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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.