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ARBOUR, ROMEO. Dictionnaire des femmes libraries en France (1470-1870). Genève: Droz, 2003.

Review: Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 609 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. Arbour's biographical dictionary lists women in the book trade. They are indexed first alphabetically, then by century.

Review : E. Berriot-Salvadore in BHR 66.3 (2004), 703–05 : 《 Tout est construit pour faciliter l'utilisation de ce dictionnaire, conçu non comme une somme définitive mais comme un stimulant outil de découverte. 》

ARTS & HUMANITIES THROUGH THE ERAS. Ann Arbor: Gale, 2005.

Review: V.L. Wainscott in Choice 43.1 (2005), 62: A five-volume set of which volumes 4, Renaissance Europe 1300–1600 and 5, Baroque and Enlightenment 1600–1800, will be of most interest to dix-septiémistes. A multicultural approach intended to "bring history to life." In addition to 1–2 page articles, includes timelines, biographies, primary source references.

BAKER, SUSAN READ. "Nautical Fare in Robert Challe's Journal d'un voyage fait aux Indes Orientales (1690-1691)." CdDS 9.1 (2004): 21–32.

Using the differences between the draft of Challe's work and its published version, author examines the additions Challe made about food and drink; emphasizes that the work is not merely an inventory, but rather "an economics of consumption fraught with moral, political, ideological, even theological overtones."

BALSAMO, JEAN, ed. Les Funérailles à la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle, Bar-le-Duc, 2–5 décembre 1999. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: M. J. Gill in Ren Q 57 (2004): 235–237: Highly interdisciplinary, this collection of 24 essays "constitutes an invaluable survey of current research in the culture and commemoration of death in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries [and is] organized into two parts, 'Rites and Princely Memorials' and 'Religious Polemics and Learned Discourses'" (235). Gill suggests topics for future investigation such as "the role of women as sponsors and as dedicated custodians of the afterlife" (237). Highly suggestive for future studies both artistic and literary.

BAR, VIRGINIE. La peinture allégorique au Grand Siècle.

Mentioned in Choice 42.4 (2004), 610 as a "significant European scholarly title" for 2003. In her book, Bar offers "an illustrated discussion of French allegorical painting of the 17th century, focusing on mural paintings and decoration at such important sites as Versailles" (610).

BEGUIN, KATIA. Les Princes de Condé. Rebelles, courtisans et mécènes dans la France du Grand siècle. Avant-propos de Daniel Roche. Champ Vallon, 1999.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/beguin.html. "[V]ery rich and subtle study of clientage, patronage, and princely household culture," written in "sparkling prose." Ranum notes that, "The organization of this book is just about perfect. It is generally chronological while being specifically thematic and also generational. Part I is the rise to fortune of Henry II, and the accrochage of his son in the Fronde. Part II is the clientage and household of the Grand Condé, and Part III is the cultural patronage." Final section devoted to literary and scientific patronage. A "splendid, thoughtful book."

BLACK, JEREMY. Kings, Nobles and Commoners: States and Societies in Early Modern Europe, A Revisionist History. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004.

Review: R. Barnes in Choice 42.4 (2004), 727. Here, Black attempts a history of Europe from 1550–1800 that eschews arguments about state-formation and governmental centralization. Instead, Black attempts to emphasize "political contingency, the constant need for compromise among elites, and general continuity" (727). Black bases these claims almost exclusively on secondary sources in English, and presents his findings in awkward, muddled prose. Although the reviewer expresses slight approval for the book's final chapter, which makes a case for the importance of capitalist forces in the rise of globalization, the reviewer nonetheless withholds his recommendation.

BRUNNER, HORST, ed. Die Wahrnehmung und Darstellung von Kriegen im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2000.

Review: G. Vollmann-Profe in Archiv 240 (2003): 382–84: The fourteen essays treat perceptions and representations of war in texts from the high Middle Ages to the early modern. Wide-ranging examinations from the theoretical to the literary, diplomatic and even propagandistic perspectives.

BURIDANT, JEROME. "La gestion des forêts de vénerie au XVIIe siècle." DSS 226 (2005), 17–27.

"On sait que l'exercice de la chasse par la plupart des rois de France a contribué depuis la fin de l'époque médiévale au maintien des grandes forêts d'Île-de-France, dans des périodes où la couverture sylvestre se réduisait comme peau de chagrin. Plus encore, la chasse et la vénerie en particulier conduisent à un véritable façonnement des milieux forestiers, du fait des aménagements tout autant que de la pression du gibier." The author concludes that the forests were marked particularly by the practices of the seventeenth century and not always for the better.

BURKE, PETER. Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 40 (2004): 464: Judged highly readable, Burke's study is wide-ranging, examining historical and pre-historical uses of the visual, context and intention. Individual chapters treat portraits and photographs, intellectual content, the sacred and supernatural (images of devotion, for example), propaganda, material culture, stereotypes, visual narratives, and useful theoretical methods.

CAMERON, KEITH, ed. La Vie et faits notables de Henri de Valois. Paris: Champion (2003).

Review: M. Lazard in FS 59.2 (2005), 239–40: The reviewer details the contents of Cameron's edition of a vehemently pro-Catholic and anti-Henri IV work. The biography is well edited and well-chosen, as it is very interesting in its own right for the insights it gives to what amounts to a justification for regicide. In the reviewer's words, this is "une excellente édition, utile à l'historien comme au littéraire."

CARRIER, HUBERT. Le Labyrinthe de l'Etat: essai sur le débat politique en France au temps de la Fronde (1648–1653). Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/carrier_labyrinthe.htm. Reviewer calls the work "magisterial" and "finds it difficult to imagine a more authoritative work than Carrier's!" thanks in part to the author's "profound understanding of monarchy as a political form." Ranum also notes that "the whole study is grounded on the careful exploration of key social as well as political terms, with pertinent quotations to support whatever point is being made." A "profound and important work" (Ranum).

Review: n.a. in BCLF 672 (2005), 116: 《 H. Carrier ne revient pas sur l'histoire de la Fronde proprement dite. . ., mais se demande dans quelle mesure ce soulèvement a conduit les Français à réfléchir aux grandes questions politiques de leur temps. Pour ce faire, il s'intéresse à la masse d'environ cinq mille cinq cents textes publiés de 1648 à 1653 et réunis sous le terme générique de 'mazarinades'. 》

CARSON, SUSANNAH. "L'économique de la mode: Costume, Conformity and Consumerism in Le Mercure gallant." SCFS 27 (2005), 133–146.

In the Mercure galant, "engravings, articles, and short fictions simultaneously encouraged readers to emulate a certain model of dress and enforced stratification through sartorial distinctions. This article reviews ways in which these conflicting concerns of assimilation and differentiation contributed to the evolution of a knowledge economy of clothes."

CASTELLUCCIO, STEPHANE. Le Garde-meuble de la couronne et ses intendants du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 670 (2005), 42–43: L'auteur 《 conduit avec rigueur l'histoire de cette institution: biens inaliénables, objets d'art (réserve monétaire rapidement disponible), domaine casuel et domaine fixe, critères retenus pour les ventes d'objets usés ou démodés, le rachat d'un mobilier neuf et d'une vaisselle à la mode entretenant le dynamisme et la créativité des artisans parisiens. 》

COGITORE, ISABELLE & FRANCIS GOYET, eds. L'éloge du Prince. De l'Antiquité au temps des Lumières. Grenoble: Université Stendhal-ELLUG, 2003.

Review: C. Thiry in LR 58 (2004): 144–46: These studies drawn from the papers read at the 1997 colloque at Grenoble and from others presented at the séminaire "Discours pour les Princes" focus on the theory and techniques of the éloge. Studies in the first half of the volume treat Greek and Latin literature and those of the second half examine the early modern. 17th c. scholars will appreciate contributions on the éloge in satire and in discourses of the Academy, image construction, propaganda and dissimulation.

CORVOL, ANDREE. "Droit de chasse et réserves à l'époque moderne." DSS 226 (2005), 3–16.

This article makes a detailed study of the uneven implementation of laws governing the hunt during the seventeenth century and how their enforcement or lack thereof benefited the privileged, altered the development of land involved for the greater good, and caused an uneven depletion in hunted wildlife. In undertaking a general analysis, the author points to a general lack of regulation in matters of the hunt in France between "l'ordonnance de 1669 et la loi de 1790, après quoi il faut attendre celle de 1844."

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA. L'âge de la conversation. Trans. E. Deschamps-Pria. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.

Review: A. Jaubert in RHL 104.4 (2004): 940–42. A general audience book that is both a "livre-somme" covering two centuries of cultural life, and a "livre-thèse" that demonstrates "l'intrication entre l'histoire des moeurs, le cheminement des idées, et la promotion de certaines formes littéraires." Most chapters center around the important women of the salons; author uses both primary sources and current scholarship, brought together in a 56-page annotated bibliography. Reviewer finds work both intellectually rigorous and agreeable to read.

CRAWFORD, KATHERINE. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2004.

Review: J. Harris in Choice 43.1 (2005), 178: Demonstrates that gender played a significant role in the way regencies, starting with Catherine de Médicis and ending with Marie Antoinette, helped form the modern French state. The inclusion of Philippe d'Orléans, the only male regent of the period, strengthens her argument that thanks to Catherine de Médicis, the role of regent became strongly gendered, making it difficult for Philippe d'Orléans to fulfill it, which in turn led to the monarchy being challenged and ultimately, the Revolution. Harris indicates that the book also includes an "exemplary" use of images.

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

Review: C. Braider in Ren Q 57 (2004): 606–608: Less than enthusiastic review finds the volume uneven, the essays "short and this underdeveloped." Braider does have praise for Charlotte Simonin's "Les portraits de femmes auteurs ou l'impossible représentation" but he does not indicate who the women authors are. None of the other essays he mentions are on 17th c. French subjects.

CRESCENZO, RICHARD, MARIE ROIG-MIRANDA & VERONIQUE ZAERCHER, eds. Le Mariage dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: réalités et représentations. Nancy: U de Nancy II, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 144 (2004): 681–82: Rich two-volume collection of essays drawn from the 2001 Nancy conference on the topic of matrimony. The subject is examined by eminent scholars from a double perspective, the institution itself and its literary and artistic transposition (681). Sections include treatments of the following subjects: juridical rules and social organization; evolution from political matrimony to that of love; the importance of money; theatrical, satirical and fictive representations of marriage and the perfect spouse; divorce and separation after the Council of Trent; and adultery and 17th c. Catholic treatises.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Femmes lunatiques: Women and the Moon in Early Modern France." DFS 71 (2005), 3–29:

"The vast constellation of literary and iconographic sources that exploit the theme of female lunacy reveals the femme lunatique as a significant satirical theme in seventeenth-century anti-feminist discourse. As such, this imagery served as a vehicle for the expression of male anxiety in an age of increasingly prominent public roles for women in the political, religious, literary and even military arenas, and of intense challenge to the allotted place of women as wives and mothers."

DEJEAN, JOAN. The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/dejean_obscenity.htm. While reviewer calls the book "learnedly stimulating," he notes that Dejean fails to cite Alfred Soman, a pioneer in the field, although her conclusions are "strikingly similar" to his. Ranum notes that Dejean is a "careful and thoughtful reader of Foucault" and signals "the wonderful absence of reductionism" in her text. Ranum concludes, "Let the reader enjoy Dejean's work; no summary would do it justice."

DERSTINE, ANDRIA L. "The French Academy in Rome, 1666–1737: Art, Society, Politics and Relations with the Accademia di San Luca." DAI 65/09 (2005), 3191.

A detailed study of the workings of the French Academy in Rome, "founded in 1666 by Louis XIV and Jean-Baptiste Colbert [...] largely so that its pensionnaires would copy works in Rome for the burgeoning palace of Versailles.

DESPLAT, CHRISTIAN. Les Villageois face à la guerre (XIVe–XVIIIe siècle). Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 2002.

Review : C. Bruneel in RBPH 82.4 (2004), 1175–76: Les XXIIes Journées internationales d'Histoire de l'Abbaye de Flaran: 《 C'est avec une grande liberté d'approche et une large diversité que les différents auteurs ont apporté leur contribution au thème. Chronologiquement, les Temps modernes sont privilégiées et, plus particulièrement, par la force des choses, les XVIe et XVIIe siècles. 》

DUCCINI, HELENE. Faire voir, faire croire. L'opinion publique sous Louis XIII. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2003.

Review: T. Baranova in DSS 227 (2005), 367–368: The author studies "les libelles et les images du règne de Louis XIII en tant que 《médias》 de l'époque, permettant les processus d'information, de communication, de contestation et de propagande." The reviewer identifies "l'intérêt de ce livre est de donner au lecteur une vue d'ensemble sur la production de la période et sur son évolution, sur les thèmes qui suscitent les publications, sur les chaînes polémiques, sur les mécanismes de glissement du débat, sur la mise en service de l'information et de la désinformation."

DUCHENE, ROGER. Etre femme au temps de Louis XIV. Paris: Perrin, 2004.

Review: M. Bernos in RHL 104.4 (2004): 935–37. 37 short chapters, on everything from physiology to religion to work to marriage, offering a view of what it was like to be a woman in the seventeenth century. The author takes much of his information from texts by women, and the reviewer finds that he shows "une vraie 'sympathie' pour son objet." Though aimed at a large audience, the book does not sacrifice scholarly documentation; mixes consideration of great authors with many forgotten eye-witnesses of the period.

Review: A. Blanc in DSS 226 (2005), 173–175: The reviewer finds this to be an erudite and accessible contribution to the study of the status of women during the seventeenth century, building on the author's earlier body of work. "Roger Duchêne part du plus physique pour aboutir au plus intellectuel, allant de la physiologie féminine à la place de la femme dans la société et finalement à sa culture."

DU CREST, SABINE. "Les abeilles dans la Rome des Barberini: de la dilatation d'un insecte dans l'art." In Charles Mazouer, 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). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 103–118.

The widespread use of the bee as a symbol in seventeenth-century Rome shows how the typically baroque artistic technique of dilatation destabilizes perception.

DUGGAN, ANNE E. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Delaware: Associated University Presses, 2005.

Review: C.B. Kerr in Choice 43.3 (2005), 489: Explores the roles of Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy as "agents of cultural change" (Kerr). Also discusses Nicolas Boileau and Charles Perrault in order to revisit the tendency to separate these woman writers from the literary canon. According to Kerr, "highly recommended."

DUPORT, DANIELE. Le Jardin et la nature: Ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance. Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: R. E. Campo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 6464–48: Praiseworthy examination of "the philosophical and poetic antithesis between order and variety in Renaissance French literature as that opposition relates to anterior and contemporary manifestations, conceptions, and representations of the garden" (646). Duport's study treats 1) scientific discourses on horticulture, 2) the garden as a topos in the literature of the imagination, and 3) the role of the garden in poetic theory and accounts of royal entries. Appendices, and index and bibliography complete Duport's study which regrettably excludes illustrations.

EDELSTEIN, BRUCE L. "Maria de' Medici." Burlington 1230 (2005): 640–641.

A review of the exhibition Maria de' Medici: una principessa fiorentina sul trono di Francia at the Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The exhibition contains four parts: the artistic context in which she was raised, the music and other details of her proxy wedding to Henry IV, her role as a patron of the arts in France, and a look at her life in a European context. Edelstein: "The exhibition admirably rises to the challenge of its stated purpose," of making us re-evaluate Marie de Medici's life and her role as a patroness of the arts.

EGMOND, FLORIKE & ROBERT ZWIJNENBERG, eds. Bodily Extremities: Preoccupations with the Human Body in Early Modern European Culture. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003.

Review: W. Schleiner in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1096–1098: Schleiner finds that the eight well-researched and well-documented essays do "significantly advance our knowledge of the period" (1098). 17th c. French scholars will appreciate Peter Mason's essay "Reading New World Bodies" where he "compares the way the French painter Poussin wanted his paintings to be 'read' with the way Columbus and his contemporaries 'read' the New World bodies they encountered" (1098).

EYGUN, JEAN. "Louange des Bourbons et poésie occitane: de quelques chants royaux toulousains." RLR 108 no. 1 (2004): 135–154.

The three poems in Occitan praising Louis XIII and Louis XIV published here question the prevailing notion that Occitan poetry opposes rather than supports the prevailing political order.

FAVREAU, MARC. "La réouverture de la Manufacture des Gobelins en 1699 et la commande de tapisseries à Claude III Audran: les Portières des Dieux (1699) et les Mois grotesques (1709)" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 239–262.

The reopening of the Gobelins factory in 1699 marked a new artistic policy engineered by Mansart. Audran was responsible for a new esthetic which prized the arabesque or grotesque over historical subject matter and style.

FERGUSON, PRISCILLA. "Les Quinze Livres d'Athénée: French Culinary Culture in the Making." CdDS 9.1 (2004): 1–19.

Article examines the textualization of cuisine in Marolle's 1680 translation of Athenaeus. Stresses its cultivation of a mondain audience, the generic models it draws upon, and its illustration of Mauss's dictum that food is a "total social phenomenon."

FERRIERES, MADELEINE. Le Bien des pauvres: la consommation populaire en Avignon (1600–1800). Seyssel: Champvallon, 2004.

Review : BCLF 666 (2005), 107–08: L'auteur 《 fait revivre tout un univers d'humbles gens, la 'France d'en-bas' d'avant la Révolution. 》 Ferrières 《 passe en effet au crible un fonds d'archives considérable, celui du mont-de-piété d'Avignon, dans les bureaux duquel défilèrent, entre 1610 et 1791, plus de six cent mille Avignonnais. . . 》

FISHMAN, LAURA. "Crossing Gender Boundaries: Tupi and European Women in the Eyes of Claude d'Abbeville." FCS 4 (2003), 81–98.

Discusses the role of gender in Capuchin missionary Claude d'Abbeville's work with the Tupinamba of early 17th- century Brazil. Explores d'Abbeville's assessment in light of his own notions of gender, and questions whether his conclusions concerning the Tupinamba were accurate.

FOISIL, MADELEINE. Femmes de caractère au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Fallois, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 665 (2004), 28–29: 《 Il s'agit d'un ouvrage de vulgarisation, certes de bonne qualité. 》 Douze personnalités présentées dans cinq sections: 《 'Femmes du monde' (la marquise de Rambouillet et Madeleine de Scudéry), 'Femmes guerrières' (Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, Catherine de la Guette), 'Femmes consacrées' (Madame Acarie, Marie de l'Incarnation, Jeanne des Anges), 'Femmes veuve, reine, régente' (Catherine de Médicis, Marie de Médicis, Anne d'Autriche), et 'Femmes mémorialistes' (Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Françoise de Motteville). 》

FUDGE, ERICA, ed. Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful Creatures. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Review: R. Morrison in Choice 42.1 (2004), 147. "[P]rovides provocative analyses of the significance of animals and their relationships with humans in early modern culture" (117). In her introduction, Fudge provides a useful context for the volume, whose essays broach topics such as animal experimentation, meat eating, and the relationship between animals and queerness. One essay also discusses the role and presence of animals at Versailles. Highly recommended by the reviewer, and said to be of interest for contemporary thought on human-animal relations.

GAILLARD, AURELIA. "Bestiare réel, bestiare enchanté: les animaux à Versailles sous Louis XIV." In Charles Mazouer, 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). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 185–198.

Animals at Versailles, whether living or representations (paintings, sculptures, literary creations) exist in the world of both men and fable as they circulate in a complex network of leisure and learning, pleasure and knowledge.

GAILLARD, AURELIA. Le Corps des statues. Le vivant et son simulacre à l'âge classique (de Descartes à Diderot) Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: F. Zanelli Quarantini in S Fr 144 (2004): 613: Underscores and illustrates the centrality of the statue to the French imagination "in parallelo alla crescente attenzione scientifica intorno alla natura umana e alla sua condizione corporea e sensoriale" (613). Rigorous analyses include several on 17th c. topics: La Fontaine, Versailles, Poussin and D'Aulnoy among others.

GARBER, KLAUS & JUTTA HELD, eds. Der Frieden. Rekonstruktion einer europäischen Vision. 2 Vols. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2001. Vol. 1 Erfahrung und Deutung von Krieg und Frieden. Religion-Geschlechter-Natur und Kultur, edited by Klaus Garber et al.; Vol. 2 Frieden und Krieg in der Frühen Neuzeit. Die europäische Staatenordnung und die außereuropäische Welt, edited by Ronald G. Asch, Wulf Eckart Voß & Martin Wrede.

Review: M. Lentzen in Archiv 241 (2004): 181–86: Praiseworthy for its extensive insights in both presentations and discussions on war and peace in the early modern. Highly recommended not only as a valuable reference work but also as material which may promote and protect peace. Volume one is organized in sections treating religious perspectives, gender, culture and nature; volume two focuses on state formation, boundaries and the world outside Europe. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the attention to Marie de Gournay and Poullain de la Barre as well as to imaginary peaceful states or utopias and their ideologies.

GARNER, GUILLAUME. "'1700', '1690–1710': des ruptures dans l'histoire de la France et de l'Europe?" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 19–33.

The author examines the contradictory necessities of the historical notion of periodicization and the focus on particular, individual years (especially highly symbolic "round numbers" such as "1700").

GARRAWAY, DORIS. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

GILBY, EMMA. "Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-Century France." SCFS 27 (2005), 29–38.

"This paper is concerned with perspectival constructions in art and how they are written about in seventeenth-century France. Often, the work of Descartes is juxtaposed with seventeenth-century theories of perspective, and I shall maintain, while qualifying, this juxtaposition here."

GOULET, ANNE-MADELEINE. Poésie, musique et sociabilité au dix-septième siècle: les livres d'airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard de 1658 à 1694. Lumière Classique 55. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.

Review: A. Stedman in FR 79.1 (October 2005): 182–183: "Anne-Madeleine Goulet's meticulous excavation of the Livres d'airs de différents auteurs. . . unearths a wealth of information that is sure to prove indispensable to literary, cultural, and musicological scholarship for years to come." Stedman calls the collection "one of the most successful and enduring musical anthologies of the seventeenth century," noting the coincidence of its publication dates with those of the "onset and decline of 'le goût nouveau.'" Goulet presents "poets, composers, patrons, themes, structures, generic exceptions, musical arrangement, instrumentation, performance practices, solicitation processes, prefatory digressions, and textual materiality," all of which ultimately "provides an invaluable window into the particular space of the late seventeenth-century salon." Stedman lauds Goulet's "painstakingly executed archival work" and "comprehensive synthesis of recent French scholarship on worldly sociability," though she notes Goulet's oversight of significant American scholarship on the topic. 200 pages of appendices.

GRANDE, NATHALIE. "Une vedette des salons: le caméléon." In Charles Mazour, 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). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 89–102.

Examines seventeenth-century France's fascination with the chameleon and the animal's moral connotations as a symbol of changeability in the work of Madeleine de Scudéry.

GRANGER, SYLVIE. Musiciens dans la ville, 1600–1650. Paris: Belin, 2002.

Review: E. Weber in DSS 227 (2005), 370–372: "Cette minutieuse enquête porte notamment sur Le Mans, ville de province représentative, et concerne plus de 《mille musiciens》. En historienne avertie, Sylvie Granger a exploité deux siècles et demi de documents d'archives relatifs — de près ou de loin — à la présence de la musique, des musiciens, de concerts, d'instruments et de danses — bref, de la pratique musicale et chorégraphique."

GRENDLER, PAUL F. "The Universities of the Renaissance and Reformation." Ren Q 57 (2004): 1–42.

Emphasis of Grendler's study is the Renaissance; however 17th c. scholars will appreciate important sections on humanism and research as well as the various challenges for 17th c. universities — new schools which "taught part of the university curriculum and gave young men specific professional skills and religious preparation for life" (24). Discusses schools founded by the Jesuits, the Doctrinaires and the Oratorians. Reminds that the most famous pupil of the Collège Henri IV operated by the Jesuits was René Descartes (26). Extensive descriptive appendix and bibliography.

GRENIER, BENOIT. "'Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur?': Une étude comparative de la présence seigneuriale (France-Canada), XVIIe–XIXe Siècle." FCS 5 (2004), 7–24.

Studies residency habits of seigneurs in the Saint-Lawrence valley in the 17th–19th centuries. Notes that the trend toward residency was the opposite of that in France during the same time period.

GRES-GAYER, JACQUES. "Tradition et modernité: la réforme des études en Sorbonne (1673–1715)." RHEF 88 no. 221 (2002): 341–389.

The author describes and analyzes the the new statutes of 1673–1675 and how they transformed the Sorbonne's course of theological studies in response to the necessities of the times. The article pays particular attention to how exams replaced debates as a means of verifying knowledge.

GUTHKE, KARL S. Epitaph Culture in the West. Variations on a Theme in Cultural History. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Review: H. M. Richmond in Archiv 241 (2004): 176–78: Focus is not literary excellence but cultural factors as Guthke explores memory, motivations, uses, laughter and levity, suicides, animal epitaphs, etc. Chronologically ordered, Guthke's account demonstrates "both the continuity of certain themes and the thematic change that has occurred (Guthke 357).

HARDING, VANESSA. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: B. B. Davis in Ren Q 57 (2004): 663–64: Reviewer finds that Harding's study "supplies a unique perspective on the complex issues of dying and burial" (664). The contrasts between London and Paris are remarkable, explained to a degree by the larger number of parishes in London. 17th c. French scholars will appreciate the analysis of the ever more elaborate funeral, often undermining its moral and religious significance" (664). For the French sources Harding has relied on the 8000 testaments which were the basis of Pierre Chaunu's 1978 Mort à Paris.

HARRIS, ANNE SUTHERLAND. "Landscapes and Ruins." Burlington 1229 (2005): 578–580.

This is actually a review of two exhibitions; French dix-septiémistes will be especially interested in the section on the Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition The Splendor of Ruins in French Landscape Painting, 1630–1800. Of particular note are the works by Pierre-Antoine Patel the Younger and Claude Gellée, as well as the "superbly designed" catalog containing quality reproductions, a full bibliography, and "well-written texts."

HARRIS, JOSEPH. Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in 17th-Century France. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17 - 156, 2005.

HAUTEBERT, JOEL. La Justice pénale à Nantes au Grand Siècle: jurisprudence de la sénéchaussée présidiale. Paris: M. de Maule, 2001.

Review: K. Weidenfeld in DSS 226 (2005), 180–181: This reworked thesis is favorably reviewed as elucidating our knowledge of this little-studied institution. "Fondée sur l'analyse de documents d'archives, cette étude donne à voir le fonctionnement concret de la justice pénale sous l'Ancien Régime. Le tableau ainsi brossé est riche de détails vivants relatifs à la vie d'une juridiction."

HELGERSON, RICHARD. Adulterous Alliances: Home, State, and History in Early Modern European Drama and Painting. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003.

Review: D. Robin in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1082–1083: Found generally "compelling," Helgerson's view is rich and "through an unusually wide lens" (1083). Rather than associating the "cult of domesticity" with the modern era, Helgerson finds it "indicative of an "important cultural shift that extended all across early modern Europe from 1590–1690" (1082). Includes an examination of Molière's Tartuffe.

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. Ut Pictura Theatrum: Théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 2003.

Review: N. Gounaridou, J. Russell in SCN 63 (2005), 84–89: "The comparison between theatre, the literary genre closest to the image, and painting, both of which represent, was so obvious to thinkers of the Renaissance and classical France that they took it for granted and did not even think to formulate an ut pictura theatrum. Hénin's book seeks to rectify this gap and to show how today's ut pictura poesis depends on the earlier ut pictura theatrum." Considered by the reviewers as a "gift," the book is divided into three parts, "Portraits of the Theatre," "The Theatrical Image: From Unity to Unities," and "Ut Pictura Theatrum: The Theatre of Passions."

HODGSON, RICHARD G., ed. La Femme au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque de Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 5–7 Oct. 2000. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, Biblio 17 (138), 2001.

Review: Ph. Hourcade in IL 56.2 (2004): 60–61. Reviewer provides a thumbnail of each of the 27 papers in the volume. "[T]out cela est riche.... La vivacité du féminisme, à mon sens, n'a pas vraiment donné lieu ici au militarisme sectaire et manichéen, mais souvent à une conscience toute scientifique de la complexité des choses."

Review: J. Prest in FS 58.1 (2004): 94–95. While the review praises the content of the articles in this volume, it criticizes the work for a lack of cohesion, a situation that is made worse by the absence of an introduction or conclusion. The reviewer goes on to note many of the intriguing papers in the work and the questions they raise about the status of women, again wondering why the editor made no effort to draw the subject together.

HORNE, ALISTAIR. Friend or Foe. An Anglo-Saxon History of France. London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, 2004.

Review: R. Mettam in TLS 5315 (Feb 11 2005), 25: As subtitle suggests, "a highly personal, idiosyncratic account" of French history. Author begins with Roman Gaul and ends with present time. Principal focus on the rulers of France, with frequent asides to consider life in Paris. Reviewer finds work remarkably free from errors, and the story is "told vigorously, with vivid anecdotes, well-chosen quotations and evocative detail."

HOURCADE, PHILIPPE. Mascarades et ballets au Grand Siècle (1643–1715). Paris: Ed. Desjonquères/Centre national de la danse, 2002.

Review: S. Granger in DSS 228 (2005), 570–573: The reviewer essentially indicates that this is an impressive beginning to a study that has yet to be completed. "L'avant-propos annonce la volonté de prêter attention aussi aux 《activités chorégraphiques du tout-venant》 et de 《prendre ses distances avec le centre géographique et politique du royaume》. Intention ô combien louable et stimulante, mais dont on doit reconnaître, ainsi que le fait l'auteur en conclusion, qu'elle n'a pas tout à fait été remplie."

JAMES, ALAN. The Navy and Government in Early Modern France 1572–1661. Rochester: Boydell & Brewster, 2004.

Review: E. Furgol in SCN 63 (2005), 79–82: Based on James' dissertation, the book is divided into three sections: "the navy in the 1570s–1620s, Richelieu's tenure as grand-maître, and the legacy of his efforts." The reviewer congratulates James for shedding light on the overlooked importance of the navy prior to Colbert's influence, but gently questions whether the author's "focus on political and administrative activities" would have been better served by analysis of "operational aspects" to gauge the efficacy of Richelieu's policies.

JARRARD, ALICE. Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Court Ritual in Modena, Rome and Paris. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: J.E. Moore in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1398–99: Moore finds that the usefulness of Jarrard's volume "lies in having gathered widely dispersed archival materials so as to reconstitute short-lived events and splendid projects for permanent structures, some of which were either never fully realized or completed after Francesco's death." Moore is not, however, convinced of the determining roles of Modenese sources and suggests that "to insist on Modena causes Jarrard to neglect Louis XIV's other exemplars, such as Henry IV and Louis XIII,. . . both of whom thought carefully about how to create an image" (1399). Attention should have also been given to patrons such as Richelieu, Mazarin, and Fouquet among others according to Moore.

JONES, COLIN. Paris: Biography of a City. London: Penguin, 2004.

Review: Ph. Marsch in TLS 5314 (Feb 4 2005), 27: "Provoking and readable book" that tells story of Paris from the Stone Age to Jacques Chirac. Concentrates on city's administration, and as reviewer says, "devotes more time to planning than to pleasure." Generally favorable review, but reviewer gives no detail on chapters treating the seventeenth century.

KIRWAN, JAMES. Beauty. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999.

Review: K. Gernig in Archiv 240 (2003): 389–91: Primary focus is beauty in relation to philosophies of aesthetics, art and cultural anthropology. Reception outweighs attention to historical change in Kirwan's exploration. Dimensions investigated (and section divisions) include: Beauty, Truth and Goodness, Beauty and God, Beauty as Cognition, and The Heavenly and Vulgar Venus.

LANNI, DOMINIQUE. "L'Afrique fantasmée. Les Hottentots dans les voyages manuscrits de Ruelle et Melet et dans les carnet d'esquisses d'un résident anonyme du Cap de Bonne-Espérance (1665–1672)." TL 17 (2004): 317–329.

Analyzes several relations of expeditions (Ruelle's journal, Jean-Jacques de Melet's memoir and a number of iconographic documents) for their influence on the early 17th c. "imaginaire collectif des gens de mer et des marchands, médecins et autres voyageurs de passage" (328). Reminding us of the various scenes of savagery, Lanni asks "mais celles-ci étaient-elles aussi éloignées de celles desdits Européens?" (329).

LARDELLIER, PASCAL. Les miroirs du paon: Rites et rhétoriques politiques dans la France de l'Ancien Régime. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: J. Miernowski in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1022–1023: Mixed review appreciated this analysis of "the royal entry as a ritual enactment of the power relationship between the king and the city" and the picture it contributes of "conditions of production and of reception, as well as. . . [of] the rhetorical structure of the published accounts of the entries" (1023). Lardellier's study is in the tradition of cultural anthropology. Miernowski would have appreciated more historical specificity without which he wonders "how Lardellier can fit the entries into the complex development of French absolutism" (1023).

LAVERNY, SOPHIE DE. Les domestiques commensaux du roi de France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: S. Vigneron in DSS 227 (2005), 368–369: This is the final product of a thesis defended in 1997. The reviewer concludes that despite being weighed down by numerous examples, the author's work "éclaircit notre connaissance de la société de Cour dont les commensaux étaient la cheville ouvrière. Plus largement, il questionne à nouveau la "hiérarchie sociale de l'ancienne France" analysée tant à travers sa structure que dans ses solidarités. Ce livre trouve donc toute sa place dans les bibliographies d'histoire politique et sociale de la France du XVIIe siècle."

LEVADOUX, CHRISTOPHE. "L'édit somptuaire de 1700: source pour l'étude de l'histoire de l'art et du luxe" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 34–54.

The author describes the sumptuary laws of 1700, their effects on the artisan economies, and their usefulness in studying the history and evolutions of taste.

LEVY, ALLISON, ed. Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2003.

Review: M. Dunn in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1080–1082: Wide-ranging both geographically and chronologically, interdisciplinary and diverse in its methodologies, this collection's 13 essays examine "the relation between ritual, as it pertains to roles and responsibilities of widows, and representation" (1080). Sections treat "the didactic use of images to present the ideals of widowhood. . ., how widows manipulated their status to gain agency. . ., widows' patronage of large-scale sculptural and architectural projects, investigating motivations and means. . ., [and the representations of widowhood] broadening our understanding of the interplay of widowhood and representation" (1080–1081).

LINON-CHIPON, SOPHIE. "Visages et masques de la peur dans l'illustration de quelques relations de voyage à l'Age classique." TL 17 (2004): 345–359.

Wide-ranging, Linon-Chipon's essay treats fear in its horror and irony, from violent frescos of America to illustrations of Madagascar. She notes important differences between illustrations and texts: images may "servir d'antidote à la peur, d'en maîtriser les effets" (353). Underscores inexactitudes, syncretism and inversions-after all these authors had a serious dilemma: "ils ne pouvaient se permettre de trop ouvertement contester les idées reçues sur les populations atroces, au risque de renoncer à un de leurs principaux attraits" (359).

LINON-CHIPON, SOPHIE & SYLVIE REQUEMORE. Les Tyrans de la mer: pirates, corsaires et flibustiers à l'age classique. Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

Review: M. Harrigan in FS 58.1 (2004): 92–93. This review lauds the authors' multiplicity of approaches as well as their comprehensive work. According to the reviewer, this "intriguing subject of research" helps understand the social aspects of pirates during absolutism and how the pirate continues to fascinate readers.

LOVE, RONALD S. "'A Passage to China': A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s." FCS 4 (2003), 85–100.

Shows that Philippe Avril's detailed account of his effort to find a land route to China was of immense importance in that it expanded geographic knowledge of Asia, even though the mission itself ultimately failed.

LUCIANI, GERARD and CATHERINE VOLPILHAC-AUGER, eds. L'institution du prince au XVIIIe siècle. Lyon: Charvet, 2003.

Review: P. Sossi in S Fr 144 (2004): 608–610: These Actes of the 8th French-Italian colloque of both French and Italian societies devoted to the 18th c. held at Grenoble in 1999 includes several contributions which will be of interest and use to 17th c. scholars, for example, those on: Montausier, the role of various academies, Fénélon's Télémaque, the fenelonien tradition and disciples, Saint-Simon. Rich bibliography and index of names.

LYNCH, KATHERINE A. Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200–1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: M. Sortor in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1078–1080: Despite certain reservations (involving demographics and neglected civic communities), Lynch's wide-ranging study with index, bibliography, tables and maps is judged "informative and thought-provoking. . . [and] will certainly shape subsequent discussions of the origins of civic consciousness and the emergence of democracy in Western Europe" (1079).

MARANDET, FRANÇOIS. "The Grand Prix of Nicolas de Poilly the Younger." Burlington 1229 (2005): 549–551.

Examines "The finding of the silver cup in Benjamin's sack," recently attributed to Nicolas de Poilly the Younger, a talented but troubled and not very prolific painter during Louis XIV's reign. Concludes from comparison with Poilly's other known works that the painting in question won the 1698 Académie royale Grand Prix.

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: Ph. Hourcade in RHL 104.4 (2004): 937–39. A collection of papers that try to answer a number of questions: Did salons set taste, or follow it? What literary genres did they practice? How did they react to great works? Collection contains a useful index of all historical persons referred to.

McGEE, TIMOTHY J., ed. Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Early Drama, Art and Music Series 30. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.

Review: J. Karr in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1088–1089: Receives generally praise for its "fairly good picture of the issues involved in improvisation" (1088). Volume's terminus ad quem is 1700; sections include Music, Dance, Drama and Art, but there is as well an emphasis on interdisciplinairity. Reviewer would have appreciated more of a focus on rhetoric but finds "much of value in this volume" for both performer and scholar (1089).

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "Immediacy and Forgetting." SubStance 34.1 (2005), 145–58.

In making a case for the sodality of mediation and immediacy, memory and forgetting, Méchoulan gives the example of Philippe de Champagne's 1657 Saint-Jean Baptiste, a painting given to Port-Royal as a gift when his daughter took the veil. Méchoulan highlights John the Baptist as a figure who comes both before and after Christ, and who is painted here on the verge of tears, a state of in-betweenness that Méchoulan takes to exemplify Pascalian notions of self-forgetting and de-centering in favor of a more explicit focus on God.

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "Report on Lydie Salvayre's Subversive Classicism." SubStance 33.2 (2004), 46–58:

Suggests that contemporary novelist Lydie Salvayre "exploits canonical authors (like Pascal) and Old Regime sociable practices (like conversation), in order to offer a mixture of vulgarity, ironic sublime, and profound despair" (47). Méchoulan devotes particular attention to Salvayre's La puissance des mouches, which takes its title from a line from Pascal. Salvayre's criminal protagonist works as a Port-Royal tour guide and ardently reflects on Les Pensées. Méchoulan's article also examines La conférence de Cintegabelle as a defense and exploration of conversation.

MENGES-MIRONNEAU, CLAUDE. "Un style 1700 dans l'estampe? Illustration, reproduction, interpretation" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 279–290.

The period saw a mixing of engraving and etching as artists tried new techniques and innovated in both portrait making and book illustration.

MERLIN, HELENE. "Un Nouveau XVIIe siècle." RHL 105.1 (2005): 11–36.

Text of a conference delivered at the Sorbonne in December 2004. Focuses primarily on the question of the feminization of titles (e.g., "Directrice") and its implications regarding the notion of the public; and on the way the body and humiliation in the seventeenth century cannot be accounted for by conventional notions (including Bakhtin's) of the classical.

MEYER, JEAN. L'Education des princes en Europe du XVe au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2004.

Review: J. Rogister in TLS 5320 (March 18 2005), 3–4: Subject broken down into historical periods. Includes teaching method which Bossuet devised for the Grand Dauphin. View of periodization perhaps too neat and open to question, but book "scores" in details and insights it provides rather than in its overview.

MIKESELL, MARGARET & ADELE SEEFF, eds. Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. Cranbury, NJ and London: U of Delaware P, 2003.

Review: P. Phillippy in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1459–60: Both theoretical and with an emphasis on pedagogy, Mikesell and Seeff's edited volume is the 4th in a series "sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland" and "like its predecessors is impressive in the scope of its inquiry [and] its rich interdisciplinarity." Judged both "progressive" and "pragmatic," its scholarship describes "applications" from staging of plays to developing technologies (1459).

MORTIMER, GEOFF, ed. Early Modern Military History, 1450–1815. New York: Palgrave, 2004.

Review: K.R. DeVries in Choice 43.1 (2005), 160. According to DeVries: "This collection, which contains works by many of the top military historians, is not bad, although others are better." Includes a chapter on Old Regime France and another on naval history through the mid-17th century.

MULRYNE, J. R. & ELIZABETH GOLDRING, eds. Court Festivals of the European Renaissance. Art, Politics and Performance. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

Review: A. Stähler in Archiv 241 (2004): 368–70: Wide-ranging in scope (15th –18th c. and "with special emphasis" on the 16th and early 17th c.), the volume extends beyond Western Europe to Russia and East-Central Europe and is divided thematically in the following sections: "Recovering the Past," "Early Modern France and Festival," "Festivals for Charles V," "Ceremony and Elizabethan England," "The Performance of Festival: Music, Theatre and Event" and "Festival and Architecture" (368). Stähler finds all essays to be "stimulating in their own right as well as in their juxtaposition and accumulation" (369). Singled out for special praise as "a new reading of known documents" is Chantal Grell's essay on changes in 17th c. French court festivals, their "financing and material organization" (369). Strongly recommended volume for both serious scholars and a wider educated audience.

MULRYNE, J. R., HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY, & MARGARET SHEWRING, eds. Europa Triumphans. Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: J. Wilson in TLS 5328 (May 13 2005), 26: Collection by 39 scholars treating a representative selection of 16th and 17th century festivals. Includes article by Christian Jouhaud on Louis XIII's "Joyeuse Entrée" into Troyes after defeat of La Rochelle. Writers maintain that festivals are "signifiers of regimes in crisis or flux," not of secure regimes. Rich material but usefulness compromised by its presentation. Indexing is insufficient, and the reviewer laments that there are no accompanying CDs. Use of modern technology could have enhanced the collection.

NAU, CLELIA. "Le temps de l'évanouissement: sur un monochrome de Poussin." RSH 275 (juillet-septembre 2004): 55–74.

Analyzes Nicolas Poussin's painting, Le Déluge or L'Hiver as an examination of the problem of temporality and of the sublime in painting. Examines the treatment of Poussin's painting by the critics of his time and after, and the idea of a "sublime classique."

NORBROOK, DAVID. "Women, the Republic of Letters, and the Public Sphere in the Mid-Seventeenth Century." Criticism 46:2 (2004), 223–240.

Uses the framework of Habermas' narrative of the early modern public sphere to reassess whether women were excluded from its emergence. Norbrook concentrates specifically on Margaret Cavendish, exiled in France, and Anna Maria van Schurman, who lived in the Netherlands. Their experience complicates the notion of women disappearing into the private sphere during this period; it also demonstrates important differences between the political implications of the public sphere in England, France, and the Netherlands.

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

Review: H. Ballon in Ren Q 57 (2004): 648–50: Reviewer finds' Olson's work "thought-provoking," "smart and bristling with fascinating insights," but is not convinced by a number of Olson's "strained readings of Poussin's paintings" (649). Underscoring political angles and reception, Olson links Poussin's simplified style of the 1640s and 1650s with the anti-luxury discourse of the Fronde" (Olson 182).

ORR, CLARISSA CAMPBELL, ed. Queenship in Europe, 1660–1815. The Role of the Consort. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Review: T. Blanning in TLS 5307 (Dec 17 2004), 32: Volume contains account by Mark Bryant of Maintenon's influence on Louis XIV. Reviewer gives no detail but says that Bryant offers insights into reign that are "original and convincing."

OSBORNE, TOBY. Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: S. A. Epstein in Ren Q 57 (2004): 180–81: Judged a fine book, Osborne's examination focuses on Alissandro Scaglia (1592–1641) who "came into his own at the French court from 1624 to 1627" (181). "Based on impressive research conducted in a number of archives across Europe," Osborne's volume emphasizes politics, dynasty and art collection (180).

PATTY, JAMES S. Salvator Rosa in French Literature: from the Bizarre to the Sublime. Lexington: UK Press, 2005.

Review: A.M. Rea in Choice 43.1 (2005), 84–85. According to Rea: "an exhaustive and meticulous, though unillustrated, survey of French references to 17th-century Italian artist/poet Salvator Rosa." Focuses mostly on the Romantic period, but does include the arrival of certain paintings in the collections of Louis XIV and Mazarin.

PELLEGRIN, NICOLE & COLETTE H. WINN, eds. Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Ancien Régime. Actes du colloque de Poitiers (11–12 juin 1998). Textes réunis par Nicole Pellegrin. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: G. Bosco in S Fr 143 (2004): 437: Rich and highly varied examination takes into account aspects such as law, portraits, music, and literature. Highly useful bibliography and thematic index.

Review: C. Clark-Evans in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1419–20: Judged exemplary, the reviewer praises its "collaborative, interdisciplinary, scholarly research that reveals both objective conditions and subjective realities of those women and men who survive the death of their legally and religiously sanctioned spouse in early modern France" (1420). Wide-ranging and "uniformly expert, the volume included sections on law, social history and cultural case studies as well as the representation of widows and widowers. Bibliography and index.

Review: B. Nicollier in BHR 66.3 (2004), 797–98: "Une bibliographie citant de nombreuses sources et un index contribuent à faire de cette étude une ouvrage à la fois utile et agréable à lire. 》 Voir les articles de D. Haase-Dubosc sur Madame de Châtillon, Isabelle Angélique de Montmorency et de S. Beauvalet Boutuyrie sur Jeanne de Chantal.

PERICOLO, LORENZO. "Two Paintings for Anne of Austria's Oratory at the Palais Royal, Paris: Philippe de Champaigne's 'Annunciation' and Jacques Stella's 'Birth of the Virgin.'" Burlington 1225 (2005), 244–248.

Describes Anne of Austria's Palais Royal apartment, in particular two paintings, of which Champaigne's was presumed lost but is now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Stella's has been acquired by Lille's Palais de Beaux-Arts.

PETITFILS, JEAN-CHRISTIAN. Le Masque de fer: entre histoire et légende. Paris: Perrin, 2003.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 78.2 (2004): 385–86. Through detailed archival research, Petitfils recovers the story of the famed "man in the iron mask," whose legend owes debts to Alexandre Dumas no less than to popular cinema. The reviewer assures us that Petitfils' study answers our most pressing questions about the mythic hero.

POUMAREDE, GERAUD. Pour en finir avec la croisade: mythes et réalités de la lutte contre les Turcs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècle. Paris: PUF, 2004.

Review: BCLF 665 (2004), 108–09: Poumarède réfute l'approche des 《 scientifiques, essentiellement anglo-saxons, [qui] n'ont pas hésité à voir dans certaines tentatives tardives de la Papauté aussi bien que dans des actions militaires, individuelles ou ponctuelles, une prolongation des croisades englobant ainsi dans ce concept la lutte contre les Turcs. 》

RANUM, OREST & PATRICIA. "The Fronde, as Presented by 'Monsieur X.'"

Article published at: http://ranumspanat.com/Monsieur_X.htm

RANUM, OREST & PATRICIA RANUM. "Fugitive Pieces."

Transcriptions of primary source historical documents published on the Ranums' website. Includes: "The death inventory of François Chapperon, music master of the Sainte-Chapelle, d. 1698;" "Final Accounts for the Te Deum sponsored by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, February 8, 1687;" "The Last Days of Bouthillier de Chavigny;" "Plainte pour Estiennette Charpentier, fille majeure, contre Jacques Mathas, January 16, 1709;" "A Funeral Oration for Mme de Guise, Petite-fille de France;" "Mlle de Guise Chooses a Painting for Her Gallery;" Jean-Baptiste Lully: The Jansenists Gossip about His Morals and His Death," "The Jesuits and Music: Some Fugitive Pieces;" "Herr Martin Mayr, the Duke of Bavaria's Agent, Tends to Things Musical in Paris, 1680–1685;" "Madame de Miramion's School for Girls;" "1683: Guillaume Pecour, the Dancer, Is Defamed;" "A Banquet at the Hôtel de Guise, 1671," "A Description of the Chapel and Worship Services at Port-Royal-des-Champs, 1679." All located on their website: http://ranumspanat.com/

RANUM, PATRICIA. "Musings on Word-Music Relationships in French Baroque Music."

http://ranumspanat.com/wordmusic_relationships.html

ROBERTS, GEOFFREY, ED. The History and Narrative Reader. London: Routledge, 2001.

Review: M. Fludernik in Archiv 241 (2004): 178–80: Fludernik finds this collection of 26 essays "on the relation of narrative and history" to be "written for historians," yet containing "much food for thought for narratologists" (178).

ROCHE, DANIEL, dir., with GILLES CHABAUD, JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUBOST, SABINE JURATIC, VINCENT MILLIOT & JEAN-MICHEL ROY. La Ville promise: mobilité et accueil à Paris (fin XII-début XIXe siècle). Paris: 2000.

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/roche_ville.html. "[R]esearched very effectively and courageously" (because, as Ranum notes, "the sources about inns, hotels and visitors to the capital are very disparate, and sometimes not all that revealing about the subject"). Of particular interest to dix-septiémistes: chapter on "the geography of the various places that provided lodging for a fee" as well as the chapter on "displacement to the capital" (timing thereof, etc.). Ranum concludes by calling this book, "a profane caricature of the 'city on the hill.'"

ROSENBERG, PIERRE. Catalogue. Peintures françaises dans les collections allemandes, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 20 avril–31 juillet 2005.

Review : G. Raillard in QL 901 (du 1er au 15 juin 2005), 17: "Le Catalogue, en maint article précis, expose cette diversité (des situations), analogue à celle de l'Allemagne elle-même. Des noms, de souverains, de collectionneurs, des cours, des évêchés, des dates la ponctuent. Frédéric II est célèbre pour ses relations littéraires et philosophiques avec Voltaire. Mais il fut aussi, plus qu'un roi collectionneur un royal collectionneur."

ROWLANDS, GUY. The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661–1701. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Review: W. Kasinec in SCN 63 (2005), 77–79: Reviewed very favorably, this work undertakes a detailed analysis of the army under Louis XIV with particular emphasis on the period from the Nine Years' War into the War of Spanish Succession. "The author argues that dynasticism in the 'the crucial prism' by which one should understand the development of France's standing army in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the context of Louis XIV's concern for the Bourbon dynasty." The reviewer lauds the work as an important contribution that "has changed the parameters of the ongoing discussion about 'absolutism' among military and political historians of the seventeenth century."

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

Review: O. Ranum at http://www.ranumspanat.com/sabatier.html. A "general analysis of the iconographic programs in the Versailles gardens, but also a very thorough study of the 'manière de montrer' the gardens." Extensive attention to Louis's "artisans of glory," Versailles and the public, maps, prose descriptions of visits to the gardens, etc. Reviewer calls the work "monumental."

SAHLINS, PETER. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

Review: E. Ousselin in FR 78.5 (2005): 1046–47: Sahlins' history of naturalization extends from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century and devotes its primary attention to le droit d'aubaine, the monarch's right to seize the property of foreigners who die in France. Sahlins also undertakes a savvy and nuanced reading of early modern letters of naturalization, and examines the droit de résidence as "one of the components of the juridical model of citizenship in the kingdom" (1047). The book moves toward its conclusion by considering how the "narrow juridical category of 'citizen' took on new political significance during and after the revolutionary period" (1047).

SALVY, GERARD-JULIEN. "Marie de Médicis, le gouvernement par les arts." RDM (juin 2005): 179–81.

Salvy parle de la réhabilitation, bien méritée à son avis, de Marie de Médicis qui "ne fut pas cette 'grosse banquière' intrigante et castratrice trop longtemps caricaturée, mais au contraire une femme qui comprit que l'on pouvait gouverner par les arts. . ." [Exposition: "Marie de Médicis, une princesse florentine sur le trône de France," Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, jusqu'au 4 septembre 2005. Catalogue: Sillabe Editore].

SANKO, HELENE N. "Le Traité du jardinage de Jacques Boyceau (1560–1635?) et l'esthétique du XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXII, 62 (2005), 33–49.

Through analysis of Boyceau's Traité examines the question: "Existe-t-il au XVIIe siècle un ensemble de principes à la base d'une expression artistique qui s'appliquerait au plan et à la réalisation des jardins connus aujourd'hui sous le nom de 《 jardins à la française 》?"

SCHNAPPER, ANTOINE. Le Métier de peintre au Grand Siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 2004.

Review: BCLF 666 (2005), 45–46: 《 Ce qu'A. Schnapper parvient à démontrer de manière particulièrement convaincante. . . concerne les relations de l'ancienne maîtrise, de la corporation des maîtres peintres héritée du Moyen Age qui se perpétue et qui change au gré de l'évolution du pouvoir monarchique, et de la nouvelle institution de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, relations conflictuelles certes, mais infiniment plus complexes que l'histoire de l'art ne le concevait jusqu'alors. 》

SERROY, JEAN, ed. Littérature et Peinture au temps de Le Sueur, Actes du Colloque organisé par le Musée de Grenoble et l'Université Stendhal à l'Auditorium du Musée de Grenoble, les 12 et 13 mai 2003. Musée de Grenoble: Diffusion Ellug, 2003.

Review: A. Niderst in OeC 29.2 (2004), 162–64: Colloque pluridisciplinaire qui "aboutit à un fort beau livre 》 en trois parties : 《 Théories littéraires et picturales 》, 《 Ecrits sur l'art, écrits d'artistes 》, 《 Formes littéraires et picturales. 》

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN. "Roland Joffé's Vatel: Refashioning the History of the Ancien Régime." EMF 10 (2005): 77–88.

After reviewing a number of nineteenth-century retellings of Vatel's suicide, author analyzes way the 2000 film is organized around issues of class and constitutes "an indictment of the ancien régime." Author argues that this is a result of modern mass culture's tendency to "efface cultural differences," and of bourgeois liberal democracy's need to vilify "the unjust regimes of the past."

SØRENSEN, MADELEINE PINAULT. "Les animaux du roi: De Pieter Boel aux dessinateurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences." In Charles Mazouer, 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). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 159–183.

By looking at Boel's and the artists of the Académie's representations of the same animals two different yet complementary visions emerge: the academicians strove for anatomical correctness while Boel (whose work inspired Charles Le Brun) sought to show animals' affinities and similarities with man.

SPITZER, JOHN & NEAL ZASLAW. The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650–1815. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.

Review: R. Smith in Choice 42.6 (2005), 1032. This highly-praised work examines the rise of the orchestra by country and includes work on France. Spitzer and Zaslaw do an excellent job of documenting their sources, and provide useful tables which show the instrumentation of particular orchestras. The reviewer admires the work's index, its bibliography, and the quality of the research overall.

STANWOOD, OWEN. "Unlikely Imperialist: The Baron of Saint-Castin and the Transformation of the Northeastern Borderlands." FCS 5 (2004), 43–61.

Recounts "the volatile fortunes of an obscure French trader, the baron of Saint-Castin," to illustrate "the cultural transformations that accompanied the rise of empires in North America."

STURDY, DAVID. Richelieu and Mazarin: A Study in Statesmanship. Basingstoke: Palgrave (2003).

Review: A. James in FS 59.1 (2005), 88–89: Sturdy adopts a biographical approach in this history intended primarily for undergraduates. The reviewer's positive remarks include "readable," and "engrossing." While the form dictates a concise history in order to encourage further reader, Sturdy's history nonetheless includes a very, very successful recounting of the Frondes. A "balanced" and "clear" work.

TETART-VITTU, FRANÇOISE. "Exotisme et fantaisie dans la mode: les années 1690–1715" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 263–278.

A survey of turn-of-the-century fashion reveals original motifs as well as a synthesis of traditional elements, ancient fables, novels, and plays in the fabrics, lace, and embroidery that will influence styles through the rococo period (1730–1740).

TINGUELY, FREDERIC. "La peur du Turc (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles)." TL 17 (2004): 289–306.

Helpful and detailed investigation into "la turcophobie," considering sensationalistic discourse or "littérature de consommation facile" (290), reception and re-editions of important volumes such as De Turcarum moribus epitome (which had several 17th c. editions), tragedies and stories by François de Belleforest and relations of voyages such as those by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and by Guillaume-Joseph Grelot. Cl. D. Rouillard's synthesis of some 15 Turkish tragedies or tragi-comedies from 1560–1660 is noted and attention given to specific cases as Tristan's 1656 Osman.

TOLLINI, FREDERICK PAUL. Scene Design at the Court of Louis XIV. The Work of the Vigarini Family and Jean Berain. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

Review: B. Daniels in ThS 45 (2004): 314–315: A study of the set designers responsible for the Salle des Machines in the Tuileries and the set design for the Opéra. Excellent bibliography, but author does not formulate an approach to the subject. Reviewer finds insufficient discussion of the function of the set designs in stage productions. Tollini interested in anecdotal history of court spectacle, but less interested in the work of the designers themselves. "Neither an insightful nor a thorough study."

TONKOVICH, JENNIFER. "Claude Gillot's Costume Designs for the Paris Opéra: Some New Sources." Burlington 1225 (2005), 248–252.

Examines some costume designs Gillot did for the Paris Opéra in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

TUNLEY, DAVID. François Couperin and "The Perfection of Music." Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: J. Rubin in Choice 42.6 (2005), 1032. Tunley's study of this 17th- and 18th-century French composer considers Couperin's role in his culture's assimilation of Italian compositional style. Tunley balances his consideration of Couperin's sacred and secular music, and contextualizes both with regard to the composer's biography. The reviewer expresses praise for Tunley's appendixes and his quotation of score excerpts.

TURCKHEIM-PEY, SYLVIE DE. Médailles du Grand Siècle : histoire métallique de Louis XIV. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2004.

Review : BCLF 671 (2005), 105–06: 《 A la succession de trois ministres responsables — Colbert, Pontchartrain, l'abbé Bignon — correspondent trois groupes d'artistes et trois ensembles d'œuvres, La 'Série historique' confiée à Jean Varin; puis la 'Grande Histoire' (1691–1697) incluant des compositions de Jean Mauger et de Charles-Jean-François Chéron, puis la 'Série uniforme' ainsi nommée parce que toutes les médailles sont alors réduites au modèle de 18 lignes (= 41 millimètres). 》

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

Review: T. Luxon in SCN 62 (2004), 213–216: This represents the third volume in the author's "decades-long effort to write the literary and intellectual history of carnal knowledge." The reviewer considers this work "easily the fullest and best treatment of the subject to date," and summarizes the parts thusly: "Part One of Schooling Sex performs a thorough investigation of the erotic education trope in hard-core libertarian literature." "Part Two [. . .] turns attention to the reception — translation, adaptation, reading, and responses — of the hard-core libertine canon."

Review: M. Schachter in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1083–1085: Despite certain reservations, some involving interpretations of Foucault and others concerned with terminology, Turner's volume is found to be a "monumental accomplishment" and "will certainly serve as a catalyst for further inquiry in a range of fields" (1085). Focuses on "the relationship between. . . hard-core texts and contemporary doctrinaire rhetorical manuals, orthodox educational theory, and Cartesian philosophy" (1084).

TYLER, JAMES & PAUL SPARKS. The Guitar and Its Music: From the Renaissance to the Classical Era. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

Review: V. Coelho in Ren Q 57 (2004): 323–25: An "important and essential study," Tyler and Sparks's volume is highly inclusive, offering "a detailed guide to the sources" and integrating "recent work from the fields of organology and iconography, archival and patronage studies, performance practice, and the analogous area of lute music" (324). Includes impressive new discoveries of manuscript sources from 1600–1750.

VAN DER SCHUEREN, ERIC. Les sociétés et les déserts de l'âme. Approche sociologique de la retraite religieuse dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Bruxelles: Académie Royale de langue et littérature française, 2001.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 143 (2004): 364: Wide-ranging and ample treatment from a sociological approach, influenced by critics from Goldmann to Elias and Bourdieu. Van der Schueren does not find his two major themes to be antithetical, but investigates numerous and fruitful rapports between them.

VASSEUR, SEBASTIEN. "Le château de Fléchères: état des connaissances actuelles sur un fleuron du patrimoine." DSS 228 (2005), 547–562.

The author recognizes that the château de Fléchères, "le plus grand et le plus imposant château du XVIIe siècle jamais construit en Dombes [...] n'a jamais fait l'objet ni d'une monographie sérieuse et complète, ni de recherches scientifiques relatives à l'ensemble du bâtiment et à son histoire." With this article, the author seeks to begin rectifying this situation.

VIROL, MICHELE. "Le siège de Namur de 1692: l'héroïsme et la technique." DSS 228 (2005), 465–488.

Taking the Siege of Namur as a case study, as related through historical documents and in its capacity as representative of "récits de siège", the author sheds light on "les tensions entre deux images de la valeur: l'héroïsme, d'une part; les mérites de la technique militaire bien maîtrisée, de l'autre. C'est un des aspects où l'histoire du XVIIe siècle peut s'enrichir aujourd'hui."

VON FRIEDEBURG, ROBERT, ed. Murder and Monarchy: Regicide in European History, 1300–1800. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Review: D.C. Baxter in Choice 43.3 (2005), 562. A collection of papers given in 2002 by the German Historical Institute in London. According to Baxter: "interesting if eclectic studies."

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE. "Ecrire le roi au seuil de l'âge classique: Pouvoir et fiction des entrées royales. De quelques fausses entrées" in Jean-Vincent Blanchard & Hélène Visentin, eds. L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir, Fasano / Paris: Schena editore / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005, pp. 137–160.

A study in three parts: 1. "le contenu de sens et la représentation de l'entrée royale à la fin du XVIe et au début du XVIIe siècle; 2. "la problématique reliée à l'énoncé du pouvoir," and 3. "《l'invraisemblable vraisemblance》 du discours du pouvoir dans cette œuvre circonstantielle de propagande politique." With particular attention to Henri IV and Louis XIII.

WALKER, CLAIRE. Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. Houndmills, England and New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003.

Review: F. C. Cesareo in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1112–1114: Reviewer finds that Walker's study begins to fill an important gap in scholarship, especially as it concerns women's roles in contemplative communities. Walker demonstrates that "despite enclosure and geographic distance from England, the nuns were determined to participate in the religious and political affairs of their homeland" (1113).

WEISBERGER, JEAN. La Muse des jardins: Jardins de l'Europe littéraire (1580–1700). Brussels and Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.

Review: E. Henein in Ren Q 57 (2004): 1087–1088: Henein praises the volume's wide appeal to scholars and its remarkable analyses of "literary descriptions of gardens written in five different languages" (1087). Includes illustrations, an extensive index and a selective bibliography. French specialists will particularly appreciate chapter 2, which studies "the function and status of French gardens during the seventeenth century" (1087) and chapter 4, which analyses various texts of La Fontaine, his Le Songe de Vaux for example, and presents a detailed study of Versailles.

WEISS, GILLIAN. "Barbary Captivity and the French Idea of Freedom." FHS 28.2 (Spring 2005), 231–264.

The author analyzes letters from Frenchmen taken as slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries to show that their changing rationales for liberation reflect an evolving understanding of slavery and helped construct French identity as closely associated with the idea of freedom.

WIEDEMANN, MICHEL. "Les menus plaisirs de l'estampe ou la collection de gravures vers 1700" in Aurélia Gaillard, ed. L'Année 1700. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, 30–31 janvier 2003. Biblio 17 (154). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004. 291–318.

The period saw the formation of grand scale print collections and a valorization of the print in treatises on art, collecting, and libraries.

WIEDEMANN, MICHEL. "Un receuil de gravures de poissons d'Adrien Collaert Piscium vivae icons in aes incisae et editae ab Adriano Collardo." In Charles Mazouer, 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). Biblio 17 Number 146. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003. 119–157.

A descriptive analysis of the Flemish artist's collection of prints of fish that includes a biography of Collaert, a detailed bibliography, a table of prints, and extensive illustrations.