "Etienne Pasquier, Agrippa d'Aubigne and the King: Two Views of the Reform of the State" [Comparison and contrast of Pasquier and d'Aubigne's use of commonplaces of politics and kingship in their writings about political reform during the French Civil Wars of Religion]. Based on a paper presented at the Cleveland 16th C. Studies Conference. Also preparing my dissertation on Pasquier for eventual publication.

DELPORTE, CHRISTOPHE (U. d'Artois). (1) Les figures de l'ascète en France au siècle classique." Travail de recherche dans le cadre d'une thèse en sciences des religions." Il s'agit à travers les figure d'un certain nombre de spirituels français d'envisager d'autres problématiques que celles du jansénisme, de montrer qu'il était une forme de spiritualité, ascétique, qui conduisait à la joie, plus que l'austérité. (2) "La vie pastorale dans le diocèse d'Arras du Concile de Trente à la révolution.": Thèse en histoire moderne; il s'agit ici d'envisager la problématique de l'introduction du Concile de Trente dans des territoires espagnols, puis leur francisation spirituelle après les guerres louisquatorziennes. (3) Dans le cadre du Centre d'anthropologie et d'histoire (EHESS, Marseille), étude de bibliothèques monastiques sous l'Ancien-Régime et de communautés régulières.

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland College). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). Bk., "Les Précieuses de Molière: le sens d'une supercherie littéraire", for Fayard, 10/01. CD-rom, "Mon XVIIe siècle: de la marquise de Sévigné à Marcel Proust, Cent articles parus entre 1962 et l'an 2000." Extraits substantiels des biographies et autres ouvrages de Roger Duchêne (Molière, La Fontaine, Mme de Sévigné, Mme de La Fayette, Ninon de Lenclos, Marcel Proust), plus une partie inédite comportant 600 lettres de femmes du XVIIe siècle avec une bibliographie de la publication de ces lettres, et les "Mémoires du CMR17" L'équivalent, dans un cédérom, de plus de 2000 pages imprimées. Editions du CMR17. Prix 120 FF ou 20 euros ou $20. Pour connaître la liste des articles et le détail du contenu, rendez-vous sur le site du CMR17 (http://cmr17.free.fr), ou demandez-la directement pour la recevoir par e-mail "rogerduchene" <roger.duchene@wanadoo.fr>, ou par courrier, R. D., 174 rue abbé de l'Épée, 13005 Marseille. [See also WEB 17 (infra) for CD-ROM contents and program "Supplementary Bibliographies," NASSCFL '01].

DURHAM 17TH C. CONFERENCE. Director, Dr. Richard Maber, University Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN, England. Tel.: (091) 374 2721; Fax: 0191–374 2716; e-mail: R.G.Maber@durham.ac.uk.

ELMARSAFY, ZIAD (NYU). Against Democracy: Absolutism as Liberation in the Literature of Early Modern France, Essays on the relationship between absolute power and freedom as seen through the works of Corneille, Pascal and Racine (for '02).

FERREYROLLES, GERARD (U. Paris-Sorbonne IV). Forthcoming: "La loi naturelle dans les Provinciales et les Pensées," dans les actes du colloque "Le Droit a ses époques". De Pascal à Domat (U. Blaise Pascal/ Clermont II, 9/96. "Pour un La Fontaine biblique," dans les Conférences de l'INSEEC (Paris, PUF, coll. "Major." "La causalité historique chez Pascal," dans les Mélanges Philippe Sellier. "La Providence dans le Télémaque," dans les actes du colloque Fénelon (U. Strasbourg, 11/99), chez Champion. "Les citations de saint Thomas dans Les écrits sur la grâce de Pascal, dans les actes du colloque "Pascal et les Ecrits su la grâce, " 5/00, U. Clermont II). "Histoire et finalité: les origines du discours providentialiste au XVIIe siècle," dans actes du colloque "Le Début et la fin," 9/00. "La Rochefoucauld et l'histoire," actes du colloque "Morale et politiques," 9/00, Paris IV. "Pascal et les païens," pour RPL. In progress: ed., cinq Traités sur l'histoire (1638–1677) pour la coll."Sources classiques," Champion. Ed., no. spécial des Dalhousie French Studies, consacré à Ecritures et pensée de l'histoire au XVIIe siècle. See infra SEMINAIRE DE DEA. See also "Supplementary Bibliographies."

FRENCH 17 BIBLIOGRAPHY. See Toczyski, Suzanne (infra).

GRISE, CATHERINE (Toronto). Arts., "Spinning a Poetic Narrative: La Fontaine's 'Les Filles de Minée'," in Rubin Festschrift; "La Fontaine's Little Red Riding Hood: 'La Clochette' and the Pastourelle Genre," in David Rubin, ed. "Genres."

HARRISON, HELEN (Morgan State U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HARRINGTON, THOMAS (Independent Scholar). Bk., Philosophy in the Pensées, for '02 [studies the phlosophical thought that structures and animates the text. Continues along the lines of previous arts. ["Le Pari de Pascal," RF 109 (1997) and "Pascal entre le dogmatisme et le scepticisme," Literatur-wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, 40 (1999)], which have explored the philosophical nature of the Wager argument, as well as Pascal's subtle intermediate position between dogmatism and skepticism and his virtually unrecognized theology. Project seeks to determine what, according to Pascal, philosophical thinking can establish both with, and without, the aid of faith.

HINDS, LEONARD (Indiana). Book: Narrative Transformations from L'Astree to Le Berger extravagant (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2002). Articles: "'Honni soit qui mal y pense' I: Avowals, Accusations, and Witnessing in the Trial of Theophile de Viau," Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 27.53 (2000): 435–444. "The World as Pattern, Picture, and Harmony in Charles Sorel's Science universelle," Studi francesi 130 (2000): 77–83. "Female Friendship as the Foundation of Love in Madeleine de Scudery's 'Histoire de Sappho,'" Journal of Homosexuality 141.3–4 (forthcoming 2001). "Feast or Famine? Eloquence and the Engraved Image in _Le parasite Mormon_," Word & Image: Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry (forthcoming 2002). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HODGSON, RICHARD (British Columbia). : Ed., La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, 10/5–7/00, for Biblio 17. Paper, "From the Histoire comique de Francion to the Science universelle: Astrology and Superstition in the Works of Charles Sorel," for Kentucky FL Conference.

HOWELLS, ROBIN (Birkbeck C., U. London). Augustinianism in French fiction 1650–1750.

KOCH, EREC R..(Tulane). Ed., Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action. Actes du 32e Congrès Annuel de la NASSCFL, Tulane University, avril 13–15, 2000. Tübingen, G. Narr; DLB entries on B. Pascal and P. Nicole. Bk., The Aesthetics of Power. Art, Literature and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France.

KRONEGGER, MARLIES (Michigan State). Recent: Bks., The Life Significance of French Baroque Poetry. NY, Bern, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 1998. Esthétique baroque et imagination créatrice. Cerisy-la-salle. Tübingen, G. Narr, 1998 (se Phenomenological Inquiry, vol. 24, 10/00. Art., "Chinese Gardens: The Relation of Man to Nature in 17th C. French Culture," Dalhousie French Studies, Special Issue, 43, summer 1998 [Phenomenological Inquiry, 24 (2000), 305–06: Review by Claude-Gilbert Dubois]. D. Souller, ed. special ed. on "The Baroque" in Revue d'Etudes Classiques, 1/12/99. President, International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts. See PHENOMENOLOGY CONFERENCE, infra.

KRUEGER, REINHARD (U. of Berlin, Germany). Publisher of 2 vv.. of Actes de Tempe. See "Supplementary Bibliographies," NASSCFL '01.

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Vermont). In Progress: Bk., Masks and Gender in the Early Modern Novel. Eng. transl. of Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière. Arts., Villedieu entry, Dict.of Literary Biography. "Playing to Win: Villedieu's Henriette-Sylvie de Molière as Actress." Forthcoming: "La Généricité dans les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière.." Féminités et masculinités dans le texte narratif, Suzan van Dijk, et al, eds. Louvain, eds. Peeters. "Ecriture á la mode/modes de récriture: Les Femmes illustres de Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry, in La Femme au XVIIe siècle, ed. Richard Hodgson, Biblio 17. "Writing in Drag: Strategic Rewriting in the Early Epistolary Novel," in Early Modern France, '02. "Romancière à succès, succès de romancière. Mme de Villedieu et les topoi." in Homo narrativus, Nathalie Ferrand and Michèle Weil, eds. Recent: "Ce rusé d'Amour: les Ruses des Annales galantes." Ecriture de la ruse, ed. Elzbieta Grodek, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000, p. 319–33. "Les Ruses du roman épistolaire sous l'Ancien Régime," ibid., p. 197–210. [originally appearing at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sator/titre.htm>]. (With Francis Assaf). "Madame de Villedieu. Les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière," in Introduction and Translation. Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women. Colette Winn and Anne Larson, eds. New York, Garland Press, 2000, p. 361–76."The Play of Pleasure and the Pleasure of Play in the Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière," in A Labor of Love. Critical Reflections on the Writings of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Villedieu), ed. Roxanne Lalande, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2000. 147–61. "Cherchez l'artiste: Artistes et objets d'art dans l'oeuvre de Mme de Villedieu." SATOR. Actes du 10e Colloque International (Johannesburg). Denise Godwin, Thérèse Lassalle and Michèle Weil, eds. Montpellier, Paul Valéry UP, 1999. 9–19.

LAFOUGE, JEAN PIERRE (Marquette U.) Bk., Yves de Paris, un gnostique chrétien du XVIIème siècle. Doit démontrer qu'il existait encore, au XVIIème sc, des personnes purement contemplatives qui avaient sur les idées et les choses de leur époque des points de vue qui ne devraient pas être ignorés de ceux qui veulent comprendre de l'intérieur cette époque complexe).

LALANDE, ROXANNE (Lafayette C.). Bks., A transl. into English of the Lettres et billets galants, Le Portefeuille, and selected poems by Madame de Villedieu, with notes and a crit. intro. (for '02); The Discourse of Absence in the Epistolary Novel of the Ancien Régime (for '04).

LECTRICES D'ANCIEN REGIME. "Lectrices d'Ancien Régime: modalités, enjeux, représentations." Colloque international, 27–29 juin 2002, Université de Rennes II. Contact: Henriette Goldwyn <hg3@IS.NYU.EDU>.

LEINER, WOLFGANG (U. Washington/ U. Tübingen). Editor, PFSCL/ Biblio 17/ Oec/ Collection ELF. Président, CIR 17.

LINON-CHIPON, Sophie (U. Paris IV-Sorbonne). Bk., Gallia Orientalis. Les voyageurs français sur la route maritime des épices, du 16e au 18e siècles, 400 pp., 2002, aux P.U.P.S., coll. Imago Mundi [thèse remanié]. See "Supplementary Bibliographies," NASSCFL 2001.

LOCKWOOD, RICHARD (Rutgers-New Brunswick). Bk., Moralist rhetorics. A study of what effects in the reader, by what means, moralist texts are shaped to produce (La Rochefoucauld, La Fontaine, Moliere), for '03.

LONGINO, MICHELE (Duke). Bk., Orientalism In French Classical Drama. Forthcoming, Cambridge UP.

LYONS, JOHN D. (Virginia). President, NASSCFL 2002. [Dept. of French, 302 Cabell Hall, Box 400770, U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904–4770. See infra: NASSCFL 2002. <jdl2f@unix.mail.virginia.edu>/<jdlyons@virginia.edu>.

MACKENZIE, LOUIS (Notre Dame). Bk., Looking Back At Orpheus: Poets Figuring Poets in Poetry. Study spanning French poetry from the Renaissance through Valéry, perhaps beyond. As suggested in the (provisional) title, the focus will be on the explicit theme of the poet.

MARINER, FRANCIS R. (Iowa State). Current research focuses on family archival material pertaining to Blaise Pascal, particularly Gilberte Périer's Vie de M. Pascal. These biographical and other personal writings are studied as they further illuminate the history of the complex relations between Pascal and the Jansenist party, both before and after his death. I also study these docs. as they relate to the history of subjectivity and private life in early modern France, and as they represent one family's response to the increasing encroachment of the absolutist state upon the personal. (Expected to yield two or more arts., which will subsequently figure as a core chapter in a bk. on the politics of life writing in the Classical Age, tentatively entitled "Writing in the Shadow of the Sun King: The Rhetoric of Family Biography in the Age of Absolutism."

MARTIN, MARGOT (El Camino C.). Bk., Music, Dance, and Conversation: Harpsichord Music and Social Aesthetics in France in the Second Half of the 17th C. [Examines the expressive language of harpsichord music according to the artistic, cultural and social values of polite society. Included will be an examination of music and its relationship with portraits, preciosity, the ceremony of dance, and the social concept of agrément (for '02)].

MCCLURE, ELLEN (Illinois-Chicago). Contrib. Ed, French 17.

MEDING, TWYLA (West Virginia). "Out of Pocket: The Purloined Letter and Inconstancy in L'Astrée and La Princesse de Clèves." "Staging Ovid: The Poetics of Love and Tyranny in Théophile's Pyrame et Thisbé " for Kentucky FL Conf. (adapted from "Thisbé's Veil: The Framed Tale into Tragedy," for EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 8: Strategic Rewriting.). Arts.,"The Conqueror and the Shepherd: Discovery, Habit and Costume in L'Astrée," forthcoming in SCFS. "Translation as Appropriation: The Case of Maria de Zayas's El prevenido enganado and Paul Scarron's La Précaution inutile.," forthcoming in Rubin Festschrift. "'Humeur mélancolique' and Travesty in L'Astrée." (art. on melancholy, wild spaces and vegetarianism). Comparative review arts. on La Fontaine, l'Astrée, origines du roman moderne, déguisements. Bk. project on the construction of memory in the pastoral, focusing particularly on written texts and clothing.

MIAMI, U. OF. 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies "Performance and Performativity," February 28-March 2, 2002. Keynote Speaker: Mark Franko, UC Santa Cruz. Possible topics: role playing; theater and metatheater; historically reconstructed performance; gender performance; linguistic performance; representations of power and civility; the relationship(s) between performance, media and/or the visual arts; the culture of spectacle and the emerging European nations. Contact: Barbara Woshinsky <bwoshins@miami.edu>/ Foreign Langs & Lits, U. Miami, P.O. Box 248093, Coral Gables, Florida, 33124–4650.

MONTOYA, ALICIA (U. Leiden, Netherlands). Crit. ed., with Volker Schröder, of Marie-Anne Barbier, Cornélie, mère des Gracques (1703). "Noble zèle ou exemple séditieux? Cornélie et Caïus Gracchus sur scène: Paris, Amsterdam et Genève," in M.C. Cook & M.E. Plagnol-Diéval, eds., in Ré-écritures. Colloque d'Exeter, 9/18–20/00, Bern, Berlin, etc., Peter Lang. "Le Faucon (1719) de Marie-Anne Barbier en dialogue avec Mme de Villedieu et La Fontaine," in Féminités et masculinités dans le texte narratif avant 1800. Actes du XIVe colloquie de la SATOR (Amsterdam et Leyde; Louvain et Paris, Eds. Peeters). "French and English Women Writers in Dutch Library Catalogues, 1700–1800. Some Methodological Considerations and Preliminary Results," in P. Broomans, S. van Dijk, J. van der Meulen et W.R.D. van Oostrom, eds., "I have heard about you." Writing Women Crossing Borders before 1900, Hilversum, Verloren, '02. "Republican Overtones. Marie-Anne Barbier's Tragedies translated, 1728–1774," in idem.

NASSCFL 2002. 37th Annual Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 14–16, 2002. Topics and Chairs: Belief and knowledge: Read Baker; Language and knowledge (philology): Thomas Pavel; Savantes: Richard Goodkin; History: Orest Ranum; Secret knowledge: Anne Birberick; Mythology: Ron Tobin; The Classical episteme revisited: Eric Koch; Science: Harriet Stone. Contact JOHN LYONS (supra). [Dues: U.S./ $20 to Perry Gethner; Canadian $30 to Claire Carlin; Reductions for Students, Retirees, Part-Timers, Untenured].

NATOLI, CHARLES (St. John Fisher C.). "The Provinciales as Heautontimoroumenos: la vie dans un tronc d'arbre." The narrator of the Provinciales orchestrates the Jesuits' unwitting self-undoing in Provinciales I–X through their naïf avowal of their laxity, all unconscious of its enormity. Yet by glimpses of his Augustinian severities—most notably as regards asceticism ("Life in the trunk of a tree" IX) and intention (as he would have it, it makes sin easy but virtue hard), he too risks unwitting self-undoing before the bar of le sens commun. "Anti-Augustinian Augustinians?" Is there a sense in which the 17th C. Augustinians' repudiation of the Jesuits' attempts to accommodate le sens commun on the subjects of grace and morals also repudiates St. Augustine, who took an accommodating position in opposition to the Donatists, the rigorists of his day? "Les Provinciales: ruse contre ruse, force contre force?" in Le rayonnement de Port-Royal, ed. D. Descotes, L. Thirouin, A. MacKenna (to appear).

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). Bks., Touched by the Graces: The Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism (Summa Publications, 2001, in press). Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659–1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (almost complete through 1687). Racine and Music. (project just underway). Arts., "Racine, 1674, and the 'Querelle d'Alceste,'" for Actes de Tulane. On Quinault's construction of scenes in Persée ; on "Hybrid Bodies and Rival Esthetics: Monsters in Seventeenth-Century French Ballet and Opera." Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659–1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

NORMAN, LARRY F. (U. Chicago). Bk., The Shock of the Old, Chicago UP, for '02 [re-evaluates the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. Both ancient and modern apologists, I argue, increasingly viewed Antiquity not as a pillar for established cultural traditions, but instead as a distant universe that presented a challenging counterpoint to contemporary social and aesthetic arrangements. A reading of both polemics and literary works (tragedies, operas, novels, moralist prose) fosters a reflection on the power of ancient texts to paradoxically challenge the same modern culture that canonizes them]. Co-ed. (with Philippe Desan), Du spectateur au lecteur: Imprimer la scène aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Schena/ PU Paris-Sorbonne.

PAIGE, NICOLAS (Calif.-Berkeley). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PAVLOVITS, TAMAS (U. Paris IV-Sorbonne). To appear: "Les trois ordres chez Pascal," Kellék, Cluj; "La délectation chez Pascal, " in Actes du colloque "Raison et passion à l'âge classique, Budapest, ¡ron. Research topics: La philosophie française du XVIIe sc. (Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche); Cosmologie et rationalité; Ethique et philosophie morale, éthique appliquée.

PELLAT, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE (Doyen de l'UFR des Lettres, U. Marc Bloch-Strasbourg 2). "Repères pour l'histoire de l'orthographe française: le XVIIe siècle", in Hommages à Nina Catach. "L'orthographe des poètes du XVIIe siècle: Boileau et La Fontaine", in Mélanges offerts à Martin Riegel, Louvain, Peeters. Orthographe et écriture: pratique des accords, Strasbourg, CRDP, "Nomenclature/ Terminologie grammaticale: 1975/ 1997", in Actes du Colloque international "Métalangage et terminologie linguistique" organisé par l'U.Stendhal-Grenoble 3, 14–16 mai 1998, Louvain, Peeters. Bierbach, Mechtild and Pellat, J.-C., "Histoire de la réflexion sur les langues romanes: français", artikel 20a, in: G. Ernst, M.-D. Glessgen, C. Schmitt, W. Schweickard (eds.), Romanische Sprachgeschichte. Histoire des langues romanes, Berlin / New York, de Gruyter [HSK], sous presse. "La grammaire de Furetière", in: Dictionnaires de langue française et grammaire, Actes de la Journée des Dictionnaires, Colloque international, 21 mars 2001, Université de Cergy-Pontoise. L'orthographe des classiques au XVIIe siècle: ouvrage en préparation "Marcel Proust grammairien": art. en préparation.

PETERS, JEFFREY (Kentucky). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PHENOMENOLOGY CONFERENCE. 7th Annual Conference, May 10–12, 2002, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. "The Metamorphosis of Reality in the Fine Arts, Poetry and Aesthetics." Deadline for one-page abstracts 2/1/02. Contact Patricia Trutty-Coohill, ISPAFA Secretary-General, Siena C., 515 Loudonville Rd. Loudonville, NY 12211 <ptrutty@siena.edu> (518) 783–2912.

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE (York U., Toronto, Canada). Crit. ed., Bks IV and VI of the Histoire de la Nouvelle-France by Marc Lescarbot [to make available to students and the public at large a modern French version of one of the most beautiful journey accounts (1606–07) in New France literature: for '02].

PROBES, CHRISTINE (South Florida). Forthcoming: "L'entrelacement des sens et de la nature chez Jean Baptiste Chassignet" delivered in 1999, in press for '01 volume ed. by Anne Mantero, Paris, France. "Des Lectures au sein de la famille royale: la correspondance de Madame Palatine comme révélant des modes feminins de connaissance au XVIIe siecle", delivered in France, in press for vol. Lectures de Femmes, ed. by Françoise Rétif and Mariane Camus. "Les Sonnets franc comtois de Jean Baptiste Chassignet: representation du `premier lecteur'et persuasion du 'lecteur ideal"', delivered in France and accepted for vol. La Poésie religieuse et ses lecteurs aux XVle et XVIle siecles, ed. Alain Culliere. "Feminine Friendship at the End of the Century: Testimony from Madame Palatine's Lettres françaises", accepted for SCFS, Jan Clarke ed. Papers: "La Litterature et l'art au service de la théologie: Le Voyage terrestre et le voyage spirituel, la poésie de Jean Baptiste Chassignet assortie aux emblèmes de Pierre de Loysi," for Actes de Tempe. "Le Pouvoir des sens: une exploration des poésies de Mademoiselle de Scudery", for the Colloque International du tricentenaire de la mort de Madeleine de Scudery, Paris, June 28 30, 2001. "Une Exploration de la profusion des sens dans la poésie de Tristan L'Hermite" invited paper by organizer Jean Pierre Chauveau for the international colloque in Paris celebrating the Quatrième Centenaire de la Naissance de Tristan L'Hermite, November 22 24, 2001. "Emblem, poem, devise: Harmonies or Disharmonies in Chassignet's Sonnets franc comtois?", in progress and proposed for conference in Cambridge. Title may be revised further. Continued research under the "Grant funded "African Images" project (involves pedagogy with film, a film workshop, and contextualizing; materials for films; paper for MLA 2001). Recent: "Lamentation in the Service of the Dramatization of History: The Choir in Pierre Matthieu's Guisiade," in Medievalia (published by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY-Binghamton), vol. 22, pp. 245 262. "Providence, Grace and Discipline: the Example of A Princess' Reformation Heritage", The Forum of Phi Sigma Iota, Fa1l 2000: 7 10. Secretary, NASSCFL; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PUGH, ANTHONY R. (Fredericton, Canada). Since bk. on the Composition of Pascal's Apologia (1984), current work on Proust and other writers.

REQUEMORA, SYLVIE (U. de Provence). "Un merveilleux exotique?", NASSCFL mtg. "Le voyage à la croisée des genres et des cultures au XVIIe s.", Revue de l'U. du Natal, D. Lanni éd. Colloque à Nice sur Droit et littérature: communication sur "Le droit du premier occupant dans la littérature "coloniale" française vers l'Amérique au début du XVIIe siècle: du roman de Du Périer (1601) à la pièce de Du Hamel (1603)," 6/01. "Le Voyage de Paris à Dublin de Montbret ou le témoignage d'un voyageur français en Irlande en 1789", Society for French Studies, Congrès annuel, Dublin, 7/01. "Le voyage, objet de débat dans la querelle des Anciens et des Modernes", Travaux de littérature de l'ADIREL, M. Bertaud éd., 9/01. — "Hodoeporics and Literature", numéro spécial de la revue américaine d'études italiennes Annali d'Italianistica, Luigi Monga éd.,'03. Participation au comité de relecture de la revue Littérature Classiques. Remaniement de la thèse de doc-torat, en vue de sa publication dans la coll. Imago Mundi dirigée par François Moureau "Littérature des voyages", éditions PUPS.

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Forthcoming: Arts., "The Tuileries Gardens of Le Nôtre, as seen by Perelle, Silvestre, and Others," in Actes de Tulane. "Saint-Amant's and Boisrobert's Pont-Neuf Poems," for PFSCL 55; "The 'Front de Seine' in 1630–60" and "Perelle's Veües des Plus Beaux Endroits de Versailles," for C17. In progress: "Saint-Amant and the Queen of England," Perelle's engravings, Maynard. Recent: "Bibliography of North-American Theses (1999–2000)," PFSCL XXVIII, 54 (2001), 231–46. "Twenty Volumes of the Cahiers Maynard (1971–2000). A Descriptive Analysis" in Cahiers Maynard 20 (2000), 143–88. Also issued as "Publication hors commerce," pp.1–46 + 4 ff. "Research in Progress 2000," as Part VI in French 17 Bibliography no. 48, pp. 179–85. Directeur, CM; Bibliographer, NASSCFL; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RUBRIQUE A BAC. ELLIT, Base de données sur la littérature française, XIIème–XXème siècles. Contacter Gérard Fourestier <g.fourestier@grimm.org>. See "Suppl.Biblios, " NASSCFL 2001.

SCHRODER, VOLKER (Princeton). Arts., "Les méditations de Mariane: la matrice mystique des Lettres portugaises", in La Femme au XVIIe siècle, ed. Richard Hodgson (Biblio 17); "Entre l'oraison funèbre et l'éloge historique: l'hommage aux morts à l'Académie française", MLN: "Le culte des grands hommes"). Crit. ed. (with Alicia Montoya) of Marie-Anne Barbier, Cornélie mère des Gracques (tragedy, 1703). Review editor, PFSCL.

SE 17. The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (Société d'études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième siècle). 20th Annual Conference (10/01) at Athens, GA. Contact Francis Assaf, Romance Languages, U. Georgia, Athens, 30602, Tel.706–542–3164 / Fax: 542–3287/ e-mail: <fassaf@arches.uga.edu> .

SELLIER, PHILIPPE (Paris IV-Sorbonne). Le Rayonnement de Port-Royal. Mélanges en l'honneur de Philippe Sellier. Ed. Dominique Descotes, Antony McKenna et Laurent Thirouin. Paris, Champion. Subscription 115 FF. until publication, thereafter 125 FF.

SEMINAIRE DE DEA (Fr. 518). Gérard Ferreyrolles: "SEMINAIRE 2001–2002 'Rhétorique et Christianisme au 17e siècle.'" Fridays, 2–4 p.m., Oct.19-May 24. U. Paris-IV, Sorbonne, escalier G, 2e étage, salle 366.

SHERMAN, CAROL (North Carolina-Chapel Hill). Family Albums: Incest, Violence, and Sacrifice in 18th C. French Fictions. A study of familial structures, their coherence with political (patriarchal) hierarchies, and their subversive potential, the latter being present especially in works by women.

SHOEMAKER, PETER (Catholic U.) Displacements of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Politics and Literature at the Dawn of French Absolutism. [A study of the transformations and tensions within the highly contested domain of rhetoric during the era of Richelieu. I examine competing appropriations (by the state and by individual writers) of the classical paradigm of eloquence and the ways in which such appropriations attempted to redefine (and in some cases succeeded in redefining) existing ideologies of literature and authorship. My primary case study for this project is Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654), for '04].

SIMHON, DANIEL (U. Washington). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SOUTH CAROLINA, U. of. 30th French Literature Conference "Imagined Geographies in French and Francophone Literature and Film," Columbia SC, March 28–30, 2002. Contact Jeanne Garane, French & Classics, USC, Columbia 29208 <garanej@sc.edu>.

SPIELMANN, GUY (Georgetown). Sous presse: Le Jeu de l'ordre et du chaos: comédie et pouvoirs à la Fin de Règne, 1673–1715. Paris, Honoré Champion. En préparation: Du Sexe sous L'Ancien Régime: le Tableau de l'amour conjugal (1687) de Nicolas Venette, avec Rebecca M. Wilkin (Indiana U.). Rédacteur invité, Actes de Washington, C17, VIII, 1. Directeur du site "Spectacles Du Grand Siècle, Centre Virtuel de Ressources sur les Arts du Spectacle aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles" — http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann/opsis.htm. Visitez "La P@ge de Guy" (http://www.georgetown.edu/spielmann) et La P@ge des debutants (http://cweb.middlebury.edu/debutant ). Fax (202) 687–0079/ <spielmag@georgetown.edu>

STEINBERGER, DEBORAH B. (Delaware). Arts., Gender Politics of the correspondance galante: Françoise Pascal, Anne-Marie de la Vigne, Catherine Bernard;" "Lesbian Images in the Recueil de Sercy". Bk., Women's Stories in the Mercure Galant (in progress). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). Forthcoming: "Voix féminins dans la littérature classique," (to be publ. in Les Actes de Tempe, ed. David Wetsel). "De l'idéal galant à l'héroïsme amoureux," Colloque international du tricentenaire de la mort de Madeleine de Scudéry, Paris-Sorbonne 6/01, (to be publ. in the Actes, ed. D. Denis & A.E. Spica, '02–03). "Le mythe d'Adonis, de la Renaissance à La Fontaine," Colloque international La Fontaine, Paris-Sorbonne 11/01 (to be publ. in Le Fablier, ed. Patrick Dandrey, '02–03. "Paysages, parc et jardins dans la poésie de Tristan L'Hermite," Colloque international Tristan L'Hermite, Paris-Nanterre, 2001 (to be publ. in the Actes, '02–03. "The Art of Praise in XVIIth C. Poems," for The Shape of Change. Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of David Lee Rubin, ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim.

TOCZYSKI, SUZANNE (Sonoma State). Forthcoming: "Performing Secrets in Celinte" (PFSCL); "Corps sacré, discours souverain," Acta du Colloque Madeleine de Scudéry, Paris. Editor, French 17: An Annotated Descriptive Bibliography of French 17th Century Studies (price $15 + postage/handling). [Dept. of Mod. Langs & Lits, Sonoma SU, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. Tel. Office (707) 664–4177; Fax (707) 664–2363; e-mail <toczyski@SONOMA.EDU>].

TREPANIER, HELENE. (McMaster U., Canada). Bk., Le débat autour du langage mystique au XVIIe siècle en France. [La suite de ma recherche doctorale qui portait sur la représentation du sujet dans les oeuvres de Jeanne des Anges et de Jean-Joseph Surin, les deux protagonistes de l'affaire de la possession de Loudun. Ce débat sur l'expérience mystique au XVIIe siècle est intéressant dans la mesure où la ceritique de l'expérience mystique (celle-ci est, aux yeux des opposants, une folie de l'iumagination, une tromperie du diable, une manifestation d'un esprit malade) passe par une critique du langage. Les mystiques parlent une langage obscure et inintelligible, preuve de la fausseté de leur témoignage, écrit Chéron à propos des auteurs mystiques de son temps. Cette problématique linguistique jette un éclairage particulier sur des difficultés d'ordre épistémologique (comment instaurer de nouveaux discours rendant compte de nouvelles réalités?) et sur des enjeux d'ordre littéraire (l'importance de la doctrine classique, aussi dans la formulation d'expériences ou de principes théologiques)]. Pour '04.

VERDIER, GABRIELLE. "Olympe de Gouges et le divorce sur la scène révolutionnaire: Adieu au mariage d'Ancien Régime?," Dalhousie French Studies. In progress: "Marthe Marguerite de Caylus," and Marguerite de Staal-Delaunay," 3000-word arts. for the Dictionary of Literary Biography — The French Enlightenment, ed. Samia I. Spencer. "La Guerre des mémoires: Mme la comtesse de M*** répond au comte D***."

VISENTIN, HELENE (Smith C.). In press: "Des tableaux vivants à la machine d'architecture dans les entrées royales lyonnaises (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)," XVIIe Siècle, special issue on Royal Entries directed by M.-F. Wagner (end '01 or '02). In progress: Crit. ed., La descente d'Orphée aux Enfers by Chapoton (1640), Poitiers, La Licorne "Textes Rares." Bk. derived from dissertation "Le Théâtre à machines à l'âge classique: histoire et poétique d'un genre ('02–03). Crit. ed., Les Sosies by Rotrou, Paris, STFM, for '05. Member of research project in the "Centre d'études de la littérature et de la langue des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles de la Sorbonne" (Paris IV-CNRS), directed by Georges Forestier: édition of XVIIth C. dramatic works.

VOS-CAMY, JOLENE (Calvin C.). Bk., The Art of the Novel Through Theatrical Lenses : Paul Scarron's Le Romant comique [Examines the influence of theatrical practice on Scarron's narrative.] (Under consideration at Biblio 17). Art., Les Folies du Roman comique : Le caractère burlesque et romanesque de Ragotin et Destin. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE (Concordia U.). Entrées Solennelles dans les Villes Françaises à la Renaissance (1484–1615). Groupe de recherches: <mfjewag@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA>.

WATERSON, KAROLYN (Dalhousie U., Canada). Writing social commentary around censorship in 17th C. France, esp. in the works of Molière, La Fontaine and La Bruyère. Women and literature in 17th C. France.

WEB 17. Ce site se propose de vous faire mieux connaitre oeuvres et les personnages du XVIIe siècle français. Organisé par Roger Duchêne. Pour y accéder tapez simplement http://web17.free.fr/ (version modifiée en ligne depuis 2/25/01). http://perso.wanadoo.fr/roger.duchene/.

WETSEL, DAVID (Arizona State). Président, NASSCFL 2001. Editor, Les Actes de Tempe.

WILKIN, REBECCA (Indiana). Art. on Descartes and the fetal subject, not yet submitted for publication.

ZAISER, RAINER (U. Koeln, Germany). "Le Page disgracié et la naissance du roman moderne en France," for Actes du colloque Tristan L"Hermite (U. Paris X-Nanterre, 22–24 nov., 2001). Co-Editor, PFSCL.

ZIMMERMANN (SUNY-Stony Brook). "La Fontaine, Past and Present," AATF Congress, Paris. "Enseigner La Fontaine," corresponding article, available from author.

ZUERNER, ADRIENNE (Skidmore). Contrib. Ed., French 17.