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AATF. Future conventions: 2003 (July) Martinique; 2004 Atlanta (July 19–23) [Joint meeting with the International Federation of French Teachers/ FIPF]; 2005 (July) Quebec City. Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel. 618-453-5731 <abrate@siu.edu>, http://aatf.utsa.edu.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). In Print: Arts., "Henriette-Sylvie, agent et objet du désir," FR 74.3 (2001), 518–526. "Voyageurs français dans le Levant au XVIIe siècle: regards sur/de l'Autre," in Biblio 17 (CIR-17/2000 conference proceedings). In Press: Arts., "L'Irréel dans le réel: le cas des histoires comiques." Forthcoming in 2000 conference proceedings. Le réalisme en question(s), Dijon, 2000. "Le réalisme en question(s) au XVIIe siècle." General introduction to the volume of conference proceedings. See above. "L'impossible souveraineté ou le roi-prétexte dans les contes de Madame d'Aulnoy," in Biblio 17. In progress: Bk., 1715: Le soleil s'éteint (completed; to be submitted shortly to publisher). Dictionary Entry (completed), "Alain-René Lesage" 7500-word entry. Under editorial consideration by The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. Crit. ed., Antoine Houdar de La Motte's Discours sur Homère (1714). Droz has accepted the work (letter on file). Crit. ed. of the Anthoine brothers' Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. Research papers: "De l'observation en tant que l'un des beaux-arts: le Chevalier d'Arvieux en Afrique du nord," for 7th meeting of the CIR-17 in Tunis. "Sorel et l'écriture," for the international conference: 'Sorel dans tous ses Ètats.' U. Laval, Québec. <fassaf@arches.uga.edu>, <fassaf@charter.net> Ed., Cahiers du Dix-septième. (For all matters pertaining to CaDS. please use: <cahiers@arches.uga.edu>).

BEASLEY, FAITH E. (Dartmouth). Co-President, NASSCFL 2003. <Faith.E.Beasley@Dartmouth.edu>

BEUGNOT, BERNARD (Toronto). 20th C. authors: Ponge, Anouilh forthcoming in Pléiade).

BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE (BNF). "Le Cardinal, la Fronde et le bibliothécaire. Les trente plus beaux livres de Mazarin." Site Richelieu, 25 October 2002–12 January 2003, in the Galerie Mazarine. Exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of Mazarin's birth.

BNF. "Programme des manifestations culturelles." Handy vest pocket booklet (52 pp.) listing numerous events (concerts, lectures, tables rondes, colloquia, exhibits) at its four sites (Tolbiac/Mitterand, Richelieu, Arsenal, Opera Garnier). Covers a four-month period; gives locations, hours, names, fees, bus numbers, etc.

BOITANO, JOHN (Chapman C.). Bk., The Polemics of Conversion in Pascal's Pensées: A Dialectics of Occult and Rational Libertine Beliefs, Biblio 17.

BOURASSA, ANDRE G. Ed., Molière's Misantrope [sic], with Patrick O'Neill. Reproduces 1774 text as translated and staged by Paul Mascarène at Port-Royal, Nova Scotia. On facing pages will be the reedition of the 1741 Amsterdam ed., containing punctuation variants. These seem to reflect which problems of actors' delivery need resolution.

BURCHELL, EILEEN (Marymount C. of Fordham University). Contrib.Ed., French 17.

BURY, EMMANUEL (U. Versailles-St.Quentin-en-Yvelines). Organizing Seminar "Pour une Histoire de la philologie 2002–2003." Thursdays, 2–5 p.m., 14 Nov.'02 to 24 April '03, at ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm, salle de séminaire du CEA. <emmanuel.bury@poétiques.uvsq.fr>

CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME (C 17). Journal accessible exclusively on-line in HTML format, beginning with vol. VIII,1 . Contact: Francis Assaf at 706.542.3164; write <cahiers@arches.uga.edu>.

CAMPION, EDMUND (Tennessee). Research on Montaigne and Erasmus, but also developing an interest in the writings of Saint François de Sales. Now completing an essay on religious tolerance in 16th c. Switzerland.

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria). In progress: Ed., special issue of Dalhousie French Studies, "Le mariage sous l'Ancien Régime," vol. 56 (fall 2001). Recent: Arts., "Misères et Èpines dans la forêt nuptiale au tournant du siècle," in D'un siècle à l'autre: Littérature et Société de 1590 à 1610. Fasano-Paris: Schena-PU Paris-Sorbonne, 2001: 93–115; "Imagining Marriage in the 1690's," PFSCL, XXVIII,54 (2001): 167–76. Canadian Treasurer, NASSCFL: send $30 CN dues c/o Dept. of French, U. Victoria, PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4. See also: TOBIN FESTSCHRIFT.

CENTRE DE RECHERCHE SUR LA LITTERATURE DES VOYAGES (CRLV). Paris-Sorbonne IV, founded in 1984. Website: http://www.crlv.org/crlv/index.html.

CENTRE D'ETUDES DU ROMAN ET DU ROMANESQUE, Colloque: "Sottise et ineptie, de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Discours du savoir et représentions romanesques," March 2004, U.P.J.V. Amiens. Proposals to Nicole Jacques-Lefèvre, 146 Bd. Magenta, 75010 Paris. <njacqueslefevre@free.fr>

CIR 17. Colloque de Nantes (2003), organized by Jean Garapon. President Cecilia Rizza, Secretary Pierre Ronzeaud. Located in Aix-en-Provence. Annual 2002 Dues, for North America only: $25, payable to Marcelle Welch, Florida International U., French Dept., Miami, FL 343199 <welchm@fiu.edu> or Buford Norman.

CMR 17. Recent: Colloque Baro, Montpellier, France, 27–29 November. For other projects, list of available Actes, Mémoires and the Duchêne CD-ROM, see <cmr17.free.fr> or http://cmr17.free.fr/

CORNEILLE. See MOUVEMENT CORNEILLE.

DANDREY, PATRICK. Sorbonne Seminar "Genèse et génétique de la création littéraire (17e sc.). Salle des Actes de Paris-Sorbonne, le mardi 1800–1930h, 15 October–27 May, 2002–2003. Presentations on different authors by various scholar; dix-septiémistes are invited to attend. <Patrick.Dandrey@paris4.sorbonne.fr>

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland C.). Entries in the recently published Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1720, ed. Christopher Baker. Article in progress about the epigrams of François Maynard. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). Just appeared: Mme de Sévigné ou la chance d'être femme (ed. revue, corrigée et très notablement augmentée, chez Fayard). Recent: Bk., Les Précieuses ou comment l'esprit vint aux femmes, suivies de Baudeau de Somaize, Les véritables Précieuses, Les Précieuses ridicules mises en vers, Le grand dictionnaire des Précieuses ou la clé de la langue des ruelles. (Paris: Fayard, 570 pages, 28 euros). CD-ROM, "Mon dix-septième siècle: de Mme de Sévigné à Marcel Proust", contenant 100 articles parus de 1962 à 2000, des extraits de ses livres, six cents lettres de femmes du dix-septième siècle, avec une bibliographie inédite, plus les Mémoires du CMR17". See also: WEB 17.

FABULA. "Un portail pour la communauté des chercheurs en littérature" presents information on new publications, meetings, queries, etc., several times per week. Free. Website: http://www.fabula.org/.

FINN, TOM (Northern Ohio U.). Recent: Bk., Molière's Spanish Connection: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theatrical Influence on Imaginary Identity in Molière. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Arts., "Reputation and Imaginary Identity in Le Menteur and La Verdad sospechosa." CdDS 8 (2001), 44–57. Rev., Quand Jean-Baptiste joue du Molière. Essai, by Constant Venesoen. CdDS: 8 (2001): 194–97; Rev.,Society of Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power During the Reign of Louis XIV, by Kathryn Hoffmann. CdDS 8 (2001),178–81.

GAINES, JAMES (Martha Washington C.) Forthcoming: Molière Encyclopedia, from Greenwood Press, (summer '02); "The Violation of the Bumpkin: Satire, Wealth, and Class in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac," in Mélanges offerts à Ronald W. Tobin ; "Enlightenment Obfuscations: the Philosophes Misread Molière," for PFSCL; "Kapital de la douleur; Remystification of the Market Culture," in PFSCL 29, n. 56 (2002), 1–7; "Molière's Uncanonical Miser," in Biblio 17, 131 (2002) 201–211. In progress: reviews of new books by J. Pineau and R. Guichemerre; ms., Molière and Paradox.

GANIM, RUSSELL (Nebraska–Lincoln). Published in 2001: "Prévert Reads Shakespeare: Lacenaire as Iago in Les Enfants du Paradis," CLS 38.1 (2001), 46–67. "Anus as Oculus: Satire and Subversion in Eustorg de Beaulieu's Du Cul." Dalhousie French Studies 55, 12–25. "Views of Kingship: Britannicus and Louis XIV's Mémoires," Actes de Tulane, ed. Erec R. Koch, Biblio 17, vol. 131, 315–24. Forthcoming: Arts. on La Ceppède, and Anne de Marquets, in Rubin Festschrift ('02).

GETHNER, PERRY J. (Oklahoma SU). Just appeared: Vol. 2 of my collection "Femmes dramaturges en France, 1650–1750. Pièces choisies" Treasurer, NASSCFL: send annual U.S. Dues $20 to PG, Head, Dept. of Foreign Langs & Lit, Oklahoma SU, Stillwater, OK 74074 <pjg@okstate.edu>.

GOLDSTEIN, CLAIRE (Miami U. of Ohio). Bk., Building the Grand Siècle: National Style at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles. Examines two competing versions of 17th c. style, comparing two very distinct societies and literary texts written by the same authors, for Fouquet and afterward. Analyzes gardens, architecture, interior decoration and material objects, to understand how different philosophies and systems of patronage colored the relationship of the two château cultures.

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH (Boston U.). Bk., Lettres de femmes du XVIe au XIXe siècle (anthology, with Colette Winn).

HARRISON, HELEN (Morgan State U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HINDS, LEONARD (Indiana). Recent: Bk., Narrative Transformations from l'Astrée to Le berger extravagant. Purdue Studies in RLS, v.24, ISBN 1-55753-235-4, $45.95. Articles: "Paratext and Framing Narrative: Techniques of Skepticism in Le Parasite Mormon" French Literature Series: Beginnings in French Literature Volume XXIX (2002): 69–80; "Feast or Famine? Eloquence and the engraved image in Le Parasite Mormon" in Word and Image, vol.18, no.2 (April–June 2002):146–152. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HOUDARD, SOPHIE (Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle). Seminar: "Figures du mysticisme au début de l'âge moderne: Vérité et feintes." Beginning 13 January 2003, 2nd & 4th Mondays, 6–8 p.m., in salle 4, 105 bd, Raspail. Interdisciplinary. <sophiehoudard@voila.fr>.

JONES, DAVID H. Editor, Current Research...in the U.K. (online version): 17th C. section. See Part I: CURRENT. <david.h.jones@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>

JUDOVITZ, DALIA (Emory). Recent: bk., The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity [on representations of the body from late 16th through the 18th centuries]. Ann Arbor, Michigan UP, 2001. Currently: bk., Georges de la Tour: The Enigma of the Visible [on the interface of voice and vision in his pictorial works].

KOPPISCH, MICHAEL (Michigan State). Recent: "Le Dialogue de Molière et La Bruyère," in Le Métier du moraliste (proceedings of the La Bruyère conference at the Sorbonne 1996), Paris, Champion, 2001. Forthcoming: Bk., Rivalry and the Disruption of Order in Molière's Theater (for '02). Art. on Monsieur de Pourceaugnac in the Tobin Festschrift (for '03); art. from the Racine conference in Santa Barbara.

KRONEGGER, MARLIES (Michigan State). Recent: Esthétique baroque et imagination créatrice. Tübingen: W. Leiner & G. Narr, 1999. The Relation of Man to Nature in French-European Culture. Examination of ceramics, tapestries, poems, published in Canada, in Orientales (1999). Special ed. on the Baroque in Cahiers Classiques, ed. D. Soullier. See also: http.phenomenology for publications. A bibliographical sketch (135 articles, 4 bks.) forthcomimg in the encyclopedia publ. by Kluver in Dordrecht.

KUIZENGA, DONNA (U. Vermont). Recent: "Romancière à succès, succès de romancière. Mme de Villedieu et les topoi," in Homo narrativus: Recherches sur la topique romanesque dans les fictions de langue française avant 1800. eds. Nathalie Ferrand & Michèle Weil, Montpellier UP, Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, 2001, pp. 285–99. To appear: "Writing in Drag: Strategic Rewriting in the Early Epistolary Novel," in EMF (2002). "La Généricité dans les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière," for Féminités et masculinités dans le texte narratif, eds. Suzan van Dijk, et al., Louvain, Editions Peeters. "Ecriture à la mode/modes de récriture: Les Femmes illustres de Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry" for La Femme au XVIIe siècle, ed. Richard Hodgson, Tübingen, Biblio 17. "Espaces féminins? La topique des lieux dans les Nouvelles afriquaines et les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière de Mme de Villedieu," in Lucus in Fabula, ed. Nathalie Ferrand, Louvain: Peeters. In press: Villedieu entry, Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Françoise Jaouïn. In progress: English translation of Les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière de Mme de Villedieu, for Other Voices in Early Modern Literature, UP Chicago. Bk. on strategic re-writing by women writers, French and British of the latter 17th and early 18th centuries.

LAFAYETTE. Project: The Madame de Lafayette Book of Hours. Worldwide online project which accepts articles on Lafayette, her time and works. French encouraged. http://fdt.net/~christys/goldleaf.html

LEINER, WOLFGANG (U. Washington/ U. Tübingen). Editor, NASSCFL, Biblio 17, PFSCL, OeC. Président, CIR 17 (2001–2002). <wolfgang.leiner@uni-tuebingen.de>, <Wleiner@aol.com>. See also CMR 17.

LONGINO, MICHELE (Duke). Recent: Bk, Orientalism in French Classical Drama, Cambridge UP, 2002. Arts., "Creüse: Corneille's Material Girl," La femme au dix-septième siècle," Actes du colloque de Vancouver (U. of B.C., 2000), Biblio 17, 138 (2002), 115–123. "Pollux: Modèle cornélien du nouveau voyageur savant, ou la 'naissance' de l'anthropologue," Les Méditerranées au XVIIe siecle, Actes du CIR 17 (Bari, 2000), Biblio 17, 137 (2002), 271–283. "Médée and the Traveler Savant," EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, vol. 7 (Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2001), 73–114.

LYONS, JOHN D. (Virginia). President, NASSCFL 2002. Ed., Proceedings of the Charlottesville Meeting. Dept. of French, Box 400770, U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4770. <jdl2f@unix.mail.virginia.edu>, also <jdlyons@virginia.edu>.

MAITRE, MYRIAM (U. Rouen). See MOUVEMENT CORNEILLE.

McCLURE, ELLEN. Forthcoming: "Can Two Points Make a Line? Sovereign Love and Atomism in Racine's Bérénice" in Philosophy and Literature. In progress: "L'ete 1664: Le premier Tartuffe et la visite du Cardinal Chigi à Paris" (article). Book in progress: provisionally entitled Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Conference paper: "Restoration, not Innovation: Absolutism and the Wars of Religion" at the RSA in Toronto and also "Utrecht and Louis XIV's Diplomacy" at a journee d'etudes at the Universite de Rouen, June 2003. (Illinois-Chicago). Contrib. Ed, French 17.

MLA CONVENTION 2002 (New York). Subjects for the 17th C. French sessions: I. Historic and imaginary places, II. Post-17th C. fictionalizations of the Grand Siècle, III. The Other Woman.

MOLIERE D'HIER A AUJOURD'HUI. Recent: Colloque international, U. Laval, Québec. Interdisciplinary, transhistorical persective: receptions across time, international "postérité." Contact: Thierry Belleguic, Département des Littératures, U. Laval, Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, Bureau 3310, Québec, QCG1K 7P4. <Thierry.Belleguic@lit.ulaval.ca>

MOUVEMENT CORNEILLE. CENTRE INTERNATIONAL PIERRE CORNEILLE, organized in 1982. Colloque "Corneille après Corneille, 1684–1791." Rouen, France, 2–3 December, 2002. Hôtel des Sociétés Savantes, 190 rue Beauvoisine, 7600 Rouen. Myriam Maître (U.Rouen), Présidente: <myriam.maitre@caramail.com>.

NASSCFL 2001. Actes du 33e congrès annuel (Arizona SU, Tempe) , ed. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas, 6 volumes.. Tomes I-III in Biblio 17, vols. 143–45; Tome IV forthcoming soon; Tome VI now available from Dr. Richard Kröger. Contact: Wdwetsel@aol.com<David.wetsel@asu.edu>

NASSCFL 2002. Recent: Annual Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 14–16, 2002. Topic "Le Savoir en France au XVIIe siècle". Contact JOHN LYONS, ed. Actes <jdlyons@virginia.edu>.

NASSCFL 2003. 35th Annual Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, 8–10 May 2003. Theme: "Intersections". Co-presidents: <Faith.E.Beasley@dartmouth.edu> and <Kathleen.Wine@dartmouth.edu>, Dept.of French & Italian, 6087 Dartmouth Hall. Website: www.dartmouth.edu/~frandit/nasscfl03, for directions, transport, registration, lodging, and program. Membership necessary to participate, but not to attend. Dues: U.S.$20 to Perry Gethner; Canadian $30 to Claire Carlin (supra); Reductions for Students, Retirees, Part-Timers, Untenured]. NASSCFL Teaching Award: apply to Faith Beasley (Faith.E.Beasley@Dartmouth.edu) and Kathleen Wine (Kathleen.Wine@ Dartmouth.edu).

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). Recent: Touched by the Graces: The Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications. "Racine, 1674, and the 'Querelle d'Alceste,'" Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action. Biblio 17 131 (2001): 251–62. Forthcoming:"Tragédie païenne, tragédie chrétienne, tragédie moderne: Desmarest, Perrault, Quinault et Racine de 1674 à 1692," for Actes de Tempe, Biblio 17. In progress: Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659–1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Arts. on Quinault's construction of scenes in Persée, for Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music; on "Hybrid Bodies and Rival Esthetics: Monsters in Seventeenth-Century French Ballet and Opera." Bk.on Racine and Music. Treasurer, CIR 17 <norman-buford@sc.edu>.

O'HARA, STEPHANIE (Duke). Art., "'Savante en poison': Médée and Mme de Brinvilliers," for Actes de Charlottesville , ed. John D. Lyons.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS (Calif.-Berkeley). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PETERS, JEFFREY (Kentucky). Book: Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. U of Delaware P (forthcoming, 2003); Recent articles: "Telling Time: Rewriting as Allegorical Violence in d'Aubignac's Histoire du temps," EMF: Studies in Early Modern France (Strategic Rewritings), ed. David Lee Rubin. Charlottesville: Rookwood, 2002. 119–33; "The Rhetoric of Adornment in Le Misanthrope," The French Review 75, no.4 (2002): 708–19; forthcoming article in L'Esprit createur on Boileau and masculinity. New projects on L'Astree; Moliere; rhetoric and masculinity.Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PREST, JULIA (Yale). Bk., Cross-casting in seventeenth-century French theatre: ballet, spoken drama, opera.

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. South Florida). In press: Bk., La Femme à l'âge classique: le baroque, musique et littérature, co-ed. with Buford Norman and David Wetsel. Les Sonnets franc comtois de Jean Baptiste Chassignet: la représentation du 'premier lecteur' et persuasion du lecteur idéal", for vol. La Poésie religieuse et ses lecteurs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, ed. Alain Cuillière ('02). "Feminine Friendship at the End of the Century: Testimony from Madame Palatine's Lettres françaises", for SCFS, ed. Jan Carke. "Des Lectures au sein de la famille royale: la correspondance de Madame Palatine comme révélant des modes féminins de connaissance au XVIIe siècle", for vol. Lectures de Femmes, ed. Marianne Camus," PU de Franche-Comté, Besançon. "La Littérature et l'art au service de la théologie: le voyage terrestre et le voyage spirituel, la poésie de Jean Baptiste Chassignet mise en rapport avec les emblèmes de Pierre de Loysi," for 2002 vol., ed. David Wetsel, G. Narr, Tübingen. "Le Pouvoir des sens: une exploration des poésies de Mademoiselle de Scudéry", for 2002 vol., ed. Delphine Denis, France. Forthcoming: "Une exploration de la profusion des sens dans la poésie de Tristan L'Hermite," in final revision, to be publ. in 2002 vol., ed. Jean-Pierre Chauveau & Jacques Prévost, France. Papers: "A Cinema in the Service of the People? Women and the Marginalized in Recent Francophone African Films, MLA Convention, 12/01, New Orleans, LA. "International Perspectives on Women's Leadership and Learning: Mentoring and Collaborative Learning," FAWE conference "Living in Higher Education," Feb. 18–19, 2002, St. Petersburg, FL (Co-presenters: students Kalko Alio, Margie Thorpe). "Le Savoir historique à l'intersection de l'art et de la poésie emblématiques: Les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnets franc-comtois,, NASSCFL 2002 conference, Charlottesville. In progress: "A la page et à l'écran: Voix et images féminines comme révélant de la transmission du savoir et de la culture," for session "Hybridity, Multiculturalism and Women's Voices," Kentucky Foreign Language Convention. Invited participation in the Table Ronde on literary criticism, organized by R. Ganim, at above convention. Secretary, NASSCFL. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RACEVSKIS, ROLAND (Iowa). La Thébaïde de Racine, des seuils du pouvoir aux limites de l'existence" (under consideration). [Studies the esthetics of thresholds (e.g.thresholds to sovereignty, to the transcendent, to interrelation, to death) in Racine's first tragedy. The 1664 version and ulterior ones are compared, with a focus on the representation of indeterminate, in-between times and spaces]. "Subjective Dispersion in Iphigénie or the Unbearable Fullness of Being" (for FrF). [Looks at the thematics of confusion and instability of identity in the play. Full to overflowing with a vague but ominous sense of their destinies, the dramatis personae feel compelled to give voice to their pain and frustration, and when language fails them they willingly undergo a kind of desperate disintegration of identity].

REPERTOIRE CHRONOLOGIQUE DES SPECTACLES A PARIS, 1673–1715. Includes information on lyric theatre, Italian comedians, other theater, by Guy Spielmann. To be enriched with other visual documents. <http:www..georgetown.edu/spielmann/finderegne>

REPERTOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES DIX-SEPTIEMISTES. Edition 2000 published by CIR 17; copies still available. New ed. projected: send inquiries/ info./ corrections/ e-mail addresses to Treasurer Charles Mazouer, 8 rue de la Chênaie, F-33170, Gradignan.

RHETORIQUE EPISTOLAIRE SOUS L'ANCIEN REGIME FRANCAIS: DE LA THEORIE AUX PRATIQUES. Colloque, U.of Manitoba, 4–5 April 2003. Contact: Constance Cartmill <cartmll@cc.umanitoba.ca>

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Recent: Arts., "The Tuileries Gardens of Le Nôtre, as seen by Perelle, Silvestre, and Others," in Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action (Actes de Tulane), ed. Erec Koch, Biblio 17, 131 (2002), 57–67. "Bibliography of North-American Theses (1999–2000)," PFSCL 54 (2001), 231–46. "Research in Progress 2001," as Part VI of French 17, no.49 (2001), 162–75. "Saint-Amant's and Boisrobert's Pont-Neuf Poems," in PFSCL 56 (2002), 35–52. Papers, "Saint-Amant in England: the Ode to Charles I and Henrietta Maria," at Durham U. 17th C. Conference, U.K. "Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England," International Phenomenology Conference, Harvard (reworked and accepted for Analecta Husserliana); "Les Portes de Paris, du Moyen-Age à la Révolution," Fall '02 Conference, Illinois Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Springfield IL. Reports, "Dissertations/ Research in Progress," NASSCFL 2002 Meeting, Charlottesville. Forthcoming: "The 'Front de Seine' in 1630–60" and "Perelle's Veües des Plus Beaux Endroits de Versailles," for C17. "Bibliography of North American Theses (2001–2002)," for PFSCL 58. In progress: Saint-Amant, Maynard, Engravings of Perelle. Directeur, Cahiers Maynard; Bibliographer NASSCFL; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RUBIN FESTSCHRIFT. The Shape of Change: Essays in Honor of David Lee Rubin, ed. Anne Birberick & Russell Ganim, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. ISBN 90-420-1449-0, $33.50. Contains essays by 14 scholars, exploring how artistic endeavor shapes and is shaped by literary memory. Large section on La Fontaine. Contact: <rganiml@unl.edu>.

SALAZAR, PHILIPPE-JOSEPH (U. Cape Town). Recent: An African Athens. The Rhetorical Shaping of Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Erlbaum, 2002, $29.99 prix de lancement. See "p.salazar" <p.salazar@FREEMAIL.ABSA.CO.ZA>, <http://www.Amazon.com>www.Amazon.com> or <http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/rhetoricafrika>

SATOR (SOCIETE D'ANALYSE DE LA TOPIQUE ROMANESQUE). Recent: 16th annual Colloque, October 3–5, Queen's U., Kingston, Ont. Canada. Theme: "Topique de l'étranger (de l'étrange)." Contact: Max Vernet, Dépt. d'Etudes françaises, Queen's U., Kingston, Ont. K7L 3N6. <vernetm@qsilver.queensu.ca> tel. (613) 533 2090. SATOR website: http://www.satorbase.org.

SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Studies) See Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies (2003 Joint Meeting).

SOARE, ANTOINE (Montreal). Recent: "Il et elle: essai d'analyse stylistique de 'La Mort et le Bûcheron,' dans Inventaire, lecture, invention. Mélanges de critique et d'histoire littéraires offerts à Bernard Beugnot, Paragraphes, 1999, p. 263–273. "Subversion tragique et orthodoxie tragi-comique," Actes du colloque de Bristol, éd. Jan Clarke, SCFS 1999, no. 21, p. 43–55. "Phèdre et les métaphores du labyrinthe: les tracés et les formes", dans Les épreuves du labyrinthe. Essais de poétique et d'herméneutique raciniennes. Hommage tricentenaire, éd. Richard-Laurent Barnett, Dalhousie French Studies, 49 1999), 145–157. ´L'Intertexte cornélien d'Alexandre à Bajazet," dans Actes du colloque Corneille et Racine, éd. Alain Niderst, PFSCL 52, 2000, p. 85–113. "'La Grenouille qui se veut faire aussi grosse que le Boeuf,' ou le petit et le grand infini selon La Fontaine," dans Mélanges à la mémoire de Jean-Claude Morisot, eds. Mawy Bouchard et Maxime Prévost, Littératures, Nos 21–22 (2000), 119–158. "Sur un passage mal éclairé de L'Illusion comique": les métiers de Clindor dans le récit d'Alcandre," dans Les Arts du spectacle au théâtre (1550–1700), éds Marie-France Wagner et Claire Le Brun-Gouanavic, Paris, Champion, 2001, p. 109–141. Forthcoming: "Du Cid à Horace en passant par la tragi-comédie," for PFSCL.

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (UK). Annual Conference, U. of Sheffield, 30 June–2 July, 2003. Papers were due by 9/20/02. Contact Michael Sherringham (Royal Holloway C., U. London). FAX: (+44) 1784-470180. <chair@sfs.ac.uk>. http://french-studies.com/2003confcfp.php.

SOCIETY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY FRENCH STUDIES (SE17). Recent: 21st Annual Conference: October 17–19, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Contact: Matthew Senior (U. Minnesota-Morris). <seniorm@mrs.umn.edu> Tel: 320-589-6298 Fax: 320-589-6253.

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). 24th Annual Conference (in conjunction with SE17)), U. of Durham, 18–21 September 2003 (to be held in Durham Castle). Theme: "Patterns of Learning in 17th c. France: from Theory to Practice/ Enseignement, éducation et érudition au XVIIe siècle: de la théorie à la pratique." Papers (20 min.) due by 1 April, to Dr. Nicholas Hammond, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK NHammond@cai.cam.ac.uk Website: http://www.c17.org.uk.

SPIELMANN, GUY (Georgetown). Recent: Bk., Le jeu de l'ordre et du chaos. Comédie et pouvoirs à la fin du règne, 1673-1715. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002 (Coll. "Lumière classique" no. 36. See REPERTOIRE.

STEINBERGER, DEBORAH (Delaware). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SWEETSER, MARIE–ODILE (Ilinois–Chicago). Recent: "Avatars du couple chez Corneille," in L'Histoire littéraire, ses méthodes et ses résultats. Mélanges offerts à Madeleine Bertaud, ed. Luc Fraise, Genève, Droz, 2001, pp. 615-25. "Vaux et son goût. son exemplarité chez la Fontaine," in Vie des salons et activités littéraires de Marguerite de Valois à Mme de Staël, ed. Roger Marchal, PU de Nancy, 2001, pp. 173-88. "The Art of Praise from Malherbe to La Fontaine," in The Shape of Change: Essays in Honor of David Lee Rubin," ed. Anne Birberick Russell Ganim, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2002, pp. 119-39. In Press: "Gardens, Parks, Landscapes as seen by Théophile de Viau and La Fontaine: mirrors of affectivity and aesthetics," in Analecta Husserliana, v.78 (2003),7-24. Voix féminines dans la littérature classique," in Actes de Tempe, ed. David Wetsel and Christine Probes, Biblio 17 (2003). "De l'idéalisme galant à l'héroïsme amoureux, " Actes du colloque international Madeleine de Scudéry, ed. Delphine Denis, PU de l'Artois, 2003. "Vénus et Adonis: le mythe et ses resurgences dans la tradition humaniste de la Renaissance européenne," in Le Fablier, no. 14, ed. Patrick Dandrey, 2003. "Paysages, jardins et parcs, miroirs de l'affectivité et des goûts de Tristan," in Littéral, Paris X–Nanterre, 2003.

TOBIN, RONALD W. (Calif.–Santa Barbara). Forthcoming: "La Fête gastronomique" in the acta of the Pezenas Conference on "Molière et la fête." "Qu'est–ce que la gastrocritique?", for the acta of La Journée Vatel, held at the Château de Chantilly. "Mythe et religion", in the acta of the Journées Raciniennes de l'Ile de France. Recent: "Le Théâtre de la convivialité" for conference celebrating the founding of l'Université Laval. Honorary Membership in AATF, bestowed in July. In progress: work on the "innocent stratagème" of Andromaque.

TOBIN FESTSCHRIFT. Theatrum mundi: mélanges en l'honneur de Ronald W. Tobin. Claire Carlin and Kathleen Wine, eds. This hardbound volume (EMF Critique), containing articles by well–known 17istes, will be presented at the 2003 NASSCFL Meeting. $38.95 to Rookwood Press, 520 Rookwood Place, Charlottesville, VA.22903-4734. For subscription information contact Claire Carlin, Dept.of French, U. Victoria <ccarlin@UVIC.CA>

TOCZYSKI, SUZANNE C. (Sonoma State). Recent: arts., "Performing Secrets in Célinte" in PFSCL; "(Im)possible Translations of The Waves," with C. Renaudin, in Virginia Woolf Bulletin; "Information Competence in the Freshman Seminar" in Academic Exchange Quarterly; Forthcoming: "Corps sacré, discours souverain" in the Acta for the Paris Scudéry conference. Conference paper: "Mégare, que dis-tu de cette violence?" (SE17 2002). Editor, French 17. (Dept. of ML&L, Sonoma SU, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928) <suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu>).

TRINQUET, CHARLOTTE (North Carolina-Chapel Hill). Currently revising my dissertation "La petite histoire des contes de fees littéraires en France (1690–1705)" for publication. Second project: the first translation in French of Basile's Pentamerone (Naples, 1634). Basile is indeed an important and valuable source of French classic fairytales.)

VOS-CAMY, JOLENE (Calvin C.). Article in progress: "Theatrical Practice in Narrative: Scarron's Roman comique." Contrib. Ed., French 17.

VUILLEMIN, JEAN-CLAUDE (Penn State, Paris-8 and CNRS). Recent: "En finir avec Boileau...Quelques réflexions sur l'enseignement du théâtre 'classique'." RHT 3 (2001), 125–46. "Illusions comiques et dramaturgie baroque: Corneille, Rotrou et quelques autres," PFSCL (2001), 307–25. Forthcoming: "Vanitas: Herméneutique et paradoxes," in Vanités d'écrivains. Discours muets, ed. Christine Boucard. Paris: Salon du livre, 2002. In progress: Bks., Théories et perspectives: Baroque, pertinence d'une illusion. Jean Rotrou, L'Innocente Infidélité et La Belle Alphrède, in Théâtre complet de Jean Rotrou. ed. G. Forestier.

WATERSON, KAROLYN (Dalhousie U.). Women in Molière's comedies.

WEB 17. Ed. by Roger Duchêne, is a website for those interested in 17th C. Invites additions & corrections, information about correspondence, books, articles, and other items particularly interesting to the Web. Alphabetic index of site, at bottom left-hand book icon on welcome page.

WESTERN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (WSECS). Annual Conference "Renaissance III?: Continuities and Discontinuities from the Renaissance through the long Eighteenth Century." 15–16 February, at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Interdisciplinary. Seeks papers in French which elucidate the carry-over of 17th to 18th C. Send proposals by 2 December, to Madeleine Marshall, WCSECS President, Calif. State U., San Marcos, CA 92096. <marshall@csusm.edu>

WETSEL, DAVID (Arizona State). President, NASSCFL 2001. Editor, Actes de Tempe, 6 vol. <wdwetsel@aol.com>

WINE, KATHLEEN (Dartmouth). Co-President, NASSCFL 2003 <Kathleen.Wine@Dartmouth.edu> See also TOBIN FESTSCHRIFT.

ZAISER, RAINER (U. Kôln), Co-Editor PFSCL/ Biblio 17. Recent: Paper "Le page disgracié de Tristan L'Hermite et la naissance du roman moderne en France", for international colloquium "Actualité(s) de Tristan" at the U. Paris X - Nanterrre, November 22–24, 2001 (will be published in the proceedings in 2003). Review: "Andrea Grewe, Vertu im Sprachgebrauch Corneilles: Ein Beitrag zur Geistes- und Sozialgeschichte des französischen 17. Jahrhunderts. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999", in RJ, 51 (2000), 255–256. (<rzaiser@gmx.de>).

ZUERNER, ADRIENNE (Skidmore). Contrib. Ed., French 17.