FRENCH 17

ADAMS, ALISON, STEPHEN RAWLES and ALISON SAUNDERS. A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Centuries. Volume Two: L-Z. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: A. Armstrong in FS 57.4 (2003). "This volume fully lives up to the superlative scholarly standard set by the first," writes the reviewer. It contains significant and "valuable" indexes, as well as important information from commentators, translators and supplementary authors. The reviewer further praises this volume, saying it is "rigorous throughout." More than simply "descriptive," this bibliography is "analytical."

Review: P. Ford in TLS 5207 (Jan 17 2003), 28. "Indispensable aid to emblem scholars," but also useful to anyone interested in early modern French printings." Contains full bibliographical descriptions and good quality reproductions of title pages and other sample pages. Fifty-three pages of additions and corrections to first volume. Eight useful indexes cover all aspects of works.

ALLIERES, JACQUES. Manuel de linguistique romane. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Reviews: J. Kramer, M. Loporcaro, H. Lüdtke in RF 114 (2002): 343–352. Three separate reviews of Allières's volume. Kramer cannot recommend this volume, which he finds outmoded, representative of scholarship of the 1950s and without an index. Instead he suggests that students return to the "good, old Bourciez" or to manuals on Romance linguistics written in English, Spanish, Italian or German. Loporcaro appends to her lengthy review a page of recommended bibliographical references. She finds Allières's manual "una preziosa fonte d'informazioni," for example as it refers to important dates and includes systematic consideration of dialectical varieties and some 33 illustrative maps. Loporcaro offers numerous detailed observations and corrections but appreciates the "sincera passione" with which the material is treated. Lüdtke finds Allières's manual useful, comprehensive, informative and user-friendly. He appreciates the clear arrangement and ample treatment of derivation, vocabulary and historical sources, for example. After offering various corrections and suggestions, Lüdtke concludes that Allières's manual is a valuable work of orientation and reference.

AYERS-BENNETT, WENDY. A History of the French Language through Texts. London: Routledge, 1996.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 118 (2002): 740–741: This anthology includes 45 extracts of texts with commentaries. Students and scholars will find texts from the Grand Siècle in the section on the classical and neo-classical up to the Revolution. Each text is accompanied by a useful introduction, a translation and an intelligent commentary on various linguistic aspects.

BADIOU-MONFERRAN, CLAIRE. Les conjonctions de coordination ou 《 l'art de lier ses pensées 》 chez La Bruyère. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000.

Review: I. Landy-Houillon in DSS 220 (2003), 548–550: This book arises from the author's doctoral thesis defended in 1996 under Soutet. The work is divided into two sections, "d'abord une étude linguistique 《 Du caractère des conjonctions de coordination 》, puis une étude stylistique et littéraire, "Les conjonctions de coordination dans les Caractères 》."

BATTESTI, JEAN-PIERRE and JEAN-CHARLES CHAUVET. Tout Racine. Paris: Larousse, 1999.

Review: G. Jucquois in LR 55 (2001): 178–179: In the context of a review of Baby and Emelina's edited volume Racine et la Méditerranée, Jucquois notes that the thématiques of the volume are surprisingly not found in Battesti and Chauvet's dictionary. For Jucquois this simply points to the complexity of disciplines and the impossibility of exhaustiveness. The dictionary includes an interesting iconographic dossier and analyses the "mythe racinien" in its various embodiments.

BENSELER, DAVID P. and MOORE, SUZANNE S. "Doctoral Degrees Granted in Foreign Languages in the United States: 2002." MLJ 87, no. 3 (2003), 434–48.

French section, 438–40 Cites dissertations (and directors) first by discipline, then by institution, then by author, with all periods intermixed. These comprehensive listings began in 1926.

BERTIERE, SIMONE. Bibliographie des écrivains français: Le Cardinal de Retz. Paris: Mémini, 2000.

Review: Y. Le Bozec in DSS 220 (2003), 556–557: The reviewer indicates that Bertière here renders an indispensable bibliography of scholarly works and documentary evidence on the life and influence of the Cardinal.

BESSIRE, FRANCOIS, ed. L'Ecrivain éditeur, Vol. I: Du Moyen Age à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Genève: Droz, 2001.

Review: A. J. Kennedy in MLR 98.1 (2003), 210–11: Twenty-one studies provide "an examination of the author's attempts to control the transmission, reception, and survival of his or her own work, and (for the period after the invention of printing) the complex relationship between authors, printers, and booksellers, censorship, and the changing legislation on copyright. Six articles on 17th-century authors: Georges de Scudéry and Jean Mairet as editors of Théophile de Viau (Saba); Sully's Oeconomies Royales (Barbiche); Robert Arnauld d'Andilly as editor of Jean Duvergier de Hauranne's letters (Donetzkoff); Madeleine de Scudéry, Ménage, and Pellisson as editors of Sarasin (Niderst); La Rochefoucauld (Lafond); strategies adopted by women writers (Maître).

BEUGNOT, BERNARD. Guez de Balzac. Paris: Memini, 2001 (Bibliographie des écrivains français, 24).

Review: C. Jouhaud in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 233–234: Bibliography with 1218 entries. "La masse d'informations mobilisée par Bernard Beugnot fait de son livre un outil désormais indispensable pour quiconque s'intéresse aux activités littéraires — et au-délà — dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." However, "La présentation des travaux consacrés à Balzac, et surtout des plus récents, donne aussi matière à commentaires qui, pour être dans l'ensemble plutôt bienveillants, n'en proposent pas moins des jugements de valeur dont la juxtaposition finit par laisser paraître des prises des position, certes discrètes mais néanmoins très fermes. [. . .] Mais devant un travail d'une telle qualité d'érudition, nourri par de longues années de recherche, et susceptible de rendre de tels services aux chercheurs, on se dit que Bernard Beugnot a au fond bien gagné le droit de chercher à communiquer à son lecteur son palmarès personnel et d'essayer de lui faire partager les points de vue critiques qui sont les siens, même si l'on voudrait bien parfois pouvoir les discuter."

Review: R. Parish in FS 57.4 (2003). The reviewer indicates that this annotated bibliography contains all the perquisite tools for research on Guez de Balzac, and that its scope includes manuscripts and translations, as well as non-French scholarship. The introductions provide helpful introductions to current thought on Balzac and there is even an "invaluable" section devoted to suggestions for further study. A very positive review overall of what appears to be a useful scholarly tool.

BLAIR, ANN. "Reading Strategies for Coping With Information Overload ca. 1550–1700." JHI 64 (2003), 11–28.

An engaging discussion of the strategies employed by early modern readers to deal with the "perception of an overabundance of books." Blair loosely traces the evolution of reading techniques, defined as "shortcuts," in the face of growing libraries and the increasing availability of printed texts.

BURKE, PETER. Papier und Marktgeschrei. Die Geburt der Wissensgesellschaft. Trans.Matthias Wolf. Berlin: Wagenbach, 2001.

Review: A. Landwehr in HZ 274 (2002), 395–396: Matthias Wolf has translated Peter Burke's important study on the birth of the knowledge economy. Institution of knowledge as well as the politics of knowledge, their expansion and reception.

CHAMBON, JEAN-PIERRE et al., ed. Mélanges sur les variétés du français de France, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Vol. 3. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: V. Mecking in ZRP 118 (2002): 628–630: Essays focus on regionalisms evident from the 16th through the 19th c. Two studies analyze 17th c. texts with special attention to vocabulary.

CHARON, ANNIE & ELISABETH PARINET, eds. Les ventes de livres et leurs catalogues XVIIe-XXe siècle, Actes des journées d'étude organisées par l'Ecole nationale des chartes (Paris, 15 janvier 1998) et par l'Ecole nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques (Villeurbanne, 22 janvier 1998). Paris: Ecole nationale des chartes, 2000.

Review: E. Netchine in DSS 220 (2003), 561–564: The reviewer points out that these workshops yielded a vast amount of information from the sales catalogues as to the production, circulation and reception of books over the course of four centuries. Of particular note to scholars of the 17th century is the work done by G. Mandelbrote and O. S. Lankhorst on the history of sales in Holland.

CURRENT RESEARCH IN FRENCH STUDIES AT UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND. London and Glasgow: Society for French Studies.

Titles of printed volumes vary; last cited paper vol. was no. 24 (1997–98).

CURRENT RESEARCH IN FRENCH STUDIES AT UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND. Published by Society for French Studies (<sfs.ac.uk>); Internet version by Intexta Web Services. Editor: David Jones <david.h.jones@st-johns.oxford.ac.uk>.

On home page click on "17th Century" section. http://www.sfs.intexta.net/crsearch.asp. Other addresses: <currentresearch@sfs.ac.uk> or Web (17th C. directly): http://solinux.brookes.ac.uk/sfs/crlist.php3?target=4.

DELAVEAU, MARTINE et DENISE HILLARD, éds. Bibles imprimées du XVe au XVIIIe siècle conservées à Paris [Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Bibliothèque de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français, Bibliothèque de la société biblique]. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003.

Review: M. Engammare in BHR 65.2 (2003), 415–17: Catalogue collectif "fort de 4,825 notices bibliographiques, recensant plus de 10,400 exemplaires." Excellent outil de recherche avec multiples instruments de consultation.

DUBOIS, COLETTE, et al., eds. L'expansion du français dans les Suds (XVe-XXe siècles). Hommage à Daniel Baggioni. Aix-en-Provence, Publications de l'U de Provence, 2000.

Review: B. Pöll in ZRP 118 (2002): "South" is understood in its largest sense, as contributors examine situations of expansion from historical and sociological perspectives. Praised for its internal coherence and the attentiveness of the contributing scholars to the theme of the diffusion of the French language, the volume's wide-ranging essays are grouped in three sections: Français imposé, français accepté: le Sud de la France; Français imposé, français assimilé: les outre-mers and Français adopté. Français menacé: les isolats francophones.

FEREY, ERIC. Bibliographie de la littérature française (XVIe-XXe siècle). Paris, PUF and also as vol. 3 of RHL (separate pagination).

Continuation of the well-known "Rancoeur Bibliography." "Année 2001" not yet issued as of this printing.

FOURNIER, NATHALIE. "Qui, que, quoi dans les grammaires françaises du XVIIe siècle: Maupas (1607), Oudin (1640), Chiflet (1659), Régnier-Desmarais (1705)." LF 139 (2003), 73–90.

Discusses the pronouns qui, que, and quoi in the grammars in question. Focuses on categorization, morphology, and syntactic and semantic usage to show "the relevance of grammatical description and how it contributed to [. . .] the French grammatical tradition."

FREY, BRIGITTE. Die Académie Française und ihre Stellung zu anderen Sprachpflegeinstitutionen. Bonn: Romanisticher Verlag, 2000.

Review: E. U. Große in RF 114 (2002): 357–359: Concentrates on the role and function of the French Academy in today's world, comparing it with other institutions of similar mission. Includes a chapter on the inception of the Academy. Reviewer praises Frey's use of primary sources and, for the modern era, eyewitness accounts and interviews.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 118 (2002): 756: Praised for its detail and informative quality, Frey's work examines the Académie française in relation to other institutions which foster the mother tongue. 17th c. specialists will appreciate the first chapter which includes reflections on both the Academy's inception and its role in the Grand Siècle.

GROVE, LAURENCE and DANIEL RUSSEL. The French Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Geneva: Droz, 2000.

Review: D. Cowling in FS 57.2 (2003). An "immaculately presented and commendably exhaustive bibliography." The reviewer also praises the authors' desire to "provide a helpfully complete picture of the field," even if this leads to some inevitable repetitions. Contains useful narrative of the evolution of the French emblem field. According to the reviewer: "Invaluable" to specialists and "of considerable usefulness to those with a more general interest in the field."

HALLEUX, R., J. McClellan, D. Berariu, G. Xhayet, ed. Les publications de l'académie royale des sciences de Paris (1666–1793). Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001.

Review: D. J. Sturdy in Isis 94.1 (2003), 145–146: A bibliography of the Académie's publications, including, for each entry, contents, authorship, title, printer, number of pages, and format. "All scholars interested in the history of science in France during this period will applaud those who compiles this bibliography. . . a handsomely produced and detailed work of reference."

KIBBEE, DOUGLAS. "Le développement d'une pédagogie du français langue étrangère: les pronoms relatifs en qu- dans les grammaires à l'usage des anglophones." LF 139 (2003), 59–72.

Addresses how qu- forms, scarcely included in French grammars for English speakers prior to the 17th century, became much more widely described, in large part thanks to the influence of works from the continent.

KLAPP, OTTO. Bibliographie der französischen Literaturwissenschaft. Ed. by Astrid Klapp-Lehrman. Frankfurt: V. Klostermann.

(Begun in 1956). Vol. 39 "2001," publ. 2002: 17th c. section, pp.307–80. Vol. 40 "2002," publ. 2003: 17th c. section, pp. 334–413.

LENGERT, JOACHIM. Romanische Phraseologie und Parömiologie. Eine teilkommentierte Bibliographie (Von den Anfängen bis 1997), Vol. 1: Romanish-Französisch-Italienisch; Vol. 2: Katalanisch-Portugiesisch- Provenzalisch- Rumänisch-Sardisch-Spanisch. Tübingen: Narr, 1999.

Review: A Schönberger in RF 114 (2002): 406–407: Highly useful descriptive bibliography which belongs in every university library. Includes sections on theory, key words in authors and works. Historical and contrastive aspects have their place as do didactics and translation. Precisely arranged, if not exhaustive.

LORIOT-RAYMER, GISELE, ed.. "Dissertations in Progress," FR 76, no. 2 (2002), 452–462. 17th c. entries, p.456 (in progress), p.460 (defended).

39th annual listing of French and Francophone titles: cross-referenced; is a supplement to previous editions.

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE, ed. Le XVIIe siècle encyclopédique. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2001.

Review: F. Wild in DSS 220 (2003), 560–561: An important edited collection of articles on the origins of the encyclopedic project in the 17th century. The book undertakes a unique approach to this interesting question normally reserved for the 18th century and is dived into three thematic sections: "langue et encyclopédie", "encyclopédie: variations" and "théories de la curiosité".

PETERS, JULIE STONE. Theatre of the Book, 1480–1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Review: R. Hume in MLQ 64 (2003), 126–30: Attempts to account for the relationship between histories of print and of the modern stage. Broad-ranging and unpretentious in style, but lacks both direction and useful conclusions. "Anything but exhaustive. . .heavily dependent on less-than-complete knowledge of secondary scholarship."

PFISTER, MAX, ed. Addenda au FEW XIX (Orientalia). Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1999.

Review: R. Kiesler in ZRP 118 (2002): 89–92: Welcome continuation of a valuable linguistic tool focusing on some 400 words of Oriental origin. Includes familiar items such as couscous (since 1637) and corrects previously accepted etymologies. Judged "indispensable" for all.

PUTTERO, GIORGIA. "Documents inédits sur un traducteur de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle: Pierre Millot." SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 165–181.

Highly informative article with biographical details on Millot, material on the Collège de Bourg-en-Bresse, and on the "activité typographique" of the city during the 17 th c. Thanks to this treatment and the critic's earlier article on literary and linguistic aspects (in press with Reinardus), we have a fuller picture of the work and context of this early modern translator of Aesop who was also a "rector des écoles." Reproduces several fascinating primary sources.

QUEMADA, BERNARD and JAN PRUVOST, eds. Le Dictionnaire de l'Académie française et la lexicographie institutionnelle européenne. Paris: Champion, 1998.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 118 (2002): 689–691: The results of the 1994 Colloque celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of the Academy's dictionary. Praised for its copiousness, usefulness and high quality, the volume includes several essays of special interest to 17th c. scholars, addressing topics as diverse as lexicography, orthographic theories and practices, Thomas Corneille's dictionary, phraseology and regionalisms. Scholars will also find instructive essays on computerization or electronic presentation of databases.

QUEMADA, BERNARD et al., ed. Les Préfaces du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française 1694–1992. Textes, introductions et notes. Paris: Champion, 1997.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 118 (2002): 627–628: Wide-ranging investigation from 17th c. to the present. Specialists of the Grand Siècle will appreciate Quemada's essay treating as complementary the three major 17th c. dictionaries (Richelet for descriptive lexicography, Furetière for encyclopedic lexicography and the Academy's for normative lexicography). Volume examines prefaces, but also other paratextes such as épîtres and dédicaces. Valuable for numerous disciplines because of its socio-political, ideological, cultural, linguistic and literary ramifications.

ABAD, REYNALD. "Une première Fronde au temps de Richelieu? L'émeute parisienne des 3–4 février 1631 et ses suites." DSS 218 (2003), 39–70.

An historical analysis of the largely forgotten events of February 1631 involving "une violente émeute anti-fiscale, provoquée par un projet d'augmentation des droits sur le vin." The author seeks to unearth the facts of the uprising, analyze its origins, impetus, and outcome (including Richelieu's reaction), and finally to definitively establish "l'importance de cet épisode dans l'histoire politique du royaume."

ANTOINE, MICHEL. Le Coeur de l'état: surintendance, contrôle général et intendances des finances, 1552–1791. Paris: Fayard, 2003

Review: J. Rogister in TLS 5224 (May 16 2003), 26. Antoine breaks new ground in tracing the origins and development of the French finance model. Thesis is that "The history of the royal financial administration is a chronicle of the attempt to rationalize the machinery of state." Reviewer praises painstaking research and a helpful index of names. Only criticism is that Antoine devotes little attention to the bodies meant to check up on the financiers.

AVEZOU, LAURENT. Sully à travers l'histoire. Les avatars d'un mythe politique. Préface deBernard Barbiche. Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 2001.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 274 (2002), 752–754: Highly informative and interesting, this history of some 350 years has as its focus the posthumous destiny of Sully (historical, literary and iconographic). Avezou's 1996 thèse of the Ecole des Chartes is judged by Barbiche to be "d'une impeccable érudition" (vi).

BEAUVALET-BOUTOUYRIE, SCARLETT, Etre veuve sous l'Ancien Régime (Paris: Belin, 2001).

Review: A. Tallon, RHEF, 88. 220 (2002), 261–2: The author examines "le discours sur la viduité, et principalement le discours de l'Église. . . . [Elle] analyse avec beaucoup de finesse les modèles de veuves que l'hagiographie de la Réforme catholique propose aux fidèles." Also examines how "le théâtre et le roman propose une autre image de la veuve. [. . .] Une deuxième partie confronte à [des] stéréotypes les réalités démographiques et juridiques. [. . .] Par cette étude brillante, agréable à lire, qui reprend plusieurs méthodes historiques et les croise avec originalité, Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie a su restituer les multiples facettes du veuvage sous l'Ancien Régime."

BERNARD, BRUNO. "Loisir, paresse, oisiveté: débats idéologiques autour de ces notions (XVIIe-XIXe siècles)." RBPH 79.2 (2001), 523–32.

"Il vaut par conséquent la peine, pour l'historien, de s'interroger sur ce que ces notions recouvrent exactement, comme sur ce qu'elle pouvaient représenter pour les contemporains du grand bouleversement socio-économique que constitua, de la fin du XVIIe siècle à la fin du XIXe siècle, l'avènement progressif en Europe des sociétés industrielles et de leurs principaux corollaires: machinisme et productivité, capitalisme et salariat."

BERNIER, MARC ANDRE. Tangence (Rimouski, Québec), 65 (2001).

Review: F. Paré in UTQ 72.1 (Winter 2002/3), 51: "Dans ce dossier, dirigé par Marc André Bernier, la notion d'orientalisme est entendue dans un sens très large, ce qui lui confère une belle richesse. Maris-Christine Pioffet ouvre la question avec une excellente réflexion sur la figure du sérail dans la littérature de la fin du XVIIe siècle en France. Lieu d'interdit et de transgression, le sérail permet aussi de réorienter les références au jardin d'Éden."

BLANNING, T.C.W. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe, 1660–1789. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

Review: D. Baxter in Choice 40 (2002), 697–98: Argues that the French revolution stemmed from a [governmental] failure to adequately adapt to a "newly emerging public sphere, based on individualism and the force of public opinion." While Prussia, Great Britain, and Austria proved sufficiently flexible, France clung to a culture of the royal court and representational absolutism.

Review: M. Rapport in FS 57.2 (2003). "This is an excellent cultural history," in the words of the reviewer. It opens with "a clear discussion of Habermas," but is "refreshingly devoid of impenetrable jargon." The book treats the culture of power and representational culture in many different countries, with an important section on Louis XIV. "Beautifully written and full of the jibes and wry asides which make. . . work by this author so enjoyable to read."

BLANQUIE, CHRISTOPHE. Les Présidiaux de Richelieu. Justice et vénalité (1630–1642). Paris: Ed. Christian, 2000.

Review: A. Jouanna in DSS 218 (2003), 162–163: The author seeks to understand "le fonctionnement de la monarchie d'Ancien Régime et la manière dont, sous un grand ministériat, le pouvoir royal affermit son autorité." A strong review praises Blanquie's "description précise des techniques administratives et des montages financiers mis en œuvre par la création d'un présidial."

BLANQUIE, CHRISTOPHE. Justice et finance sous l'Ancien Régime. La vénalité présidiale. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001.

Review: A. Jouanna in DSS 218 (2003), 164–165: Reviewer acknowledges Blanquie's earlier work and describes this elaborated study as "une analyse stimulante du rôle de la vénalité présidiale dans la construction monarchique."

BRANCHER, DOMINIQUE JOSIANE. Le voile de Poppée: Les ambiguïtés de la pudeur dans le discours médical (1570–1620). DAI 63/10 (2003), 3573.

Examines "the conceptual, generical and rhetorical reversibility of modesty, ... which conceals to better reveal and eroticize."

CABANTOUS, ALAIN. Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Trans.Eric Rauth. New York: Columbia UP, 2002.

Review: D. Skopp in Choice 39 (2002), 2030–31. Concentrates on the Romance languages of early modern Europe, particularly on French. Studies religious and civil authorities' punishment of blasphemy as a perceived attack on their authority. Draws upon Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms, the work of J. Delameau, and previous work by Cabantous.

CARABIN, DENISE. "Deux institutions de gentilshommes sous Louis XIII: Le Gentilhomme de Pasquier et L'Instruction du Roy de Pluvinel." DSS 218 (2003), 27–38.

The author undertakes a sustained analysis of two educational manuals intended to cultivate a generation of "gentilshommes" in the context of the "cité moderne" under Louis XIII. "Pluvinel met l'accent sur les exercises équestres qu'il prolonge par la philosophie morale, mieux développée par Pasquier."

CARILE, PAOLO. Huguenots sans frontières. Voyage et écriture à la Renaissance et à l'Age classique. Paris: Champion, 2001 (Les Géographies du Monde, 3).

Review: B. Bray in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 237–238: "Le grand intérêt de l'ouvrage réside. . .dans son ouverture interdisciplinaire, puisque les sciences historique, géographique, ethnographique et littéraire sont conviées dans ce parcours composite, conçu de façon irrégulière mais constamment attrayant et soutenu par une réflexion anthropologique de belle qualité. Un éloge particulier est dû à la partie bibliographique: l'information de l'auteur se porte aussi sur les problèmes qu'ont posés la mise au point et la publication de ces textes destinés à une faible diffusion, voire restés manuscrits. Quant aux références critiques, elle constituent un impressionnant et précieux répertoire, que complète un index des noms."

CARLIN, CLAIRE. "Misogynie et misogamie dans les complaintes des mal mariés au XVIIe siècle." La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 365–378.

A reading of eight "complaintes des mal mariés" from the early decades of the century, using as critical apparatus the theories of Pierre Bourdieu. Carlin indicates how these misogynist texts differ from others in their expression of an awareness of the dangers of forced marriages.

CHRISTOUT, MARIE-FRANÇOISE. "Louis XIV et le ballet de cour ou le plus illustres danseurs (1651–1670)." RHT 215.3 (2002), 153–178.

This article details, along with many illustrations, Louis XIV's many appearances in the court ballets. Christout notes his growing interest and influence on the form and places the king's presence within a historical framework, and argues that his diverse artistic choices reveal a "profound" imagination that would eventually disappear behind impassive pride.

COGITORE, ISABELLE et F. GOYET, ed. Devenir roi. Essais sur la littérature addressée au Prince (Des Princes). Grenoble: Ellug, 2001.

Review : Br. Rochette in ECl 70 (2002), 290–291: Une collection d'essais provenant du seminaire "Discours pour les princes," dans laquelle sont analysés les rapports entre le pouvoir, la littérature et les arts. Les dix-septiémistes apprécieront surtout les chapitres consacrés à Jean de Sponde, jeune poète protestant écrivant au Henri IV, et à Charles LeBrun, peintre sous Louis XIV.

CONTAMINE, PHILIPPE, ed. War and Competition between States. The Origin of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.

Review: W. Reinhard in HZ 274 (2002), 137–139: The last of 8 volumes published by the European Science Foundation treats a diversity of important subjects from the perspective of comparative relations, for example: types of armies and recruitment, naval wars, control of space through travel, cartography, fortifications, the role of captured material, ransom, impetus of wars, etc.

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA, La Civiltà della conversazione. Milano: Adelphi, 2001.

Review: B. Piqué in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 240–241. "Le double sens du mot italien civiltà — 《 civilisation 》 mais aussi 《 civilité 》 — évoque bien, dès le titre, la complexité des perspectives que comportait le projet de Benedetta Craveri: comprendre et illustrer 《 les motifs inspirateurs et les éléments constitutifs 》 de l'idéal de sociabilité mondaine qui s'élabore et se parfait en France au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles et dans lequel l'Europe des Lumières reconnaîtra le propre du 《 génie 》 français, lui rendant le double hommage de l'admiration et de l'émulation. [. . .] Le défi a été relevé avec succès. [. . .] Au lectuer non spécialiste la liberté de se promener dans La Civiltà della conversazione (dont une traduction française veint de paraître chez Gallimard sous le titre L'Age de la conversation) avec une delectatio teintée de nostalgie; au chercheur, celle de le consulter comme un guide et un outil indispensables".

CRAWFORD, KATHERINE B. "The Politics of Promiscuity: Masculinity and Heroic Representation at the Court of Henry IV." FHS 26 (2003): 225–252.

Uses close examination of numerous portraits of Henry IV, his predecessors, mistresses, and other court figures to shed light on Henry's dual public identity as "Vert Galant" and "Hercule Gaulois" and to show how the former may well have undermined the latter.

CRESCENZO, RICHARD, éd. Espaces de l'image. Nancy: U de Nancy II, 2002.

Review: F. Elsig in BHR 65.2 (2003), 424–25: "Troisième volume d'une collection issue du partenariat entre les Universités de Nancy II (Groupe 'XVIe-XVIIe siècles en Europe') et Metz, l'ouvrage rassemble les actes d'un colloque qui, dirigé par Richard Crescenzo, s'est tenu à Nancy sur les rapports entre le texte et l'image, celle-ci prise dans une acceptation très large." Parmi les 14 contributions, plusieurs se focalisent sur la France: C. Simonin sur des portraits d'auteurs-femmes comme Georgette de Montenay; S. Fabrizio-Costa sur François Grenaille de la Chatounière (1616–1680), traducteur de Pétrarque; C. Bouzy sur Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528–1602), poète, dessinateur; P. Eichel-Lojkine sur Charles Le Brun.

DINGES, MARTIN and FRITZ SACK, eds. Unsichere Großstädte? Vom Mittelalter bis zur Postmoderne. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 2000.

Review: A. Schwarz in HZ 274 (2002), 404–406: Focus is on German cities, but several non-German ones are included in this treatment of safety and criminality. Praised for its numerous applications from history to economics, politics, anthropology, and so forth.

DIXON, ANNETTE. Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art. London: Merrell, 2002.

Review: E. Menon in Choice 39 (2002), 1947: "Published to accompany an exhibit at the University of Michigan, this book identifies female archetypes from the Renaissance and Baroque periods and analyzes their ability to transmit or withhold information about women's empowerment." A solid introductory work to the subject. Includes treatment of Catherine de Medicis, Marie de Medicis, and Christina of Sweden. Considers a broad range of artistic media. Contains very fine plates.

DOYLE, WILLIAM, ed. Old Regime France. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.

Review: D. Heimmermann in Choice 39 (2002), 1653: "These eight essays on all aspects of French life challenge one of the founding myths of the French revolution—that the ancien régime was an age of immobility and changeless routine when nothing significant happened."

DUCHHARDT, HEINZ. "Die Absolutismusdebatte-eine Antipolemik." HZ 275 (2002), 323–331.

Masterful review of the debate on absolutism, taking into account Peter Baumgart's work which asks "Absolutismus ein Mythos?" as well as the analyses of numerous other critics such as Ernst Hinrichs (on European absolutism), Wolfgang Reinhard, Jean Meyer and Nicholas Henshall. After careful and wide-ranging consideration, Duchhardt's counsel is not to "universalize" the concept and corresponding terminology.

DUCHARDT, HEINZ, ed. Der Westfälische Friede. Diplomatie-Politische Zäsur-kulturelles Umfeld-Rezeptionsgeschichte. München: R. Oldenbourg, 1998.

Review: R. Lesaffer in RBPH 79.4 (2001), 1478–82: Proceedings of a 1996 interdisciplinary conference in Münich for the 350th anniversary of the Westphalia peace treaties. Thirty-nine articles from multiple perspectives treat the significance of the peace congress marking the end of the Thirty Years War; several papers on French diplomacy of the period.

DUCOMMUN, MARIE-JEANNE and DOMINIQUE QUADRONI. Le Refuge protestant dans le Pays de Vaud (Fin XVIIe-début XVIIIe s.). Aspects d'une migration. Genève: Droz, 1991.

Review: H. J. Schmitt in ZRP 118 (2002): 283–287: This historical investigation is valuable as well for specialists of lexicology. In four parts, each with three chapters, DuCommun and Quadroni examine numerous aspects (historical, political, demographic, economic, linguistic, sociological) of this forced migration. Volume includes maps, graphics and tables, reproducing original documents and annexes of important source texts.

EVAIN, AURORE. L'Apparition des actrices professionnelles en Europe. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002.

Review: G. Boquet in RHT 215.3 (2002). This book investigates the "étapes de l'apparition de l'actrice en Espagne, France, Italie, Angleterre" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Evain argues that the feminization of theatrical space has consequences for facial expression, a new dramaturgy and the decline of the heroic drama. According to the reviewer, however, the texte is "souvent confus" and suffers from a "méconnaissance de l'histoire générale."

FOLLAIN, ANTOINE. L'argent des villages du XIIIe au XVIIIe siècle, Actes du Colloque d'Angers. Rennes: Bibliothèque d'histoire rurale, 2000.

Review: P. Jarnoux in DSS 218 (2003), 161–162: In this collection, the reviewer finds a new and highly useful resource on the vast subject of rural commerce over six centuries. He notes that the 17th c. holds a place of privilege in over half of the papers and laments only the total absence of discussion on the Eastern part of France and a general neglect of the Mediterranean region.

FORCE, PIERRE. Self-Interest before Adam Smith: A Genealogy of Economic Science. Cambridge UP, 2003, "Ideas in Context" series, 296 pp.

A history of the concepts of self-love and self-interest in France and England from 1650 to 1800. Discusses connections between 17th c. moralistes and the emergence of political economy in the 18th c.

FRIEDRICHS, CHRISTOPHER. Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge, 2000.

Review: U. Lotz-Heumann in HZ 274 (2002), 207–209: This textbook offers a good systematic overview for "those studying and teaching history (Friedrichs iv) and has chapters on approaches, issues, politics, forms of political action, plus a helpful section of "Suggestions for further reading."

FUHRING, PETER. "Jean Barbet's 'Livre d'Architecture, d'Autels et de Cheminées: Drawing and Design in Seventeenth-Century France." Burlington (1203), 421–430.

Presents new information on the life and work of one of the most famous French designers in ornament and interior decoration in the early seventeenth century.

GARCIA, JOELLE. Les représentations gravées du cardinal Mazarin au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Klincksieck, 2000.

Review: Y. Loskoutoff in DSS 218 (2003), 166–167: Divided into five chronological sections (Avant la Fronde, Face à la Fronde, Après la Fronde, La Paix des Pyrénées, and Après sa mort), Garcia analyzes and contextualizes a large collection of Mazarin engravings. Loskoutoff identifies a number of careless errors (of both translation and interpretation), but maintains that "le livre de Joëlle Garcia intéressera les historiens, les historiens d'art, et aussi ceux de la littérature tant son sujet est indissociable du genre encomiastique, auquel elle ne manque pas de se référer."

GLAUDES, PIERRE et al. La Représentation dans la littérature et les arts. Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 1999.

Review: G. Jucquois in LR 55 (2001): 174–177: Useful anthology interprets "arts" widely and includes texts and commentaries by philosophers, critics and artists on the subject of representation. Glaudes and his collaborators provide integrative commentaries, exemplifying the multiplicity of perspectives possible on this theme.

GLOTON, MARIE-CHRISTINE, JACQUELINE PLANTIE & MONIQUE POMEY. "Un trompe-l'oeil théologique dans le chœur des prêcheurs, à Aix-en-Provence." DSS 219 (2003), 309–330.

As the title indicates, this article traces the history of the numerous "trompe-l'œil" aspects of the church at Aix while at the same time deciphering their theological intent and meaning. The text is accompanied by a series of descriptive photographs.

HARAN, ALEXANDRE Y. Le Lys et le globe. Messianisme dynastique et rêve impérial en France à l'aube des temps modernes. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2000.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 275 (2002), 196–197: Duchhardt outlines several major concerns with Haran's study which keep him from recommending it, despite its ambitious scope.

HARRIS, ANN SUTHERLAND. "The Subject of Poussin's 'Landscape with a Woman Bathing' in Ottawa." Burlington 1201 (2003), 292–296.

Identifies the figures in this monumental Poussin landscape as Vertumnus and Pomona, who are being watched by a satyr. Connects these characters with themes of fertility and sterility present in Poussin's works and personal life.

HARTER, KARL, ed. Policey und frühneuzeitliche Gesellschaft. (Ius Commune, Sonderhefte: Studien zur europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 129). Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2000.

Review: S. Brakensiek in HZ 274 (2002), 194–198: Early Modern policy receives attention in this collection of 20 studies which focuses on application, success and influence of policy decrees. Includes examination of 17th c. France from a comparative perspective; local and regional strategies as well as central ones are considered.

JERVIS, SIMON. "Decorative Arts under Louis XIII and Anne d'Autriche." Burlington 1192 (2002), 447–449:

A review of a June–July 2002 exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris which describes the difficulty in locating surviving objects and cites some problems in the display of those objects included in the showing. However, Jervis also compliments the catalogue as an "essential guide to the period, with a full and useful apparatus of references, bibliography, and index," and notes that in spite of the aforementioned deficiencies, the exhibition itself is "full of wonderful things."

KNITTLER, HERBERT. Die europäische Stadt in der frühen Neuzeit. Institutionen, Strukturen, Entwicklungen. Wien/München: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik / Oldenbourg, 2000.

Review: H. Schilling in HZ 275 (2002), 185–186: A welcome and very needed manual whose usefulness will not be limited to students. The European city in the Early Modern Era is examined in relation to various institutions such as the State, the Church, and so forth. Structures are considered as well as politics and the development and growth of urbanization.

LASOWSKI, PATRICK WALD. Le Traité des mouches secrètes. Paris: Gallimard, 2003.

Review: G. Farasse in RSH 270 (avril–juin 2003), 200–201: Reviewer enchanted with this "petit livre délicieux," which resuscitates from oubli the Chevalier de Mouhy (1701–84), prolific writer (if judged mediocre by his peers) and seller of mouches. Chapters deal with his literary works, his work as a mouchard, and the coquet use of mouches, both visible and hidden, in the period. With rich and rapid prose, Lasowski shows great erudition, recreates the atmosphere of the time, provides a detailed treatment of the uses of mouches, and brings to life the vivid imagination of the Chevalier de Mouhy, until now condemned to the margins.

LAVERGNEE, ARNAULD BREJON DE. "Richelieu: Art and Power." Burlington 1202 (2003): 389–391.

A review of an exhibit shown first in Montréal, then in Cologne, which closed in April 2003 and included 180 works divided into six sections: "For the Glory of France," "For the Glory of God," "Richelieu and the Realm of Ideas," "From Eminences to Entrepreneurs," "The Life of the People" and finally, a postscript entitled "The Myth." While Lavergnée does not always agree with the exhibition's organization and structure, he admires certain "superb ensembles," particularly the "Galerie des hommes illustres," and declares that "France has done itself a disservice by not securing a French venue for the show."

LE GUILLOU, YVES. "L'enrichissement des surintendants Bullion et Bouthillier ou le détournement des fonds publics sous Louis XIII," in DSS, no. 211 (avril–juin 2001): 195–213.

Review: C. Torelli in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 218: Treats precisely the private and public lives of Bullion and Bouthillier who acquire significant personal wealth (Buillon more so) during their public function as surintendant. Of particular usefulness for the history of patrimony in Champagne, Touraine and Ile-de-France.

LEMPEREUR, ALAIN PEKAR. François de Callières: De la manière de négocier avec les souverains. Edition critique. Les Classiques de la pensée politique, 19. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: M. Moriarty in FS 57.4 (2003). The reviewer states that this "is a valuable edition of a most interesting work." If there are too many typographical errors, especially in the use of Greek characters, the author's obvious enthusiasm and his strong understanding of the topic (as displayed in the introduction), as well as Callière's own interesting text, of course, make this a strong addition to historical political scholarship. The reviewer also points out the text's "rich fund" of examples and good background research.

LIPP, CHARLES T. "Power and Politics in Early Modern Lorraine: Jean-François de Mahuet and the Grand Prévôté de Saint-Dié." FHS 26 (2003): 31–53.

Uses the example of a powerful Lorraine family to examine religion, power, and the politics of absolutism, primarily in the eighteenth century, with reference to events and personages of the seventeenth.

MARAL, ALEXANDRE. La Chapelle royale de Versailles sous Louis XIV: cérémonial, liturgie et musique. Sprimont, Belqique: Mardaga, 2002.

Review: BCLF 645 (2003), 79: Ouvrage en cinq chapitres formant deux parties: "Un lieu et des hommes" et "La Vie quotidienne à la chapelle royale." "Cette solide étude met en relief la nature des publics, les projets et les devoirs de Louis XIV."

MENTZER, RAYMOND, ed. Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559–1685. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: A. Reeves in Choice 40 (2002), 699–700: Twelve essays discuss particular aspects of Protestant belief and experience, ranging chronologically from "the first synod of Reformed churches" (1559) to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

MINOIS, GEORGES. Histoire du rire et de la dérision. Paris: Fayard, 2000.

Review: G. Walther in HZ 274 (2002), 133–134: Judged a highly useful synthesis, rich in facts, of specialized material on laughter and derision. 17th c. students will appreciate and perhaps challenge what the reviewer summarizes as a controlling and restraining of laughter in the time of Louis XIV. If that was the main trend, certainly numerous examples of the unrestrained could be suggested, from the "tours" played in the salons to the riotous "rire" in Dassoucy (see Dominique Bertrand's work on the subject, for example). Informative compendium brings the methodology of the "histoire des mentalités" to bear on texts from Homer to Monty-Python.

MORICEAU, JEAN-MARC. Terres Mouvantes. Les campagnes françaises du féodalisme à la mondialisation XIIe-XIXe. Paris: Fayard, 2002.

Review: J. Duma in QL 845 (du 1er au 15 Janvier 2003), 22: "Il s'agit d'un essai qui se propose de réexaminer l'histoire rurale dans une optique dynamique. (...) Cette salutaire remise en cause de l'approche statique des campagnes françaises sait mettre en valeur les multiples voies du changement, elle s'attache à souligner les chronologies différenciées qui les caractérisent, joue en permanence sur des échelles différentes. Au débat continuité ou changement il répond continuité et changement non par un souci académique d'équilibre mais par la prise en compte de la complexité des sociétés rurales."

MUCHEMBLED, ROBERT. Passions de femmes au temps de la Reine Margot (1553–1615). Paris: Seuil, 2003.

Review: D. Goy-Blanquet in QL 861 (du 16 au 31 septembre 2003), 20–21: "Les femmes de son livre n'ont en commun que la passion, où l'historien veut voir une stratégie pour dépasser leur condition, valoriser l'Ego féminin, en s'opposant au mode proprement masculin de la Raison." Reviewer is unimpressed with Muchembled's historical methods. "Muchembled pour sa part nous promène d'aventures insolites en généralisations pour le moins hâtives, assorties de conclusions prévisibles sur les préjugés masculins, leurs justifications théoriques, et l'éternelle sujétion des femmes."

MUCHEMBLED, ROBERT. La société policée. Politique et politesse en France du XVIe au XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 1998.

Review: M. Dinges in HZ 274 (2002), 139–141: Wide-ranging study includes attention to the "founding phase" (1515–1715) as well as to the "mutation phase" (from the 18th c to the latter part of the 20th c.). 17th c. scholars will appreciate the examination from a social history perspective of Louis XIV's aristocratic pact, including, for example, the role of ceremony.

NORMAN, BUFORD. Touched by the Graces: the Libretti of Philippe Quinault in the Context of French Classicism. Birmingham, AL: Summa, 2001.

Review: C. Batson in FR 76.6 (2003), 1239: Though the massive work concentrates on the libretti themselves, Norman contextualizes them within their historical and courtly frameworks. Includes discussion of Quinault's prologues and a run-through of basic notions such as dramatic and lyric classification, vraisemblance, and le merveilleux. "[R]emarkably straightforward;" "traditional" while also demonstrating "an awareness of feminist concerns."

NYE, ROBERT A. Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France. Berkeley: U California P, 1998.

Review: R. Muchembled in RBPH 78.3–4 (2000), 1061–62: "L'idée centrale développée dans ce livre est que le modèle bourgeois français de discipline personnelle du XIXe siècle repose sur la régulation de la sexualité et s'exprime à travers un code d'honneur hérité des vertus militaires nobles d'Ancien Régime. Le courage est de ce fait la principale composante de l'identité masculine, pour qui aspire à l'honneur."

OLSON, TODD P. Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism, and the Politics of Style. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2002.

Review: Ch. Dempsey in Burlington 1195 (2002): 632–633: Primary thesis is that Poussin's French patrons were primarily of the noblesse de robe and that this is key to understanding his relationship with France. Dempsey: "Much hard work is in this book, and anyone interested in its subject will have to read it. But to reap its benefits the reader will have to bring to the book an intellectual discipline the author has been unable to supply."

PARROTT, DAVID. Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624–1642. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Review: T. Worcester in SCN 60 (2002) 278–281: Although the reviewer criticizes this book for its unwieldy length and a certain lack of socio-historical interpretation, Worcester, nevertheless, finds it to be an interesting re-interpretation of the scope and reach of Richelieu's power. "Parrott does an excellent job of demonstrating the pragmatic and reactive nature of Richelieu's military policies." Central to Parrott's argument is the notion that "the Cardinal did not carry out—at least in the military sphere—a master plan that achieved centralization of power and subordination of unruly elites". The reviewer draws the following conclusion from Parrott's work: "if France ultimately emerged from the Thirty Years War in a powerful position, it must have been due to factors other than a brilliant Richelieu at the helm."

POUZET, REGINE. Chronique des Pascal: 'les affaires du monde' d'Etienne Pascal à Marguerite Périer (1588–1713). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: C. Baxter in FS 56.4 (2002), 517–18: An "interesting" study of the financial and legal transactions of the Pascal/Périer family including wills, marriage and baptismal registers that "[help] situate the interplay between the religious beliefs of Pascal's family and their interactions with the secular sphere." "This book offers a useful insight into the mentalités of the less-celebrated members of the Pascal family" and suffers only from the "lack of adequate concentration on Blaise Pascal."

PY, BERNADETTE. Everhard Jabach collectionneur (1618–1695): Les dessins de l'inventaire de 1695. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001.

Review: A. Weston-Lewis in Burlington 1196 (2002): 696–697: Includes a biography of Jabach, a survey of the collections, the criteria for identifying each drawing, and detailed entries on each of the 1200 drawings, as well as two appendices of secondary sources. Weston-Lewis: "Py is to be warmly congratulated for her painstaking detective work in tracking down and verifying surviving drawings in print rooms and private collections around the world."

RAPLEY, ELIZABETH. A Social History of the Cloister. Daily life in the teaching monasteries of the old regime. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

Review: B. Green in TLS 5213 (Feb 28 2003), 33. Life of teaching nuns in seventeenth and eighteenth century. "She moves from broad story to local particulars with enviable ease." Both "exhaustive scholarship" and "wonderful read."

READ, KIRK D. "'What's a Mother to Do?': Maternal Advice from a Wise Woman." CdDS 8.2 (2003), 65–76.

Explores "the ways in which literary women of the late 16th and early 17th centuries spoke of childbirth and midwifery within the mother-daughter context."

REITH, REINHOLD. Lohn und Leistung. Lohnformen im Gewerbe 1450–1900. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999.

Review: T. Pierenkemper in HZ 274 (2002), 402–404: Praiseworthy and wide-ranging examination of management and compensation from the late Middle Ages until the beginning of the 20th c. Review is particularly appreciative of chapter 4 which Pierenkemper terms the major section and of other chapters which systematically treat both technical and social aspects.

ROSSEAUX, ULRICH. Die Kipper und Wipper als publizistisches Ereignis (1620–1626). Eine Studie zu den Strukturen öffentlicher Kommunikation im Zeitalter des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2001.

Review: H. Duchhardt in HZ 275 (2002), 746–747: Praiseworthy for its breadth and attention to original evidence, this study focuses on the structure of public communication during the period of the Thirty Years War. Treats some 100 pamphlets, 45 broadsheets of the era. An important contribution to the currently blossoming field of historical communications research.

SCHAUB, JEAN-FREDERIC. La France espagnole. Les racines historiques de l'absolutisme français. Paris: Seuil, 2003.

Review: J. Nicolas in QL 848 (du 16 au 28 Février 2003), 21–22: "Autant d'emprunts qui soulignent le passage de la prépondérance espagnole au Grand Siècle français, autant de captations thématiques dont s'abreuve l'absolutisme louisquatorzien, en un temps où la langue castillane et l'esthétique hispanique conservent un statut privilégié à la Cour comme dans la diplomatie et les salons lettrés. Une influence et un rôle négligés jusqu'ici par une historiographie cloisonnée, nous dit Jean-Frédéric Schaub, et si directement en prise sur l'archive immédiate (. . .) qu'elle en a oublié l'esprit d'une époque. Sans crainte d'ouvrir trop largement le champ des représentations et reflets—une histoire au second degré, nécessairement discursive—, l'auteur multiplie les exemples de détournements symboliques, puisés à pleines mains dans l'imagerie royale comme dans la littérature hispanisante."

SCHMALE, WOLFGANG. Geschichte Europas. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau, 2001.

Review: W. Loth in HZ 275 (2002), 406–407: Loth indicates a few reservations and would rename Schmale's study as follows: "Beiträge zu einer Geschichte der europäischen Zivilisation" [Contributions Toward a History of European Civilization], indicating its important focus on civilization. Includes surveys of myths, cartography, definitions, international systems of power, knowledge and economy, as well as a study of the Early Modern allegory of Europe as a woman.

SENIOR, MATTHEW. "Seeing the Versailles Ménagerie." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 351–363.

Examines the importance of the visual in understanding the Ménagerie built at Versailles by Le Vau.

SIMIZ, STEFANO. Confréries urbaines et dévotion en Champagne (1450–1830). Lille: P U du Septentrion, 2001.

Review: V. Beaulande in BHR 65.2 (2003), 514–16: "Ce livre, issu de la thèse de doctorat de l'auteur, prend pour objet les confréries de dévotion des trois villes épiscopales de la Champagne, Reims, Troyes et Châlons. Le postulat de départ. . . est que la confrérie est un lieu de rencontre entre les aspirations dévotionnelles laïques et l'autorité cléricale, rencontre parfois conflictuelle, souvent souhaitée."

SOLL, JACOB. "Empirical History and the Transformation of Political Criticism in France from Bodin to Bayle." JHI 64 (2003) 297–316.

"This article shows how 16th and 17th c. arguments about historical evidence and elite humanist traditions of textual criticism and historical method evolved into the secular political theory of the 18th c. It shows how the French crown sponsored scholars who worked on empirical, source-based history as a tool for political prudence, but as this critical historical methodology became public, the crown realized it could be used against its interest" (abstract).

SZANTO, MICKAËL. "The Fortunes of a Northern Artist in Seventeenth-Century Paris: The Forgotten Years of Herman van Swanevelt." Burlington 1200 (2003), 199–205.

Describes in some detail the life of this once-renowned Dutch artist during this time in Paris, and speculates as to why so little is known or written about this period of his life, which seems to have been a fruitful one.

THILLAY, ALAIN. Le Faubourg Saint-Antoine et ses "Faux Ouvriers." La liberté du travail à Paris aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2002.

Review: J. Nicolas in QL 844 (16 au 31 Décembre 2002), 20–21: Thillay "éclaire l'émergence d'un espace historique qui prend son envol au temps de Henri IV sur le territoire champêtre qui s'étale côté rive droite de la Seine. (. . .) Voici que le mouvement s'accélère quand les lettres patentes de 1657 accordent à tout le Faubourg un privilège inouï pour l'époque, l'entière liberté de travail. (. . .) Acte souverain, étonnant par son libéralisme en un temps colbertien où le roi prétendait tout contrôler. Hésitations du pouvoir, respect archaïque des puissances cléricales maîtresses des lieux, encouragement accordé aux institutions religieuses dans leur patronage des pauvres, alors que la misère aboie de tous côtés ? Alain Thillay propose la gamme des motifs, mais il suggère aussi qu'il s'agit peut—être d'un choix délibéré, une sorte de ballon d'essai, comme une amorce volontariste de libre concurrence dans un dispositif par ailleurs verrouillé—en somme une saine manifestation de pragmatisme étatique."

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE & CLAIRE LE BRUN-GOUANVIC, eds. Les Arts du spectacle dans la ville (1404–1721). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 97.4 (2002), 958: Ten essays "on large-scale public spectacle in early modern Europe describe the transformations of urban space from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment." Of interest to dix-septiémistes are articles on the transformation of the French royal entry into a political spectacle (Wagner), transplantation of the ritual to the New World (Fournier), the development of the foire and the cours in 17th-century Paris (Vaillancourt), and the "aesthetic transformation of a political myth (the killing of the Hydra/Python by Hercules/Apollo), from an automaton repeatedly used for firework displays to a static allegorical painting celebrating the transcendent power of Louis XIV (Siguret)."

Review: J. Clarke in FS 57.4 (2003). Though the articles in this collection actually have little to do with the notion of spectacle, according to the reviewer, it is nonetheless an interesting and worthwhile reading for its text-based analysis. The collection notably covers works by Corneille, Molière as well as more general themes: use of stage machinery, the comédie-ballets, pastoral theater and the Comédie-Italienne. Of particular interest, says the reviewer, is Guy Spielmann's concluding article on the "syntaxe du spectaculaire" during the seventeenth century.

Review: K. Schoell in RF 114 (2002): 500–503: The Acts of a Congress on performance arts, these two volumes arrange their texts and essays chronologically and thematically as the titles of the volumes indicate. 17th c. specialists will welcome stimulating and well-documented treatments of subjects as diverse as "entrées royales," "une syntaxe du spectaculaire," mechanical figures and monsters, the theology of sacrifice, the pastorale, Corneille's Illusion, Molière's comédies-ballets, among others.

WENLEY, ROBERT. French Bronzes in the Wallace Collection.

Review: V. Avery in Burlington 1206 (2003), 654: A "thoroughly researched, beautifully written and richly illustrated book" which fills an important gap by cataloguing 34 of the Wallace Collection's nearly 100 small-scale French bronzes dating from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Includes "highly informative introductory essays," biographies of the sculptors, a bibliography, and an index of people and places, though it lacks a subject index and illustrated index of the 40 bronzes yet to be covered. Fulfills its goal of providing further study of French bronze statuettes as well as a layman's introduction to the topic.

WINE, HUMPHREY. The Seventeenth Century French Paintings. London: National Gallery, 2002.

Review: D. Posner in Choice 40 (2002), 460: A "lucid, thorough, up-to-date" catalog of the seventeenth-century French paintings in London's National Gallery.

WOLFE, PHILLIP J. and KATHRYN WILLIS, eds. Humanisme et Politique. Lettres romaines de Christophe Dupuy à ses frères (1646–1649), vol II. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Biblio 17/PFSCL, 1997.

Review: D. Course in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 103–04: Although Pierre and Jacques Dupuy's correspondence has long been studied by literary historians, that of their brother Christophe, who took vows, has remained overlooked. Collection is especially useful concerning relations between France and Rome, and on the acquisition of rare books. Reviewer compliments the editors' notes, and calls the volume a "rare opportunité d'entrer de plein pied dans la vie quotidienne des Curieux et autres savants du siècle."

WOLLENBERG, JÖRG. "Richelieu et le système européen de sécurité collective. La bibliothèque du Cardinal comme centre intellectuel d'une nouvelle politique." In DSS no. 210 (2001): 99–112.

Review: A. Arrigoni in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 219: Pertinent analyses convey the importance of theoretical elaboration for Richelieu's significant and modern reflections on European peace and security.

ZANGER, ABBY E. Scenes from the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Review: S. Toczyski in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 117–19: Challenges prevailing wisdom on royal representation (Kantorowicz, Marin, Apostolidès) by introducing the variable of the queen's body, both virginal and fecund. Examines the discourse surrounding the queen's body in occasional pamphlets, almanacs, and letters, as well as in works by Scudéry, Menestrier, and Corneille; all demonstrate how "the female body is deemed central to absolutist logic, although such collaboration must be concealed from public consideration" (ST). "A rich example of the best kind of cultural studies," reviewer concludes.

ALMOG, JOSEPH. What am I? Descartes and the Mind-Body Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Review: R. Lee in Choice 40 (2002), 291: Presents Descartes as highly ambivalent on the question of the substantial difference between mind and body, "wanting to maintain both the substantial distinctness of mind and body, and their substantial union in a single person." Includes consideration of Arnauld, Caterus, and Gassendi

Review: J. Secada in PhQ 53.212 (2003), 441–445: The author argues that Descartes proposed philosophy explaining the specificity of the human where mind and body are separate, but can't exist without each other. Secada notes the work's weak citing of textual sources and alternative interpretations.

BAXTER, CAROL. "Pure as Angels, Proud as Lucifer: an Anatomy of Resistance by the Community of Port-Royal." La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 337–362.

Analyzes the strategies used by the nuns of Port-Royal in their struggle against church and state, and suggests a number of reasons for their resistance. Concentrates on the period 1661–1665.

BENITEZ, MIGUEL ANTONY MCKENNA, GIANNI PAGANINI and JEAN SALEM. Materia Actuosa: Antiquité, Age Classique, Lumières-Mélanges en l'honneur d'Olivier Bloch. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: R. Goulbourne in FS 56.4 (2002). According to the reviewer, this "bumper crop" of articles reflects Bloch's "prodigieuse omniscience" in subjects from Homer and Hobbes to Cyrano, Descartes, La Mothe Le Vayer, and the Philosophes, as well as a "rewarding" section on clandestine writing. Though a few essays "trudge over familiar ground," many represent "important new contributions" in this "fitting tribute" to Bloch.

Review: E. Moles in MLR 97.4 (2002), 994–95: Tribute to Bloch's work on materialism. Section entitled 'De la Renaissance aux libertins' treats Bruno (cosmology), Descartes (letter to the abbé Picot), La Mothe Le Vayer, and Cyrano. Absence of an index lessens usefulness of this valuable volume.

BOURGEOIS-GIRONDE, SACHA. Reconstruction analytique du cogito. Paris: Vrin, 2001.

Review: S. Chauvier in RPFE 192.4 (2002), 444–445: "Cette ouvrage entend proposer 'une interprétation du cogito cartésien en philosophie analytique.' (...) Le principal défaut de cet ouvrage réside (...) moins dans la thèse qu'il défend que dans la manière dont il l'expose : un lecteur qui n'aurait pas déjà une certaine familiarité avec la littérature exploitée par l'auteur serait en effet souvent bien en peine de comprendre ce qu'il veut dire. C'est d'autant plus dommage qu'un exposé précis sur le renouvellement des interprétations du cogito à la suite des travaux 'analytiques' sur la pensée en première personne aurait été utile au lecteur que la philosophie de Descartes intéresse."

BOUVIER, MICHEL. "L'Art de prêcher du Père de Foix." DSS 219 (2003), 287–308.

An excellent analysis of this rare work by the Jesuit Père de Foix (1627–1687) who is far better known for his Art d'élever un prince which was attributed to him posthumously. Bouvier undertakes a meticulous analysis of each book of the manual that covers the origins of Christian classical eloquence, criticism of some of the greatest orators, a detailed exposition of Jesuit doctrine, and finally the desired art of elocutio including a technical discussion of Foix's preferred style.

BRANCHER, DOMINIQUE JOSIANE. Le voile de Poppée: Les ambiguïtés de la pudeur dans le discours médical (1570–1620). DAI 63/10 (2003), 3573.

Examines "the conceptual, generical and rhetorical reversibility of modesty, ... which conceals to better reveal and eroticize."

BROUGHTON, JANET. Descartes's Method of Doubt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Review: J. Secada in PhQ 53.212 (2003), 437–441: Secada calls the work "a truly original essay that significantly expands our philosophical and historical understanding."

COSSUTTA, FREDERIC. "La métaphysique cartésienne au risque du dialogue philosophique." DSS 219 (2003), 233–258.

An in-depth inquiry into the many mysteries of Descartes' unfinished dialogue: La Recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle. Cossutta endeavors to situate the text with relation to Descartes' completed works (no small task given the ongoing debate as to when La Recherche was written) and questions how we are to interpret the incomplete nature of this important text in both form and content.

DARMON, JEAN-CHARLES. Philosophie epicurienne et littérature au XVIIè siècle. Paris: PUF, 1998.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 76 (2002), 391–92: Explores the relationships between the writings of Epicurus and writers/thinkers such as Gassendi, de Bergerac, La Fontaine, and Saint-Evremond, who are said to engage elements of Epicurean thought to destabilize more established philosophies.

DAVIES, RICHARD. Descartes: Belief, Skepticism and Virtue. London: Routledge, 2001.

Review: J. Secada in PhQ 53.211 (2003), 287–290: Secada calls Davies' articulation of Cartesian philosophy in the light of virtue epistemology "flawed," while admitting that Descartes can be read that way. Secada also notes that Davies fails to treat Descartes's Scholastic context, and that he falsely alleges that Descartes believes that no information can come from the senses.

DELON, MICHAEL. "Les machines de sainte Catherine." RSH 269 (janvier–mars 2003): 269–281.

Traces the evolution of the legend of the 4th-c. St. Catherine, spectacularly martyred by a machine. Sees a gradual laicization of the martyr's narrative, discussing its varying representations, including: 16th-c. paintings; two 17th-c. tragedies, one by Jean Boissin de Gallardon, Le Martyre de sainte Catherine in his Tragédies et histoires saintes (1618) and another attributed to l'abbé d'Aubignac, Le Martyr de sainte Catherine (1649); and Sade's Histoire de Juliette.

DESCOTES, DOMINIQUE, ANTONY MCKENNA et LAURENT THOROUIN, Le Rayonnement de Port-Royal. Mélanges en l'honneur de Philippe Sellier. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: F. Lagarde in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 245–249. "On est dans la cour des grands avec ces trente-huit études". Reviewer comments briefly on each of the 38 articles, by B. Chédozeau, H. Michon, O. Thouvenin, H. Bouchilloux, Ch. Belin, O. Le Guern, T. Shiokawa, M. Le Guern, H. Suematsu, D. Descotes, E. Lesne-Jaffro, Y. Mochizuki, A. Mantero, A. Bord, J. Mesnard, Ch. Natoli, A. Blanc, G. Ferreyrolles, P. Magnard, J. Plainemaison, L. Thirouin, B. Guion, J. Rohou, J. Dubu, J. Lafond, P. Force, M. Gérard, J. Gallucci, R. Zuber, N. Hepp, J. Lesaulnier, A. McKenna, J.-R. Armogathe, A-E. Spica, J. Plantié, F.-X. Cuche, J. Dagen, A. Niderst.

DESJARDINS, LUCIE et ERIC MECHOULAN. Tangence (Rimouski, Québec), 66 (2001).

Review: F. Paré in UTQ 72.1 (Winter 2002/3), 51: Lucie Desjardins et Éric Méchoulan ont dirigé le dossier sur les "écritures de la morale." "Ce qui intéresse les concepteurs de ce numéro, c'est de savoir comment [le XVIIe siècle] en particulier a donné naissance à un véritable discours moraliste. Michel De Waele fait voir comment la laïcisation des codes religieux prend origine en partie dans les guerres de religion à la fin du XVIe siècle en France. Un nouveau rapport entre l'individu et l'État voit le jour. Ce courant moral donne lieu à des tendances opposées: ainsi Éric Méchoulan propose une analyse détaillée de certains passages sur l'amitié dans L'Astrée d'Honoré d'Urfé et dans Francion de Charles Sorel, tandis que Sophie Houdard porte son attention sur des textes blasphématoires et obscènes de la même période."

DUCHESNEAU, FRANCOIS. Les modèles du vivant de Descartes à Leibniz. Paris: Vrin, 1998.

Review: D. Forest in RPFE 192.4 (2002), 448–449: L'ouvrage examine comment "au XVIIe siècle, l'étude de l'être vivant, dans un contexte de développement des mathématiques et de la mécanique, et donc aussi de redéfinition de ce qui est naturel et susceptible d'explication naturelle en général, a été l'objet de recherches multiples (détermination des microstructures, explication des phénomènes de génération et d'intégration fonctionnelle, définition du statut du tout organique), objet dont le caractère singulier et paradoxal a provoqué l'essai de diverses méthodes qui toutes ont tenté de relever le défi du complexe et, de ce fait, d'éprouver leur propre fécondité heuristique." Le critique parle aussi de "l'impressionnante érudition" démontrée dans l'ouvrage.

DUCOMMUN, MARIE-JEANNE and DOMINIQUE QUADRONI. Le Refuge protestant dans le Pays de Vaud (Fin XVIIe-début XVIIIe s.). Aspects d'une migration. Genève: Droz, 1991.

Review: H. J. Schmitt in ZRP 118 (2002): 283–287: This historical investigation is valuable as well for specialists of lexicology. In four parts, each with three chapters, DuCommun and Quadroni examine numerous aspects (historical, political, demographic, economic, linguistic, sociological) of this forced migration. Volume includes maps, graphics and tables, reproducing original documents and annexes of important source texts.

ELYADA, OUZI & JACQUES LE BRUN, eds. Conflits politiques, controverses religieuses: essai d'histoire européenne aux 16e-18e siècles. Paris: Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2002.

Review: BCLF 645 (2003), 142: "Echappant à tout risque de dispersion, ce recueil réussit à associer avec rigueur des analyses à la fois historique, littéraire et théologique du fait social, formant ainsi un ensemble d'une qualité scientifique remarquable."

FORCE, PIERRE. Géométrie, finesse, et premiers principes chez Pascal. Romance Quarterly 50.2 (2003), 121–30.

Explores Pascal's famed distinction between "l'esprit de géométrie" and "l'esprit de finesse," presenting the two not as polar opposites, but as related capacities which differ principally in terms of the scale with which each perceives its object of study. Also touches upon the role of feeling in judgment.

GARBER, DANIEL. La physique métaphysique de Descartes. Trans.S. Bornhausen. Paris: PUF, 1999.

Review: G. Fraysse in RPFE 192.4 (2002), 449–450: L'étude de Daniel Garber "est donc bien centrée. Elle démêle bien les fils, tient compte du 'bougé' des textes, des changements de formulation, selon les dates, à partir de ces trois môles que sont successivement les 'Regulae', le 'Traité du monde', et les 'Principes de la philosophie'. Les contemporains de Descartes sont conviés au débat: Mersenne, Gassendi, Hobbes, Pascal, Roberval, More, Regius, Voetius, etc., et même les scolastiques tardifs. L'ouvrage est riche de ces aperçus sur l'époque et sur les personnages. Riche aussi en questions métaphysiques."

GIOCANTI, SYLVIA. Penser l'irrésolution: Montaigne, Pascal, La Mothe Le Vayer. Trois itinéraires sceptiques. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2001.

Review: I. Moreau in RPFE 192.4 (2002), 452–453: "Les trois auteurs choisis, illustrent, chacun à leur façon, ce scepticisme moderne original. Réunis eux-mêmes sur le mode de la 'reprise' (La Mothe Le Vayer et Pascal sont lecteurs de Montaigne), ils ont un même rejet de la manière dogmatique de philosopher et pratiquent un discours asystématique conçu comme 'babil' valorisant la capacité inventive de la raison. Cette communauté de démarche recouvre une même 'crise de la croyance': la lecture critique de Pascal est, sur ce point, déterminante. L'originalité de la démarche réside cependant, essentiellement, dans la volonté de confronter ces auteurs à partir de la réinscription de leurs accords et désaccords dans une histoire de l'usage sceptique de la raison. (...) On ne peut que saluer cet apport à la réflexion sur le scepticisme à l'époque moderne."

GLOTON, MARIE-CHRISTINE, JACQUELINE PLANTIE & MONIQUE POMEY. "Un trompe-l'œil théologique dans le chœur des prêcheurs, à Aix-en-Provence." DSS 219 (2003), 309–330.

As the title indicates, this article traces the history of the numerous "trompe-l'œil" aspects of the church at Aix while at the same time deciphering their theological intent and meaning. The text is accompanied by a series of descriptive photographs.

GREGOIRE, VINCENT. "Conversion Through 'Reductions': The Missionaries at Work in 17th Century New France as Described in Their Yearly Relations." CdDS 8.2 (2003), 21–32.

Considers the evangelical practice of "reducing" Amerindians, that is, converting them to farming and forcing them to adopt French beliefs and practices.

HALLEUX, R., J. McClellan, D. Berariu, G. Xhayet, ed. Les publications de l'académie royale des sciences de Paris (1666–1793). Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2001.

Review: D. J. Sturdy in Isis 94.1 (2003), 145–146: A bibliography of the Académie's publications, including, for each entry, contents, authorship, title, printer, number of pages, and format. "All scholars interested in the history of science in France during this period will applaud those who compiles this bibliography. . . a handsomely produced and detailed work of reference."

HAMMOND, NICHOLAS. Pascal, Port-Royal, and the Recueil de choses diverses. Romance Quarterly 50.2 (2003), 131–47.

Through an examination of educational tracts emanating from the Port-Royal petites écoles, coupled with a look at pedagogically-themed material in the Recueil, Hammond invites us to "see Pascal as a teacher figure, coaxing the reader on the path to self-understanding" (144–5). Pays particular attention to the Port-Royalists' use of conversation in teaching and their shift away from the exhaustive memorization techniques encouraged by Jesuits.

HUREL, DANIEL-ODON and GERARD LAUDIN. Académies et sociétés savantes en Europe: 1650–1800. Colloques, congrès et conférences sur le classicisme, I. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: R. Whelan in FS 57.4 (2003). This volume of articles covers an "eclectic" range of materials related to European learned societies of the period. For the reviewer, the volume suffers from sloppy editing and a lack of focus. Some of the papers are quite old, some going back as far as 1977, and there is no name index to help readers sift through all the materials.

ISRAEL, JONATHAN. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.

Review: M. Spencer in SCN 61 (2003) 64–69: A book divided into five parts arguing the central importance of the Enlightenment to any study of the modern world. The reviewer points out that Israel's approach is unique in that "he aims to portray the 'European Enlightenment as a single highly integrated intellectual and cultural movement.'" Of note for 17th c. scholars is part IV of the book in which the author "explores late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century reactions to Spinoza, devoting space to French thinkers such as Bossuet, Malebranche, and Houtteville".

Review: G. Walther in HZ 274 (2002), 460–461: Highly ambitious re-examination of the theme taken up by Paul Hazard in 1935 (Crise de la conscience européenne 1680–1715). 17th c. scholars will benefit from the intellectual, political, and social panorama of Part I. Although the reviewer indicates that more attention to German sources would have been helpful, he concludes that Israel's work offers fascinating insights into the themes, debates and organization of European res publica litteraria around 1700.

JONES, MATTHEW L. Three Errors about Indifference: Pascal on the Vacuum, Sociability, and Moral Freedom. Romance Quarterly 50.2 (2003), 99–119.

Brings forth Pascal's rejection of Jesuit claims concerning the existence of a natural order formed on the basis of all things' inclinations toward their "proper good," predispositions from which, however, man was said to be fancy-free in his moral choices. Jones presents Pascal as contesting both this natural order and this indifference, the latter's experiments and reflections having led him to opposite conclusions. Captivating and lucid.

KITTELSON, JAMES. Toward an Established Church. Strasbourg from 1500 to the Dawn of the Seventeenth Century. Mainz: von Zabern, 2000.

Review: A. Schindling in HZ 274 (2002), 740–742: Judged engaging and effective, in particular with regard to its examination of theological and ecclesiastical organization, relationships between government and church, and private beliefs.

KOSTROUN, DANIELLA J. "Angélique Arnauld and the Political Significance of Filial Disobedience". La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 325–335.

Examines the political significance of the representation in the 1650s and 1660s of Angélique Arnauld's filial disobedience at the time of the journée du guichet (1609). Kostroun focuses on Angélique de Saint-Jean's biography of her aunt.

KURZ, GERHARD, ed. Meditation und Erinnerung in der Frühen Neuzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000.

Review: R. Dürr in HZ 275 (2002), 743–744: Praiseworthy examination of meditation and memory in the Early Modern Period. Reviewer makes particular mention of the readability and accuracy of this collection of 17 essays. Numerous valuable references to journals, autobiographies and letters.

LAGARDE, FRANÇOIS. "Vertu de la terreur classique." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 463–474.

Analyzes the co-existence of la terreur as both a literary topos and as a form of madness.

LAMBERT, LADINA BEZZOLA. Imagining the Unimaginable: The Poetics of Early Modern Astronomy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

Review: A. Gross in Isis 93.4 (2002), 695–696: The book includes a discussion of Cyrano de Bergerac, especially in relation to Huygens. The reviewer objects to the author's attempt to "reclassify scientific works as literary," and also notes the absence of an index.

LESTRINGANT, FRANK. "Témoinage et martyre: donner à voir, donner à croire (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)." RSH 269 (janvier-mars 2003), 111–34.

Analyzes questions of historiography and witnessing in martyrologies of the period. Detailed examination and comparison of Richard Verstegan's 1588 Theatre des cruautez des hereticques de nostre temps and Maximilien Misson's 1691 Nouveau Voyage d'Italie, fait en l'année 1688.

MCCALLAM, DAVID. "Encountering and Countering the 'Uncanny' in Descartes's Méditations. FS 57.2, 135–47.

Starting with a discussion of the uncanny, the author brings a psychoanalytical approach to the use of "primitive and irrational" though processes in Descartes. According to the author, Descartes eventually reintegrates them into his "reason" less through logic than in a manner that resembles magical discourse, allowing the philosopher "to expose himself to the forces of the Uncanny and to insure himself against them."

MECHOULAN, ERIC. On Power: Theology and Sovereignty in Pascal's Pensées. Romance Quarterly 50.2 (2003), 85–98.

Probes Pascal's reflections on imagination as the force which creates binding social relations after central powers have established themselves. Aligns Pascal with Foucault's thinking on power.

MEIER, JOHANNES, ed. ". . .usque ad ultimum terrae". Die Jesuiten und die transkontinentale Ausbreitung des Christentums 1540–1773. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2000.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 274 (2002), 747–748: Almost as wide-ranging as the Jesuit mission work itself, these essays (the outgrowth of the June 1998 Mülheim colloque) literally extend, as did the Jesuit endeavors "usque ad ultimum terrae." Reviewer finds particularly praiseworthy the essay by Franz-Joseph Post on the French Jesuit missionaries of the 17th and 18th c. to the Canadian Hurons and Iroquois.

MENN, STEPHEN. Descartes and Augustine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Review: E. Faye in RPFE 192.4 (2002), 455–457: "Selon l'auteur, Descartes a voulu 'construire un système scientifique complet (...) sur la base d'une métaphysique augustinienne' (p. 15). L'ouvrage ne se limite pas à la confrontation entre Augustin et Descartes, mais s'inscrit dans une histoire de la métaphysique platonicienne où Plotin aurait la plus large part. (...) Si la lecture de ce livre renforce la conviction que la question du rapport de la métaphysique cartésienne à la doctrine d'Augustin mérite d'être réexaminé, on ne saurait renouveler cette question sans affronter conjointement un problème de fond, celui de la distinction entre une métaphysique et une théologie des idées."

MENTZER, RAYMOND, ed. Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559–1685. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: A. Reeves in Choice 40 (2002), 699–700: Twelve essays discuss particular aspects of Protestant belief and experience, ranging chronologically from "the first synod of Reformed churches" (1559) to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

NEMOIANU, VIRGIL MARTIN. Blaise Pascal on Skepticism and Order. DAI 63/6 (2002), 2271.

"[P]roposes to show the way in which Pascal's philosophy of mind-his conception of order and the relation of reason, the emotions, and the will to the self-which emerges from his skepticism, can be used to draw out his views on morality, despite the fragmentary state of the [Pensées]."

PAIGE, NICHOLAS D. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2000.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 57.2 (2003). In this "compelling study," Paige traces the formulation, in the sphere of religious writing, of a rhetoric of human depth. . . It is less autobiography as a genre which is the focal point than the cultural context in which autobiography becomes worth reading." The reviewer praises Paige's critical methodology, which "grants coherence to his work," and the "broad line of inquiry [that] provokes exponentially broad questions about how one person can come to know another." It is to Paige's credit "that the conclusions. . . have further, implicit but highly provocative, ramifications, concerning notably the displacement of Descartes as the exclusive model for seventeenth-century discourses of the self."

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 98.3 (2003), 720: "Starting from the premise that 'autobiography, in its manifestly problematic promise to make identity readable, is part of the contradictions of modernity' (p.10), this book explores the emergence of autobiography as mediation between interior and exterior worlds in various seventeenth-century religious texts."

PERFETTI, STEFANO. Aristotle's Zoology and its Renaissance Commentators (1521–1601). Louvain: P U de Louvain, 2000.

Review: P. Glardon in BHR 65.2 (2003), 455–57: ". . .l'ouvrage de M. Perfetti touche donc à un aspect encore peu étudié de l'aristotélisme renaissant, pourtant lui-même objet de l'attention des chercheurs depuis des décennies: le devenir des traités zoologiques, en particulier sous la plume de savants issus ou proches des milieux universitaires du nord de l'Italie."

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

Review: I. Mieck in HZ 274 (2002), 744–745: The fruit of some fifteen years, this volume focuses on last wills and testaments and "makes clear that religious alliance among Leaguers was inextricably linked to social, cultural, and political loyalties" (Ramsey xii). Includes impressive appendices, tables, indices and an extensive bibliography.

RAPLEY, ELIZABETH. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 2001.

Review: A. Rabil in Choice 39 (2002), 1654: Gives an overview of the rise and fall of female monastic teaching orders (whose decline is ascribed in part to the influence of Jansenism), while also fleshing out the details of life in such establishments. Straightforward, well-written.

RAPLEY, ROBERT. A Case of Witchcraft. The Trial of Urbain Grandier. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1998.

Review: R. Muchembled in RBPH 78.3–4 (2000), 1077–79: Histoire d'Urbain Grandier, curé de Saint-Pierre-du-Marché à Loudun, brûlé pour sorcellerie en août 1634. "Cet ouvrage de plus sur le sujet n'apporte guère de révélations nouvelles et ne remplace pas l'excellent livre de Michel de Certeay, La Possession de Loudun, publié en 1970 par un spécialiste du père Surin, le plus connu des exorcistes impliqués dans l'affaire. Il fait cependant le point avec minutie et sérieux."

ROOS, GILBERT. Relations entre le gouvernement royal et les juifs du nord-est de la France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2000.

Review: S. Mrejen-O'Hana in DSS 220 (2003), 567–569: The reviewer has some minor textual criticisms, but generally judges the book a complex treatment of the history and socio-cultural position of Jews in the North-East of France during the 17th century.

RUBIES, JOAN-PAU. Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance. South India through European Eyes, 1250–1625. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Review: F. Schmieder in HZ 275 (2002), 410–412: Twelve illustrations of the period under consideration along with detailed maps of Indian regions complement the extraordinarily extensive inventory of sources in Rubies' significant study. His work broadens our knowledge of the intellectual history of voyage literature and confirms its importance for the cultural history of the European Renaissance.

SCHOULS, PETER A. Descartes and the Possibility of Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Review: E. Palmer in Isis 93.3 (2002), 485–486: Palmer notes that "establishing the intellectual/corporeal divide, which is not made entirely explicit by Descartes, is the primary focus for Schouls's development. . . This book is a work in the history of philosophy, narrowly defined, for latter-day philosophers; it makes no efforts toward presenting intellectual history or history of science." Palmer also notes the absence of citations and references to Descartes' contemporaries.

SCOTT, PAUL. "Les crucifixions féminines: une iconographie de la contre-réforme." RSH 269 (janvier–mars 2003), 153–74.

Examines the representation of crucified women, especially in the work of Pedro de Bivero, exposing the problematic ambiguity of these engravings due to the eroticisation of the female body, its masculinization, or its resemblance to Christ's crucified body.

SECADA, JORGE. Cartesian Metaphysics: The Late Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Review: L. Boschiero in SCN 60 (2002) 315–319: Secada "illustrates a model for understanding Cartesian metaphysics by addressing the significance Descartes placed on defining the essences of substances. Furthermore, Secada suggests that Descartes' essentialism originated from Late Scholastic thought." Boschiero reviews this thorough study very favorably, but suggests that the author skirts the issue of "modern" philosophy without pointedly defining it, though the concept is at play throughout.

SELLIER, PHILIPPE. Port-Royal et la littérature: I. Pascal. Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 76 (2003), 811–12: Focused—though not exclusively—on Pascal, this ensemble of 80 studies on the Port-Royal monastery is structured in thematically-linked but autonomous chapters which take their cue from the Pensées themselves. The work's subsections treat "Philologiques," "Pascal et la Bible," "Les Provinciales, Les Pensées," and "Dialogues." The latter, in reflecting upon Pascal's relationship to St. John of the Cross, needs to better situate the former among other religious influences and broader mystic traditions, as the author himself admits.

SHELFORD, APRIL G. "Thinking Geometrically in Pierre-Daniel Huet's Demonstratio evangelica (1679)." JHI 63 (2002), 599–617.

Taking her queue from Huet himself, when he "indugled [his] vanity by comparing his Demonstratio evangelica with works whose authors are far better known today," Shelford undertakes an exhaustive study and contextualization of Huet's often neglected work with reference to Arnauld, Pascal, Nicole, Descartes, etc.

TAUSSIG, SYLVIE. "Gassendi et l'hypocrite: quel masque pour quelle personne?" PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 435–462.

Article sets out to "réexamine l'accusation de dissimulation et de double discours dans la sphère de la morale; car dans la philosophie pratique comme dans la philosophie contemplative, il est impossible de repérer chez Gassendi un double discours."

TRONC, DOMINIQUE. "Une filiation mystique: Chrysostome de Saint-Lô, Jean de Bernières, Jacques Bertot, Jeanne-Marie Guyon." DSS 218 (2003), 95–116.

As the title suggests, this article traces the historical and interpersonal links between these four figures: "Nous proposons ici un bref aperçu d'une école mystique qui attend son historien pour la replacer au centre de la vie spirituelle du siècle." Though the descriptions of each individual are, indeed, brief, the article brings forth a wealth of resources on the subject.

VAN DAMME, STEPHAN "Les martyrs jésuites et la culture imprimée à Lyon au XVIIe siècle." RSH 269 (janvier–mars 2003), 189–205.

Argues that the celebration of martyrs in printed texts and on stage in Lyon by the Jesuits was a major component of a strategy to promote the order's apostolic activities by centralization of information and its diffusion.

VAN KLEY, DALE K. Les Origines religieuses françaises 1560–1791. Paris: Seuil, 2002. Translated from English byAlain Spiess (The religious origins of the French Revolution: from Calvin to the civil constitution, 1560–1791. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1996).

Review : N. Bossut in QL 847 (du 1er au 15 février 2003), 21–22): "Élevé dans la tradition confessionnelle calviniste, Van Kley en a gardé une conviction qui structure toutes ses analyses historiques : 《  définie ou non en termes de transcendance l'expérience religieuse transcende la société et est capable d'affecter tous les autres aspects de l'expérience, y compris les aspects sociaux et économiques.  》 (. . .) Nous ne contestons pas la pertinence de nombreuses analyses de Dale Van Kley dont nous nous sommes efforcés de rendre compte. Mais nous ne pouvons que regretter cette prise de vue partielle d'un mouvement historique particulièrement complexe."

VERNES, JEAN-RENÉ. L'existence du monde extérieur et l'erreur du rationalisme. Sainte-Foy (Québec): Presses de l'Université Laval, 1999.

Review: F. Russo in RPL 101 (2003), 173 –176: A short but ambitious work described by the reviewer as an attempt to reconsider "la justification de l'existence du monde extérieur en partant du fait que les différentes écoles de pensée développent aujourd'hui leurs arguments sans une réelle discussion à ce sujet." Though not confined to the 17th c., this study finds its foundation in a discussion of Cartesian philosophy and dedicates a major portion to what the author defines as the "principe de Pascal-Hume."

WARREN, NICOLAS DE. How Thinking Must Also Be: Authored Skepticism and the Authorization of Knowledge in Descartes. Romance Quarterly 50.2 (2003), 149–60.

An intriguing introduction brings Brecht's sense of the inseparability between knowing (thought) and action to bear on Descartes' Meditations, particularly on its insistence that one can be certain of one's act of thinking and doubting while discounting other practices. De Warren runs with this hint and probes "not merely "what" but also "how life must also be other than thinking," ultimately stressing the performative nature of the cogito, the active nature of Descartes' doubting, and man's authorization of God as the determiner of what can be clear, distinct, and/or known at all.

WEAVER, F. ELLEN. La Contre-Réforme et les Constitutions de Port Royal. Paris: Cerf, 2002.

Review: BCLF 642 (2002), 149: "Ce sont les interprétations, remaniements et infléchissements de la règle bénédictine à Port-Royal qu'étudie en particulier F. E. Weaver, montrant les cas où ces réformes réussisent à s'implanter dans une communauté, et ceux où elles échouent."

AMELGANG, JAMES. The Flight of Icarus: Artisan Autobiography in Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.

Review: E. Campion in FR 76 (2002), 117–118: Calling attention to little-known works in the genre, Amelgang sharpens our picture of early modern daily life. Well-written and insightful. A section on Marie de l'Incarnation may be of particular interest.

AMOSSY, RUTH, ed. Images de soi dans le discours. La construction de l'ethos.

Review: K. Semsch in Archiv 239 (2002): 146–150: Wide-ranging volume considers the notion of ethos in its relation to rhetoric, argumentation and a number of disciplines. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the helpful bibliography as well as chapter 7 by Alain Viala, "L'éloquence galante, une problématique."

ANTOINE, PHILIPPE and MARIE-CHRISTINE GOMEZ-GERAUD, eds. Roman et récit de voyage. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: O. Hambursin in LR 55 (2001): 128–131: Reflections on a wide-ranging corpus from Antiquity to the present are organized into three distinct parts: "Le Monde et les fables," "Romancier et auteur de voyages," and "Raconter l'aventure et décrire l'ailleurs." The twenty-four essays are complemented by an introduction, a synthesis focusing on the indetermination of a line of demarcation between "l'écriture référentielle" and "l'écriture fictionnelle" and the decisive importance of the "imaginaire" (131). Reviewer regrets the absence of a general bibliography but appreciates this "passionnante plongée. . . dans un univers. . . qui semble receler encore bien des mystères et des plaisirs" (131).

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Ecriture ou ré-écriture? Les Apparences trompeuses: comment ne pas s'y tromper?", PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 397–409.

Examines a number of approaches concerning how the anonymous text Les Apparences trompeuses (published in 1715 and attributed to Courtilz de Sandras) can be read in relation to La Princesse de Clèves.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. La Mort du roi: Une thanatographie de Louis XIV. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag/Biblio 17, 1999.

Review: R. Racevskis in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 111–112: Book examines discourses surrounding the death of the king with respect to "the writing of history, to the conception that France constructed for itself of Louis XIV's reign, and to the prevailing definitions of kingship." Includes information on Medieval and Renaissance conceptions of the sovereign's body, as well as seventeenth-century additions to older ideas. The second part of the book points up fundamental resemblances between the writing of history and the oraison funèbre, which the author then goes on to adumbrate. Reviewer singles out for praise the chapter on the popular songs, critical of the king, that circulated after his death: "The author's ability to bring to light this kind of little-known commentary... provides new insights on the Sun King's reign and makes for fascinating reading."

ASSAF, FRANCIS and ANDREW H. WALLIS, eds. Car demeure l'amitié: Mélanges offerts à Claude Abraham. Paris-Seattle-Tübingen: Biblio 17/PFSCL, 1997.

Review: M. L. Brown in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 95–98: A "delightful" collection of articles inspired by Abraham's work. Subjects include the comédie-ballets and Molière more generally; and works of Tristan l'Hermite, Racine, Théophile, La Fontaine and Pascal.

AVERY, GILLIAN. "Written for Children: Two Eighteenth-Century English Fairy Tales." M&T 16 (2002): 1433–155.

Primary interest of this article is study of how Madame d'Aulnoy's tales influenced English writers Horace Walpole and Jane Johnson.

BARRY, CATHERINE LOUISE. Reflections of Versailles: Literature in the Garden of the Sun King. DAI 63/7 (2003), 2558.

Addresses, through the analysis of works by Scudéry, La Fontaine, and Molière, "the interplay between politics, space and literature, showing that even within absolutist spatial practice cracks appeared, undermining the edifice of the Ancien Régime that would eventually collapse one century later."

BAUSTERT, RAYMOND. La consolation érudite. Huit études sur les sources des lettres de consolation de 1600 à 1650. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, no. 141).

Two parts: Permanence de l'humanisme classique; Evolution vers la pensée chrétienne; 387 p.

BEAULIEU, JEAN-PHILIPPE & DIANE DESROSIERS-BONIN, sous la dir. de. Dans les miroirs de l'écriture: La réflexivité chez les femmes écrivains d'Ancien Régime. Montréal: U de Montréal, 1998.

Review: C. H. Winn in OeC 27.1 (2002), 253–55: ". . .une quinzaine de communications présentées dans le cadre de la troisième rencontre internationale sur les femmes écrivains d'Ancien Régime, tenue à Montréal en mai 1997. Ces contributions ont pour objet commun la problématique de la réflexivité qu'elles abordent sous des perspectives variées comme les représentations textuelles de la femme s'examinant, se regardant en train d'écrire, de se chercher, les formes complexes et multiples que prennent les mouvements réflexifs, la dimension instrumentale de la réfléxivité, sa portée, ses enjeux, etc." Trois articles consacrés à des auteurs du 17e: Marie de Gournay, Madame de Sévigné, et Mlle de Scudéry.

BELANGER, STEPHANIE. L'épée, le sacrifice et la croix: Figures éthiques du héros dans les tragédies françaises, 1560–1650. DAI 64/4 (2003), 1273.

"The aim of this dissertation is to determine why French authors from the period that goes from the Wars of Religion to the Fronde were driven to represent, as if it were a model, some aspects of the justification of war, of sacrifice and of martyrdom."

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES. Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle). Lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de Guzman d'Alfarache à Jacques le Fataliste. Genève: Droz: 2000.

Review: R. A. Francis in MLR 97.4 (2002), 968–69: ". . .the main interest is the effect of prison, or its threat, on the individual, the evolution of narrative topoi relating to prison life, and the light thrown by the prison theme on the evolution of the early novel, a genre characterized by mobility and the quest for freedom, both social and aesthetic." Treatment of the quest for liberty in the French comic novel of the 17th century in the work of Sorel and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Review: L. Hinds in E Cr 42.1 (2002), 137–139: Berchtold's focus is on "human nature as it is depicted in a series of literary characters in prison" (Hinds 137). Berchtold's methodology is an "exegetical constructivism oriented by a thematic perspective" (Berchtold qtd. by Hinds 138). Hinds appreciates the "wide range of intertexts" including key ones from Antiquity as well as from the 17th and 18th c. Part I focuses on the incarcerated and their narratives in ancient authors (Socrates in Plato and Seneca, other illustrious persons in Plutarch, Livy, Suetonius, and so forth). Parts II and III examine models from the Spanish picaresque tradition which were influential in French portrayals of the penal (Cyrano, Sorel, O.S. de Claireville, Dassoucy, and Oudin de Préfontaine). Part IV considers autobiographical and pseudo-autobiographical accounts of imprisonments. The "troubled mind of the detainee" and 18th c. protagonists occupy Part V. This fruitful "encyclopedic" study is judged "an invaluable contribution to analyses of the picaresque in Spain and in France, the 17th c. histoires comiques and memoirs, the elusive genre of pseudo-autobiography and the 18th c. novel" (Hinds 139). Lauded both for its comprehensiveness and its suggestions of future avenues for investigation.

Review: F. Reiser in RF 114 (2002): 543–545: Praiseworthy for its rich and perspicacious analyses, Berchtold's vast study (784 p.) develops in detail the evolution of the motif of incarceration in French and Spanish literature of the 17th and the 18th c. Emphasis is on the material prison, but also includes lexical and metaphorical ones. The theme is found to be as obsessive as it is catalytic for the novel's form. Attention is also given to works which are "à cheval entre référentialité et fictionalité" (545) such as mémoires (Berchtold investigates the work of Bussy Rabutin as an example).

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 89: Focusing on a neglected theme which he finds significantly in evidence, enough so to propose it as a literary sub-genre, Berchtold approaches the corpus comparatively and in a "multi-stratal" manner. Treats the ubiquity of the theme, its peculiarity in pertinent texts, and the definition of place. A complex analysis which reveals constant "intertextual dialogue," refers to antecedents in Antiquity, manifestations in Renaissance Europe and even in the present day. Important consideration of political and institutional mechanisms as they relate to the theme.

BESSIERE, JEAN, ed. Commencements du roman: Conférences du séminaire de Littérature comparée de l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: T. Bridgeman in MLR 97.4 (2002), 992: "The papers to this collection fall into three groups: historical approaches to generic definitions; analyses of early modern novels (Defoe, Cervantes, in that order); and analyses of later twentieth-century novels. Of interest in the first group are Laurence Plazenet-Hau's lively account of the reinvention of the 'roman grec' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. . ."

Review: D. Nelting in RF 114 (2002): 70–72: Volume of high quality drawn from lectures of a seminar on comparative literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle includes essays on a variety of subjects which will be of particular interest to 17th c. scholars, for example: Laurence Plazenet-Hau's "Révolution ou imposture? De l'imitation à l'invention du roman grec en France aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles", Sophie Rabau's "Il était plusieurs fois le roman ou comment les critiques narrent les commencements du roman", and Amaryll Chanady's "Le commencement du roman et la modernité."

BISELLO, LINDA. Medicina della memoria. Aforistica ed esemplarità nella scrittura barocca. Firenza: Leo S. Olschki, 1998.

Review: A. Gier in Archiv 239 (2002): 231–232: Praiseworthy for consideration of the aphorism as a formal model, not only as a theme, and for the remarkably extensive yet concise treatment. The reader will want to investigate further things only hinted at due to limits of space. Includes history of the reception of Tacitus, reflections on influence of Seneca, Cicero and others, relation between aphoristic speech and mystical speech as well as between aphorism and metaphor.

BOCH, JULIE. Les Dieux désenchantés. La fable dans la pensée française de Huet à Voltaire (1680–1760). Paris: Champion, 2002. (Les Dix-Huitièmes Siècles, 68).

Review: A. Génetiot in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003) 234–236. "J. Boch se place dans [une perspective] de l'histoire des idées et se consacre à la naissance des sciences de l'homme au XVIIe siècle, apportant ainsi sa contribution à l'histoire de l'esprit humain dans la pensée française. [. . .] Le projet. . . consiste alors à décrire la laïcisation progressive de la fable antique entre l'érudition apologétique au crépuscule de l'humanisme tardif représenté par Huet et l'avènement du rationalisme critique de Bayle et Fontenelle propédeutique à celui des Encyclopédistes. [. . .] Cette histoire des idées sur le mythe présentées dans l'ordre chronologique fait donc clairement apparaître le processus qui conduit à la démystification de la fable non sans conséquence sur le christianisme lui-même, avec en arrière-plan le passage de l'humanisme tardif au rationalisme critique des Lumières, conséquence du cartésianisme et du libre examen. Par une description minutieuse des thèses en présence, Julie Boch fait le point des connaissances et démêle un donné foisonnant dans une synthèse profonde et détaillée."

BOURNAZ, ALIA BACCAR, ed. L'Afrique au XVIIe siècle: Mythes et réalités. Actes du VIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Tunis, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, no. 149), 2003. c.421 p.

BOUSQUET, PHILIPPE. "Le suicide féminin au XVIIe siècle: un acte héroïque?" La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 183–200.

Examines the ambiguity which surrounds the literary representation of Lucretia and the extent to which suicide in literature can be viewed as a manifestation of female heroism.

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

Review: J.D. Lyons in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 109–10: Book aims at being a compendium of classical moralist thought, much by completely forgotten thinkers, from 1661 to 1688. Author defines the moralist, however, as he who gives voice to the Catholic establishment, and ignores dissident Jansenist or Protestant thought. The result is, reviewer feels, a somewhat unbalanced view of seventeenth-century French culture. "Bouvier's research took patience and will, as does reading the result."

BREDNICH, ROLF WILHELM, et al. Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Vol. 9. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998–1999.

Review: A. Gier in Archiv 239 (2002): 154–158: Continuing publication of valuable reference work founded by Kurt Ranke and the Göttingen Academy. Review lists numerous inclusions from the Middle Ages to our day as well as indications on the reception of the Middle Ages in various periods.

CALDICOTT, EDRIC & DERVAL CONROY, eds. Racine, the Power and the Pleasure. Dublin: University College Press, 2001.

Review: M-O. Sweetser in FR 76 (2003), 1004–05: The product of a 1999 conference (Dublin), the work takes as its starting point Jacques Morel's notion that "L'œuvre de Racine est un long dialogue avec Louis XIV." Includes excellent studies on the reception of Racine's work.

CARLIN, CLAIRE, and KATHLEEN WINE, eds. Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. EMF Critiques. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003.

CASTELLANI, GISELE-MATHIEU. "Marcel Raymond et Jean Rousset, maîtres-pilotes en baroquie." OeC 27.2 (2002), 153–68.

Ce numéro des Œuvres et Critiques (27.2. 2002) est consacré au travail des critiques associés à L'Ecole de Genève. Parmi les articles du volume, celui de G. Mathieu-Castellani traite en deux volets de "La critique séminale de Marcel Raymond" et "Portrait de Jean Rousset en critique amoureux."

CHAOUCHE, SABINE. L'Art du comédien: déclamation et jeu scénique en France à l'âge classique (1629–1680). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in FS 57.1 (2003). The author reconstitutes, through references to rhetoric and the oratory actio, the most likely form of theatrical declamation in the 1630s, and its subsequent transformation by "réformateurs" Molière and Racine. Though, according to the reviewer, "toute périodisation va. . . être affaire de conjecture. . . [l'ouvrage] est remarquable par son ampleur, sa clarté, la maîtrise de ses sources et le détail de son analyse."

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC and REAL OUELLET, eds. Nouvelles françaises du XVIIe siècle. Québec: l'Instant même, 2000.

Review: R. Godenne in LR 55 (2001): 170–171: Guiding principle of Charbonneau and Ouellet was to include only short texts, twenty-three selections of which eleven are from the first half of the century and which seem naturally to follow the guiding principle (the others perhaps less so, since the later years of the century saw the development of the long "nouvelle historicogalante"). Godenne appreciates the critical texts on the nouvelle and the glossary.

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC. Les Silences de l'Histoire, Les mémoires français du XVIIe siècle. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2000.

Review: J. Garapon in DSS 220 (2003), 555–556: The reviewer characterizes this work as a brilliant study of a genre that can only benefit from renewed analysis citing memoirs as "une forme littéraire riche de virtualités, conquérante face à une Histoire en manque d'historiens, peu à peu annexionniste à l'égard d'autres genres anciens ou nouveaux (la biographie, la lettre, l'oraison funèbre, le pamphlet, les ana, le roman, etc.)."

CHARNLEY, JOY. "Bayle, Dos Santos et Ludolf: l'image de l'Ethiopie au XVIIe siècle". PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 157–165.

Examines the images of "Ethiopia" in the writings of Bayle, the Dutch Ludolf, and the Portuguese Dos Santos.

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

Review: V. Desnain in MLR 97.4 (2002), 964–65: ". . .this book looks at autobiographical narratives by women and the way they are used to resist repressive ideologies of gender. It raises issues concerning the genre and women writers' strategies and innovations, as well as offering direct testimonies of the frustrations experienced by women in seventeenth-century society." Chapters on Marguerite de Valois, Mlle de Montpensier, Jeanne Guyon.

Review: L. Riggs in KRQ 49 (2002), 315–16: Presents female memoir-writers as opposing constrictive versions of gender forced upon them. Introduction sketches out feminist theories of women's textual self-fashioning, with Cholakian presenting men as having privileged access to such techniques through their schooling; "the modern self-fashioning individual. . . being created to a significant degree by reading and writing." Includes chapters on Marguerite de Valois, Montpensier, the Mancini sisters, Jeanne Guyon, and a germane concluding one on the transvestite Abbé de Choisy.

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

Review: J. Vos-Camy in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 123–25: Anthology brings together eight plays from Lesage and d'Orneval's Théâtre de la foire (1721–37), plus one more by Piron. The selection aims at giving the reader a sample of the repertory, while it focuses more specifically attention on the conflict between permanent theaters and those of the foire. A glossary, and explanatory notes, make the collection accessible to a broad audience.

CONROY, DERVAL. "Mapping Gender Transgressions? Representations of the Warrior Woman in Seventeenth-Century Tragedy (1642–1660)." La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 243–254.

Argues that the ambivalent representation of Joan of Arc, Zenobia and Semiramis in six tragedies (by d'Aubignac, Benserade? / La Mesnardière?, Magnon, Gilbert and Desfontaines) simultaneously upholds and subverts traditional gender constructions.

CRONK, NICHOLAS. "Reading La Fontaine and Writing Literary History in the Eighteenth Century: The Problem of Voltaire." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.287–314.

CROWLEY, MARTIN, ed. Dying Words: The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers. Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 99: Addresses "impostures against death" as expressed by writers. Reviewer singles out for praise Henry Philips's essay on Molière which 17th c. scholars will find illuminating. Reviewer concludes that "authorial intention is not dead but it is too unfashionable to say so."

DAGEN, JEAN, ed. Entre Epicure et Vauvenargues. Principes et formes de la pensée morale. Paris: Champion, 1999 (Moralia I) and La Morale des moralistes. Paris: Champion, 1999 (Moralia II).

Review: H. Sanders in RF 114 (2002): 392–394: Reviewer finds a lack of interest in foreign research in vol. 1 and the essays of vol. 2 to be somewhat uneven in quality. In the first volume, 17th c. specialists will welcome examinations of Gassendi and the sign, Nicole's moral thought and Fontenelle and the lyric tragedy. In volume two, the reviewer singles out for praise C. Rosso's "Prolégomènes à un portrait du moraliste," J. Mesnard's "L'âge des moralistes et la fin du Cosmos," E. Bury's "Humanisme et anti-humanisme. . ." and M. Delon's "De La Rochefoucauld à Sade."

DANDREY, PATRICK et GEORGES FORESTIER, eds. L'Illusion au XVIIe siècle (Littératures classiques, 44) Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: J.-C. Vuillemin in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 532–538. "A travers ses 17 contributions réparties en trois catégories perméables: Fiction et illusion, Illusion et réalité au théâtre, Illusion et vérité, le présent numéro propose un réflexion souvent neuve et généralement érudite touchant de multiples facettes de l'illusion." The introduction is by G. Forestier and articles are by E. Hénin, Ch. Biet, C. Guillot, P. Choné, J.-P. van Elslande, N. Courtès, J.-Ph. Grosperrin, G. Revaz, J. Lyons, E. Marpeau, Ch. Couderc, J.-Y. Vialleton, L. Thirouin, F. Hallyn, B. Guion, N. Hammond and F. Briot.

DE COURCELLES, DOMINIQUE, ed. Littérature et exotisme, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Ecole des chartes, Etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des chartes no.1, 1997.

Review: S. Junod in BHR 64.3 (2002), 741–44: "Les quatre interventions que réunit ce fascicule lisent dans le texte littéraire l'inscription du schèma de l'Ici et de l'Ailleurs, du Moi et de l'Autre, par le biais de l'exotisme . . . [qui] met en oeuvre des mécanismes constitutifs du fait littéraire tels que l'imitation, la symbolique, l'herméneutique, la théâtralité." Voir l'article de Michèle Longino, "Politique et théâtre au XVIIe siècle: Les Français en Orient et l'exotisme du Cid."

DENIS, DELPHINE. Le Parnasse galant: institution d'une catégorie littéraire au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: A Viala in FS 57.2 (2003). In this very favorable review, Denis' study of gallantry's blossom in France, after arriving from Italy and Spain, is "exemplaire." This enterprise goes beyond the surface into the details of lesser-known works by Voiture, Sorel, Sarasin, Scudéry, Pellison. If it is regrettable that work's scope leave's out authors such as La Fontaine, the research and bibliographic scholarship it contains are "un outil de travail précieux." Most of all, the work's conclusion constitutes "cinq pages magistrales de synthèse du rôle social et historique de la littérature comme procès de civilité."

DILS, ANN and ANN COOPER-ALBRIGHT, eds. Moving History / Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 2001.

Review: N. Jackson in TJ 55 (2003), 551–52. Forty-five articles, mostly from past fifteen years. Focus mainly American, but does contain articles on early European court dance.

D'OREYE DE LANTREMANGE, HELENE M. La représentation de la gloire féminine dans la tragédie française de la première moitié du XVIIème siècle: 'Crisante' de Jean Rotrou et 'La Mariane' de François de Tristan L'Hermite. DAI 63/12 (2003), 4330.

Examines "the way in which the (masculine) dramatic text constructs, or allows the spectator to construct, the representation of feminine glory, especially through the phenomenon of double theatrical communication."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, ed. Les Méditerranées au XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2002 (Biblio 17, 137).

Review: C. Rizza in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 252–253: Reviewer praises Dotoli's introduction for its verve and clarity, and for the way in which its evokes the diversity central to the notion of les Méditerranées. "On a affaire, en effet, à la géographie aussi bien qu'à la littérature; il y a une fonction symbolique de la mer en général et de la Méditerranée en particulier qui se rattache à une tradition culturelle, le plus souvent liée aux mythes de la civilisation gréco-latine comme l'a bien montré A. Viala; parfois il s'agit, par contre, du problème concret des rapports politiques et économiques que la France entretient avec l'Orient. Passé et présent, littérature et histoire, réalité et imagination sont donc également concernés." While literary themes dominate, it is articles outside the literary realm which most innovate: "si on sort du domaine littéraire strictement littéraire, on saisit une sorte d'évolution et des perspectives nouvelles s'ouvrent." Attention is brought in this regard to articles by B. Bray, Ph. Desan, and S. Poli. In sum, "Grâce à l'ampleur de l'enquête que l'ensemble des études recueillies dans ce volume offre, à la nouveauté du point de vue choisi et à l'excellent niveau scientifique des communications, on a été amené à identifier et à mettre en valeur plusieurs aspects jusqu'à présent négligés ou mal connus de la civilisation française du XVIIe siècle et à faire ressortir l'image que les intellectuels français se faisaient à l'époque des peuples et des pays du bord de la Méditerranée."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI, VITO CASTIGLIONE MINISCHETTI, PAOLA PLACELLA SOMMELLA et VALERIA POMPEJANO. Les Traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle. Fasano-Paris: Schena-Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: C. Nédélec in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 250–251. "Il faut saluer l'entreprise bibliographique engagée par G. Dotoli: ce volume est le premier d'une série consacrée au répertoire des traductions de l'italien en français, du XVIe au XXe siècle. [. . .] L'essentiel (p. 139–384) est constitué par le 《 Répertoire des traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle 》 (par ordre alphabétique des auteurs italiens), qui adopte le fort intelligent principe de ne pas séparer les 《 belles 》 lettres des 《 bonnes 》 lettres. Il est accompagné des annexes indispensables (une 《 Bibliographie de l'italianisme en France au XVIIe siècle 》,. . . un index des auteurs et des traducteurs,. . . une bibliographie des sources bibliographiques. Il faut y ajouter, outre l'introduction d'ensemble de G. Dotoli, trois introductions, de chacun des responsables d'une 《 tranche 》 chronologique, analysant brièvement les principales données de son corpus." Reviewer also highlights how "se font jour ici de nouvelles pistes d'études".

ELMARSAFY, ZIAD. The Histrionic Sensibility: Theatricality and Identity from Corneille to Rousseau. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001 (Biblio 17), 124.

Review: H. L. Harrison in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 255–257. "This insightful book explores the construction of identity through role-playing in early modern drama and narrative. Authors treated include the two Corneilles, Molière, Marivaux, Crébillon fils and Rousseau. The identities at stake are primarily those of the major characters, but as the inclusion of Rousseau suggests, Elmarsafy also suggests ways in which authors create their own identities through writing. He never loses sight, moreover, of the implications that the histrionic construction of identity has for the society at large." The reviewer praises the inclusion of a chapter on Thomas Corneille, and comments that although some of the "summaries of the plays contain slight inaccuracies. . . this chapter offers some of the most intelligent analysis to date of Thomas Corneille's plays." On the whole "Elmarsafy has given us both an excellent literary study and a genealogy of the modern self. He makes excellent use of prior research without being dominated by any of his predecessors. This is a very fine book, which deserves a place in the library of any scholar of seventeenth-or eighteenth-century France."

EMELINA, JEAN. "Les 《 Classiques 》 sont-ils heureux ou malheureux?" RHLF 102.4 (2002), 633–36.

Responds to an earlier article by Jean Rohou (RHLF 101.6) which had been critical of Emelina's previous attempt to show the "happy" side of classicism. Maintains that Rohou's tragic vision unaccountably discounts works that are not glum.

FAUDENAY, ALAIN. Le Clair et l'obscur à l'âge classique. Geneva: Slatkine, 2001.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 76 (2003), 810–11: Though somewhat imposing and intimidating, the work is also structured for easy consultation. Offers a "synthèse solide et pertinente entre langue, pensée et culture." Avoids presenting authors' and artists' search for clarity as a mark of their classicism, but instead treats classical and baroque tendencies as co-existent with respect to this point. Thoughtfully probes the notion that clarity must emerge from darkness.

FRAISSE, LUC. "La littérature du XVIIe siècle chez les fondateurs de l'histoire littéraire." DSS 218 (2003), 3–26.

Fraisse initiates a lengthy discussion as to the origins and evolution of literary history and criticism, examining a variety of schools of thought as they pertain to the question at the crux of his investigation: "En quoi la littérature française du XVIIe siècle offre-t-elle des ressources originales à une histoire littéraire qui entend constituer ses méthodes au fil de ses découvertes?"

FRANCILLON, ROGER. Jean Rousset ou la passion de la lecture. Genève: Zoé, 2001.

Review: A. Pizzorusso in OeC 27.2 (2002), 300–03: Volume consacré à Jean Rousset, à sa vie et surtout à son travail critique sur la littérature baroque en France.

FRANK, JOSEPH. Haman in Paris. New Republic (September 8 and 15 2003), 25–29.

Frank reflects on the politico-cultural significance of the Comédie Française's recent staging of Racine's Esther, a play which "attacks. . . anti-Semitic accusations" like "no other great classical work in any other European literature" (29). Frank feels that the production could stand as a state response to recent criticism of France's persistent anti-Semitism, yet he also remarks that the nation's penchant for period-situating interpretation may lead many to read Esther's Jewish characters as symbols for persecuted 17th-century Protestants or Jansenists. Contains an admirable synopsis of the play and its pertinent context.

FRANKO, MARK. "Majestic Drag: Monarchical Performativity and the King's Body Theatrical." TDR 178 (Summer, 2003), 71–87.

Uses the 1617 performance of La Déliverance de Renard to argue that the construction of the unified sovereign subject is not always the inevitable result of theatrical performativity. "Dance and music. . . are actually the formally subversive means through which the performance sustains the ambiguity and contradictions of personal sovereignty" (84).

FREY, BRIGITTE. Die Académie Française und ihre Stellung zu anderen Sprachpflegeinstitutionen. Bonn: Romanisticher Verlag, 2000.

Review: E. U. Große in RF 114 (2002): 357–359: Concentrates on the role and function of the French Academy in today's world, comparing it with other institutions of similar mission. Includes a chapter on the inception of the Academy. Reviewer praises Frey's use of primary sources and, for the modern era, eyewitness accounts and interviews.

Review: G. Holtus in ZRP 118 (2002): 756: Praised for its detail and informative quality, Frey's work examines the Académie française in relation to other institutions which foster the mother tongue. 17th c. specialists will appreciate the first chapter which includes reflections on both the Academy's inception and its role in the Grand Siècle.

FUMAROLI, MARC. De Montaigne à La Fontaine. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

Review: O. Mongin in Esprit (mars–avril 2002), 373: "Dans cette version d'un ouvrage initialement édité chez Herman, Marc Fumaroli regroupe de textes conscrés à des auteurs (Montaigne, Retz, Perrault, La Fontaine), à des genres (la prose d'Etat, les mémoires), au Malade imaginaire et à l'art de la conversation féminine."

GANIM, RUSSELL. "Through the Talking Glass: Translucence and Translation in the Condé Museum's Psyche Gallery." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.53–90.

GANNIER, ODILE. La Littérature de voyage. Paris: Ellipses Editions Marketing, 2001.

Review: O. Hambursin in LR 55 (2001): 127–128: Generally praiseworthy "vue d'ensemble" which includes reflections on the construction of an "imaginaire collectif," the texts themselves, the form, and the relation between reader and narrator. The reader of this ambitious but necessarily limited (128 p.) volume "deviendra inévitablement avide de lectures et entreprendra . . . de nouveaux voyages littéraires" (Hambursin 128).

GARCIA-HERNANDEZ, B. Gemelos y sosias. La comedia de doble en Plauto, Shakespeare y Molière. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2001.

Review: J.-Cl. Polet in ECl 70 (2002), 289–290: "Voilà un travail de littérature comparée comme il y en a trop peu," qui tient compte de toutes les circonstances, historiques et autres, de la composition des textes dont il est question. Les dix-septiémistes francophones s'intéresseront surtout au traitement de l'Amphitryon de Molière, dont l'analyse est éclairée par Les Sosies de Rotrou.

GINGER, ANDREW et al. Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 114: Found to be a "lively and entertaining" volume, it is the outcome of the 1999 conference "Don Juan: the Rebel Tamed," held at the University of Edinburgh. Reviewer would have appreciated broader coverage on French representations but praises the valuable bibliography and thorough index.

GLIDDEN, PETER JOSEPH. From Haute Couture to Pret-à-porter: The (Un)dressing of Women's Roles in Early Modern French Theater, 1552–1694. DAI 64/4 (2003), 1274.

"This dissertation explores the representations of femininity on the French stage between 1550–1694 as fabrications and insists on their textile nature as exemplified by the suturing of word (text) and costume (textus) to a female body: the actress."

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH C. Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647–1720. Burlington: Ashgate, 2001.

Review: C. Simonin in FS 56.4 (2002). This very laudable work focuses on autobiographical writings of Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges, Jeanne Guyon as well as Marie and Hortense Mancini and Madame de Villedieu. Goldsmith "éclaire le passage de l'écriture privée à l'auctorat paradoxalement revendiqué et nié à la fois." The author "traite en profondeur tous le problèmes posés par par la publication et la réception."

GOODKIN, RICHARD. Birth Marks. The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.

Review: J. Peters in KRQ 49 (2002), 316–17: Situates the conflict present in French classical drama between inherited privilege and individual merit in the context of an emerging capitalism that challenged the medieval system of primogeniture. Explores the writerly sibling rivalry between Pierre and Thomas Corneille, then shifts to trace the impact it bore upon Racine, who is said to valorize discontinuity, the difference of individual identity, and younger brothers' fitness to rule. Goodkin sees these Racinian characteristics as classical tragedy come to fruition. Review praises his careful, non-categorical analytic technique.

GRAY, FLOYD. Gender, Rhetoric and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 2000.

Review: R. Salminen in LR 55 (2001): 143–145: Although the focus of this volume is mainly the 16th c., its five chapters ("Discourses of misogyny," "Irony and the sexual other," "Anonymity and the poetics of regendering," "The women in Montaigne's life," and "Sexual Marginality") will prove highly useful to 17th c. scholars, in particular those who study relationships and transitions between periods. Praised for its superb erudition, breadth, frequent use of extracts from primary sources, and actuality.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 38 (2002): 109: Found "far-reaching and stimulating", this masterful volume on the Renaissance questions assertions and explodes myths as it treats formal rhetoric. Praised for its "judicious use of "historical fact" and "close textual analysis."

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

Review: I. Zinguer in RF 114 (2002): 76–77: Assesses the nature and value, for the baroque era, of a profusion of writings on alchemy. Of particular usefulness for scholars of Béroalde de Verville and Camus, among others. Exemplary bibliography of primary sources.

GRISE, CATHERINE M., ed. Le Conte en vers gaillard: de Jean de La Fontaine à Guillaume Apollinaire. Ottawa-Toronto-New York: Legas, 2000.

Review: J. Barchilon in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 273–274: "Le mérite principal de cette anthologie, c'est d'avoir réuni des contes en vers difficiles à trouver. . ., l'ensemble avec une introduction intéressante et tout l'appareil critique nécessaire et suffisant. Ce sont des contes en vers à sujets licencieux séletionnés parmi 33 auteurs. [. . .] Comme Catherine Grisé l'explique clairement, les contes en vers d'après La Fontaine ressemblent à ceux du célèbre fabuliste, mais ils sont encore autre chose. C'est pourquoi notre éditeur les distingue en les appelant contes en vers gaillards. . . . [N]on seulement un ouvrage pour érudits et spécialistes, mais principalement une collection de référence pour toutes les bibliothèques universitaires."

GRODEK, ELZBIETA, ed. Ecriture de la ruse. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: U. Schulz-Buschhaus in ZRP 118 (2002): 621–626: Welcome volume, the work of SATOR, focuses on "la ruse" as "topoi de régie" and at the level of writing as "topoi thématiques" (621). Studies focus on several periods. 17th c. specialists will appreciate essays by the following: Max Vernet on "Narrer . . . la ruse," Chaira Rolla on "Les romanciers 'rusés' de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle", Nadia Arbach on "L'Amour et la tromperie: la ruse dans l'Astrée", Daniel Maher on "Monsieur ma femme?? Le travestissement au XVIIe siècle" and Donna Kuizenga on "Les Ruses du roman épistolaire . . .". Singled out for special praise is the semantic treatment by Fabienne Baider and Karen Gusto, "'Ruser pour séduire' ou 'ruser pour violer'? La problématique de la dénomination dans Toposator."

GROVE, LAURENCE, Emblematics and Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine and Perrault. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2000 (EMF Critiques).

Review: M. J. Giordano in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 546–551. "This solid and erudite investigation is a most welcome contribution to literary emblem studies that will be of great interest to literary critics and cultural historians of seventeenth-century France. In the Introduction, the author makes precise his objective that the book is "a reconsideration of our attitude towards major writings of the seventeenth century in the light of information that recently had been unavailable or grossly neglected" (1). Therefore, in terms of historiography, Grove views his research on French literature as a development of relatively recent scholarship that has already provided a firm foundation for emblem studies. These include histories of the emblem, critical editions, and comprehensive biographies of primary and secondary sources by Alison Saunders, Alison Adams, Stephen Rawles, Daniel Russell, and the author himself. Grove's book is a gold mine of emblematic archeology. Chapter II titled "Emblematics in Seventeenth-Century France" is particularly rich in providing an overview of the history of the emblem and device and the multifarious uses to which they were put." The reviewer then discusses each chapter before concluding "Grove's study is original scholarship built on a solid foundation of research, much of it archival, that in many ways breaks ground in the history and historiography of Le Grand Siècle. Grove's erudition is painstaking and punctilious, never arid, since he constantly, almost intuitively, taps the sap of the seventeenth-century high culture in matters big and small. In the larger context, Grove is particularly strong in demonstrating the continuities of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical thought, but above all, he is most instructive in teaching the reader a rare lesson on visual literacy".

Review: A. Saunders in FS 57.2 (2003). Grove seeks to broaden the understanding of the emblem's influence on the period's literature. This is a "thought-provoking evaluation of familiar material. . . viewed from a less familiar perspective." Though the book "is generously illustrated," in the reviewer's words, "the quality of the reproductions is surprisingly poor." In spite of the weaknesses in the bibliography and index, the text retains "intellectual value" and "persuasively urges a re-evaluation of seventeenth-century writing. . . in the context of an all-permeating emblematic mentality."

GROVE, LAURENCE and DANIEL RUSSELL. The French Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Geneva: Droz, 2000.

Review: D. Cowling in FS 57.2 (2003). An "immaculately presented and commendably exhaustive bibliography." The reviewer also praises the authors' desire to "provide a helpfully complete picture of the field," even if this leads to some inevitable repetitions. Contains useful narrative of the evolution of the French emblem field. According to the reviewer: "Invaluable" to specialists and "of considerable usefulness to those with a more general interest in the field."

HAFFEMAYER, STEPHANE. L'Information dans la France du XVIIe siècle. La Gazette de Renaudot de 1647 à 1663. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

Review: P. Rétat in DSS 220 (2003), 564–565: The reviewer, whose own work on the Gazette is well-known, praises Haffemayer for undertaking such an extensive study of a truly unwieldy source. "La Gazette permet de dessiner les contours et les lignes de force d'une 《 géographie de l'information 》, d'un espace politique où s'émettent et se diffusent les nouvelles, avec ses capitales dont la production est autonome et ses lieux de transfert et d'échange, et de mesurer le temps de transmission de l'information dans cet espace complexe."

HAMMERBECK, DAVID WILLIAM. Orientalism, Islam and the Other in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Theatre. DAI 63/10 (2003), 3424.

Examines works by Tristan L'Hermite, Racine, Voltaire, and Favart, and "determine[s] whether these four plays participate in a trans-historical Orientalism, or if each play has its own strategic location which presents a particular Oriental Other, a location which also often critiques French culture and politics."

HARRIES, ELIZABETH WANNING. Twice Upon a Time. Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

Review: K. Seago in M&T 16 (2002): 304–307: A work in two parts: the first involves a new approach to the history of the fairy tale with a special focus on the 17th-century French conteuses; the second looks at reframing and transliteration in "contemporary revisionist" fairy tales. Seago: "this is a highly readable work which engages with important questions in feminist literary criticism and fairy-tale research and offers a valuable and well-argued rereading of the history of the fairy tale."

HODGSON, RICHARD G., ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle: Actes du Colloque de Vancouver, U. of British Columbia, 5–7 October 2000. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, no. 138), 430 p.

HOGG, CHLOE ALICE. Novel Histories and Historical Novels in France, 1654–1700. DAI 63/5 (2002), 1852.

Examines how, "[i]n an absolutist regime, Scudéry, Villedieu, Lafayette, D'Aulnoy and La Force wielded the privileges of history and fiction to create a complex play of truth, speculation and imagination, rendering novelistic discourse capable of sustaining a variety of interpretations."

HOWE, ALAN, Le Théâtre professionnel à Paris (1600–1649). Documents du Minutier central des notaires de Paris. Paris: Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, 2002.

Review: G. Spielmann in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 551–553. "Le qualificatif de 《 professionnel 》 donne la clef de ce précieux ouvrage où Alan Howe, assisté de Madeleine Jurgens, a entrepris d'analyser quelque trois cents actes notariés relatifs à la vie des troupes de théâtre ayant exercé à Paris dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Face à la prédominance de la recherche philologique chère aux littéraires, ainsi que de l'histoire biographique des auteurs, l'étude de la vie théâtrale dans ses aspects les plus pratiques a longtemps fait figure de parent pauvre, ce qu'accentuait encore le manque de documents. Le dépouillement systématique du fonds du minutier central des notaires de Paris qu'à effectué Howe nous ouvre l'accès à un riche gisement de matière première encore largement inexploité. En fait, c'est de trois livres en un qu'il s'agit ici, puisque ce volume comporte trois parties distinctes, outre les diverses pièces liminaires: une analyse narrative des documents examinés (pp.1–204), divisée en sept chapitres organisés en tranches chronologiques; 453 notules descriptives pour chacun des actes notariés du minutier entièrement ou partiellement relatifs à la vie théâtrale (p. 207–341); à quoi s'ajoutent vingt transcriptions intégrales effectuées par deux archivistes professionnels, Andrée Chauleur et Pierre-Yves Louis (pp.343–405). L'ouvrage est complété par une bibliographie et surtout par un index nominum où chaque personne est identifiée par sa qualité ou sa profession, précision souvent fort instructive. [. . .] Tous ceux et celles qui travaillent sur le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle se doivent d'ajouter à leur bibliothèque cet ouvrage de référence auquel on ne peut guère adresser de critique. Si je peux toutefois me permettre d'exprimer un regret, c'est celui de ne pas pouvoir disposer d'une présentation synthétique des données qui sont présentées chronologiquement dans la première section: il est parfois difficile de suivre d'un chapitre à l'autre révolution de tel individu ou de telle troupe, d'autant plus malaisés à cerner que les patronymes sont fréquemment sujets à variation. [. . .] Il nous faut je crois remercier Alan Howe et ceux qui l'ont aidé dans sa tache d'avoir entrepris ce travail énorme et minutieux dont les historiens du théâtre vont tirer bénéfice pour de longues années à venir."

HUELIN, SCOTT GOWER. Spiritual Reading: Tropology, Discernment, and Early Modern European Literature. DAI 63/7 (2003), 2534.

"[E]xamine[s] the morally formative reading practices displayed in and demanded by" Racine, Shakespeare and Milton; study reflects "exegetically, historically, hermeneutically, and theologically upon the fact that encounters with texts change people's lives."

IPPOLITO, CHRISTOPHER. "Ecrire, régner, (se) faire admirer: dérives exhibitionnistes au Grand Siècle?" CdDS 8.2 (2003), 1–8.

Examines, in Corneille, Descartes, and Saint-Simon, the ambiguity of the word "admiration," caught between "surprise" and "estime," "éblouissement" and "distance réflexive."

JONES, CHARLOTTE REBECCA. L'esprit romanesque: Fiction, Epistemology, and Gender in France and England, 1641–1688. DAI 64/3 (2003), 892.

"This dissertation examines both fictional and theoretical texts in France and England between 1641 and 1688 that express ideas about the function and value of prose fiction. I argue that the epistemological value of fiction was under revision during the period, and that this becomes clear when fiction and its theoretical elaborations are read for their engagement with both historical and natural philosophical discourse. " Includes discussion of Scudéry, Lafayette, and Huet.

JONES, CHRISTINE. "Phèdre meets the transvestite heroine: fantastic variations on classical themes." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 379–396.

Examines the representation of dowager queens in Racine's Phèdre and d'Aulnoy's tale Belle-Belle, ou le chevalier Fortuné (1698), suggesting that "d'Aulnoy's fin-de-siècle vision of the femme forte. . . frees her from the masculinizing forces of classical ideology."

JONES, CHRISTINE. "The Poetics of Enchantment (1690–1715)." M&T 17 (2003): 55–74.

Continues the work of Gabrielle Verdier and Elizabeth Wanning Harries on woman fairy tale writers and why they deliberately chose this genre. Argues that fairy tales allowed women to produce literature whose primary aesthetic principle was "frivolity," that is, pure entertainment for readers and writers alike, as opposed to an enterprise of "meaning and monument." Jones rereads prefaces and images that scholars have used to demonstrate the woman teller's literarity to argue rather for her 'frivolity,' a word the women themselves used to describe their writing." (abstract) To illustrate her argument, Jones concentrates on the tales of d'Aulnoy, Murat and L'Héritier

JUDOVITZ, DALIA. The Culture of the Body: Geneaolgies of Modernity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Review: J. Harris in FS 57.2 (2003): According to the reviewer, this book's novel approach to figurations of body is both "interesting and revealing," especially in "lucid" chapters on Descartes. Sometimes the author uses too many "generalizing labels" and treats subject unequally—the chapter on Corneille "appears to be a bit of an afterthought." However, "[t]he work as a whole. . .has its moments, particularly the cogent analyses of philosophical texts."

JULLIARD, SUZANNE, ed. Anthologie de la poésie française. Paris: Fallois, n.d.

Review: P. Canavaggio in RDM (février 2003), 191: "Le talent de Suzanne Julliard est de raviver le souffle et les couleurs qui ont animé la poésie. . ." Parmi les poètes du Grand Siècle: Boileau, Corneille, Racine.

KELLER, EDWIGE and THERESE LASSALLE, eds. Histoire et narrativité. L'Europe en représentation dans la littérature du XVIIe diècle. PU de Lyon, 1999.

Review: J.-M. Hannick in LR 55 (2001): 178: Ten essays focus on the place of history in fictional literature of the Grand Siècle. Reflections on Camus, Mlle de Scudéry, Saint-Réal, Dassoucy, La Fayette and Fénelon. Reviewer notes the absence of a conclusion and is unsure about the coherence and value of the volume for historians or students of literature. Individual essays such as that by Dominique Bertrand demonstrate unusual applications of history (in Dassoucy) or, in the case of Thérèse Lassalle's article on La Princesse de Clèves, the absence of certain historical characters.

LECOQ, ANNE-MARIE, ed. La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle, précédé de "Les abeilles et les araignées", essai de Marc Fumaroli et suivi d'une postface sur "Une ancienne querelle" par Jean-Robert Armogathe. Paris: Gallimard, 2001.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 228–229: Praiseworthy and vast anthology of texts on the subject (23 French authors of 17th and early 18th c. along with others from England, Germany, and Italy). Fumaroli's preface similarly sketches a broad European perspective while Armogathe's essay extends the phenomenon over time in exceedingly "nourishing" pages. Collinet would have preferred longer extracts, but praises Lecoq for this highly useful reference work, complete with chronology and bibliography.

Review: C. Farcet in Esprit (novembre 2001), 223–24: "Précédé d'un essai de Marc Fumaroli, qui retrace l'histoire de la Querelle sur trois siècles, de l'Italie à la France, cet ouvrage, extrêmement complet, réunit à la fois des textes qui, de 1634 à 1761, ont alimenté la célèbre dispute et de longs commentaires, puisqu'il s'achève aussi par la postface de Jean-Robert Armogathe sur la notion de modernité depuis l'Antiquité."

LE HIR, MARIE-PIERRE and DANA STRAND, eds. French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads, Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 2000.

Review: D. D. Fisher in FrF 27.1 (2002), 158–160: Important and of general interest for the future of French studies, this volume is judged "a valuable resource for students and scholars." Part I focuses on "rethinking the discipline" and Part II on "the negotiation of post-colonial identities" (158).

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 109: Topics are judged "pertinent" and representative of discussions on culture, theory and language teaching. A second section, somewhat uneven, focuses on the postcolonial. Includes individual bibliographies and an index. Found "useful" and "thought-provoking."

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Speculum de l'autre femme: les avatars d'Iphis et Iante (Ovide) au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 365–377.

Examines the treatment of the Iphis and Iante fable by N. Renouard, Du Ryer, T. Corneille, Camus and Benserade among others. Argues that 'Miroir dans lequel la société a joué ses fantasmes et ses anxiétés, cette fable est une des allégories par lesquelles l'hétérosexualité s'est affirmée."

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Voiles de sang et amazones de Satan: la querelle des nudités de gorge". La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 255–267.

Examines the representation of the 'Sein diabolisé" in a wide range of writings which is significant "non seulement parce que le corps féminin y est essentialisé. . . mais aussi parce qu'y sont révélées bien des tensions particulières à une culture où l'Œil est à la fois l'agent double du péché de concupiscence et d'une curiosité scientifique récemment réhabilitée, ainsi que l'auxiliaire obligé d'un régime lui-même enclin au spectaculaire, et qui raffinait des techniques de surveillance pour contrôler, entre autres, la sexualité."

LE MENTHEOUR, RUDY. Baroque et Classicisme. Anthologie. GF Flammarion (Étonnants classiques): Paris, 2003.

Review: E. Pieller in QL 861 (du 16 au 31 septembre 2003), 26: "Vieux débat: le XVIIe siècle français est-il majoritairement 'classique', le 'baroque' est-il essentiellement réservé à l'Espagne, ou plutôt, est-il peu compatible avec 'l'esprit national'?...Quels sont les rapports du 'classicisme' et du centralisme monarchique? Le 'baroque' a-t-il été étouffé, marginalisé, ou sous-estimé? etc. Oui, vieux débat mais assez excitant. Rudy Le Menthéour fait le point avec simplicité, et rigueur. (...) Les caractéristiques des deux registres se brouillent souvent, et, sans vouloir neutraliser les différences, l'anthologie incite à une lecture décapée assez stimulante."

LONGINO, MICHELE. Orientalism in French Classical Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: S. R. Baker in SCN 60 (2002) 236–240: Described by the reviewer as an "indispensable addition" to the study of seventeenth-century drama and French history, Longino undertakes a remarkable examination of seven canonical plays (Médée, Le Cid, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Tite et Bérénice, Bérénice, Bajazet, and Mithridate) within the rich context of cultural exchange between France and the Ottoman Empire. Longino's framework engages Edward Said's "concept of 'Orientalism'" while lending "equal importance" to "the reconstruction of the context of [the] plays, as can be done by reference to contemporary documents of relevance to the scripts and to their audiences' current preoccupations."

Review: D. Hammerbeck in TJ 55 (2003), 565–66. Uses seven plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine to examine French conceptualization of the Ottoman Empire. Plays seen as reflexive readings of individual and collective identity. Bajazet and Mithridate become rehearsals for colonization of the Levant. Longino supports her analyses with historically pertinent texts, such as letters and travelogues, but reviewer regrets that she did not include plays by non-canonical authors. Reviewer praises well-supported and engaging analyses.

Review: J. Iverson in Choice 39 (2002), 1965: Brings forth noteworthy considerations of French-Ottoman relations during the 17th century, exploring the perceived binary between the French and the eastern "other." Longino nuances the French perspective by examining how a variety of socio-economic sectors experienced the Mediterranean basin. The work culminates in an application of these reflections to an (enriched) understanding of Racine, Corneille, and Molière.

Review: K. A. Jensen in E Cr 42.2 (2002), 105–106: Praised for its careful research and elegant writing, Longino's study focuses on "seven canonical plays which have never been studied together before," analyzing them along with 17th c. documents such as letters, histories, memoirs and travel accounts — all illustrating "France's relations with the Ottoman Empire" (Jensen 106). Convincingly demonstrates that the Orientalism of Médée, Le Cid, Tite et Bérénice, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Bérénice, Bajazet and Mithridate "provided the ideological underpinning necessary to justify eventual French hegemony and dominion over its colonial territories" (Longino 7).

Review: H. Phillips in FS 57.4 (2003). "Longino's book," according to the reviewer, "is an example of a developing form of criticism, looking to anthropology and post-colonial readings for its methodological roots." Such a movement away from canonical readings is helpful both in understanding how classical drama may have been seen and understood by contemporary audiences. The reviewer emphasizes that Longino's work contains "fascinating historical detail" and "convincing arguments."

LYONS, JOHN D. and WELCH, CARA. Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 14–16 mars 2002. Tübingen: Gunter Narr (Biblio 17, no. 149), 2003.

MACE, STEPHANE, L'Eden perdu. La pastorale dans la poésie française de l'âge baroque. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002 (Lumière classique, 35).

Review: J. Conroy in FS 57.4 (2003). According to this very positive review, Macé's work is authoritative and "fills a critical gap" in non-dramatic pastoral poetry. A very complete study, it situates the genre historically, beginning with its origins, then follows a central thesis of the pastoral's potential "to provide a locus for conflicting ideological forces." The author, in the reviewers words, "expertly shows how beyond the prettiness and pretence lies poetry which is often more profound than it wishes."

Review: A. Niderst in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 279–280. "Le travail de Stéphane Macé est d'une netteté et d'une élegance remarquables. [. . .] Il. . . étudie successivement les rapports de la pastorale et du théâtre (《 La prise de parole 》), de la pastorale et de la poésie descriptive (Solitudes, Promenades), enfin de la pastorale et des genres qui peuvent lui être limitrophes — la poésie religieuse et la poésie officielle. Puis il la situe dans 《 la crise de l'âge baroque 》. Il lui semble qu'on peut y discerner une 《 fuite dans l'origine 》, un grand désenchantement, qui permet de parler de 《 l'Arcadie endeuillée 》, enfin un style ambigu dans sa simplicité, qui donne des textes ouverts et apparemment inachevés. Cette étude, méthodiquement menée, est fort agréable à lire." However, reviewer regrets that the notion of 'l'âge baroque' was not more precisely defined, difficult as this may be, and that reference was not made to La Fontaine's Adonis and Fontenelle's Discours sur la nature de l'églogue.

MAINIL, JEAN. Madame d'Aulnoy et le rire des fées: essai sur la subversion féerique et le merveilleux comique sous l'Ancien Régime. Paris: Kimé, 2001.

Review: A. Duggan in M&T 17 (2003): 166–169: Studies the "frame narratives" of Mme d'Aulnoy's tales to show that the message of each tale must be sought in the context of the ironic relationship between the frame narrative and the tale itself. Duggan seeks to clarify or dispute certain points and notes that the work sometimes lacks "smooth development," On the whole, however, Duggan finds the arguments "compelling and important to further research in fairy-tale studies."

MARCHAL, ROGER, ed. Vie des salons et activités littéraires de Marguerite de Valois à Mme de Staël. Actes du colloque international de Nancy (6–8 octobre 1999). Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2001.

Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 270 (avril–juin 2003), 197–98: Copious volume containing introductory remarks, papers given in six sessions, and conclusions of this conference that explored the culture of early-modern literary milieux. Papers presented according to session themes explore "avec des bonheurs inégaux ces conditions (à prendre en tous les sens) de la Littérature," entitled: 1. "Les Milieux et l'histoire littéraire" 2. "Salons et Lumières" 3. "Les Salons Féminins" 4. "Relations" 5. "Aspects régionaux" and 6. "Genres." Volume concludes with two indexes.

MATHIEU-CASTELLANI, GISELE, ed. Plaisir de l'épopée. Saint-Denis: Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2000.

Review: P. Verelst in LR 55 (2001): 131–134: Central theme of this volume of collected essays is "l'agrément, ou l'agréable, le bonheur d'écrire ou de lire une épopée" (131). Praised for its "présentation soignée" and its coherence (134), the work is divided into four sections: "Le Rire de l'épopée," "L'imaginaire de l'espace épique" (17th c. scholars will appreciate here the essay on causes of the failure of the epic in the 17th c.), "Les avatars de l'épique et la problématique du genre" (an essay in this section focuses on theoretical discourses of the 16th and 17th c.), and "Du plaisir."

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

Review: S. Macé in DSS 220 (2003), 554–555: The reviewer finds this essay elusive at times and ultimately destined exclusively for specialists in the field, but praises the author's inventive approach as she traces the title subject from antiquity through the Renaissance.

MAZOUER, CHARLES, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la 1ère journée d'études (21 novembre 2001) du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 2003.

MAZOUER, CHARLES, ed. Recherches de jeunes dix-septiemistes : actes du Ve colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université Michel-de-Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 28–30 janvier 1999. Tübingen : Gunter Narr Verlag, 2000.

Review : J. Clarke in FS 57.1 (2003) : According to the reviewer, this collection of conference proceedings has a wide array of impressive young talent who deal with diverse authors : Racine, Pascal, Saint-Amant, Saint Réal, Scudéry, Quinault, Furetière, Nicolas Piquet and Gomberville. Given this variety of topics, the reviewer finds 《 striking 》 the relative paucity of articles on the theater. All in all, though, the reviewer echos Pierre Ronzeaud's preface by declaring her "admiration for the talent of these young scholars of tomorrow."

Review: J. Rohou in IL 54.4 (2002), 58–60. Complementary review presenting thumbnail sketches of each article in the collection.

MECHOULAN, ERIC, ed. La Vengeance dans la littérature d'Ancien Régime. Montreal: Département d'Etudes françaises. 2000.

Review: B. Papàsogli in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 222: Wide-ranging volume includes panoramic studies such as that of C. Biet in the status of vengeance in the 17th c. as well as particular analyses of vengeance in tragedy and in the nouvelle.

Review: R. Racevskis in SubStance 31 (2002), 311–15: Examines depictions of vengeance and its specifically literary functions. Initial chapter by C. Biet posits the intriguing notion that literature broaches ambiguous complex criminal questions that law cannot. Subsequent chapters include work on Mme de Villedieu, Racine's Medée, Saint-Simon, the genres of the nouvelle and the histoire tragique, and the Enlightenment's attempt to suppress vengeance through reason. Méchoulan concludes with reflections on the status of revenge amid a crumbling aristocratic tradition and an expanding apparatus of state control.

MEDING, TWLYA. "Translation as Appropriation: The Case of María de Zaya's El Prevendio engañado and Paul Scarron's La Précaution inutile." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.91–118.

MERLIN-KAJMAN, HELENE. L'absolutisme dans les lettres et la théorie des deux corps. Passion et politique. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: S. Poli in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 217: Highly favorable review of Merlin-Kajman's incisive work which is valuable to scholars of literature, history and politics. Poli appreciates the subtlety of its analyses and its wide and diverse horizons. Focus is on political plays of Corneille, Tristan and Rotrou, but reflections on de Retz's mémoires and on Balzac are included. Multi-faceted bibliography.

MINAZZOLI, GILBERT, et al., eds. Dictionnaire des œuvres érotiques. Paris: Robert Laffont, 2001.

Review: BCLF 642 ( 2002), 6: Réédition d'un ouvrage de référence paru en 1971 qui constitue "un outil pour le chercheur désireux d'analyser la récurrence des fantasmes, les plus souvent masculins d'ailleurs" dans les écrits érotiques les plus importants. Voir la notice sur Sorel.

MINOIS, GEORGES. Histoire du rire et de la dérision. Paris: Fayard, 2000.

Review: G. Walther in HZ 274 (2002), 133–134: Judged a highly useful synthesis, rich in facts, of specialized material on laughter and derision. 17th c. students will appreciate and perhaps challenge what the reviewer summarizes as a controlling and restraining of laughter in the time of Louis XIV. If that was the main trend, certainly numerous examples of the unrestrained could be suggested, from the "tours" played in the salons to the riotous "rire" in Dassoucy (see Dominique Bertrand's work on the subject for example). Informative compendium brings the methodology of the "histoire des mentalités" to bear on texts from Homer to Monty Python.

NORMAN, BUFORD, ed. The Mother in French Literature. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: M. Groene in RF 114 (2002): 259–262: Praised for its dynamism and fruitfulness, this wide-ranging volume presents contributions from the 27th French Literature Conference held at Columbia, SC in 1999. Planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Beauvoir's Deuxième sexe, the volume is nevertheless neither "idolâtre" nor "iconoclaste." 17th c. scholars will appreciate Domna Stanton's keynote address on maternal metaphor, metonymy and history (Sévigné), Deborah Hahn's lucid treatment of historical background in her essay on the 17th c. comic theatre and Holly Tucker's investigation of d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force for maternal cravings and birthmarks.

NORMAN, LARRY F, ed. The Theatrical Baroque. Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2001.

Review: K. Gounaridou and N. Garvey in SCN 60 (2002) 222–225: This book is a companion to a 2001 exhibition at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art and comprises a collection of "eight essays and numerous color and black and white plates as well as a 'Checklist' of the 31 exhibited artworks by Callot, Quinault, Carlone, and van Dyck, among others." Described by the reviewer as "a visually appealing and instructive book," essays include Larry Norman, "The Theatrical Baroque," Robert S. Huddleston, "Baroque Space and the Art of the Infinite," Josh Ellenbogen, "Representational Theory and the Staging of Social Performance," Brandy Flack and Rebekah Flohr, "Interlude: Sets for Social Performance," Anita Hagerman-Young and Kerry Wilks, "The Theatre of the World: Staging Baroque Hierarchies," Delphine Zurfluh, "Staging the Gaze," Matt Hunter, "Time and the Baroque World," and Véronique Sigu, "The Baroque Pastoral, or The Art of Fragile Harmony."

O'HARA, STEPHANIE. "E. T. A. Hoffmann's sinister grand siècle." PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 351, 411–419.

Examines Hoffmann's depiction of late seventeenth-century Paris in his story which translates as Mlle de Scudéry: A Tale from the Age of Louis XIV, examining particularly his use of two French sources, Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV and Gayot de Pitavel's Causes célèbres.

ORENSTEIN, CATHERINE. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked. Sex, morality and the evolution of a fairy tale. Oxford: Basic Books, 2002.

Review: C. Larrington in TLS 5211 (Feb 14 2003), 28. Offers a close reading of ten versions of Little Red Riding Hood, including Perrault's. Orenstein challenges Bettelheim's theory that fairy tales encode universal psychological truths and maintains that texts are "forever locked in context." Larrington finds that Orenstein has an "unsubtle view of the European past." Organization is muddled and various theorists are oversimplified. The book is "fun to read, but the slickness of its ironies and the lack of historical depth begin to grate."

PAIGE, NICHOLAS D. Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2000.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 57.2 (2003). In this "compelling study," Paige traces the formulation, in the sphere of religious writing, of a rhetoric of human depth. . . It is less autobiography as a genre which is the focal point than the cultural context in which autobiography becomes worth reading." The reviewer praises Paige's critical methodology, which "grants coherence to his work," and the "broad line of inquiry [that] provokes exponentially broad questions about how one person can come to know another." It is to Paige's credit "that the conclusions. . . have further, implicit but highly provocative, ramifications, concerning notably the displacement of Descartes as the exclusive model for seventeenth-century discourses of the self."

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 98.3 (2003), 720: "Starting from the premise that 'autobiography, in its manifestly problematic promise to make identity readable, is part of the contradictions of modernity' (p.10), this book explores the emergence of autobiography as mediation between interior and exterior worlds in various seventeenth-century religious texts."

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. Le "fond du coeur". Figures de l'espace intérieur au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 229: Welcome elegant translation by Papàsogli of her own work in Italian of ten years ago. Appendix includes a new essay and two others previously published. Collinet insists upon the pertinence of the work and praises the depth and merit of the essay on "L'idée du monde intérieur."

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. Volti della memoria nel 《 Grand siècle 》 e oltre. Roma: Bulzoni, 2000.

Review: B. Guion in RHLF 102.5, 853–54. A book that proposes to recover the seventeenth century's practice of memory, often forgotten between the ars memoriae of the Renaissance and modern, affective memory. Underlines especially the ethical dimensions of memory, including its link with sociability. Also analyzes the theme in several works—Cinna, La Princesse de Clèves, Les Pensées, Télémaque—and then goes on to look at how Prévost, Rousseau, and Chateaubriand all echo classical commonplaces on memory as much as look forward to romantic ones.

PASQUIER, PIERRE, ed. Le Temps au XVIIe siècle. (Littératures classiques, 43) Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: R. W. Tobin in PFSCL XXX, 59 (2003), 564–567. Presents articles by Véronique Adam, Michèle Clément, Annick Fiaschi-Dubois, Catherine Kintzler, Pierre Pasquier, Bénédicte Louvat-Molozay, Nathalie Grande, Huguette Courtès, Christian Belin, Bernard Chédozeau, Daniel Parrochia, Hélène Himmelfarb, Valérie Arrault, Anne-Elisabeth Spica, Thierry Verdier, Gilles Siouffi, François-Xavier Cuche.

PETERS, JULIE STONE. Theatre of the Book, 1480–1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Review: R. Hume in MLQ 64 (2003), 126–30: Attempts to account for the relationship between histories of print and of the modern stage. Broad-ranging and unpretentious in style, but lacks both direction and useful conclusions. "Anything but exhaustive. . . heavily dependent on less-than-complete knowledge of secondary scholarship."

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

Review: A. Niderst in RF 114 (2002): 410–412: Reviewer is less than persuaded by Poulouin's choice of corpus (absence of Fénelon and of the pastoral tradition, for example) or analyses. Niderst offers numerous correctives and regrets characterizations such as that of Huet: "trop homme de cour et du monde pour être incrédule" (289).

PREYAT, FABRICE. "Histoire des femmes et sociologie du roman du XVIIe siècle." RBPH 79.2 (2001), 687–95.

Analyse de Stratégies de romancières. De Clélie à la Princesse de Clèves (1654–1678), l'oeuvre de Nathalie Grande (Paris: Champion, 1999). "Placée d'emblée sous les auspices de la sociologie de Pierre Bourdieu ou la sociopoétique d'Alain Viala, l'étude de Nathalie Grande se penche sur le profil de la romancière du XVIIe siècle au sein d'un corpus s'étalant sur une vingtaine d'années marquées par l'intensification des productions romanesques féminines." Grande analyse "'les liens tissés ou détissés (. . .) entre cadre historique, biographie sociale, positions littéraires et textes'."

PRUVOST, VALERIE CELINE AGNES. The Theater of Law: Performing Justice in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Drama. DAI 63/3 (2002), 965.

Showing the interconnections between law and theater in Racine, Corneille, Molière and Beaumarchais, argues that "[t]hough the interpretations of Law can vary, the trial process follows a preset order with a given set of rules and policies that require strict adherence [, and that] the same can be said about theater."

RAGAN, KATHLEEN. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. NY: Norton, 2000.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 38 (2002): 356: Wide-ranging "resource book" includes narratives, often "as close to the oral literature as possible" (introduction) and analyses by Ragan. Goes beyond the "passive daughters, wicked stepmothers and nagging wives. . . of. . . Perrault" to "reinstate the folk tale heroine as witty, intelligent, resourceful and courageous" (reviewer).

RAYNARD, SOPHIE. La Seconde préciosité: floraison des conteuses de 1690 à 1756. Tübingen: G. Narr, 2002 (Biblio 17, no. 130). 512 p.

RIEGER, ANGELICA and JEAN-FRANCOIS TONARD, eds. La lecture au féminin / Lesende Frauen. La lectrice dans la littérature française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle/ Zur Kulturgeschichte der lesenden Frau in der französischen Literatur von den Anfangen bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1999.

Review: E.-C. Muelsch in RF 114 (2002): 90–92: European perspectives complement, in this wide-ranging volume, current U.S. studies on the topic. Preface by Fritz Nies underscores two motifs of the collection: "female reading and its dangers and the need to control it" and "the interrelation between female reading and writing" (15). 17th c. scholars will appreciate Renate Kroll's examination of texts of the Early Modern. According to Röswitha Böhm, the book in D'Aulnoy's fairy tales is "a depository of female memory and a means of imparting knowledge from one woman to another" (Muelsch 91). The volume is judged in sum, "a significant contribution to the history of female reading in France" (92).

RIGGS, LARRY. "Delusions of Self-Fashioning: Moralisme as Critique of Modernity." KRQ 49 (2002), 21–29.

Argues that "[t]he French moralists' concept of amour-propre goes to the heart of modern individualism and challenges at its origins the myth of the autonomous self-fashioning person. The self is as thoroughly "decentered" by La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Molière, Racine, and others as by any of our contemporary critiques." Theorizes the modern individual as a person who denies the notion of just price, "véritable prix," trafficking him/herself in a marketplace of identities. Explores Don Juan, Harpagon, and Louis XIV as examples.

ROBERT, RAYMONDE. Le conte de fées littéraire en France de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Supplément bibliographique 1980–2000 établi par Nadine Jasmin avec la collaboration de Claire Debru. Paris: Champion, 2002 (Lumière classique, 40).

Review: Ph. Hourcade in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 287–288: Reviewer pleased to see reprint of this text, originally published in 1982, "et en passe de devenir un classique: au point que j'aurais souhaité plutôt la voir entrer en collection de poche, du type Droz ou Albin Michel. Mes quelques réserves émises jadis (RHLF, novembre–décembre 1984) demeurent, sur lesquelles je ne reviendrai pas; mais demeure aussi mon opinion d'ensemble favorable, qui se renforce même à la relecture de ces pages de Raymonde Robert, saisissant sous son seul regard un vaste corpus d'œuvres littéraires si diversifiées, procéda à une étude pragmatique, nuancée et toujours près du texte, où d'autre part elle parvint à faire réfléchir et à faire percevoir des directions de recherches lesquelles, à vrai dire, n'ont pas suscité tout l'intérêt qu'elles méritaient." The Supplément bibliographique is "bien construit, aussi complet qu'il peut l'être." Reviewer also adds the titles of a number of modern editions of different contes.

ROBIN, JEAN-LUC. Expérience et modèle dans les textes littéraires et scientifiques classiques. DAI 63/6 (2002), 2262.

"The textual practices of experimentation and simulation, common to both scientific and literary authors, shed light on the conceptual framework marking early modern divisions of knowledge. [...T]his comparative rereading of major classical texts by Galileo, Descartes, Molière, and Madame de Lafayette reveals the oneness of rational endeavor in the early modern period."

ROHOU, JEAN, Le XVIIe siècle, une révolution de la condition humaine. Paris: Seuil, 2002.

Review: D. Orsini in PFSCL> XXX, 59 (2003), 567–572. "Jean Rohou démontre ici en quoi le XVIIe siècle est une étape décisive dans la transformation de la condition humaine à travers une réflexion anthropologique, qui va de l'Antiquité jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle. L'auteur ne se limite pas à la France, mais replace son évolution au sein de l'Europe occidentale. La condition humaine recouvre un système de rapports entre le sujet et le monde, les autres, le pouvoir, les valeurs transcendantes et lui-même. Jean Rohou retrace l'histoire de ces rapports, en reconstituant l'instauration d'une société libérale et en envisageant quatre notions qui changent de sens durant cette période: la générosité, l'amour de soi, l'intérêt et le bonheur. Il montre qu'au XVIIe siècle se confrontent deux systèmes de valeurs antinomiques: celui d'une hiérarchie sociale et idéologique, hyperaugustinienne et antihumaniste, qui implique une adéquation des hommes à un ordre antérieur et supérieur, et celui d'une émancipation du moi, marqué par une volonté de domination et motivé par la satisfaction de ses désirs. [. . .] L'ordre chronologique, s'il entraîne quelques redites, fournit un éclairage minutieux sur l'évolution des notions. Les références sont érudites, nombreuses et variées, les démonstrations efficaces, grâce aux analyses synthétiques d'œuvres littéraires et à une démarche linguistique rigoureuse. La bibliographie est très sélective. Une rubrique intitulée 《 Principaux acteurs et témoins 》 syncrétise parfaitement les traditionnels index nominum et rerum. Enfin, avant de livrer une table qui résume son ouvrage, l'auteur a établi un précieux 《 Index thématique 》 de 180 entrées."

ROHOU, JEAN. "La Périodisation: Une reconstruction révélatrice et explicatrice." RHLF 102.5 (2002), 707–32.

While acknowledging the arbitrary nature of literary periodization, author attempts to set forth an account of what makes a number of sub-periodizations of the seventeenth century possible and desirable.

RONZEAUD, PIERRE, ed. L'imagination au XVIIe siècle (Littératures classiques, 45) Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: K. Hoffman in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 288–290: This collection of articles, all in French, "does a fine job of suggesting ways in which one might attempt to seize what Ronzeaud terms the 'fantôme insaisissable' of imagination and lays out some paths across a slippery terrain it admits from the outset it will never be able to cover fully. [. . .] Throughout, the imagery, the language, and the functions of the term 'imagination' overlap, reappear, become problematized and reveal both new ambiguities and new complexities. Some of the pieces take the problem beyond the philosophical and literary focus that dominates the book. [. . .] Some will surely regret that more of the links, ruptures and references from demonology, medicine, history, theater or music do not appear here. To do justice to those realms however, the project would have needed several more volumes, at least. L'Imagination au XVIIe siècle is an excellent beginning."

ROSNER, ANNA J. Le refus du mariage dans la littérature féminine française (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles). DAI 63/12 (2003), 4331.

Analyzes the topos of marriage refusal, concluding that it serves to contest "non seulement le système matrimonial, mais aussi les conventions littéraires inflexibles qui s'imposent à l'héroïne romanesque."

ROSNER, ANNA J. 'Un regard comparatif: le refus du mariage dans le roman du Grand Siècle.' La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 379–390.

Compares the representation of women's refusal to marry in Camus' Dorothée (1622), Rosset's Histoires tragiques (1614), Gournay's Le Proumenoir de Monsieur de Montaigne (1594) and Scudéry's Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus. Rosner argues that the evolution in the refusal to marry as fictionalised by the two women writers constitutes a criticism of the institution of marriage as a bastion of male hegemony.

ROY, ROXANNE. "Une femme en colère : représentation de la colère féminine d'après trois femmes de lettres du XVIIe siècle." La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 211–224.

Analyzes the representation of anger in women in Scudéry (Célinte), Lafayette (La Princesse de Montpensier), and Villedieu (Désordres de l'amour). Roy argues that anger is legitimised within the private sphere, but not when it spills over into the public sphere.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE and ALICE STROOP, eds. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. Vol. 4. Utopia I: 16th and 17th Centuries. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 1998.

Review: H.-G. Funke in RF 114 (2002): 128–131: Welcome examination of utopia includes essays on crucial features of the subject: on the "Culture of Criticism (A. Stroop), "Utopie vs. état de pouvoir. . . " (T. J. Reiss), "The Displaced Center of Feminine Utopia in Honoré d'Urfé's l'Astrée" (T. Meding), "The Play of Utopia and Distopia . . . Descartes and Poussin" (Van Kelly), "Foigny's Joke" (A. Stroop), and "L'Utopie, le souverain et l'individu: le cas des Sévarambes" (Carole F. Martin). Two essays treat texts of the utopian genre while the four others examine utopia in various genres from philosophy to painting. Despite the lack of a conclusion, the individual essays exhibit high standards of research and original thought.

SABOL, JEREMY DAVID. Fables of Knowledge: Descartes and Seventeenth-Century Epistemological Fiction. DAI 63/10 (2003), 3577.

"[I]llustrates the relevance of literary concepts to early modern philosophy and science, and conversely shows the impact of philosophical texts on the evolution of seventeenth-century literary writing." Analyzes works by Descartes, Cyrano, and Gabriel Daniel.

SANDY, GERALD, ed. The Classical Heritage in France. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Review: J. Harrie in Choice 40 (2002), 698: Covers "the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries," considering both literature and the visual arts. Particular treatment of Erasmus, Rabelais, Montaigne, Budé, and Aymot. Stresses the greater influence of Greek culture over Latin.

SERROY, JEAN. Poètes français de l'âge baroque. Anthologie (1571–1677). Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1999.

Review: J.-C. Vuillemin, in CdDS 8.2 (2003), 127–29. Proposes a selection of baroque poetry that includes material overlooked in many anthologies of the genre; volume takes the unusual step of presenting authors in the order of their birth. Editor sees the baroque, defined by ostentation, imagination, and movement, as having its heyday before the triumph of classical rationality, around 1670. Reviewer regrets the sheer bulk of the volume, and the absence of any women writers, but approves of the recent interest in the baroque.

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN A. Plotless History? Historical Representation in Frondeur Memoirs. DAI 63/8 (2003), 2890.

Argues that the memoirs of Madame de Motteville, La Rochefoucauld, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, and the Cardinal de Retz are not, as the authors pretend, purely descriptive and particular, for they all present "a vision of decline, stasis, stagnation, and decay." Furthermore, "[f]ar from being idealizing accounts that valorize their authors, as most critics have concluded, these memoirs in fact accurately reflect the triumph of the centralized monarchy, the eclipse of the aristocracy, the extinction of noble houses, and the death of chivalric values in post-Fronde France."

SILVER, MARIE-FRANCE & MARIE-LAURE GIRON SWIDERSKI, eds. Femmes en toutes lettres: les épistolières du XVIIIe siècle. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000.

Review: L. Mall in FR 76 (2003), 1005–06: Though centered on letter-writers of the 18th-century, contains an introduction on the legacy of Sévigné.

SOSSA, PAOLA. "La Traduction de l'Enfer de Dante Alighieri par Philippe-Auguste Le Hardy (XVII siècle)." SFr XLVI, 136 (2002), 147–164.

Original and full treatment of Le Hardy's translation of Dante Alighieri. The manuscript of 500 pages includes an ink portrait of Dante and 40 pages on his life. Sossa finds the translation "assez confus et farfelu," (148); its execution was most likely suggested by Le Hardy's précepteur Chapelain. Le Hardy is incapable of rendering Dante's breadth of vocabulary and transforms l'Enfer by "l'insertion d'éléments stylistiques du XVIIe siècle" (153). Sossa reminds of Saint-Evremond's warning "à ne traduire les poètes si on ne l'est pas" (164).

SPIELMANN, GUY. Le jeu de l'ordre et du chaos: comédie et pouvoir à la fin de règne. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: D. F. Connon in FS 57.2 (2003). "This study of comedy from the death of Molière to the death of Louis XIV seeks to persuade us to look afresh at this. . . somewhat neglected period." The reviewer lauds Spielmann's assertion of the importance of this period, though he finds that ideas are sometimes "belabored." Nonetheless, he says, the book makes "valuable points about a wide variety of theatrical activity."

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "The Art of Praise from Malherbe to La Fontaine." The Shape of Change: Essays in Early Modern Literature and La Fontaine in Honor of David Lee Rubin. Eds. Anne Birberick and Russell Ganim. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp.119–140.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE. "Voix féminines dans la littérature classique." Les femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: musique et littérature. Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrèes annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature (Arizona State University, Tempe). Tome II. Eds. David Wetsel & Frédéric Canovas. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 2003.

TERNAUX, JEAN-CLAUDE. Lucain et la littérature de l'âge baroque en France. Citation, imitation et création. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: G. Schrenck in RF 114 (2002): 265–267: Praised for its erudition and "finesse," the volume illuminates the French reception of Lucan during the Baroque era, in particular from 1560–1664. Editions, translations, libraries, scholastic programs and the "rayonnement" in certain academies demonstrate the wide reception or what Ternaux terms "une internationale lucaniste" (66). Of particular interest to sociologists and historians will be the discussions of parallels relating to war. Other qualities appreciated and developed here include the literary, historical and parodic. Lucan's images of the world and neo-stoic aspects announce Corneille in La Mort de Pompée.

Review: F. Tinguely in BHR 65.1 (2003), 191–93: ". . .il s'agit ni plus ni moins de rendre à Lucain ce qui lui appartient en dégageant la vaste influence qu'il a exercée sur la littérature française pendant au moins un siècle (env. 1560–1660), de Du Bellay à Corneille et de Garnier à Brébeuf."

TERRIER, PHILIPPE, LORIS PETRIS & MARIE-JEANNE LIENGME BESSIRE, eds. Les Fruits de la Saison. Mélanges de littérature des XVIe et XVIIe siècles offerts au Professeur André Gendre. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: F. Tinguely in BHR 65.1 (2003), 228–29: Un volume d'une quarantaine de contributions dont "chaque auteur semble avoir pris le temps de polir son ouvrage. . ." Voir les articles sur Malherbe et La Fontaine.

TOBIN, RONALD W. "Booking the Cooks: Literature and Gastronomy in Molière." Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics 5.1 (2003): 125–136.

Article similar in content to "Qu'est-ce que la gastrocritique?" (below). Particular attention (in second half of article) paid to Molière's L'Avare.

TOMLINSON, PHILIP, ed. French "Classical" Theatre Today. Teaching, Research, Performance. Amsterdam-Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001 (Faux Titre, 205).

Review: C. Batson in FR 76.6 (2003), 1238–39: Numerous essays and the fleshing out of an undergraduate course comprise this "pedagogical rethinking of the terms "théâtre classique"" (1239). An opening essay conveys the term's range and notes its deployment in the service of nationalistic cultural domination. The notion of "classical theater" is further destabilized, broadened, and enriched by calls to include baroque opera, less-influential editions, and modern stagings within its functional corpus. Particular praise given to an essay which provides high-tech graphic modelings of classical theater spaces.

Review: P. Gethner in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2002), 290–293: This collection of essays, four in French, the rest in English "is both interesting and provocative. The contributors write clearly, at times conversationally, and are mercifully free from pomposity. They challenge a number of received ideas about what is traditionally termed classical drama and speak with refreshing candor about the rationale and methodology of their own research projects. The essays are grouped into six sections, with the headings In Retrospect, Editing, Visualizing, Studying, Performing, and In Prospect. . . [This] final section deals with web sites and their usefulness for future scholars and students." Reviewer describes collection as "a worthwhile set of essays that helps us focus and clarify our thinking about where research currently stands in this area and what paths we need to pursue in the future."

Review: E. M. Langille in ThR 28 (2003), 213. Tomlinson challenges reductionist tendencies of classicism and says seventeenth-century theatre has not one but many faces. The seventeen essays do not redefine the notion of "classical" French theatre, but do constitute a "valuable, interesting and timely contribution."

TREPANIER, HELENE. "Entre amour-propre et anéantissement: le 《 je 》 des autobiographies mystiques féminines". La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia. Ed. R. Hodgson. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag (Biblio 17), 2002, 301–313.

Examines writings by Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges, Louise du Néant, Madame Guyon among others. Suggests that "Dans les écrits mystiques féminins, la lutte interminable contre l'amour-propre, force 《 invisible 》 selon les termes de La Rochefoucauld, pose les termes d'une définition du sujet. [. . .] En effet, être rien. . . construit une identité."

TRIVISANI-MOREAU, ISABELLE, Dans l'empire de Flore: la représentation romanesque de la nature de 1660 à 1680. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2001 (Biblio 17, 126).

Review: C. McCall-Probes in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 294–298. "In this remarkable and erudite study, Trivisani-Moreau makes a welcome contribution to a number of important areas of investigation: nature, description, the senses and solitude, among others. [. . .] Divided into three parts, each with two or more chapters, Dans l'empire de Flore treats successively theory, stereotypes and codes, and, in what might be called the "heart" of the volume, the gardener (over 200 pages are devoted to a detailed examination of "le double jeu du jardin")." This "comprehensive study exploits some 230 works, from the anonymous Divertissement de Forges and La Promenade de Livry to the works of well-known authors such as Lafayette, Préchac, Scudéry and Villedieu. [. . .] Of particular interest is Trivisani-Moreau's attention to the role of the senses and the sensations in the depiction of nature. [. . .] Pertinent observations, fine analyses and lucid style complement precise documentation which not only identifies key passages of works under consideration but elaborates on concepts necessary and enriching to the study". Overall "authoritative and stimulating".

TURNER, JAMES GRANTHAM. Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England, 1534–1685. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

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

Review: F. Chevalier in RF 114 (2002): 105–106: This "rich and interesting" analysis, having its origin in a 1996 doctoral dissertation, seeks to explain the vogue of the pastorale. Successfully demonstrates the complexity of a phenomenon as it invites its readers to reread these highly successful 17th c. novels.

VOLPILHAC-AUGER et al. La Collection Ad usum Delphini. L'Antiquité au miroir du Grand Siècle. Grenoble: ELLUG, U Stendhal, 2000.

Review: L. N. Cagiano in S Fr XLVI, 136 (2002): 227–228: Focusing on the last 30 years of the 17th c., this work of the Ad usum Delphini team presents a vast fresco of culture of the era as indeed the subtitle indicates. Studies treat specific aspects such as censorship, interpretation, typology and the crucial role of the Latin monument for the monarchy and the education of the prince. Volpilhac-Auger insists that for the 17th c., Antiquity is considered not as a "canon" but as "un vaste fonds où l'on découvre des perles rares . . . [un] champ d'exploration" (90).

VON STACKELBERG, JÜRGEN. Gegendichtungen. Fallstudien zum Phänomen der literarischen Replik. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2000.

Review: S. Segler-Meßner in RF 114 (2002): 263–265: Although the emphasis of this praiseworthy volume is the 18th–20th c., it does include erudite reflections on Molière's Ecole des femmes, studied in contrast to Marivaux's L'Ecole des mères, and separately, on Fontenelle's Entretiens. Illuminating treatment and case studies of the "replique."

VON STACKELBERG, JURGEN. Kleine Geschichte der französischen Literatur. Munich: D. H. Beck, 1999.

Review: J. Leeker in Archiv 239 (2002): 226–228: Publication is European-oriented; French literature is that of the Hexagone. Although the reviewer takes exception to space allowed for certain œuvres and finds some of the criteria "sehr subjektiv" (228), he has praise for the sections on the Baroque (balanced if scanty) and the Classical period (detailed and convincing).

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

Review: J. Clarke in MLR 98.2 (2003), 458: ". . .an admirable study, in terms both of its scope and of its execution." Vuillermoz "has set out to apply to the theatrical object the kind of analysis his distinguished predecessor [Georges Forestier] undertook for the play within the play and for disguise." Reviewer considers omission of John Golder's research on the décor simultané as "particularly striking" and regrets numerous typographical errors.

Review: B. Louvat-Molozay in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 303–304. "Vuillermoz donne dans cet ouvrage la pleine mesure de son savoir et de son savoir-faire, en matière d'histoire du théâtre, de dramaturgie et de sémiologie. Le livre vient, tout d'abord, combler une lacune dans notre connaissance du théâtre du XVIIe siècle en rendant à l'objet théâtral son importance non seulement comme aspect du spectacle mais aussi et d'abord comme élément intéressant, parfois dans des proportions remarquables, la dramaturgie elle-même. Il propose ensuite, comme l'indique son sous-titre, un véritable 《 système des objets 》, système qui s'élabore à partir d'une minutieuse typologie et permet d'identifier, au fil du parcours, l'ensemble des fonctions et des modalités d'utilisation de l'objet dans le théâtre français du deuxième quart du XVIIe siècle."

VUILLEUMIER LAURENS, FLORENCE. La Raison des figures symboliques à la Renaissance et à l'Age classique. Etudes sur les fondements philosophiques, théologiques et rhétoriques de l'image. Genève: Droz, 2000.

Review: J.-C. Margolin in SFr XLVI, 136 (2002): 183–186: Judged a "maître-livre," rich and a product which develops remarkably material that Vuilleumier Laurens has previously examined. Major divisions focus on 1) the sign of Pythagorus (here Italian influences are discussed; 17th c. scholars will appreciate the treatment of Béroalde), 2) Erasmus's and others use of symbola pythagorica (emphasis is on importance to 17th c. rhetoric), 3) "les enfants de Denys" (Denys l'Aéropagite), 4) "rhétorique des formes symboliques" and the triumph of the image (including reflections on Marino, Menestrier and others). Vuilleumier Laurens's conclusion, although judged "un peu brève", succeeds in underscoring "la profonde unité de ce monde culturel et de cet âge symbolique." Includes a rich bibliography, annexes with selections of rare works, and indices.

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE and CLAIRE LE BRUN-GOUANVIC, eds. Les Arts du spectacle au théâtre (1550–1700). Paris: Champion, 2001 and Les Arts du spectacle dans la ville (1404–1721). Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 97.4 (2002), 958: Ten essays "on large-scale public spectacle in early modern Europe describe the transformations of urban space from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment." Of interest to dix-septiémistes are articles on the transformation of the French royal entry into a political spectacle (Wagner), transplantation of the ritual to the New World (Fournier), the development of the foire and the cours in 17th-century Paris (Vaillancourt), and the "aesthetic transformation of a political myth (the killing of the Hydra/Python by Hercules/Apollo), from an automaton repeatedly used for firework displays to a static allegorical painting celebrating the transcendent power of Louis XIV (Siguret)."

Review: J. Clarke in FS 57.4 (2003). Though the articles in this collection actually have little to do with the notion of spectacle, according to the reviewer, it is nonetheless an interesting and worthwhile reading for its text-based analysis. The collection notably covers works by Corneille, Molière as well as more general themes: use of stage machinery, the comédie-ballets, pastoral theater and the Comédie-Italienne. Of particular interest, says the reviewer, is Guy Spielmann's concluding article on the "syntaxe du spectaculaire" during the seventeenth century.

Review: K. Schoell in RF 114 (2002): 500–503: The Acts of a Congress on performance arts, these two volumes arrange their texts and essays chronologically and thematically as the titles of the volumes indicate. 17th c. specialists will welcome stimulating and well-documented treatments of subjects as diverse as "entrées royales," "une syntaxe du spectaculaire," mechanical figures and monsters, the theology of sacrifice, the pastorale, Corneille's Illusion, Molière's comédies-ballets, among others.

WAQUET, FRANÇOISE. Latin or the Empire of a Sign. From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. NY: Verso, 2001.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 38 (2002): 118–119: Translation by John Howe of Waquet's original French study. Although focus is Latin, "that perfect European sign," and not French, 17th c. scholars of French language and literature will appreciate the reflections on education, the church, language emergence and standardization.

WETSEL, DAVID and CANOVAS, FREDERIC, eds. Avec la collaboration de CHRISTINE PROBES and BUFORD NORMAN. Les Femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: Musique et Littérature. Musique et Liturgie. Actes du 33e Congrès de la NASSCFL, t. II. Arizona State U., Tempe, May 2001. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, 144), 2003.

WETSEL, DAVID and CANOVAS, DAVID, eds. Avec la collaboration de Gabrielle Verdier, Elisabeth Goldsmith et Jacques Grès-Gayer. La Spritualité, L'Epistolaire, Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle. Actes de Tempe, t.. III, 2001. Tübingen, G. Narr (Biblio 17, 145), 2003.

WIESER, DAGMAR. "Création théâtrale et sentiment d'identité. Nerval au miroir de Corneille." RHLF 102.6 (2002), 921–56.

Examines Nerval's reading of Corneille's theater and language, which he approaches through Schlegel; shows that his understanding of Corneille's verse informed his own poetic and theatrical practice.

WIGGIN, BETHANY. Fiction, France, and Other Vices: Crossing German Borders in Fictional Narratives, 1680–1720. DAI 63/11 (2003), 3958.

Examines German reception of the French roman galant, which "was embedded in debates about the dubious merits of French influence and in discussions of women's intellectual capabilities." Concludes that "novels' depictions of sexual adventures [...] offered readers a space to explore sexed and gendered subject positions more difficult to inhabit in real life."

WILD, FRANCINE, éd. Genre et société. 2 vol. Nancy: U de Nancy 2, Groupe "XVIe-XVIIe siècles en Europe", 2000.

Review: N. Négroni in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 305–306. "Le dessein du groupe de recherche 《 XVIe-XVIIe siècles en Europe 》 pose la question des relations qui pouvaient exister à cette époque charnière entre des paramètres sociaux et certaines stratégies d'écriture". Reviewer indicates how the "évolution diachronique de la notion de genre. . . est donnée par l'organisation interne de l'ouvrage." Despite some reservations concerning the section "Recherches littéraires, résurgences, passage de frontière", ultimately praises "la richesse du panorama" which the volume offers.

Review: C. Winn in BHR 65.2 (2003), 418–20: "Ouvrage inaugural de la collection EUROPE XVI-XVII, Genre et société réunit dans deux volumes très riches mais assez incohérents les actes du congrès 'L'émergence de genres nouveaux dans les sociétés européennes des XVIe et XVIIe siècles' ainsi que quelques articles fournis par divers chercheurs." Winn loue "la diversité et la richesse des essais" mais regrette "que les éditeurs aient manqué l'occasion de contextualiser des études aussi disparates afin d'aborder des questions essentielles. . ." Voir les articles de N. Oddo sur "les circonstances politico-religieuses qui contribuent à l'émergence du roman dévot"; M.-H. Maux-Piovano "sur l'évolution des manuels didactiques publiés en France au XVIIe siècle dans le but d'enseigner l'espagnol aux Français"; P. Hourcade sur "l'émergence de genres nouveaux à la fin du XVIIe siècle."

WINN, COLETTE H., ed. Protestations et revendications féminines. Textes oubliés et inédits sur l'éducation féminine (XVIe-XVIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: E. Berriot-Salvadore in BHR 65.1 (2003), 196–97: ". . .les quelques 150 pages de textes du XVIIe siècle présentés et commentés ici permettent de découvrir, bien au-delà d'un 'discours féministe', un échantillon très signatif des genres et des modes littéraires par lesquels les femmes veulent manifester leurs qualités et leur virtuosité."

WYGANT, AMY. Towards a Cultural Philology. Phèdre and the Construction of "Racine." Oxford: Legenda, 1999.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 38 (2002): 360: Praiseworthy for its wit and pluridisciplinary approach, Wygant's volume will be especially valuable for scholars of cultural identity. Includes with varying success, treatments of philology, music, poetry, design, death, art (Rubens's Death of Hippolytus and Le Nôtre's Labyrinthe at Versailles), the Sublime.

ZIMMERMANN, MARGARETE and BÖHM, ROSWITHA, eds. Französische Frauen der Frühen Neuzeit. Dichterinnen-Malerinnen-Mäzeninnen. Darmstadt: Primus, 1999.

Review: A Dörner in RF 114 (2002): 417–420: Welcome anthology of a "Galerie der französischen femmes fortes" of the Early Modern Era (417). Time span is from 1477 with Anne de Bretagne to 1713 with the death of Anne-Marie Renée Strésor. Political figures such as Catherine de Medicis as well as literary ones such as Madeleine de Scudéry are included. Wide-ranging essays treat biography, achievements, reception, the changing canon and the "condition féminine" in the Early Modern. Praised for its many new and interesting insights and excellent readability.

ZIPES, JACK, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001.

Review: A. Duggan in M&T 16 (2002): 295–298: Duggan: " an excellent anthology that debunks myths of pure oral or national traditions through a complicated outline of the genre's evolution that moves between a multiplicity of influences or 'contaminations' on the one hand, and recurring themes, characters, and motifs that establish the genre as such, on the other. Moreover, the many references to the various traditions from which fairy-tale writers drew opens up new directions in fairy-tale scholarship."

ZUBER, ROGER. Les émerveillements de la raison. Classicismes littéraires du XVIIe siècle français. Préface deGeorges Forestier. Paris: Klincksieck, 1997.

Review: V. Kapp in RF 114 (2002): 420–422: Judged the admirable "somme" of a rich scholar/researcher's life, Zuber's volume is as witty as it is clear-sighted and as stimulating as it is well-founded. An essay on "littérature et classicisme" is followed by a coherent ensemble which focuses on three themes: "Henri IV et les styles," "Classicismes et critiques," and "Boileau et Perrault." A conclusion effectively contextualizes the whole. As a testimony to the depth and quality of Zuber's scholarship, Kapp quotes Zuber's remarks on his debt to others beyond France: "Dans ma manière de lire et dans les questions que je me suis posées, je dois autant aux universitaires célèbres de Genève, de Louvain et de Turin, de Harvard, de Johns Hopkins et d'autres lieux qu'à mes meilleurs professeurs de khâgne" (302).

AATF. Future conventions: 2004 Atlanta (July 19–23) [Jointly with the International Federation of French Teachers/FIPF]; 2005 (July 7–10) Quebec City; 2006 (Milwaukee); 2007 (Baton Rouge); 2008 (Belgium). Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel. 618.453.5731 <abrate@siu.edu>, http://aatf.utsa.edu.

ALBANESE, RALPH (U. Memphis). Bk., La Fontaine à l'école républicaine: du poète universel au classique scolaire (illustrations). Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2003. "Addresses not only La Fontaine's institutionalization within the 19th c. educational system, but also the social as well as cultural implications of his decanonization in contemporary France."

ANDERSON, KATHLEEN M. (Penn State). Working on dissertation "A Baroque Banquet: Representations of Meals in France, 1571–1651" (Directors J.-C. Vuillemin, CNRS-associate member , & W.Z. Silverman).

ARTAMENE (Scudéry). Project by research team at U. Neuchâtel, to "redonner une chance" au Grand Cyrus, the longest French novel. Online text in collaboration with ARTFL, documentation, iconography. Subsidized by Swiss FNRS. Web: <http://www.artamene.org/> Contact also V. Schröder <volkers@PRINCETON.EDU>.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Ed., CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME; FRENCH 17TH CENTURY DISCUSSION GROUP; Founder, SE 17. <fassaf@CHARTER.NET> <fassaf@uga.edu> Web.: http://www.rom.uga.edu/mac/fassaf.

BEASLEY, FAITH (Dartmouth). President, NASSCFL 03. <Faith.E.Beasley@dartmouth.edu>

BIRBERICK, ANNE L. (Northern Illinois ). See EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. <annie@niu.edu>.

BOURASSA, ANDRE G. Ed., with Patrick O'Neill, of Le Misanthrope as translated and staged by Paul Mascarène at Port-Royal , for the "Nuit des Rois 1744" (Julian Calendar). On facing pages re-edition of original Amsterdam text from 1741. No word variants. Bourassa studies role of punctuation and intonation in live readings.

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

BURY, EMMANUEL (U. Versailles-St.Quentin-en-Yvelines). Directeur, DSS. See SEMINAIRE 2003–2004 "Pour une Histoire de la philologie" Thursdays, 2–4 p.m., at ENS, 45 rue d'Ulm, 01.39.25.55.09 <EBYBury@aol.com>.

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

CARLIN, CLAIRE (Victoria). Recent: Ed., with Kathleen Wine. Theatrum mundi: Mélanges offerts à Ronald W. Tobin,. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2003. Arts: "La nuit du couple: la dissolution du mariage dans l'imaginaire des XVle et XVlle siècles," in Penser La Nuit (Xve-XVIIe siècle), ed. Dominique Bertrand. Paris: Champion, 2003, pp.505–23. "Préciosité et théologie: l'amour conjugal dans Clélie et dans quelques traités catholiques sur le mariage," in Madeleine de Scudéry: une femme de lettres au XVIIe siècle, Actes du colloque international de Paris (28–30 juin 2001), éds. D. Denis et A.-E. Spica, UP Artois, 2002, pp.141–53. "The Staging of Impotence: France's Last congrès" in Theatrum mundi: Mélanges offerts à Ronald W. Tobin, Charlottesville, VA. Rookwood Press, 2003, pp. 102–112. "Le Miroir du mariage: La métaphore dans quelques traités catholiques du XVIIe siècle", in La Spiritualité / L'épistolaire / Le Merveilleux, eds. D. Wetsel and F. Canovas. Biblio 17, vol. 145. Tübingen, G. Narr, 2003, pp. 95–109. "Misogamie et misogynie dans les complaintes des mal mariés au XVIIe siècle," in La Femme au XVIIe siècle, ed. Richard G. Hodgson. Biblio 17, 138. Tübingen:G. Narr, 2002, pp. 365–78. "Les Soeurs Mancini en Méditerranée," in Les Méditerranées du XVIIe siècle, ed. Giovanni Dotoli. Biblio 17, 137. Tübingen, G. Narr, 2002, pp. 321–35. "Transforming the Myth of Marriage in Early Modern France," in Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender, Culture and Change. UP Delaware, 2002, pp. 105–07.

CARR, THOMAS M., JR. (Nebraska). Art., "Les Abbesses et la parole au dix-septième siècle: les discours monastiques à la lumière des interdictions pauliennes," in Rhetorica, 21 (Winter 2003), 1–23. In Progress: Writing and speeches by nuns. Ed. EMF vol. 11: Early Modern Convent Voices: The World and the Cloister. (See EMF infra).

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-LefËvre, 146 Bd. Magenta, 75010 Paris. <njacqueslefevre@free.fr>

CIR 17. Colloque International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe Siècle, Nantes, March 18–20, 2004. Joint colloquium on Literature and History Topic: War and Armies in the 17th C. Organized by Jean Garapon. President Cecilia Rizza, Secretary Pierre Ronzeaud (see infra). Annual Dues, for North America only: $25, payable to BUFORD NORMAN (infra).

CLARKE, JAN (Durham). Secretary, Society for French Studies. <sfs.ac.uk>, <jan.clarke@durham.ac.uk>.

CMR 17 (Colloque de Marseilles). For Mémoires on CD-ROM, see DUCHENE, R. (Website: http://cmr17.free.fr/).

CONROY, DERVAL (Trinity C. Dublin; <conroyd@tcd.ie>. Recent: "In the Beginning was the Image: Feminist Iconography and the Frontispiece in the 1640s", Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 23 (2001), 27–42; "Mapping gender transgressions? Representations of the warrior woman in seventeenth-century tragedy (1642–1660)" in La Femme au XVIIe, coll. Biblio 17 (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2002), 243–254. "The cultural politics of disguise: female cross-dressing in tragi-comedy (1630–1642)", Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 24 (2002), 133–147. Forthcoming: "La mise en scène d'un pouvoir illusoire: les quatre livres d'entrées de Marie de Médicis en exil', Les Arts du spectacle, Vol. 3, eds Louise Frappier et Marie-France Wagner (Paris: Champion, forthcoming). In progress: Bk. "Ruling Women: Gender, Government and Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century France". Bk on Text and image in the C17 gallery book and royal entry book. Contrib. ed. French 17.

CORNEILLE (MOUVEMENT). CENTRE INTERNATIONAL PIERRE CORNEILLE, organized in 1982. Colloques. Hôtel des Sociétés Savantes, 190 rue Beauvoisine, 7600 Rouen. Présidente, Myriam Maître (U.Rouen), <myriam.maitre@caramail.com>.

DANDREY, PATRICK. Directeur, Le Fablier. See SEMINAIRE 2003–2004 "Ecrire, décrire."

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE (Bowdoin C.). Project tentatively entitled "Signing the Body in Early Modern France" (the body as a literally inscribed object). The marking or writing on the body across a wide range of discourses, in an attempt to assemble and think through the theories that inform its textualization during the (long) period from the mid 16th- mid 18th centuries. Also, ways in which inscribing/ imprinting the body is construed in terms of both writing and printing; primary texts and scholarly work on birthmarks, devil's marks, stigmata, the brand and the tattoo. Most sources are from medicine, theology, demonology, and jurisprudence, and I am eager to examine a greater number of literary works that make reference to or exploit the idea of a corporeal mark; any suggestions welcome @ e-mail, <kdauge@bowdoin.edu>. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland C.). Forthcoming: Article on teaching literary adaptations in French cinema accepted for publication in Women in French. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). See WEB 17.

DUTCH PHILOSOPHERS (DICTIONARY OF 17th-18th C.) . Publ. 10/30/03 by Thoemmes Press. 400+ entries on many figures representing the golden age of the Dutch republic. <Thoemmes press@thoemmes.com>.

EMF 10: Studies in Early Modern France. Eds. Russell Ganim and Anne L. Biberick. "Modern and Contemporary Perspectives on the Early Modern": How do modernity and post-modernity interpret early modernity? This volume examines the ways in which the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries view life and letters in Early Modern France. Areas of research may include literature, philosophy, music, art history, religion, cinema, and other media. Possible topics: Reconstruction and Deconstruction of the new "Ancient" by the new "Modern." Literary depictions of the early modern in the 19th and 20th centuries; cinematic representations of the early modern; artistic reaction to the Renaissance and the Grand Siècle in post-revolutionary painting, and sculpture. Articles due January 1, 2004. Contact Eds.: <annie@niu.edu> or <rganim@unlnotes.unl.edu>. For more information on EMF, visit http://www.unl.edu/EMF.

EMF 11: Early Modern Convent Voices: The World and the Cloister. Ed., Thomas M. Carr. Projected for 2005. See website above for details.

ESTHER (Racine). Esther, Tragédie de Jean Racine. Intermèdes musicaux de Jean-Baptiste Moreau. Ed. Anne Piéjus. Paris: Société Française de Musicologie, 2003, 160 pp.. Presents oral text in contemporary spelling and complete music; illustr., crit. notes; 15 euros.

GETHNER, PERRY J. (Oklahoma SU). Crit. eds., Rotrou's La Pèlerine amoureuse, Mairet's Chryséide et Arimand, and Voltaire's Irène. Arts. on Villedieu's plays and on the role of minor characters in Quinault's libretti. Recent: Art., "Carthage et Rome au théâtre: le conflit entre générosité et machiavélisme," in Actes de Tunis (2003) concerning tragedies showing the enmity between Carthage and Rome. Treasurer, NASSCFL. Dues $20 to PJG, Head, Dept.of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Oklahoma State U., Stillwater, OK 74074 <pjg@okstate.edu>.

HARRISON, HELEN (Morgan SU). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HENEIN, EGLAL (Tufts). See SATOR. <eglal.henein@tufts.edu>.

ISPAFA (International Society of Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts). 9th Annual Conference, May 14–15, 2004, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Topic: "Human Creation between Reality and Illusion" (art, dance, digital art, film, light, music, theatre). Abstracts due Jan. 1, '04; full papers Mar 1. Registration $125. Webpage: <http://www.phenomen.> Contact Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Dept. of Creative Arts, Siena C., 515 Loudon Rd., Loudonville, NY 12211–1462. <ptrutty@siena.edu> vox 518.783.2912.

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>.

KOCH, EREC (Tulane). Publications: Ed., Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action. Actes du 32e congrès annuel de la NASSCFL, Tulane U., Avril 13–15, 2000. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag/ Biblio 17, 2002. Arts., "Nicole, Pierre," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Seventeenth-Century French Writers. Ed. Françoise Jaouën. Vol. 268. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman., pp. 264–71. "Pascal, Blaise." ibid., pp. 272–89. "Individuum: the Specular Self in Nicole's De la Connoissance de soi-même.," in New Trends in Port Royal Studies: Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la NASSCFL, Arizona SU, Tempe, May 2001. Ed. David Wetsel and Frédéric Canovas. Vol 1. Tübingen: G. Narr, 2002, pp. 259–268.

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Vermont). Appearing: "La Généricité dans les Mémoires de la vie de Henriette-Sylvie de Molière." In Féminités et masculinités dans le texte narratif, eds.Suzan van Dijk and Madeleine van Strien, Louvain: Editions Peeters, pp.43–54. "Writing in Drag: Strategic Rewriting in the Early Epistolary Novel," Early Modern France 8 (2002), pp. 149–72. "Ecriture à la mode/modes de réécriture: Les Femmes illustres de Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry," La Femme au XVIIe siècle, ed.Richard Hodgson, Biblio 17, 138. Tübingen: G. Narr, 2002, pp.151–63. "Madame de Villedieu," Dictionary of Literary Biography. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, vol. 268. Ed. Françoise Jaouën. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002, pp.383–90. In Press: "Madame de Villedieu Englished: les traductions en anglais de Villedieu au XVIIe siècle." To appear: collection of articles on Villedieu, ed. Edwige Keller, PU Lyons. "Traductions et trahisons: le sort de trois romans français en Angleterre." In Femmes et traduction, ed. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, PU Ottawa. "Playing to Win: Villedieu's Henriette-Sylvie de Molière as Actress. ." In Theatrum mundi: Mélanges offerts à Ronald W. Tobin, eds. Claire Carlin and Kathleen Wine, Early Modern France. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press. "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 Locus in Fabula, ed.Nathalie Ferrand, Louvain: Editions Peeters. "Une Altérité voilée: images de l'Afrique dans la fiction de Madame de Villedieu." In L'Afrique au XVIIe siècle: Mythes et réalités, ed. Alia Baccar. Tübingen: PFSCL. 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. Book on strategic re-writing by women writers, French and British, of the latter 17th and early 18th centuries.

LA FONTAINE (Colloque). Société des Amis de La Fontaine. Paris, 27–29 May, 2004. President: Patrick Dandrey.

LE FABLIER (Journal of the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine). La Fontaine et l'Héritage de l'Europe Humaniste. Actes du Colloque de l'Institut de France, 15–16 November 2001 (2e partie). Contains articles, documents, bibliography of the poet for the year 2000. Next Colloque in Paris, 27–29 May, 2004. President & Directeur of publications, Patrick Dandrey. SEE Part V: LA FONTAINE (Analyses by Marie-Odile Sweetser).

LEINER, WOLFGANG (U. Washington, U. Tübingen). Prix de rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises, décerné par l'Académie Francaise, 2003. Editor, NASSCFL; Biblio 17; Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature (PFSCL); Œuvres et Critiques, ELF. Past President, CIR 17. Romanisches Seminar, Wilhelmstrasse 50, D-72074, Tübingen, Germany. E-mail: <wolfgang.leiner@uni-tuebingen.de> or <wleiner@aol.com>. See also CMR 17.

LYONS, JOHN D. (Virginia). Ed., Actes de Charlottesville Meeting, Biblio 17, 2003. President, NASSCFL 2002. Dept. of French, Box 400770, U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4770. <jdl2f@unix.mail.virginia.edu>, also <jdlyons@virginia.edu>.

MABER, RICHARD (Durham). Editor, The Seventeenth Century (see infra); Director, Durham 17th C. Biennial Conference. University Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN England. <R.G. Maber@durham.ac.uk>.

MAZOUER, CHARLES (U. Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III). Treasurer, CIR 17. Ed., L'Animal au XVIIe siècle. Tübingen: G. Narr (Biblio 17, 146), 2003, illustr. Summarizes the Actes...du Centre de Recherche sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700): 1ère journée d'études, 11/01. Double aspect: literary representations; the animal in the arts of Europe. For summary of the articles see Website: http://lapril.u-bordeaux3.fr/article.php?id_article=47.

McCLURE, ELLEN (Illinois-Chicago). Presentations: "Restoration, Not Innovation: Louis XIV and the Religious Wars, RSA (Toronto, March 2003); "Lieu Tenant: Diplomacy and Dementia in Racine's Andromaque" (Utrecht); "The End of Absolutism and the Beginning of Professional Diplomacy" at a journée d'études on Anglo-French Treaties 1713–1803 at the Université de Rouen (June 2003); "The Problem of False Kings in Seventeenth-Century French Theater," MMLA (Chicago, November 2003). Articles: "Sovereign Love and Atomism in Racine's Berenice," forthcoming in Philosophy and Literature; "Getting Noticed: Sovereignty, Agency and Legitimacy in Corneille's Don Sanche d'Aragon," in progress. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

MILLER, MICHELLE H. (Michigan-Ann Arbor). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

MOLIERE WEBSITE. Prepared by Gabriel Conesa and Robert Garapon, for widest public on all levels. Contains Announcements of new performances, colloquia and bibliography; illustrated Chronology of life and times (limited); Œuvres with apparatus, from early eds.; multiple-aspect Dictionary with articles, accessible by letter, then word; contemporary Iconography with links alsewhere in the site; Bibliography of c. 5000 items; useful Filmography on life and works, both ciné and TV. http://www.toutmoliere.net/index.html.

NASSCFL 2004. 36th Annual Conference, Portland State U., Portland, Oregon, 6–8 May 2004. President: Jennifer R. Perlmutter, <jrp@pdx.edu> [see infra]. Theme: "Relations/ Relationships." See website for sessions/contact information: NASSCFL2004.pdx.edu (no "www"). Dues: U.S.$20 to Perry Gethner; Canadian $30 to Claire Carlin (supra); Reductions for Students, Retirees, Part-Timers, Untenured]. NASSCFL Teaching Award: contact Erec R. Koch, Office of the Associate Dean, Tulane U., New Orleans, LA 7018-5698 <erkoch@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>.

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). Treasurer (US), CIR 17. Répertoire des 17istes $24 ; checks payable to Buford Norman/CIR-17. Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Columbia, SC 29208-0001. <NormanB@GWM.SC.EDU>.

O'HARA, STEPHANIE (Iowa State U.) Recent: Diss., "Tracing Poison: Theater and Society in Seventeenth-Century France" (Duke, 5/03, dir. Michèle Longino).

ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA. Contains figures in History of ideas from ancient to modern times. Recent entries: Elizabeth of Bohemia, Scaliger, and others. Access: www.thoemmes.com/encyclo.htm.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS (Calif.-Berkeley). In preparation: A translation of Lafayette's Zayde; also in preparation: interrelated articles on the "rise of the novel" in France. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

PCI (Periodicals Contents Index). Full text., in collaboration with ARTFL. Includes many important journals. Access http://pcift.chadwyck.com/ ; see YEAR'S WORK (infra).

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER R. (Portland SU). President, NASSCFL 2004. Dept. of Foreign Langs., Portland, OR 97207. (503) 725–3522 <jrp@pdx.edu>.

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. South Florida). Honors, Awards and Appointments: Elected to the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on 17th Century French Literature (through 2006); re-elected to the Executive Committee of NASSCFL. Recently organized the Florida-France Globalization Symposium, bringing together French experts, academic, business and community leaders, held at USF on 2/25/03; sponsored by a grant from the State of Florida. Publications: Ed., with Buford Norman and David Wetsel, the volume La Femme à l'âge classique: le baroque, musique et littérature. Tübingen, Biblio 17. Arts.: "Feminine Friendship at the End of the Century: Testimony from Madame Palatine's Lettres françaises," SCFS. "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," in La Spiritualité, l'Épistolarité, le merveilleux au Grand Siècle, Tübingen, Biblio 17, 145). "Le pouvoir des sens: une exploration des poésies de Mademoiselle de Scudéry," in Madeleine de Scudéry: Une Femme de lettres au XVIIe siècle, UP Artois. Contrib. Ed., French 17. In Press: "Des lectures au sein de la famille royale: la correspondance de Madame Palatine comme révélant des modes féminins de connaissance au XVIIe siècle," for refereed volume ed. by M. Camus, at PU de Franche Comté. Presented and delivered to editor: "Les Sonnets franc-comtois de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet: la représentation du 'premier lecteur' et la persuasion du lecteur idéal", éd. A. Cullière (Metz). "Une exploration de la profusion des sens dans la poésie de Tristan l'Hermite", éd. Jacques Prévost. In Progress: "Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," for June 29–July 4, 2003 international Marlowe Conference at Cambridge U, England. "Avez-vous senti Dassoucy? Pour une rhétorique des sens chez 'l'Empereur du Burlesque,'" for international conference organized by Dominique Bertrand, for June 2004 at Clermont-Ferrand. "Translating the Renaissance" for SAMLA, Nov. 2003. Session on "Beaux-Arts et Belles Lettres" for MLA 2003 Convention at San Diego, CA.

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. New ed. projected (24 euros), publ. by CIR-17: send inquiries / informational updates / corrections / e-mail addresses to Treasurer Charles Mazouer, 8 rue de la Chênaie, F-33170, Gradignan, or $24 to North American Treasurer: SEE NORMAN, BUFORD (supra). Edition 2000 copies still available.

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Recent: "Bibliography of North American Theses on Seventeenth-Century French Literature and Background (2001–2002)," in PFSCL XXX, 58 (2003), 231–246. "Research in Progress 2002," in French 17, v.50 (2002), 185–196. Tribute to Editor J.D.Vedvik, ibid., p. iii. Paper, "The 17th Century Gates of Paris," Phenomenology Conference, Harvard U., Cambridge, 5/17/03. Bibliography Reports, Dartmouth Conference, 5/03. Forthcoming "The 'Front de Seine' in 1630–1660" and "Perelle's Veües des Plus Beaux Endroits de Versailles," for CdDS. In Press: "Saint-Amant, Holland House, and the Queen of England," Analecta Husserliana, 2004. Directeur, CM; Contrib. ed., French 17.

RONZEAUD, PIERRE (U. de Provence). Secretary, CIR-17. Faculté des Lettres d'Aix-en-Provence, 29 ave. de Robert Schumann, 13 Cedex 1.

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>.

SADR, TABITHA SPAGNOLO (Duke). Thesis in progress: "Transvestism in Seventeenth-century French Literature and Society: Fact, Fiction and Theater". Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SAFTY, ESSAM (St. Thomas U., Canada). Bk., La Psyché humaine: Conceptions populaires, religieuses et philosophiques en Grèce, des origines à l'ancien stoïcisme. Paris: Editions Harmattan, 2003. Contact: "Dr. E. Safty" <safty@NBNET.NB.CA> http://www.stthomasu.ca/academic/fren/safty/index.htm.

SATOR 04 (Société d'Analyse de la Topique dans les OEuvres Romanesques avant la Révolution). Contact Eglal Henein <eglal.henein@tufts.edu>. XVIIIe Colloque 2004: to be organised by Daniel Maher and Glen Campbell, 5–7 July 2004, Calgary (Canada). Theme: "la temporalité narrative" . Contact: Daniel Maher, <dmaher@ucalgary.ca>.

SATOR 05. XIXe Colloque annuel, Clermont-Ferrand, Summer 2005. Topic: "Mémoires d'Europe: topographie de la rencontre dans le roman européen." Deadline for proposals, 15 décembre 2003. Contact: Jean-Pierre Dubost, <jpdubost@gmx.fr> OR Eglal Henein.

SCFS. See SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES.

SCHRODER, VOLKER (Princeton). Forthcoming: Arts., "Ecolier, ou plutôt singe de Bourdaloue: portrait du satirique en prédicateur," in Boileau: poésie, esthétique, ed. Emmanuel Bury; "Versailles, opéra aux fantômes: the Ghosts of Versailles," in Versailles dans la littérature: mémoire et imaginaire aux XIXe et XX siècles, ed. Véronique Léonard-Roques; "Ecrire les Gracques sous Louis XIV," in Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Actes de Charlottesville (NASSCFL 2002). ed John D. Lyons. Crit. ed., with Alicia Montoya, of Marie-Anne Barbier, Cornélie mère des Gracques (tragedy, 1703). In progress: art. on responses to Boileau's Satires; Bk. on satirical writing in the second half of the 17th C. (Boileau, Molière, La Bruyère, Deshoulières, et al.). Review Editor, PFSCL. <volkers@PRINCETON.EDU>.

SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Studies). 23rd Annual Conference, 28–30 October 2004, at William & Mary C. Themes: "Travel/Le Moyen de Parvenir." 250-word abstracts due by April 15, 2004, directly to session chairs. President: Martha M. Houle, Modern Languages and Literatures, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. <mmhoul@wm.edu>. Website updates forthcoming. Recent: 2003 Joint Meeting at U. Durham, U.K., with Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies. http://www.rom.uga.edu/mac/fassaf/SE172004.htm. See ASSAF, FRANCIS. (supra).

SEMINAIRE 2003–2004: "Ecrire, décrire: régimes littéraires & discursifs du regard au 17e s." Patrick Dandrey et Delphine Denis (MLM Fr 413 et A37513 Fr). Salle des Actes de Paris-Sorbonne, Tuesdays 18h-20h. Nov. 4 through May 18.

SEMINAIRE 2003–2004: "Pour une histoire de la philologie." Emmanuel Bury, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45, rue d'Ulm, le jeudi de 14h à 16h. 6 novembre–29 janvier; scéances prévues pour le second semestre. Interdisciplinary EBYBury@AOL.COM.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE. Editor, Richard Maber. Journal covers all aspects of the 17th. Encourages period study so as to transcend national and disciplinary boundaries. Vol. XVIII,1 (April 2003). Also accessible online Two issues per year. website: http://mupmcc.ac.uk. See MABER (supra).

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 5–7 July, 2004. Contact: Michael Sheringham (President), French Dept., Royal Holloway U. of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. Fax: +4 (0) 1784 70180. E-mail: <m.ockenden@rhul.ac.uk> SFS Home page: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/.

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). 27th Annual Conference, 16–18 September, 2004, U. of Glasgow. Topic: "The Knowledge Economy in the Long Seventeenth Century / L'Economie du savoir, 1580–1715." Also celebrating the 25th anniversary of its journal, SCFS. Call for papers on website: http://www.c17.org.uk. Contact: Amy Wygant, A.Wygant@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

STEDMAN, ALLISON (Bucknell). Forthcoming: "Charmed Eloquence: Lheritier's Representation of Female Literary Creativity in Late Seventeenth-Century France," in CdDS.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). In press: Bk., Parcours lafontanien: d'Adonis au Livre XII des Fables. Biblio 17, vol. 150, Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2004. Arts., "Mirrors of Affectivity and Aesthetics: Gardens, Parks, Landscapes as seen by Théophile de Viau and La Fontaine." Analecta Husserliana, ed. A.T. Tymieniecka, LXXVIII (2000), 7–24. "Voix féminines dans la littérature classique," in Actes de Tempe, ed. David Wetsel. Biblio 17, vol. 144, II (2002), pp. 41–52. "De l'idéal galant à l'héroïsme amoureux," in Actes du Colloque Madeleine de Scudéry, éd. Delphine Denis, PU de l'Artois, 2002, pp. 133–40. "Vénus et Adonis: le mythe dans la tradition humaniste de la Renaissance européenne," Le Fablier, no. 14 (2002), pp. 9–7 , éd. Patrick Dandrey. In Preparation: Paper for session "Beaux Arts et Belles Lettres: comment peut-on parler d'esthétique au XVIIe Sc." MLA 2003 Convention, Dec. 27–30, San Diego (to be publ. in PFSCL). Paper for Mtg. of Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, Paris, May 27–29, 2004 (organized by Patrick Dandrey, President). Topic "Le musée imaginaire de La Fontaine". To be publ. in Le Fablier. Research: La Fontaine and questions of Aesthetics in 17th C. Honorary Contrib. Ed. to French 17 (vol.51, 2003).

TOBIN, RONALD (Calif.-Santa Barbara). Publications: "Booking the Cooks: Literature and Gastronomy in Molière," Literary Imagination 5.1 (2003), 125–36. "Qu'est-ce que la gastrocritique?", DSS 217 (2002), 621–30. "Rehearsal and Reversal in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" (rpt.), Molière, ed. Harold Bloom (Modern Critical Views), Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002, 107–22. "Authority and Censorship in Tartuffe," (rpt), Molière, ed. Harold Bloom (Major Dramatists), Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003, 49–61. Forthcoming: "La fête gastronomique chez Molière," Actes de Pèzenas. "L'hospitalité dans les comédies de Molière, Molière hier et aujourd'hui." Several reviews, notably of The Shape of Change, Rubin Festschrift, for PFSCL. "In Memoriam Paul Bénichou" and Introduction to Panel on "La Mythologie," Actes de Charlottesville. Introduction to panel on "Racine et La Mythologie," Actes des Journées de Racine en Ile de France. Future projects: "Edo ergo sum: Dassoucy ou l'odysée d'un gosier," Colloque: Avez-vous lu Dassoucy?, Université Blaise Pascal, June 2004. Bk on L'hospitalité dans la littérature française du 17e siècle.

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 U.). Editor, French 17, an Annual Descriptive Bibliography of French 17th Century Studies. Recent: Number 50 (50th Anniversary issue) awarded the Prix Web 17 2002. Art.: "Corps sacré, discours souverain: le couple dans Les Femmes illustres," published in Madeleine de Scudéry: Une femme de lettres au XVIIe siècle (eds. D. Denis & A.-E. Spica); "A Brief History: The Love Affair between France and Chocolate" in Chocolate French (ed. André K. Crump); with C. Renaudin, pedagogical website on Camara Laye's L'enfant noir (a text recently included in the AP French exam.) In progress: With C. Renaudin, a study of the fairy tale origins of Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-miroir. Correspondance: Modern Languages & Literatures, Sonoma State U., 1801 Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928. <suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu>. http:www.sonoma.edu/users/t/toczyski/.

VOS-CAMY, JOLENE (Calvin C.). Art.: "Theatrical Intersections in the Novel: Scarron's Roman comique. Actes of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century FrenchLiterature, Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting at Dartmouth College. (forthcoming).Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WALLIS, ANDREW (Whittier C.). C.V. at http://web.whittier.edu/awallis/cv.htm Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WEB 17. Ed.by Roger Duchêne (U. de Provence), 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. RD requests suggestions for web 17 prizes 2003. Alphabetic index of site, at bottom left-hand book icon on welcome page. RD: 174 rue abbé de l'Epée, 13005 Marseille roger.duchene@wanadoo.fr.

WETSEL, DAVID (Arizona State). President, NASSCFL 01. Ed., with Frédéric Canovas, Actes de Tempe. Volume I. Pascal/New Trends in Pascal Studies; Volume II. Les femmes au Grand Siècle/Le Baroque: musique et littérature; III. La Spiritualité/ L'épistolaire/Le Merveilleux au Grand Siècle; IV. Cérémonies et rituels en France au XVIIe siècle; V. Philosophies au siècle classique en France; VI Présences du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance en France Classique. [The complete set runs to some 1438 pages.] To order: Vols. I-III may be ordered via the following links in the collection Biblio 17: ACTA, 1–3 and Gunter Narr Verlag, A. Francke Verlag, Attempto Verlag. Vols. IV-VI may be ordered via the following links: roma15 and Romanice. Photos of the Jean Gilles Réquiem may be downloaded from the following site: Index: Wetsel Images. Other photographs of the conference are available by request. [Many of you may not know that the beautiful Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Anglican), where the Requiem took place, was destroyed by fire last year (DW)]. <Wdwetsel@aol.com>.

WINE, KATHLEEN (Dartmouth). President, NASSCFL 2003. Kathleen.Wine@dartmouth.edu.

WOMEN AND THEATER IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE. Conference at Scripps College, Claremont, CA, April 22–24, 2004. Contact: Diane Kelley <dkelley@ups.edu> Web: http://www.as.wvu.edu/wif/WIF-Conference.htm.