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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.