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BADIOU-MONFERRAN, CLAIRE. Les Conjunctions de coordination ou "l'art de lier ses pensées" chez La Bruyère. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: E. Stark in RF 117 (2005): 355–59: Highly useful for both scholars of 17th c. linguistics and 17th c, literature, Badiou-Monferran's substantial work is organized into two main sections: "Du caractère des conjonctions de coordination; étude linguistique" and "Les conjonctions de coordination dans Les caractères. Études stylistique et littéraire". Individual chapters treat fascinating themes, such as form and sense, ethical and spiritual horizons, etc. Bibliography, annexes.

BADIOU-MONFERRAN, CLAIRE. "Psychomécanique et évolution du signifiant: le cas du coordonnant négatif à l'aube du français moderne." Langue française 147 (2005), 84–97.

Seeks a psychomechanical explanation for the change from "ne" to "ni" in cases of negative coordinating, a change which became definitive in the seventeenth century. Concludes that factors other than psychomechanics are also present.

ABRAHAM, CLAUDE. "Comment peut-on être femme?" CdDS 10.1 (2006), 1–10.

A subtle analysis of female aristocratic portraits. Author looks at various styles, modes, and forms of representation and shows how "female" values of loyalty, self-control, intelligence, genuineness, etc., are embedded in domestic sceneries.

ALLEN, CHRISTOPHER, YASMIN HASKELL, & FRANCES MUECKE, eds. et trans. Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy. De Arte Graphica (Paris, 1668). Genève: Droz, 2005.

Review: H. Hénin in DSS 231 (2006), 357–359: "Trois auteurs anglo-saxons [...] nous livrent une riche édition critique d'un ouvrage capital de la théorie de l'art [...] paru à Paris en 1668, et republié la même année avec une traduction et des remarques de Roger de Piles." The text and analysis are divided into four parts: "une introduction historique en trois chapitres; le texte latin et la traduction anglaise en regard; le commentaire linéaire du texte; enfin de très riches annexes."

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

Review: K. Malettke in HZ 280 (2005): 181–83: Extensive, judged a pre-eminent standard work on the subject, this volume is based on intensive and lengthy archival research and provides the history of financial administration of the French monarchy.

ASCH, RONALD G. Nobilities in Transition 1550–1700. Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe. London: Arnold, 2003.

Review: P. Wende in HZ 281 (2005): 759–60: Praiseworthy study is important for its contribution to questions pertinent to culture, economics and politics and is not limited to English language sources. Informative and useful, Asch's analysis is recommended to both scholars and students.

AUDISIO, GABRIEL, éd. L'Historien et l'activité notariale : Provence, Vénétie, Egypte XVe–XVIIIe siècles. Toulouse : PU du Mirail, 2005.

Review : n.a. in BCLF 680 (2006), 108–09 : 《  L'objet de cette première parution est de mettre au point des méthodes de dépouillement et de classification qui permettront une comparaison capable de conduire à une typologie des actes notariés et d'élaborer des outils qui permettront la synthèse et l'observation des variations spatiales ou temporelles.  》

BANNISTER, MARK. "The Mediatization of Politics during the Fronde: Condé's Bureau de Presse." CdDS 10.1 (2006), 31–44.

Study examines Condé's Bureau de presse to reveal the numerous advantages of brief political treatises, among them flexibility and rapid distribution. Bannister then explores Condé's techniques: a condensed presentation, repeated slogans, ironic asides and rapid responses.

BEASLEY, FAITH E. Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: C. B. Kerr in Choice 44 (2006), 117: Noting that collective memory is regulated by cultural and political forces, Beasley probes the deliberateness with which early modern salon women were culturally elevated and then dismissed. Beasley then "revitalizes the image of the salonnières by showing how they defined taste, created new genres with important social messages, and helped mold a language that became a unifying tool under Louis XIV." With admirable attention to rarely studied authors; an "exceptional book" (117).

BELGRADO, ANNA. L'Avènement du passé. La Réforme et l'histoire. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: O. Ranum in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 302–305. Reviewer comments that, while the volume is difficult to read, much has been accomplished. "The larger themes are not lost in the fair-minded effort to record contributions to debates that altered the balances between faiths and histories."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. La Conversation intérieure. La Méditation en France au XVIIè siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: J. Goery in RHLF 106.2 (2006), 431–432. Anthology containing the Acts of a seminar which took place at the Collège de France in 2001, co-directed by Carlo Ossala and Philippe Sellier. Combines historical and monographic investigations. "Le volume tire son unité de cette méthode de travail, gardée, sans caracan idéologique, dans presque toutes les contributions."

BELY, LUCIEN, ed. La Présence des Bourbons en Europe XVIe–XXIe siècle. Avec la collaboration de Jean-Paul Le Flem, Benoit Pellistrandi, Isabelle Richefort, et al. Actes publiés avec le concours de Thierry Claeys, Benoit Pellistrandi & Isabelle Richefort et al. Avant-propos d'Yvon Roe d'Albert. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2003.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 280 (2005): 700–02: Selected proceedings of the December 2000 Round Table of the Institut Cervantès, held at the ENS in Paris. 17th c. scholars will particularly appreciate Bernard Barbiche's examination of Henri IV's eclectic and pragmatic politics.

BERGIN, JOSEPH. Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV. New Haven: Yale UP, 2004.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 280 (2005): 743–45: Wide-ranging and highly respectable work is based on Paris and Vatican archives, the resources of the BNF, 19 departmental archives and 8 provincial libraries. Maps, tables and an impressive index.

BERKOVITZ, JAY R. Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650–1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Review: C. Krug in FR 79 (2006), 1412–14: "This study describes the difficult 'régénération' (92) that transformed Jews from a traditional Jewish nation under the ancien régime into Jews who embraced French citizenship by the mid-nineteenth century" (1412). Notes and bibliography are excellent.

BERNARDINI, PAOLO & NORMAN FIERING, eds. The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West. 1450 to 1800. New York: Berghahn, 2001.

Review: M. Brenner in HZ 280 (2005): 170–72: Fills an important gap, the volume is organized geographically and the extensive examination is complemented by maps and illustrations. Includes study of Jewish survival in France and Francophone Caribbean.

BIDEAUX, MICHEL & MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, eds. Les Échanges entre les universités européennes à la Renaissance: Colloque international organisé par la Société Française d'Étude du XVIe siècle et l'Association Renaissance-Humanisme-Réforme. Valence, 15–18 mai 2002. Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 384. Geneva: Droz, 2003.

Review : I. A. R. De Smet in BHR 68.2 (2006), 390–92 : 《  Les vingt-quatre contributions ici rassemblées sont la réflexion des analyses présentées au colloque international organisé à Valence en mai 2002, à propos des échanges culturels et nationaux, intellectuels et sociaux entre les universités de l'Europe du XVe au XVIIe siècle.

Review: P. F. Grendler in Ren Q 58 (2005): 304–306: Although the essays focus on the 16th c. primarily, there is a "progress report" by Hilda de Ridder-Symoens on her "vast study of students at Douai. . . between 1559 and 1795," Marie-Claude Tucker's study of Bourges, "a Protestant university with a high reputation in law, between 1538 and 1625," Patrick Ferté's report on the University of Toulouse, and Michel Magnien's article on "the Protestant academy of Montauban between 1598 and 1659" (304–305). Bibliography, indices, illustrations, tables, maps, etc.

BLIN, ARNAUD. 1648, La Paix de Westphalie ou la naissance de l'Europe moderne. Bruxelles: Complexe, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 682 (2006), 110–11: Blin "retrace les prodromes et les principaux événements de la Guerre de Trente Ans, puis la difficile paix, qui fut bien plus qu'un banal chiffon de papier: une nouvelle définition de la politique internationale." Ouvrage "brillant, intelligent et stimulant."

BOUDON-MACHUEL, MARION. François du Quesnoy : 1597–1643. Paris : Arthena, 2005.

Review : n.a. in BCLF 678 (2006), 51 : 《  La qualité du travail de M. Bourdon-Machuel, au-delà de la finesse et de la sensibilité des analyses des oeuvres, réside dans la rigueur avec laquelle le personnage historique et le catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre ont été débarassés des scories, des mythes, des attributions abusives. Ressort du long et patient travail d'archive, la première monographie sérieuse, riche et attentive à toute forme de contextualisation.  》

BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER. Baroque Self-Invention and Historical Truth. Hercules at the Crossroads. Aldershot-Burlington: Ashgate, 2004.

Review : F. Elsig in BHR 67.2 (2005), 470–71 : Une étude qui 《  vise ainsi à définir la période de transition que constitue en Europe l'âge baroque et, plus précisément, le XVIIe siècle. Focalisé sur les questions de l'identité et de la vérité historique, il comprend quatre essais : le premier sur la féminité dans l'art, le deuxième sur Caravage et Rembrandt, le troisième sur Annibal Carrache ; le quatrième sur Descartes, Pascal et Cyrano de Bergerac.  》

BRITNELL, JENNIFER & ANN MOSS, eds. Female Saints and Sinners / Saintes et mondaines (France 1250–1650). Durham: U of Durham (Durham Modern Language Series FM 21), 2002.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 41.1 (2005): 108–109: Wide-ranging and "liberally interpreted" examination of female saints and sinners. Focus is on early modern women and includes among the 17th c. essays, one on Madeleine de Scudéry's Clélie. Scholars of emblematics will welcome the chapters on women as subject and author of emblems.

BUISSERET, DAVID. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting the New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: J. Akerman in Ren Q 58 (2005): 643–45: Buisseret's study covers the years 1400–1800 and within those parameters the early modern dominates. Chapters treat themes of the revival of interest in the Greek and Roman and "the geographical, political, and economic expansion of Europe" (644), cartography and painting, the use of maps by rulers and the military, and "the reorganization of rural and urban economics in Europe" (645). Buisseret's work is found "comprehensive," "authoritative," and "in pleasurable prose" (645).

CHRISTOUT, MARIE-FRANCOISE. Le Ballet de cour de Louis XIV, 1643–1672 : mises en scène. Paris : Picard, 2005.

Review : n.a. in BCLF 680 (2006), 51 : Une 《  magistrale étude qui, à plus d'un titre, intéressera historiens de la danse, metteurs en scène, musicologues, chanteurs et amateurs avides de connaître le dernier état de la question et de replacer le ballet de cour dans ses divers contextes historiques et sociologiques.  》 Première édition parue en 1967.

CIVIL, PIERRE & DANIELLE BOILLET, eds. L'Actualité et sa mise en écriture aux XVe – XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Espagne, Italie, France et Portugal. Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne nouvelle, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 681 (2006), 111–12: Actes d'un colloque tenu à Paris en octobre 2000: "Les batailles de cette époque—nullement pacifiques—donnaient naissance à de longues chroniques rimées ou en prose et l'imprimerie leur assurait une diffusion inconnue jusqu'alors. Il est intéressant d'étudier, à travers des exemples choisis, la tension qui existait entre les événements d'une période donnée et leur transcription dans l'ordre de l'écrit."

COJANNOT-LE BLANC, MARIANNE. "Les traités d'ecclésiastiques sur la perspective en France au XVIIe siècle: un regard de clercs sur la peinture?" DSS 230 (2006), 117–130.

"En somme, les traités de perspective publiés par les clercs au XVIIe siècle ne présentent pas de réflexion sur la peinture sacrée, guère de pensée ou de commentaire de la peinture, ou d'attente religieuse à son égard. En fait, ces clercs évoquent les arts avant tout comme conséquences pratiques des sciences qui sont premières à leurs yeux, particulièrement en un temps où la perspective est en France au cœur de l'actualité scientifique."

CONLEY, JOHN J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 59.4 (2005), 544–545: This generally negative review finds fault with Conley's work for its patronizing tone of "discovery" and "rehabilitation" in dealing with a subject (salon writing) which needs little or none, since much good research has been done on it recently. Conley's work does contain good biographies of Mme de Sablé, Mme Deshoulières, Mme de la Sablière, Mlle de la Vallière and Mme de Maintenon. That said, the work "barely scratches the surface of early-modern women's writing" and often fails to back up some of its claims.

CORP, EDWARD, ed. A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689–1718. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Review: E. N. Lindquist in Ren Q 58 (2005): 1419–21: Corp provides some two-thirds of the study, a description of the court at Saint-Germain, its physical setting, relationship with the French Court, education, etc. Other analyses are by Edward Gregg (on France, Rome and the exiled Stuarts), Howard Erskine-Hill (on poetry at court), and Geoffrey Scott (on the court as a center of Catholicism and the education of James III). Lindquist would have appreciated more extensive examination of court politics, yet finds the volume "an important contribution both to a well-established scholarly field, Jacobitism, and a relatively new one, court studies" (1421). Index, appendix, illustrations, bibliography.

COURSE, DIDIER. D'Or et de pierres précieuses : les paradis artificiels de la Contre-réforme en France (1580–1685). Lausanne : Payot-Lausanne, 2005.

Review : n.a. in BCLF 679 (2006), 68 : 《  La caractéristique majeure du XVIIe siècle français fut, dans la société civile comme dans les arts, l'existence d'une double postulation contradictoire, entre le monde et Dieu, entre le désir de gloire mondaine et la recherche du bonheur dans l'au-delà.  》 On regrette les coquilles, 《  les références bibliographiques aberrantes  》 et l'absence d'index.

COUSINIE, FREDERIC. "Images et contemplation dans le discours mystique du XVIIe siècle français." DSS 230 (2006), 23–47.

Defining the complex notion of "image" as textual, pictorial, and metaphysical, the author explores the fluid place of imagery at the heart of Christianity, "au sein même de la contemplation."

COWART, GEORGIA. "La Fontaine on Opera: Musical Commentary as Political Critique." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 209–214.

La Fontaine contrasts the operas of Lully and Quinault with chamber music, lamenting the opera's belligerent aggrandizing and praising the private world of the salon. His diatribe on music constitutes a critique of the appropriation of opera for political ends.

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA. The Age of Conversation. Trans.Teresa Waugh. New York: New York Review of Books, 2005.

Review: D. Harvey in Choice 43 (2006), 1668. Contributes to ongoing scholarly interest in salons by calling attention to their early history, which Craveri dates from at least the reign of Louis XI and XII. Salons of the 1630s also find their place here. Macro-cultural phenomena such as Jansenism, the Fronde, and the Enlightenment inflect Craveri's story. Recommended.

Review: A. Riding in NYTSBR (Nov. 20, 2005): Another look at the history of the salons and the figures responsible for defining "skills of politesse, conversation, writing, appearance and, yes, seduction." Craveri's lengthy book is well reviewed, even if it must be read in "manageable bites." Of particular interest are discussions of the Marquise de Rambouillet and Madame de Sévigné.

CRESCENZO, RICHARD, MARIE ROIG-MIRANDA & VERONIQUE ZAERCHER, éds., Le Mariage dans l'Europe des XVIe et XVIIe siècles : réalités et représentations. 2 vols. Nancy : U Nancy II, 2003.

Review : W. Monter in BHR 67.2 (2005), 549–50: "The sixth collection published since 1995 by a multinational research group based in Lorraine (with a seventh to follow) presents a wide range of essays about the legal, financial, social and dynastic aspects of early modern European marriages, done by humanistic scholars living on both sides of the Atlantic. Together, these two volumes contain about forty essays, which vary widely in both subject matter and geographical concentration."

DAGEN, JEAN & PHILIPPE ROGER, eds., Un Siècle de Deux Cents Ans? Les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: continuités et discontinuités. Paris: Desjonquères, 2004.

Review: Ph. Hourcade in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 279–281. The reviewer comments briefly on each of the nineteen articles in the collective volume and concludes: "Au total, un livre plein d'intérêt."

Review: C. Poulouin in RHLF 106.2 (2006), 438–440. This anthology contains 18 contributions reunited in order to "mettre en question l'arbitraire des découpages institutionnels et le goût (français?) de périodiser qui amène à recompenser l'histoire selon des déplacements de frontières souvent imaginaires. . . Deux types de démarches se dégagent. . . du recueil: l'une, qui envisage la période dans ses permanences, ses déplacements et ses reformulations pour en dégager la nouveauté ; l'autre qui s'attache à montrer l'intérêt, mais aussi les limites, de toute périodisation comme de toute catégorie rétrospective que l'on serait tenté d'y substituer." Reviewer argues that this seminal issue merits the attention of seventeenth-century French scholars.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Textual Performance: Imprinting the Criminal Body." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 126–142.

The evolution of the practice of branding in early-modern France shows an increasing cultural fascination with impression and inscription, echoing the development and use of printing. Ultimately, the branding of criminals reveals a paradox: the stability, reach, and power of printed signs breaks down when the body must be marked to punish criminality.

DA VINHA, MATHIEU. Les Valets de chambre de Louis XIV. Paris : Perrin, 2005.

Review : D. Bermond in RDM (avril 2006), 183–84 : 《  Certes, les Bontemps, Nyert, Champcenetz et Chamarande ne passent pas pour les noms les plus connus du Grand Siècle, mais, derrière ce relatif anonymat, ce sont des témoins privilégiés des faiblesses de Louis XIV qui, dans la folle noria des courtisans et des serviteurs s'agitant autour de lui, sont les mieux et les premiers informés des infirmités et des affections royales.  》

DAVIS, ROBERT C. Esclaves chrétiens, maîtres musulmans: L'esclavage blanc en Méditerranée (1500–1800). Trad.Manuel Tricoteaux. Nîmes: J. Chambon, 2006.

Review: E. Phalippou in QL 927 (du 16 au 31 juillet 2006), 21–22: 《  Ce livre illustre, approfondit même par la perspective extra-européenne qu'il ouvre, une phrase d'Yves Benot : 《  il n'est pas indispensable de se réclamer du racisme pour justifier l'esclavage.  》 Nul doute pourtant qu'il fera grincer bien des dents dans la génération post-colonialiste... Davis cherche tout au plus à nous délivrer des reconstructions conditionnées par les idéologies du temps. Il entend nous redonner des consciences libres, chasser tous nos mauvais démons, en finir avec cette galère faisant (...) qu'on traite peut-être aujourd'hui sur le sol de France les Algériens et leurs descendants un peu de la même manière que, eux, hier.  》

DE REMUSAT, CHARLES. 《  L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution par Alexis de Tocqueville.  》 RDM (janvier 2006), 74–96.

Article déjà paru dans la Revue des deux mondes en 1856 (t. IV) par Charles de Rémusat 《  philosophe spiritualiste de l'école Victor Cousin, traducteur de Goethe et de Cicéron, homme politique doctrinaire.  》

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

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 559–562. Reviewer particularly impressed by the "remarquable capacité de synthèse d'approches varies" in this volume. "Faire goûter à un large public les travaux de chercheurs est une tâche aussi difficile qu'importante, et l'avoir fait de manière nuancée n'est pas une mince réussite. Agrémenté de nombreux exemples qui le rendent très vivant, cet ouvrage se lit avec autant de plaisir que d'intérêt, offrant une vision d'emsemble d'une grande richesse, et dont le lecteur, specialisé ou non, ressortira indéniablement stimulé."

EL KENZ, DAVID & CLAIRE GANTET. Guerres et paix en Europe (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). Paris : Armand Colin, 2003.

Review : C. Martin in BHR 67.2 (2005), 555: "L'intérêt de ce petit manuel est donc très inégal selon les chapitres. Il s'avère surtout utile pour les pays qui ne sont pas souvent au programme de l'agrégation d'histoire. . . Mais dès que l'on aborde les pays mieux connus, à commencer par la France, le récit galopant des événements s'avère très frustrant. Les personnages non présentés et les événements non expliqués défilent à toute allure, laissant l'impression au lecteur qu'on en dit trop ou pas assez. La même impression se dégage du dernier chapitre sur la guerre de trente ans.  》

EURODOCS. EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe. URL: http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page"

Review: T. Izbicki in Choice 43 (2006), 232–33. A site which aims to make available primary source documents organized by nation and period. A useful if somewhat patchy collection.

FELDBAUER, PETER, MICHAEL MITTERAUER & WOLFGANG SCHWENTKER, eds. Die vormoderne Stadt. Asien und Europa im Vergleich. Wien: Verlag für Geschichte und Politik/Oldenbourg, 2002.

Review: W. Nippel in HZ 280 (2005): 124–25: Welcome collection of essays overcomes Eurocentric perspectives with its comparative focus. Praised for its clarity and wide-ranging picture of political, military, economic, cultural and religious implications of the phenomenon.

FERBER, SARAH. Demoniac Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. London: Routledge, 2004.

Review: M. Pavesio in SFr no. 145 (2005): 153: Illuminates, by a detailed examination of the first two and the most "eclatanti" in a long series of Renaissance and 17th c. diabolic possessions in France, "un momento fondamentale nella storia della mentalità dell'Europa occidentale che ha prodotto un acceso dibattito letterario" (153).

FIGEAC, MICHEL, ed. Noblesse française et noblesse polonaise: mémoire, identité, culture XVIe–XXe siècles. Pessac: Maison des sciences de l'homme d'Aquitaine, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 683 (2006), 110: "Ce volume rassemble les actes d'un colloque organisé conjointement par le Centre aquitain d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, par l'université Nicolas-Copernic et par la ville de Torùn (anciennement Thorn) et qui s'est tenu dans cette même ville du 12 au 15 mai 2004." Voir les articles de F.-J. Raggiu ("Des mots à la mode, un discours nobiliaire de la fin du règne de Louis XIV") et de P. Loupès ("sur 'les chemins de la conversion' pour la noblesse du Grand Siècle").

FOYER, DOMINIQUE. "Quand le corps fait signe." RSH 278 2 (avril-juin 2005): 31–46.

Reexamines the notion of "relics" and the Catholic theological approach to the cult of relics since the Council of Trent, exposing greater complexities and inconsistencies through the use of ideas and terms borrowed from rhetoric and the social sciences.

FRISCH, ANDREA. "French Tragedy and the Civil Wars." MLQ 67 (2006), 287–312.

Describes the 16th-century use of tragedy and theatrical metaphors as commentary on the political calamities of the era, then notes the disappearance of explicit connections between contemporary history and tragedy in the early 17th century. Identifies the new neoclassical aesthetics of pleasure as part of a national work of forgetting the nation's past and present religious strife. "Royal legislation commanding the French to obliterate memories of the wars helped shape the aesthetics of seventeenth-century French tragedy in subtle but central ways" (288).

GADHOUM, SONIA. "L'éducation du noble dans le Dictionnaire universel d'Antoine Furetière." CdDS 10.1 (2006): 75–94.

This study seeks to understand the fundamental principals of aristocratic education by means of a theoretical investigation, its practical realization and its increasing modernization at the end of the century. It turns to Furetière's dictionary as a base and tool for its quest.

GATULLE, PIERRE. "La grande cabale de Gaston d'Orléans aux Pays-Bas espagnols et en Lorraine: le prince et la guerre des images." DSS 231 (2006), 301–326.

Gaston d'Orléans is well known for "ses actions de mécène, d'amateur d'art et de collectionneur érudit [...] L'angle d'approche proposé ici souhaite aborder cette activité à un moment particulier, celui de la grande cabale de ce prince en Lorraine et aux Pays-Bas espagnols entre 1629 et 1634."

GAUDIN, LUCILE. "Peindre en France au XVIIe siècle: Un mot, deux arts, une praxis." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 189–198.

The author examines Lamy's Rhétorique and Traité de perspective in order to develop the interplay of painting and literature. While literature draws on painting as a model, painting nevertheless remains subordinate to the verbal as a branch of rhetoric.

GILLARD, LUCIEN. La Banque d'Amsterdam et le florin européen au temps de la République néerlandaise (1610–1820). Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2004.

Review: M. Weis in HZ 281 (2005): 760–61: This volume by a well-known researcher at the CNRS necessarily includes 17th c. Paris as it examines the Amsterdam hegemony and mercantilism. Particularly praised for its extensive quantitative material, diagrams and tables.

GOFFART, WALTER. Historical Atlases: The First Three Hundred Years, 1570–1870. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.

Review: C. Delano-Smith in Ren Q 58 (2005): 642–43: After indicating certain reservations, Delano-Smith concludes that Goffart "has produced a major work of reference" (643). What is found most useful are the descriptions of the cartographical artifact and a 100-page catalogue of maps and atlases. Index, illustrations.

GOLDSMITH, JAMES LOWTH. Lordship in France, 1500–1789. New York: P. Lang, 2005.

Review: D. Heimmermann in Choice 44 (2006), 552: Explores stasis and change in the institution of lordship. Though lords are shown to endure and to continue to play some role in local government and the management of public services until the French Revolution, their powers are also shown to decline as absolute monarchy usurps their political authority. Recommended by the reviewer.

GOSMAN, MARTIN, ALASDAIR MACDONALD, & ARJO J. VANDERJAGT, eds. Princes and Princely Culture, 1450–1650. Vol. 1. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 118. Leiden: Brill, 2003.

Review: N. Hochner in Ren Q 58 (2005): 311–13: This first volume of a series focuses on "selected European courts north of the Alps and the Pyrenees" (312). Both this and the planned second volume, on England and southern Europe, aim "to give fresh reading of the relationship between princes and artists and patronage on the one hand, and to examine the ideology and symbolism of rulership and statehood on the other" (312). Judged a "valuable and erudite book that brings together much recent and exciting scholarship and offers many precious and refreshing insights" (313).

GOULET, ANNE-MADELEINE. Poésie, musique et sociabilité au XVIIe siècle. Les Livres d'airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard de 1658 à 1694. Paris: Honoré Champion, coll. "Lumière classique", 2004.

Review: A. Génetiot in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 287–289. "Avec son érudition minutieuse qui fait la synthèse de la recherche récente et son sens aigu de la formule précise, la monographie d'A.-M. Goulet [. . .] ouvre donc à la recherche un champ nouveau qui complète les études littéraires et sociologiques existantes en articulant les deux domaines de la musicologie et de la littérature au sein de l'histoire de la civilisation mondaine."

Review: M. Pavesio in SFr no. 146 (2005): 412–13: Goulet's rich study, a refinement of her 2002 thèse directed by Christian Biet, is part of Champion's Lumière Classique collection, directed by Philippe Sellier. A forthcoming publication also chez Champion will furnish a catalogue of the 1,220 aria which are the basis of Goulet's study. Multifaceted, Goulet's work includes sections on the material aspects of the collection, its public, generic considerations, social and cultural contexts. Goulet's careful analyses are completed by a rich critical apparatus: biographical and bibliographical notices, three indexes and an imposing bibliography of over 100 pages.

Review: A. Stedman in FR 79 (2006), 182–83 : Addressing a collection of "airs sérieux" whose publication directly coincided with the rise and fall of the aesthetic of galanterie, Goulet's work expands our knowledge of music's participation in this aesthetic and the world of mondanité. Although Goulet admirably utilizes recent French scholarship on salon culture and worldly sociability, the reviewer regrets her oversight of important contextualizing American criticism (Dejean, Seifert) which could have been helpful.

GOYA, JOSE-MANUEL LOSADA. "Une querelle de salon: France, Italie, Espagne." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 269–276.

Examines the debate which took place in the Rambouillet salon in 1639 concerning Ariosto's (now lost) play I Suppositi.

GRENIER, BENOIT. "Gentilshommes campagnards de la nouvelle France, XVIIe–XIXe siècle : Une autre seigneurie laurentienne?" French Colonial History 7 (2006), 21–43.

Revisits the traditional view of Canadian seigneurs as repressive by suggesting that there was a difference between absentee and resident seigneurs, and that the latter in fact enjoyed excellent relationships with their local communities.

GUEMY, CHRISTIAN. "Un traité de peinture manuscrit resté inédit: la Seconde Nature du frère carme Sébastien de Saint-Aignan." DSS 230 (2006), 71–79.

A brief but close look at Saint-Aignan's (better known as an architect) previously unknown, unpublished treatise on painting.

HANLEY, SARAH. "Natural Equality and Natural Rights for Women: The Legal Effects of Male Right on Family Affairs in France, 1550s–1750." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 323–337.

Builds on the author's considerable research into Salic law and female exclusion from political power. "This study looks at a controversy in French jurisprudence — the employment of legal devices to privilege males in family inheritance — and offers a high-profile case, Longueville v. Nemours (1674), wherein Male Right was attacked as a perversion of nature and law."

HAVARD, GILLES & CECILE VIDAL. Histoire de l'Amérique française. Paris: Flammarion, 2003.

Review: T. Nicklas in HZ 280 (2005): 414–16: Contributes to a neglected area, provides a superior synthèse of previous research and examines numerous factors: diplomatic, military, historical and cultural. Includes several maps.

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. "Le décorum de l'image sacrée. Une interprétation française?" DSS 230 (2006), 81–99.

Juxtaposing the early modern Italian theory of art, "soumise à des motivations religieuses," with the French tendency to champion "la composition séculière du décorum." "En France [...] on a l'impression que la religion sert de prétexte à l'élaboration de règles poétiques pour le bon tableau d'histoire, et permet un discours normatif qui ne s'intéresse pas foncièrement à Dieu, ou n'est religieux que par accident."

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. Ut pictura theatrum. Théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français. Genève: Droz, 2003.

Review: A.-E. Spica in DSS 230 (2006), 177–179: "Point d'ut pictura poesis sans un ut pictura theatrum originaire, dans lequel seul s'ancre toute réflexion théorique sur la poétique et les beaux-arts: [...] A travers un corpus aussi impressionnant que cohérent, celui des théoriciens italiens puis français de la peinture et du théâtre, qui n'avait encore jamais fait l'objet d'une étude des deux points de vue conjugués, E. Hénin éclaire deux siècles capitaux pour l'histoire occidentale des représentations comme de la représentation."

HOPFL, HARRO. Jesuit Political Thought. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 68.1 (2006), 147: Intellectual history dealing with the period 1540–1630 in Europe: "The 'collectivity' of the Roman Catholic Church, in which the Jesuits were often accused of asserting a certain independence under their 'black pope', and its complex, ever-changing, sometimes allegedly Machiavellian interactions not only with heresy but with all aspects of doctrina civilis are presented in concise, balanced and documented prose."

HUET, MARIE-HELENE. "Politiques de l'hospitalité." DAI 67/04 (2006), 4302.

Using the new understanding of space and community in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this historical inquiry seeks to comprehend how hospitality is defined, through a detailed investigation comprised of five chronological chapters. From the new concept of hospitality emerges the idea that it can best be understood as a "systemic tension between the inside and outside, and immunological process, by way of which the sphere of the familiar admits, rejects, or distances that which is foreign."

HUGON, ALAIN. Au Service du roi catholique: honorables ambassadeurs et divins espions: représentation diplomatique et service secret dans les relations hispano-françaises de 1599 à 1635. Madrid: Casa de Velásquez, 2004.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 673 (2005), 107–08: "L'auteur propose un voyage au-delà des apparences, dans les arcanes du pouvoir aux débuts de l'ère moderne." Ouvrage de haute érudition.

HUSSEY, ANDREW. Paris: The Secret History. New York: Viking, 2006.

Review: S. Poole in TLS 5400 (Sept 29 2006), 36. A "richly gossipy and diverting history of the city." Hussey claims his book tells the story of Paris from the point of view of the classes, "whores and beggars. . . hustlers and vagabonds." Seventeenth-century figures include Tabarin.

HYDE, ELIZABETH. Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Review: D. Baxter in Choice 43 (2006), 1295. Considers the place of flowers in the elitist culture of the Grand Siècle, including the development of male flower collectors, the cultural meanings and representations of flowers, the phenomenon of florist flowers, and the use of flowers in the expression of Louis XIV's royal image. Well researched and admirably interdisciplinary.

ISELI, ANDREA. "Bonne Police", Frühneuzeitliches Verständnis von der guten Ordnung eines Staates in Frankreich. Epfendorf: Bibliotheca Academica, 2003.

Review: W. Schmale in HZ 280 (2005): 173–74: Praiseworthy examination is oriented both theoretically (part I is informed by early modern political-philosophical perspectives) and practically (part II concerns kings and provinces). Archival resources complement printed sources, solid and reliable.

JACQUOT, DOMINIQUE, JEAN-LUC NANCY, MAXIMILIEN DURAND, et al. Loth et ses filles de Simon Vouet. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg, 2005.

Review: S. Loire in Burlington 148 (2006), 345–346: Published as a complement to an exhibition held at Strasbourg's Musée de Beaux-Arts that closed in January 2006. "Explores in great depth the painting's origins, its iconography and the position it occupies in Vouet's œuvre." Also included are a number of other works by Vouet as well as his pupils, including paintings, drawings, engravings and tapestries. Contains updated documentation of the chronology of Vouet's works, as well as new attributions to Vouet himself or his circle.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 679 (2006), 55: "Le musée des beaux-arts de Strasbourg a mis ce tableau à l'honneur dans le cadre d'une remarquable exposition ['Eclairages sur un chef-d'oeuvre, Loth et ses filles', 20 octobre 2005 au 22 janvier 2006]. Le catalogue édité à cette occasion a "le caractère de véritable monographie sur l'oeuvre du peintre."

JAMES, ALAN. Navy and Government in Early Modern France. London: Boydell Press, 2004.

Review: A. Dziedsic in FR 79 (2006), 851–2: Examining the management and aims of the French navy from the sixteenth-century religious wars to the beginning of Louis XIV's reign, the work tries to establish the context within Richelieu operated as he came sought to increase France's naval strength. "James demonstrates that although Richelieu's successes and the scale of operations stand out from those of his predecessors, his aims, ambitions, and even his methods do not" (851). The reviewer praises the work's "rich and meticulous documentation" (852).

JEANNERET, MICHEL. Eros rebelle. Littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique. Paris: Seuil, 2003.

Review: M. Richter in SFr no. 145 (2005): 153–54: Judged a "bel libro," Jeanneret fulfills his stated intention to "faire une promenade dans quelques quartiers mal famés" (qtd by Richter, n.p.). Rich in perspectives (manuals of anatomy, as well as literary texts are examined), Jeanneret affirms that "le XVIIe siècle atteint, dans l'humiliation de la créature et la crainte de faillir, un point culminant' (J. 100). Scholars of Béroalde, Théophile, Ninon de Lenclos, Molière, among others will find much value in Jeanneret's vigorous and persuasive reflections, in particular his conclusion which finds in Molière's Don Juan "l'esemplarità di tutta un'epoca variamente attraversata da un 'éros rebelle.'"

KENNY, NEIL. The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Review: P. Bayley in MLR 101.2 (2006), 619–20: Work of significant "chronological and linguistic range" that is "destined to become a classic in the field of early modern European intellectual history." Kenny "interprets and illuminates not simply the organization of knowledge in the early modern world, but the neuroses that controlled that organization of knowledge."

Review: E. Peters in Ren Q 58 (2005): 675–76: Finds Kenny's work "the best study of the meaning and uses of the term and the variety of ways by which it was understood and deployed in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe" (675–76). Finds Kenny to be a "remarkably learned and intelligent guide through what he calls 'a semantic swamp'" and judges that the study has broad implications for the intellectual history of modern Europe. Sweeping through an "enormous number and variety of sources," the study is organized into three sections: institutions, discursive tendencies and sex/gender (676). Index, illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography.

KOLBOOM, INGO, THOMAS KOTSCHI & EDWARD REICHEL, eds. Handbuch Französisch. Sprache-Literatur-Kultur-Gesellschaft. Für Studium, Lehre, Praxis. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2002.

Review: B. Kuhn in RF 117 (2005): 75–79: Recommended, if at times judged perfunctory, this compendium focuses less on literary history than on linguistics and scholarship relating to culture and the nation.

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

Review: F. Assaf in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 289–291. Reviewer laments the lack of an index but sees the book as "an extremely important one, particularly for historians and those who study the relationship of literature to social history."

LE PAS DE SECHEVAL, ANNE. "Réflexions sur des textes méconnus. Quels enjeux pour l'histoire de l'art." DSS 230 (2006), 7–21.

A close look at the reasons and ramifications for "le décalage spectaculaire entre le foisonnement en Italie des textes sur l'art dès le XVe siècle, et leur apparition tardive en France au milieu du XVIIe siècle." Similarly, the author examines the silence on the part of the Church on sacred painting.

LEPLATRE, OLIVIER. "Ecrire et désecrire l'Histoire dans les Mémoires du cardinal de Retz." IL 58.1 (2006), 21–29.

The author examines the implications of Retz's political career and the genesis of the text before discussing the concept of "plasticité et plis". Combines the study of Retz as a political figure and Retz as a writer.

LESAFFER, RANDALL, ed. Peace Treaties and International Law in European History. From the Late Middle Ages to World War One. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Review: J. Dülffer in HZ 281 (2005): 402–03: Welcome collection of essays on a particularly wide-ranging subject and time period and includes studies of synthesis as well as case studies. 17th c. scholars will be interested in essays relating to peace treaties, culture, and reason.

LEVI, ANTHONY. Louis XIV. London: Constable, 2004.

Review: R. Mettam in FS 59.3 (2005), 398–399: Levi's biography is only worthy of court gossip, says the author of this generally negative review. Levi is "extreme in his willingness to believe... improbable sexual tittle-tattle." There are also errors in the descriptions of the institutional machinery and the court hierarchies, and the footnotes do not reveal much recent scholarship. The reviewer is likewise disappointed to find the author to be trapped in his own arguments about Louis XIV's insecurities.

LEVY, EVONNE. Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004.

Review: J. G. Harper in Ren Q 58 (2005): 210–11: Although the volume receives a mixed review, it is praised as including "a thoughtful, nuanced study of the artmaking process of the Jesuits, their ways of addressing and involving their audiences, and the diffusion of messages and forms" (210). As it seeks to better grasp "Jesuit intentions, practices and effects in the baroque era," it asks: "Is Jesuit art propaganda?" (610–11). Particular attention is paid to "diffusion" or the repetition of forms, for example "altars (across Europe and the world) that copy or draw inspiration from the chapel of St. Ignatius at the Gesu." Judged "thought-provoking" and "well-documented" (211).

MAES, BRUNO. Le Roi, la Vierge et la Nation. Pèlerinages et identité nationale entre guerre de Cent ans et Révolution. Paris: Publisud, 2002.

Review: H. Guillemain in DSS 230 (2006), 180–182: "L'ouvrage met en valeur les liens qui peuvent apparaître entre spiritualité et culture politique, cette dernière comprenant à la fois la construction de l'Etat, l'image du souverain et l'identité de la Nation. Bruno Maes s'attache donc à construire l'imbrication historique d'une redéfinition du divin à l'époque de la Réforme et de la Contre-Réforme et d'une redéfinition du politique au temps de la formation de l'absolutisme."

MARGOLF, DIANE C. Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris Chambre de l'Édit, 1598–1665. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 67. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2003.

Review: K. A. Parrow in Ren Q 58 (2005): 254–55: Focusing on "one of the major protections for Huguenots in the edict: the creation of special law courts. . . to resolve legal disputes involving Huguenot litigants," the study includes discussion of "the chamber's historical role. . ., legal jurisdiction, and. . . contemporary views of its function and importance" (254). Margolf has carefully examined "archival records of every criminal case heard in the chamber from 1600–10" and taken "samples of the records at five-year intervals for the period from 1610–65" concluding the "the chief beneficiary was ultimately the crown, which used the chamber to maintain peace in the kingdom" (255). Parrow wonders if some of the omitted 1610–65 cases would have shown a shift indicating the withdrawal of toleration. Contains important "insights on seventeenth-century rural and urban family and community life" (255).

MARTIN, CHRISTOPHE. "L'illustration du conte de fées (1697–1789)." CAEIF 57 (2005), 113–132.

Of particular interest, Martin's discussion of the frontispiece accompanying Perrault's Contes in 1697 and its influence on the development of fairy tale illustration and imagery through the 18th century.

MASLAN, SUSAN. "The Dream of the Feeling Citizen: Law and Emotion in Corneille and Montesquieu." Substance 35 (2006), 69–83.

The article examines Corneille's Horace and Montesquieu's Les Lettres Persanes in tracing a pre-history of the figure of the man-citizen posited by the Déclaration des Droits de L'Homme et du Citoyen, a figure whose citizenship was cast as including sentiment. In analyzing Horace, Maslan notes the differing views of Camille and Sabine on whether grief and feeling should be kept private in the home, or whether they should enter the public realm of politics. Maslan suggests that Corneille's play endorses a divided existence and projects bad faith upon King Tulle for treating Horace's crimes as a "state of exception" rather than judging them as crimes of passion which could be deemed either condemnable or forgivable. Maslan criticizes as too 1789-anticipatory Fumaroli's reading of the play as presaging a "fusion of love and law, of citizenship and sentiment."

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "Revenge and Poetic Justice in Classical France." Substance 35 (2006), 19–51.

Historically contextualizing notions of revenge, particularly with regards to place, Méchoulan considers how private revenge is transformed by the early modern state's increasing monopoly on legitimate violence, and how tragedies by Corneille and Racine figure in this development. Méchoulan also suggests that the increasing publicness of what revenge becomes, namely punishment, runs in parallel with the theater's development of a public as described by Hélène Merlin. "The recurring question of the opposition between private and public for the modern status of revenge is exactly the question posed by the contemporaneous development of literature" (46).

MOMBELLO, GIANNI & PAOLA CIFARELLI, eds. La Correspondance d'Albert Bailly, volume 5, années 1654–1655. Aoste: Académie Saint-Anselme, 2003.

Review: P. Wolfe in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 583–584. "L'érudition de cette correspondance est impeccable par sa présentation et par son érudition. Elle sera précieuse pour les spécialistes de l'histoire diplomatique, aussi bien que pour les historiens des ordres religieux et de la cour de France."

MONNIER, FRANCOIS, ed. Histoire institutionnelle: questions de méthode (XVIIe – XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Comité pour l'histoire économique et financière de la France, 2004.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 682 (2006), 37: Ce petit livre est parti d'un projet et conclut cinq colloques tenus entre 1997 et 2000. Les sept auteurs dont les contributions sont réunies ici "proposent de nouvelles approches qui rendent justice à ceux qui faisaient réellement fonctionner les institutions. Ils esquissent des comparaisons internationales qui tendent à faire justice de la tendance trop fréquente à l'autosatisfaction sur l'excellence de l'administration française et sur son rôle de modèle dans le monde."

MOREAU, JEAN-PIERRE. Pirates: flibuste et piraterie dans la Caraïbe et les mers du Sud (1522–1725). Paris: Tallandier, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 682 (2006), 112: L'auteur "s'attelle ici à restituer une histoire documentée et très réaliste du phénomène, en l'ancrant dans le contexte historique de la colonisation des Antilles."

MUCHEMBLED, ROBERT. L'orgasme et l'occident, Une histoire de plaisir du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Paris : Seuil, 2005.

Review : B. Ogilivie in QL 910 (du 1er au 15 novembre 2005), 31 : " Retraçant de la Renaissance à nos jours les pratiques érotiques européennes, [Muchembled] décèle une constante répressive inaugurée au XVIe siècle qui ne prendrait fin que dans les années 1960. Radicalisant les perspectives de Weber et de Norbert Elias, il ne présente pas seulement le développement de la civilisation 'occidental', industrielle et rationnelle, comme le progrès à peu près continu d'une pression entretenue par un projet civilisateur moral et religieux, mais il entreprend de montrer ce qu'il considère les médiations réelles, concrètes de ce projet. (...) 《  La simplicité (le simplisme ?) du schéma théorique, interprétatif contraste avec la richesse considérable des documents, descriptions, anecdotes, textes, comptines et chansons qui font de ce livre un très distrayant et très amusant livre... d'histoires.  》

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

Review: M. Wade in Ren Q 58 (2005): 310–11: These selected proceedings from the EURESCO conference series focuses on the 16th and 17th c. The early modern is featured in essays on triumphal entries under Henri II, on architecture and festival under the last Valois, the politics of these festivals and the financing of festivals under Louis XIV. Wade finds "a cohesive unit offering much information," but would have preferred the inclusion of essays on Northern and Central Europe (she indicates scholars' names) in order not to reinforce "the outdated notion" that those areas are "peripheral."

NOEL, JAN. "'Nagging Wife' Revisited: Women and the Fur Trade in the New France." French Colonial History 7 (2006) 45–60.

Covers the many roles of women in New France in the late seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. Includes fur traders' wives who maintained and expanded their families' trade, Amerindian women working in domains such as canoe building, women who helped run the outposts and military wives.

OUDIN-BASTIDE, CAROLINE. Travail, capitalisme et société esclavagiste, Guadeloupe et Martinique, XVIIe–XIXe siècles. Paris : La Découverte, 2005.

Review: J. Chesneaux in QL 910 (du 1er au 15 novembre 2005), 24: 《  Mme Oudin-Bastide propose ici un rapprochement stimulant avec la 'rationalité courtisane' selon Norbert Elias : le surtravail imposé aux paysans par les nobles d'Europe, encore au XVIIIe siècle, ne servait qu'à financer leur paraître ostentatoire à la cour. Le planteur, comme son confrère de Louisiane analysé par le marxiste américain Eugen Genovese, 's'enrichit à partir de valeurs opposées à celles du capitalisme.' (...) Ce livre est un bel effort pour remanier et rendre plus accessible une thèse de doctorat... Mais l'effort n'est pas payé de retour, du fait de la pingrerie éditoriale devenue si courante. (...) L'esclavage antillais du temps de la monarchie, note Mme Oudin-Bastide, est peureusement ignoré par nos programmes scolaires républicains. Cette mémoire 'obscure' selon Chamoiseau, cette mémoire muette est réveillée ici, avec compétence et vivacité.  》

PEACE, THOMAS G.M. "Deconstructing the Sauvage/Savage in the Writing of Samuel de Champlain and Captain John Smith." French Colonial History 7 (2006), 1–20.

Analyses the terms used by Champlain and Smith to refer to the indigenous peoples of North America, notably savage and sauvage and explores how their vocabulary choices affect our understanding of early seventeenth-century European-North American relations.

PERSELS, JEFFREY & RUSSELL GANIM, eds. Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology. Studies in European Cultural Transition, 21. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: C. Freccero in Ren Q 58 (2005): 980–81: Judges that "the essays gathered in this volume contribute importantly to the cultural materialist and Foucauldian project of constructing a genealogical history of the body's discursively productive wastes" (981). The essays focus on French, German and English early modern visual art and literary culture, aiming "to showcase just how prevalent, explicit, and voluble the discourse on emissions of bodily waste was" (980). Order is chronological and there is an important interdisciplinary element, especially at "the intersections between literature and science" (981). Index, illustrations, bibliography.

PLOUCHART-COHN, FLORENCE, trad. et ed., avec la collab. d'Anne Bouscharain. Tommaso Campanella. Sur la mission de la France. Paris : Editions Rue d'Ulm/ P de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2005.

Review : L. Guerrini in BHR 68.2 (2006), 413–414 : 《  Pour Campanella, les quatres écrits contenus dans le receueil Sur la mission de la France avaient pour but de contraindre les pouvoirs politiques et ecclésiastiques de la France de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle à réfléchir sur eux-mêmes et sur la mission historique qu'ils étaient tenus de poursuivre. Comme l'écrit Plouchart-Cohn, 'ils offrent un panorama très clair' des fondements et des modalités de la prise de position du dominicain calabrais en faveur de la monarchie française'.  》

POIRSON, MARTIAL. Art et argent en France au temps des premiers modernes: XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2004.

Review: L. Marie in FS 60.2 (2006), 271–272. This is a positive review of conference proceedings centered on the interdependence of economy "de la culture et l'économie dans la culture." A sizable introduction helps bring the varied papers together into a more coherent whole, and bring money, as object, instrument and symbol, into conversation with the history and arts of the seventeenth century. Authors touched on in the papers include Graffigny, Saint-Lambert, Corneille, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot et Rousseau, but the volume reaches out to the modern, interviewing Jean Badin, recently the director of Lesage's Turcaret.

PRAK, MAARTEN ROY. The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. Trans.Diane Webb. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.

Review: J. Butt in Choice 43 (2006), 2067. An excellent translation of a clear, "first-rate" book, one whose consideration of the Dutch Republic combines economic, political, social, cultural, and religious history. Said to be especially useful for contextualizing the relations between the Dutch Republic, England, and France.

PREVOT, JACQUES, ed., avec la collab. de Thierry Dedouelle, Laure Jestaz, Hélène Ostrowiecki-Bah, & Etienne Wolff. Libertins du XVIIe siècle. 2 vol. Paris: Gallimard, n.d.

Review: B. Delvaille in RDM (décembre 2005), 58–67: Favorable review article of Prévot's two-volume work in context of the evolving intellectual and historical understanding of the term libertin: "Le libertin, homme de culture ou érudit, passionné de réflexion philosophique, attentif aux conséquences du progrès scientifique, est une intelligence critique appuyée sur le sentiment aigu de son individualité. Cela suppose le sens de la différence et le respect de l'autre."

PRITCHARD, JAMES. In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670–1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Review: D. Miquelon in UTQ 75.1 (Winter 2005/06), 260–262 : "In Search of Empire is a sprawling book of over five hundred pages that knows no boundaries within its subject and tends to the empirical rather than the theoretical. That said, the author does have a thesis that is the leitmotiv of every chapter: that while the colonies of Ancien Régime France were indeed possessions, together they and the metropolis that possessed them did not exhibit the structural cohesion that would justify our calling them an empire." The book is divided into two parts: 'Colonies Formed' tells the story of the "surprisingly small number of Frenchmen who established themselves in colonies in spite of a populationist government only rarely roused from apathy to mistrust." 'Colonies Defended' provides "a blow-by-blow description of the wars from 1672 to 1713 that involved France's colonies and those of the Dutch and the English/British."

RANUM, OREST. Paris in the Age of Absolutism. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003.

Review: S. Pierse in FS 60.3 (2006), 387–388: While the reviewer recommends this book to "all lovers of Paris," she notes its usefulness for any aspiring scholar of the seventeenth-century. Ranum's text contains numerous illustrations and covers major players and events shaping Paris at the time: kings, wars, religion, architecture, science, economics, politics, etc. The review also praises Ranum for a succinct but thorough account of the intrigues involving the religious houses of the time.

REISS, TIMOTHY J. Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003.

Review: C. Kallendorf in Ren Q 58 (2005): 308–10: Reiss's thesis is that "the concept of a separate, private individual, of a self free and independent in its will, intentions, and choices, was not even conceptualized until the beginning of the first or second centuries AD at the earliest, and was considered aberrant until well into the seventeenth century. . . [that is] person and society were mutually constructed" (308). Reiss argues that "the self-conscious subject agent who resolved conflict rationally began with Descartes and ended with Hobbes and Locke, but in losing its roots in the old order, it eventually became un-Cartesian" (309). Impressive by its "mastery of over three hundred primary sources", Reiss's work challenges periodic divisions and certain recent studies on class and gender (309–10).

SANCHI, LUIGI-ALBERTO,trans. Corrado Vivanti. Guerre civile et paix religieuse dans la France d'Henri IV. Paris: Desjonquères, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 680 (2006), 111: "Cet essai est la traduction française par Luigi-Alberto Sanchi de la fameuse étude de l'historien italien Corrado Vivanti, publiée chez Einaudi en 1963, ou plus exactement d'une traduction partielle, effectuée sous le contrôle de l'auteur lui-même et agrémentée de notes enrichies et parfaitement mises à jour."

SCHULZ, ANDREAS. "Befreiung vom Orientalismus: Neue Literatur zur osmanisch-türkischen Geschicht." HZ 281 (2005): 103–29.

While this article reviewing recent criticism (some 20 studies) focuses on Ottoman-Turkish history, there are necessarily several intersections with early modern Europe, notably relating to travel literature, nation building, cultural integration and warfare.

SOLL, JACOB. Publishing the Prince: History, Reading and the Birth of Political Criticism. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Review: R. F. White in Choice 43 (2005), 732: While Machiavelli's The Prince is usually read as a defense of absolutist politics, Soll suggests that translations of and comments on the text by Amelot de La Houssaye "actually contributed to the Enlightenment by introducing historical criticism into political discourse, which brought the 'secret sphere of state' into the 'public sphere of criticism'" (732). Praised by the reviewer; said to be well written and well documented, although critics could observe that Soll's claims are rather large given his focus on elitist intellectual history.

STACEY, SARAH ALYN & VERONIQUE DESNAIN, eds. Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2004.

Review: L. Gregorio in Fr F 30 (2005): 121–23: Welcome, wide-ranging collection, although quite disparate, makes "a fine contribution to literary history in areas not often examined by dix-septiémistes in literature" (123). Organized into sections on "Women, men and texts in conflict", "Moral conflicts", "The theatre in conflict", and "Military conflict", these acta of the Trinity College Dublin Colloquium of November 1999 marking "the acquisition of a collection of rare seventeenth-century texts" also includes reflections on problems of translation.

Review: R Parish in FS 59.4 (2005), 541–543: This collection of essays began as papers for a conference celebrating the a new collection of French seventeenth-century works acquired by Trinity College in Dublin. While the the initial section on "Women, Men and Texts in Conflict" disappoints the reviewer, the remainder of the work seems to meet with approval. As is to be expected from such a collection, there is a very wide array of topic covered in both literary and historical fields, including a piece on French-Irish relations during the Nine Years War. Authors and personages treated in the essays include, Furetière, Molière, Louis XIV, Jean-Pierre Camus, and La Calprenède, according to this overall positive review.

STONE, HARRIET. "Bearing Witness to the Light: Descartes and Vermeer." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 169–182.

The author reads two paintings by Vermeer (the Astronomer and the Geographer) in light of Descartes's narrative in the Discours on the philosopher's fashioning of a body of knowledge. Her comparison highlights the constructed nature of science as an art that expresses an implicit perspective and points to "the science of method that is also an art, the art of narrating a particular view of things."

SWAIN, VIRGINIA E. "Beauty's Chambers: Mixed Genres and Mixed Messages in Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast." Marvels & Tales 19.2 (2005), 197–223.

Though more relevant to 18th century studies, fairy tale specialists and women's studies scholars may be intrigued by the thesis that "Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast stands at the intersection of two aesthetics and two sets of values for women and manifests this junction in its own hybrid form."

TRAORE, MOUSSA. "Race Lines and the Rhetoric of Distinction through the Académie Française." DAI 66/04 (2005), 1372.

This study outlines historical transformations of the word "race" and looks at "issues of representations, from the Académie to France, Europe, the West, and the universal." It addresses tensions between different forms of traditional and scholarly elitism in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

TROUVE, STEPHANIE. "Les écrits de Molinier, Pader et Vendages de Malapeire et la peinture religieuse à Toulouse au XVIIe siècle." DSS 230 (2006), 101–115.

Looking at the texts of these three authors, Trouvé sheds light on a uniquely Toulousian approach to sacred art.

VERDIER, ANNE. '《  Les Trois Tailleurs  》. Vêtement et costume de théâtre au XVIIe siècle'. PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 139–146.

Examines the figure of the tailor (as social reality), the theatre costume designer and the character of the tailor (as theatrical invention). Argues that "le personnage du tailleur au théâtre est tout autre chose qu'un reflet, même diabolisé du tailleur mondain : c'est un personnage type, le double métaphorique du 《  meneur de jeu  》 [. . .], un personnage machiniste, un élément qui fait avancer l'action."

WAQUET, JEAN-CLAUDE, éd. François de Callières. L'Art de négocier en France sous Louis XIV. Paris: Rue d'Ulm, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 678 (2006), 112: "Une excellente édition d'un texte d'une importance capitale, notamment pour la connaissance de l'histoire diplomatique du Grand Siècle." Ce traité paru en 1716 par François de Callières "apparaît très marqué par l'époque de sa rédaction: 'il n'est point un traité tourné vers le futur mais plutôt la production tardive d'un homme formé dans les années 1650 et continuant d'évoluer, à la veille de sa mort, dans un univers culturel et politique largement périmé.'"

WINN, COLETTE H., ed. "Protestations et revendications féminines. Textes oubliés et inédits sur l'éducation feminine (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: M. Lazard in RHLF 106.2 (2006), 424–425. "Ce recueil rassemble des textes publiés entre 1595 et 1699, qui, en grande majorité, n'ont pas encore fait l'objet d'une édition moderne. Ecrits par des femmes, ils témoignent de leur participation active à la littérature de combat pour la défense de leur sexe et leur droit au savoir." Texts that identifies seminal issues, such as feminine discourse, conformism, education of women and subversive claims. Particular attention paid to different genres: letters, satirical portraits, eulogies, and moral writings.

WORTHINGTON, DAVID. Scots in Hapsburg Service, 1618–1648. History of Warfare, 21. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Review: R.D. Culbertson in Ren Q 58 (2005): 663–65: Praised for its use of "extensive manuscript sources " in several countries, "to discuss Scots involved in Hapsburg service. . . in military, diplomatic, religious, trading, and intellectual activities in France" as well as several other countries (664). Among other points, Culbertson finds the study important for its challenge to "the notion that Valois France was the country's strongest link to Catholic Europe between the Union of the Crowns and the beginning of the Jacobite movement in 1688" (665). Indices, appendices, maps, glossary, chonology and bibliography.

ZANGER, ABBY. "Marriage on the Margins of Monarchy: Politics and the Marriage Plot in the Motteville-Montpensier Correspondence." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 339–354.

Examines the "discussion of the relation between marriage and power that emerges" from the four original letters written between the duchesse de Montpensier and Mme de Motteville in 1660 as both attended the ceremonies surrounding the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees.

ALANEN, LILLI. Descartes' Concept of Mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Review: K. Smith in PhQ 56 (July 2006) 449–450. "A rich, sophisticated, and critical examination of Descartes' philosophical views on mind, and in particular, the embodied or human mind." While the reviewer finds fault with some of Alanen's arguments, he concludes that it is a "systematic, coherent, and interesting reading."

ALLORGE, LUCILE & OLIVIER IKOR. La Fabuleuse Odyssée des plantes. Les Botanistes voyageurs, les jardins des plantes, les herbiers. Paris: Hachette, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 683 (2006), 46–47: Cet ouvrage "traite de l'introduction des plantes principalement en France, ramenées par les voyageurs depuis le XIVe siècle jusqu'au début du XXe siècle et acclimatées dans les jardins des plantes ou conservées en herbiers."

ALQUIÉ, FERDINAND. Leçons sur Descartes. Science et métaphysique chez Descartes. Paris : La Table ronde, 2005.

Review : Massimiliano Savini in EP 4 (2005), 567: 《  une exposition scolaire de la pensée des Descartes  》 qui consiste des cours donnés par 《  un des plus importants interprètes de la philosophie cartésienne du XXe siècle.  》

ARIEW, ROGER. "Descartes, les premiers cartésiens et la logique," RMM 1 (March 2006): 55–71.

Because Descartes's work on physics and metaphysics were partial and at best general, later Cartesians rushed to fill this void. The author examines these efforts by comparing Cartesian logic texts with scholastic texts from the late seventeenth century.

ARNOLD, MATTHIEU, ed. Annoncer l'Evangile (XVe–XVIIe siècle): permanences et mutations de la prédication. Paris: Cerf, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 683 (2006), 14–15: "Ce solide recueil d'études historiques et théologiques est le fruit d'un colloque international, tenu à Strasbourg en novembre 2003 et organisé par le Groupe de recherches sur les non-conformistes religieux des XVIe et XVIIe siècles et l'histoire des protestantismes avec la collaboration du Centre de recherches en histoire moderne et contemporaine." L'intérêt du recueil "tient d'une part à la période clé retenue, et, d'autre part, à la variété des lieux de prédication étudiés (Strasbourg, Genève, Wittenberg, Zurich, etc.) et à l'interconfessionalité des sermons et homélies examinés."

BAUSTERT, RAYMOND. La Querelle janséniste extra muros, ou, La Polémique autour de la Procession des Jésuites de Luxembourg, 20 mai 1685. Edition critique de l'Avis au RR. PP. Jésuites sur leur Procession de Luxembourg, (...), Cologne, Pierre Du Blanc, MDC LXXXVII, précédée du Dessein de la Procession qui se fera par les Ecoliers du Collége [sic] de la Compagnie de JESUS à Luxembourg le 20. Mai mil six cent quatre-vingts-cinq (...) Metz, Pierre Collignon, s.d. Biblio 17. Volume 162. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006.

BEECHER, DONALD. "Mind, Theaters, and the Anatomy of Consciousness." P&L 30 (April 2006), 1–16.

Traces the evolution, from the second half of the sixteenth century, of the use of theatrical metaphors to explain consciousness, with a substantial treatment of Descartes and Dennett's critique of his model of consciousness. Concludes that despite significant revisions in recent theories of consciousness (many of which decentralize and dissolve the self), the theatrical metaphor remains useful to describe the interaction of mind and reality.

BELGRADO, ANNA. L'Avènement du passé. La Réforme et l'histoire. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: O. Ranum in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 302–305. Reviewer comments that, while the volume is difficult to read, much has been accomplished. "The larger themes are not lost in the fair-minded effort to record contributions to debates that altered the balances between faiths and histories."

BERGIN, JOSEPH. Crown, Church and Episcopate under Louis XIV. New Haven: Yale UP, 2004.

Review: P. Fuchs in HZ 280 (2005): 743–45: Wide-ranging and highly respectable work is based on Paris and Vatican archives, the resources of the BNF, 19 departmental archives and 8 provincial libraries. Maps, tables and an impressive index.

BERNARD, ANNA. Die Revokation des Edikts von Nantes und die Protestanten in Südostfrankreich (Provence und Dauphiné), 1685–1730. Munich: R. Oldenburg Verlag, 2003.

Review: N. Ghermani in DSS 230 (2006), 168–169: Bernard's study revists the circumstances and consequences of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, "avec des outils interprétatifs empruntés à [...] la tradition allemande." The reviewer generally finds more questions posed than answered, but appreciates the author's efforts to make a unique contribution to the field in covering "une histoire plus globale du phénomène, en associant les perspectives du 《 haut 》 (le Roi et son conseil et l'Eglise romaine) aux perspectives du bas (les huguenots), en se restreignant au sud-est de la France entre 1685 et 1730."

BERNARDINI, PAOLO & NORMAN FIERING, eds. The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West. 1450 to 1800. New York: Berghahn, 2001.

Review: M. Brenner in HZ 280 (2005): 170–72: Fills an important gap, the volume is organized geographically and the extensive examination is complemented by maps and illustrations. Includes study of Jewish survival in France and Francophone Caribbean.

BEUGNOT, BERNARD & GILLES DECLERCQ, eds. Bouhours, Dominique. Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène. Sources classiques 47. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 79 (2005), 410–11: A reprinting of six dialogues by Père Bouhours: La Mer, La Langue française, Le Secret, le Bel Esprit, Le Je ne say quoy, and les Devises. "Ces textes représentent une élégante adaptation au dix- septième siècle de la tradition humaniste de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance européenne, destinés à un public mondain cultivé" (411). Each entretien is given a helpful introduction and bibliography by the volume's editors.

BJORNSTAD, HALL. "Désapprendre à mourir. Pascal and the Philosophers of Death." PFSCL XXXIII, No. 65 (2006), 419–428.

Examines Pascal's discourse on death in the light of the polysemy of the concept "philosopher of death."

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

Review: R. Runte in FR 79 (2006), 616–17: Praised by the reviewer as a work deserving to take its place alongside Grell's Le XVIIe siècle et l'antiquité en France and Manual's The 18th Century Confronts the Gods, Boch's volume may prove particularly useful to the scholar of the seventeenth century for its historically well-grounded treatment of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes and its excellent chapter on Huet.

BOUCHILLOUX, HELENE. "Descartes et Saint Augustin: La création des vérités éternelles." RPFE 196.2 (avril 2006), 147–161.

Bouchilloux demande : "Saint Augustin a-t-il professé avant Descartes la création des vérités éternelles et, s'il ne l'a pas professé, pourquoi Descartes se réfère-t-il à lui dans la lettre à Mesland du 2 mai 1644 ?" Elle montre que saint Augustin n'a jamais professé la création des vérités éternelles et qu'il a même professé un platonisme chrétien excluant la création ces vérités éternelles. Cependant, elle trouve dans la pensée de saint Augustin des éléments qui annoncent la pensée de Descartes.

BRAHAMI, FREDERIC. "'Pourquoi prenons-nous titre d'être'? Pensée de soi et pensée de Dieu chez Montaigne et Descartes," RMM 1 (March 2006): 21–39.

For Montaigne, the Self is an attribute of the soul while for Descartes it is an expression of the person. These conflicting viewpoints converge, however, as the two perceive the ego from the perspective of the infinite in the figure of God.

BRETZ, MICHÈLE. "Le Combat des moniales de Port-Royal ou la primauté des droits de la conscience: leurs Relations de captivité." RF 117 (2005): 165–86.

Bretz's in-depth study provides a welcome and rich analysis of important documents both in the context of Jansenist spirituality and in the tradition of women's historiography and hagiography. Pluridisciplinary in their complexity, the documents necessitate criticism which reflects this character, taking into account along with "sentiment religieux", history of women (their writing, their autonomy), law, sociology, psychology and theology (184). Bretz's particularly well-documented analyses reveals a number of "constantes": "la communauté d'attitudes et de réaction des moniales face aux épreuves subies,. . . la force de leur lien spirituel,. . . le profond esprit de solidarité qui les animait, et la solidité de leurs convictions, leur forte personnalité, leur sensibilité et l'originalité et leur écriture" (185).

BRITNELL, JENNIFER & ANN MOSS, eds. Female Saints and Sinners / Saintes et mondaines (France 1250–1650). Durham: U of Durham (Durham Modern Language Series FM 21), 2002.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 41.1 (2005): 108–109: Wide-ranging and "liberally interpreted" examination of female saints and sinners. Focus is on early modern women and includes among the 17th c. essays, one on Madeleine de Scudéry's Clélie. Scholars of emblematics will welcome the chapters on women as subject and author of emblems.

BUISSERET, DAVID. The Mapmakers' Quest: Depicting the New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: J. Akerman in Ren Q 58 (2005): 643–45: Buisseret's study covers the years 1400–1800 and within those parameters the early modern dominates. Chapters treat themes of the revival of interest in the Greek and Roman and "the geographical, political, and economic expansion of Europe" (644), cartography and painting, the use of maps by rulers and the military, and "the reorganization of rural and urban economics in Europe" (645). Buisseret's work is found "comprehensive," "authoritative," and "in pleasurable prose" (645).

BUZON, FRÉDÉRIC DE. "Mathématiques et dialectique: Descartes ramiste?" EP 4 (2005), 455–467.

Researches the as-yet insufficiently unexplored possibility that Pierre de la Ramée's work in mathematics and dialectics may have had a direct or indirect influence on Descartes.

CARABIN, DENISE. Les idées stoïciennes dans la littérature morale de XVIe et XVIIe siècles (1575–1642). Paris: Champion (Etudes sur la Renaissance, 51), 2004.

Review: D. Cecchetti in SFr no. 146 (2005): 409: Highly praised thèse, in particular for its rich material, systematic and complex structure, and multifaceted approach. Carabin's valuable work presents a precise picture of the evolution of stoic or neostoic ideas, indicating particularly important periods and representatives.

Review: U. Langer in Ren Q 58 (2005): 1345–46: In this vast study which "builds on the classic work of Léontine Zanta, Gerhard Oestreich, and Günter Abel, 17th c. scholars will appreciate discussions of Du Vair and Lipsius, Charron, and generally "the resonances of Stoicism. . . during the final years of Henri IV and the reign of Louis XIII" (1346). Langer notes several possible sources of confusion, yet recommends the study as "a useful if somewhat wandering guide" (1346). Index, bibliography.

CARR, THOMAS M., JR. Voix des abbesses du Grand Siècle. La Prédication au féminin à Port-Royal. Biblio 17. Volume 164 (2006). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006.

CAVAILLE, JEAN-PIERRE, ed. Anonyme. Le Philosophe antichrétien [Discours sur ce qu'on appelle philosophe chrestien]. Paris: Les amis de Paris-Zanzibar, 2001.

Review: I. Moreau in DSS 230 (2006), 172–173: Presented here is a rare text, "d'un manuscrit anonyme, imprimé pour la première fois séparément [...], des extraits d'un autre ouvrage anonyme, Le Philosophe chrestien, ou les misteres de la foy prouvez par raisons naturelles (Paris, François Targa, 1639), publiés en annexe." Cavaillé's own incisive analysis brings to light the text's value and controversial message: "l'audace d'un discours qui justifie, sur le plan philosophique, une conduite pratique en rupture avec les lois et les règles imposées dans la société chrétienne."

CHARRAK, ANDRÉ. "La critique du syllogisme dans Bacon et Descartes." EP 4 (2005), 469–484.

Compares and contrasts Bacon and Descartes in their critiques of syllogism as part of their respective quests to "renouveler la connaissance de la nature."

CHICO, TITA. "Minute Particulars: Microscopy and Eighteenth-Century Narrative." Mosaic 39.2 (June 2006): 143–61.

"This essay argues that writings on microscopy are preoccupied by defining and defending the minute particular-small things not ordinarily apprehended-and that this focus and anxiety are likewise registered in eighteenth-century fictional narratives. The increased status of the minute particular signals the popularization and domestication of empiricism into eighteenth-century narrative." References to several 17th-century works.

COJANNOT-LE BLANC, MARIANNE. "Les traités d'ecclésiastiques sur la perspective en France au XVIIe siècle: un regard de clercs sur la peinture?" DSS 230 (2006), 117–130.

"En somme, les traités de perspective publiés par les clercs au XVIIe siècle ne présentent pas de réflexion sur la peinture sacrée, guère de pensée ou de commentaire de la peinture, ou d'attente religieuse à son égard. En fait, ces clercs évoquent les arts avant tout comme conséquences pratiques des sciences qui sont premières à leurs yeux, particulièrement en un temps où la perspective est en France au cœur de l'actualité scientifique."

CONLEY, JOHN J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 59.4 (2005), 544–545: This generally negative review finds fault with Conley's work for its patronizing tone of "discovery" and "rehabilitation" in dealing with a subject (salon writing) which needs little or none, since much good research has been done on it recently. Conley's work does contain good biographies of Mme de Sablé, Mme Deshoulières, Mme de la Sablière, Mlle de la Vallière and Mme de Maintenon. That said, the work "barely scratches the surface of early-modern women's writing" and often fails to back up some of its claims.

CORPUS. Corpus. Revue de philosophie 43 (2003).

Review: M. Pavesio in SFr 147 (2005): 633. Appreciative review of this number of Corpus which examines various aspects of "La Connaissance du physique et du moral (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles)", for example, the physical/spiritual dichotomy in relation to numerous genres such as history, philosophy, medicine, law and literature.

COUSINIE, FREDERIC. "Images et contemplation dans le discours mystique du XVIIe siècle français." DSS 230 (2006), 23–47.

Defining the complex notion of "image" as textual, pictorial, and metaphysical, the author explores the fluid place of imagery at the heart of Christianity, "au sein même de la contemplation."

DIEFENDORF, BARBARA. From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.

Review: L. J. Taylor in Ren Q 58 (2005): 1355–57: Praises Diefendorf's nuanced analyses in this study which "expands upon and challenges [Marie-Florine] Bruneau's thesis in her study of dozens of dévotes" (1355). Diefendorf chronicles "the rise of two distinct but related spiritual impulses. . . the mystical and penitential piety. . . [and] the compassionate charity that peaked when the Fronde began" (Diefendorf 19). Demonstrates women's influence "at every level of the Catholic Reform in France," even guiding and teaching men (1356). Finds that Diefendorf's work "will change our understanding of the reform movement and gender, at least in France" (1357). Index, illustrations, biographical appendix, bibliography.

DIGITAL LIBRARY OF CLASSIC PROTESTANT TEXTS. Digital library of classic Protestant texts. URL: http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/

Review: D. Whitford in Choice 43 (2006), 121–22. Contains over 1,500 16th- and 17th-century texts by Calvinist, Lutheran, and Anabaptist authors. Texts are searchable, easily navigable, and draw on original editions.

DOYLE, BRET J. LALUMIA. "The Logic of Descartes' Scientific Method in the 'Rules', 'Geometry' and 'Optics.' DAI 67/01 (2006), 207.

A detailed anaylsis of structure, unity, and content in Descartes's mathematical and physical inquiries. Historical investigation that provides an insight into the philosopher's motivation to categorize and differ among scientific disciplines and, thus, to reform the Aristotelian system.

DOYLE, WILLIAM. Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2000.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 79 (2006), 183–84: A small, dense, and wonderful work by a well-known British historian, Doyle's book discusses Jansenism's earliest roots in the thought of St. Augustine and moves on from there, developing a portrait of Jansenism's unity in its resistance to papal authority, and evoking its influence on Enlightenment philosophy, constitutional thought, and the modernization of the Catholic church. Unlike many histories of Jansenism, Doyle does not focus exclusively on the period preceding Port-Royal and its razing; rather, his parameters are more broad.

FORSYTH, ELLIOTT. La Justice de Dieu: Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné et la réforme protestante en France au XVIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review : S. Junod in MLR 101.4 (2006), 1111–1112 : 《 . . .this work, though it does well to touch on crucial problems dealing with the notions of justice, pardon, and individual and collective responsibility, produces little in the way of new elements in the interpretation of Les Tragiques.  》

Review: n.a. in BCLF 673 (2005), 65: Ouvrage qui traite des "thèmes de la justice de Dieu dans la Bible et dans la pensée des grands réformateurs de la Renaissance." Forsyth "montre comment d'Aubigné s'y prend pour discerner dans le chaos d'événements plus ou moins contemporains la trace d'un dessein divin. Cet ouvrage est donc également en livre sur d'Aubigné et la Bible."

FOURNIER, MICHEL. "'Allons allègrement mourir en philosophe': de la mort du philosophe à la mort du libertin" PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 389–401.

"Je m'attacherai à la première étape de la réaction qui fait suite à la mort de [Jules-César] Vanini, chez François de Rosset, François Garasse, et Marin Mersenne, et m'intéresserai plus particulièrement à la façon dont, en plus de s'opposer, aux institutions du mourir, la mort libertine met en relief le problème pose par la constance philosophique dans un contexte chrétien."

GAUKROGER, STEPHEN, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Review: R. Lee in Choice 44 (2006), 309: Reliable and thorough, the work addresses common questions in Descartes scholarship. Its twelve essays include: "The Meditations and the Objections and Replies," "Descartes and Skepticism," "The Cogito and the Foundations of Knowledge," "The Nature of the Mind," "The Doctrine of Substance," The Doctrine of Ideas," "Proofs for the Existence of God," "The Cartesian Circle," "Judgment and Will," "Descartes' Proof of the Existence of Matter," "The Mind-Body Relation," and "Seventeenth-Century Responses to the Meditations." Also reproduces Molyneux's 1680 translation of the Meditations.

GHISALBERTI, ALESSANDRO. "Étapes de la logique, de la voie moderne à la Logique de Port-Royal." EP 4 (2005), 521–536.

Shows the evolution of logic from Guillaume d'Ockham to the Logique de Port-Royal with particular attention to areas where Port-Royal's ideas converge with those of d'Ockham, Descartes and Bacon.

GOLDWYN, HENRIETTE. "Les espaces du Désert où 'les pierres mêmes crieront.'" In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 271–283.

The French Huguenots turned the desolation of the "desert" to their advantage, making it a place of spiritual and personal transformation and a locus for the assertion of religious identity. Instead of silencing Protestant voices, it made them stronger and led to a flourishing of speech.

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. "Le décorum de l'image sacrée. Une interprétation française?" DSS 230 (2006), 81–99.

Juxtaposing the early modern Italian theory of art, "soumise à des motivations religieuses," with the French tendency to champion "la composition séculière du décorum." "En France [...] on a l'impression que la religion sert de prétexte à l'élaboration de règles poétiques pour le bon tableau d'histoire, et permet un discours normatif qui ne s'intéresse pas foncièrement à Dieu, ou n'est religieux que par accident."

HIRAI, HIRO. Le Concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005.

Review: P. Anstey in Isis 97 (March 2006), 151–152. As the title indicates, Hirai traces the concept of seeds from its origin in Ficino through Paracelsus and Petrus Severinus, and to Gassendi. The reviewer regrets that the sources in the bibliography were not updated after the book's writing in 2001, but otherwise considers it to be a significant, beautifully clear contribution to the topic.

HÖFER, BERNADETTE. "'I Feel, Therefore I Am': Psychosomatic manifestations in seventeenth-century French literature." DAI 66/11 (2006), 4041.

The mind-body correlation in Surin, Molière, Racine, and Lafayette, based on the philosophical discourses of the seventeenth century. Attending to the theme of illness, this study explores the philosophical, medical and socio-political significance of seventeenth-century mind/body debate from a clear interdisciplinary perspective. Investigation that suggests a continuum of mind/body understanding from the classical period through the present day.

HOLLSTEN, LAURA JOHANNA. "Knowing Nature: Knowledge of Nature in Seventeenth-Century French and English Travel Accounts for the Caribbean." DAI 67/02 (2006), 550.

This study examines changes of perspectives in the scientific and mechanistic view of nature. By looking at travel accounts that deal with New World experiences, authors points out the new comprehension of nature. While Hollston looks at new economic and cultural situations, she also argues that the production of knowledge "on the sugar plantations led both to deteriorating environments and improved agricultural techniques."

HOPFL, HARRO. Jesuit Political Thought. Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 68.1 (2006), 147: Intellectual history dealing with the period 1540–1630 in Europe: "The 'collectivity' of the Roman Catholic Church, in which the Jesuits were often accused of asserting a certain independence under their 'black pope', and its complex, ever-changing, sometimes allegedly Machiavellian interactions not only with heresy but with all aspects of doctrina civilis are presented in concise, balanced and documented prose."

JEANNERET, MICHEL. Eros rebelle. Littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique. Paris: Seuil, 2003.

Review: M. Richter in SFr no. 145 (2005): 153–54: Judged a "bel libro," Jeanneret fulfills his stated intention to "faire une promenade dans quelques quartiers mal famés" (qtd by Richter, n.p.). Rich in perspectives (manuals of anatomy, as well as literary texts are examined), Jeanneret affirms that "le XVIIe siècle atteint, dans l'humiliation de la créature et la crainte de faillir, un point culminant' (J. 100). Scholars of Béroalde, Théophile, Ninon de Lenclos, Molière, among others will find much value in Jeanneret's vigorous and persuasive reflections, in particular his conclusion which finds in Molière's Don Juan "l'esemplarità di tutta un'epoca variamente attraversata da un 'éros rebelle.'"

KENNY, NEIL. The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Review: P. Bayley in MLR 101.2 (2006), 619–20: Work of significant "chronological and linguistic range" that is "destined to become a classic in the field of early modern European intellectual history." Kenny "interprets and illuminates not simply the organization of knowledge in the early modern world, but the neuroses that controlled that organization of knowledge."

Review: E. Peters in Ren Q 58 (2005): 675–76: Finds Kenny's work "the best study of the meaning and uses of the term and the variety of ways by which it was understood and deployed in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe" (675–76). Finds Kenny to be a "remarkably learned and intelligent guide through what he calls 'a semantic swamp'" and judges that the study has broad implications for the intellectual history of modern Europe. Sweeping through an "enormous number and variety of sources," the study is organized into three sections: institutions, discursive tendencies and sex/gender (676). Index, illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography.

KOCH, EREC R., "Ethics, Death and the Cartesian Body." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 379–388.

Argues "that the corporal regimen that prolongs life is intimately tied to the ethical life of the subject, a subject-body, and to the system of corporal passions that motivate morale." Draws primarily on Descartes' correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia and his Passions de l'âme.

LAFOUGE, JEAN-PIERRE. "Le surnaturel est-il nécessairement contre-nature? Éléments de réponse comparés chez Yves de Paris et Pascal."

Pascal's violent opposition to nature is well-known. Yet, there are other lesser-known voices, such as Yves de Paris, who in his works, adopts a more intellectual stance on nature. The latter emphasizes our "grandeur originelle" based on human intelligence and portrays a much more confident image of mankind. Lafouge also reveals that despite their different perspectives, these texts both attempt to resolve the issue of how to encounter and know God.

LE BRUN, JACQUES. La Jouissance et le trouble: recherches sur la littérature chrétienne de l'âge classique. Geneva : Droz, 2004.

Review: J.H. Mazaheri in SCN 64 (2006), 78–82: An "immense book comprised of revised articles and papers previously published by the author" on Christian literature primarily during the reign of Louis XIV. The reviewer gives short synopses of all twenty-three chapters and judges the whole to be "a rich, erudite, thought-provoking book replete with informative, scholarly footnotes" even if the index is lacking and bibliography absent.

Review: C. Meunier in DSS 230 (2006), 165–168: Consisting of a large collection of some of Le Brun's important essays on the titular subject (some theoretical, but most on individual authors), this book "livre des clefs essentielles à la compréhension du processus de 《 fabrication de l'homme occidental 》 dans certains de ses aspects: rapport à l'origine, rapport à l'institution, rapport au texte."

Review: R. Parish in FS 60.1 (2006), 105–106: According to the reviewer, this compendium of 23 articles published on diverse subjects relating to the title is "indispensable" and learned. Madame Guyon, Henry Holden, Grotius, Pierre Jurieu, Leibniz and Bossuet are among the authors treated by Le Brun here, in what the reviewer calls some "definitional" and "enlightening" chapters. Though not all of the chapters seems connected, there are many that do, though the style and presentation are somewhat heavy and, to quote the review, "old-school" with many lengthy footnotes.

Review : H. Phillips in MLR 101.4 (2006), 1114–1115 : 《  In this most uncompromisingly erudite collection of essays, Jacques LeBrun tackles. . . an ecclesial approach to mysticism and to various forms of critical discourse associated both with the mystics through the practice of biblical exegesis and the quietist controversy.  》

LE PAS DE SECHEVAL, ANNE. "Réflexions sur des textes méconnus. Quels enjeux pour l'histoire de l'art." DSS 230 (2006), 7–21.

A close look at the reasons and ramifications for "le décalage spectaculaire entre le foisonnement en Italie des textes sur l'art dès le XVe siècle, et leur apparition tardive en France au milieu du XVIIe siècle." Similarly, the author examines the silence on the part of the Church on sacred painting.

LE ROY LADURIE, EMMANUEL. Histoire humaine et comparée du climat: canicules et glaciers (XIII–XVIIIe siècles). Volume 1. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2004.

Review: A. Perret in FR 79 (2006), 1411–12: A study of climactic variation somewhat centered around the "little ice age" which begins in the 14th century. The volume includes three chapters primarily devoted to the 17th century. The author relates climatic phenomena back to matters of human concern like crop outputs and the plague. Exhaustive, with a laudable eye for detail.

LEVY, EVONNE. Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. Berkeley: U of California P, 2004.

Review: J. G. Harper in Ren Q 58 (2005): 210–11: Although the volume receives a mixed review, it is praised as including "a thoughtful, nuanced study of the artmaking process of the Jesuits, their ways of addressing and involving their audiences, and the diffusion of messages and forms" (210). As it seeks to better grasp "Jesuit intentions, practices and effects in the baroque era," it asks: "Is Jesuit art propaganda?" (610–11). Particular attention is paid to "diffusion" or the repetition of forms, for example "altars (across Europe and the world) that copy or draw inspiration from the chapel of St. Ignatius at the Gesu." Judged "thought-provoking" and "well-documented" (211).

LOJACONO, ETTORE. "Le point extrême de la transgression cartésienne: la logique 'introuvable.'" EP 4 (2005), 503–519.

Shows that Descartes's logic is "introuvable" because it does not exist in a classical, traditional sense. Suggests that Descartes rejects syllogism and "normes préconstituées" in favor of thought based on "intuitus."

LYONS, JOHN D. Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Review: C. Kerr in Choice 43 (2006), 1020: Lyons explores the early modern meanings of imagination, which was primarily understood as a mental re-creation of something seen or experienced in the world, rather than as a specifically creative faculty. The work undertakes a history of imagination from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and explores various writers' engagement with this practice/notion. Includes treatment of Montaigne, François de Sales, Descartes, Pascal, Sévigné, La Fayette, Fénélon, and Rousseau. Recommended by the reviewer.

MAES, BRUNO. Le Roi, la Vierge et la Nation. Pèlerinages et identité nationale entre guerre de Cent ans et Révolution. Paris: Publisud, 2002.

Review: H. Guillemain in DSS 230 (2006), 180–182: "L'ouvrage met en valeur les liens qui peuvent apparaître entre spiritualité et culture politique, cette dernière comprenant à la fois la construction de l'Etat, l'image du souverain et l'identité de la Nation. Bruno Maes s'attache donc à construire l'imbrication historique d'une redéfinition du divin à l'époque de la Réforme et de la Contre-Réforme et d'une redéfinition du politique au temps de la formation de l'absolutisme."

MALLINSON, JEFFREY. Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza (1519–1605). Oxford and New York: OUP, 2003.

Review: J. Raitt in BHR 68.1 (2006), 190–91 : 《  Mallinson joins theological historians who challenge those who judge Theodore Beza guilty of intellectualizing or rationalizing or scholasticizing, and thereby corrupting, the insights of John Calvin, Beza's inspiration and mentor.  》

MARGOLF, DIANE C. Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France: The Paris Chambre de l'Édit, 1598–1665. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, 67. Kirksville, MO: Truman State UP, 2003.

Review: K. A. Parrow in Ren Q 58 (2005): 254–55: Focusing on "one of the major protections for Huguenots in the edict: the creation of special law courts. . . to resolve legal disputes involving Huguenot litigants," the study includes discussion of "the chamber's historical role. . ., legal jurisdiction, and. . . contemporary views of its function and importance" (254). Margolf has carefully examined "archival records of every criminal case heard in the chamber from 1600–10" and taken "samples of the records at five-year intervals for the period from 1610–65" concluding the "the chief beneficiary was ultimately the crown, which used the chamber to maintain peace in the kingdom" (255). Parrow wonders if some of the omitted 1610–65 cases would have shown a shift indicating the withdrawal of toleration. Contains important "insights on seventeenth-century rural and urban family and community life" (255).

MARRACHE-GOURAUD, M. & PIERRE MARTIN, eds. Paul Contant. Le Jardin et cabinet poétique (1609). Rennes : PU de Rennes, 2004.

Review : A. Cullière in BHR 68.2 (2006), 445–448: Dans Le Jardin et cabinet poétique (1609), l'apothicare poitevin Paul Contant (1562–1629) reprend et enrichit son Bouquet printanier (La Rochelle : Jérôme Haultin, 1600). A la 《  description en vers des plantes médicinales les plus remarquables  》, Contant ajoute 《  une description des plus belles pièces de son cabinet, fossiles, minéraux, objets divers et autres singularités de la nature.  》 Dans la dernière version du poème (oeuvres collectives de 1628), Contant compose 《  un ajout de quelque 250 vers  》 pour répondre tardivement à un très violent réquisitoire  》 apparu lors de la parution de l'oeuvre. Cullière note 《  quelques imperfections  》 et des défauts techniques et regrette 《  que les éditeurs n'aient pas eu connaissance de la première version de l'oeuvre publiée en 1600.  》

MCCOSKER, PHILIP. "The Christology of Pierre de Bérulle." DownR 435 (2006), 111–134.

The author provides a biography and detailed anaylsis of what he terms Bérulle's (1575–1629) "theology" and "christology". He argues that "Bérulle's christological synthesis is of contemporary theological interest" despite being significantly neglected in contemporary scholarship on the "founder of the religious community of the Oratory in France."

MEHL, ÉDOUARD. "Descartes critique de la logique pure." EP 4 (2005), 485–501.

States that Descartes's criticism of logic involves more than a rejection of syllogism, that it includes Lulle's alternative idea of logic as an encyclopedic system, though author notes this does not imply that Descartes makes a claim to universal knowledge.

MILLER, JON & BRAD INWOOD, eds. Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Review: E. Moore in PhQ 56 (July 2006) 447–449: Includes essays by Margaret J. Osler on Gassendi and his influence and by Stephen Menn on "The Discourse on the Method and the Tradition of Intellectual Autobiography," as well as essays on Spinoza, Leibniz, and Butler, among others. The reviewer praises the volume's goal of remedying the disregard for the past often shown in philosophical scholarship.

MILLON, JEROME & MARIE-CLAUDE CARRARA, éds. Henri Bremond. Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux en France depuis la fin des guerres de religion jusqu'à nos jours. 5 vol. Grenoble : Jérôme Millon, 2006.

Review : J.-L. Schlegel in Esprit (mai 2006), 249–52 : 《 . . .une 'histoire littéraire' de la spiritualité chrétienne au temps d'Henri IV et de Louis XIII, où les grands noms (François de Sales, Bérulle, Olier, Saint-Cyran, Pascal, Nicole, Surin, Lallemant, Marie de l'Incarnation) sont revisités et où sortent de l'enfer de l'oubli de nombreux 'petits noms' de saints prêtres, de religieux de toutes tribus, d'humbles frères et sœurs qui ont laissé une trace écrite de leur expérience indicible du passage de Dieu. . . 》

MILLOT, CATHERINE. "Madame Guyon dirige Fénelon." L'Infini. 93 (2005), 102–09.

In loose, casual prose, Millot considers the correspondence between Guyon and Fénelon. Guyon is presented as attempting to correct in the bishop a certain dryness and repugnance toward others, as well as an unwillingness to exist in childlike docility, and an inability to conceptualize indifference to human desire as a welcoming of God. Guyon is quoted as claiming that she believed herself sent by God to destroy "par ma folie votre sagesse" (107); Millot suggests that Fénelon never entirely moved beyond his cold and dry manner of being spiritual; his final letter to Guyon (then kept under surveillance at Blois) is shown to be highly ambivalent.

MOMBELLO, GIANNI. "Lettres et documents comptables inédits sur Mgr Albert Bailly et sur les eaux minérales de Courmayeur." SFr no. 146 (2005): 357–76.

Fascinating article of historical, social and medical interest contains, as well, in the previously unpublished letters, several verses of poetry extolling the virtues of these waters that are at once a "simbole de la Trinité" (369) and a source of physical healing. Demonstrates that Bailly who served in Paris from 1641 to 1658 was indeed "un pionnier convaincu de l'hydrothérapie dans la Vallée d'Aoste" (362).

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.

Review: S. James in FS 60.1 (2006), 104–105: In this "exhilarating and deeply learned book," Moriarty debunks the myths of the Cartesian transparent self and rejoins seventeenth-century thought with the both ancient and modern skeptical tradition. The reviewer find a "powerful, overarching analysis" of the early-modern imagination focusing on Malbranche, Pascal and Descartes as it connects, in particular, with the "suspicion" of nineteenth-century philosophy.

Review: T. Janke in SCN 64 (2006), 83–86: Very favourably reviewed, the author revisits the "well-worn" views of Descartes, Pascal, and Malebranche "to articulate how contradictory tendencies of the early modern period, in particular a deep mistrust of the body and a profound sense of the inevitable misery of human existence, juxtaposed with the scientific and cultural achievements of the Renaissance, prompted [them] to develop 'certain habist of analysis, a disposition to scrutinize the taken-for-granted of everyday experience.'" Exemplary research and analysis reveal great insight into the "development of the attitude of suspicion in early modern French thought[.]"

MOTHU, ALAIN & ALAIN SANDRIER, eds. Minora clandestina. Le Philosophe antichrétien et autres écrits iconoclastes de l'âge classique. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: P. Balats in SFr no. 146 (2005): 415–16: Reflecting the clandestine production of heterodox authors of the 17th and 18th c., this is "le premier volet" of a series. Noteworthy for its presentation of very diverse texts (of skepticism, Aristotelianism, rationalism, Spinozism, materialism, etc.), many of which are little known and indicative of local particularisms. The philological and philosophical presentations of the texts, by Jean-Pierre Cavaille, Alain Mothy, Gianluca Mori and Anthony McKenna, allow the reader to appreciate their heterogeneous character and situate them in "le monde fascinant des manuscrits clandestins" (415).

Review: D. Williams in FS 59.3 (2005), 393–394: This ambitious and editorially strong compilation of anti-Christian writings that would inform the intellectual atmosphere leading to the Enlightenment is a welcome addition to our shelves, according to the reviewer. This volume sheds light not only on the the battle of ideas, but also on the little-understood world of clandestine publication. This is, in the reviewer's words, a "meticulously edited" collection of texts that reveal a "broad spectrum of... theological debate" in France from 1640–1760.

MUCHNIK, NATALIA. "Du catholicisme des judéoconvers: Rouen, 1633." DSS 231 (2006), 277–299.

A look at "l'affaire Villadiego" with a view to understanding "la communauté judéoconverse de Rouen par un biais inusité, comprendre les antagonismes internes au groupe ibérique et les enjeux de l'intégration sur un fond de concurrence commerciale."

MULSOW, MARTIN and RICHARD POPKIN, eds. Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Review: M. Bodian in Ren Q 58 (2005): 218–19: Focusing on the mid-16th to the late 18th c., the collection of essays includes one by Mulsow on Aaron d'Antan which is judged "compelling" and includes the publication of two lengthy letters of d'Antan, recently discovered by Mulsow. Reviewer finds that generally the essays "make important contributions to our knowledge about religious boundary crossing in early modern Europe" (219).

PAGANINI, GIANNI. Les Philosophies clandestines à l'âge classique. Paris : PUF, 2005.

Review : n.a. in BCLF 678 (2006), 10–11 : 《  G. Paganini rappelle. . . les critères propres au texte philosophique clandestin : un anonymat rigoureux, une critique rationaliste de la philosophie et de la religion, une mise en valeur de traditions alternatives, une lecture symptômale des textes de références de la culture officielle. L'âge d'or de la diffusion sous le manteau de ces écrits va de la période classique à la Révolution française.  》

PERSELS, JEFFREY & RUSSELL GANIM, eds. Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology. Studies in European Cultural Transition, 21. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: C. Freccero in Ren Q 58 (2005): 980–81: Judges that "the essays gathered in this volume contribute importantly to the cultural materialist and Foucauldian project of constructing a genealogical history of the body's discursively productive wastes" (981). The essays focus on French, German and English early modern visual art and literary culture, aiming "to showcase just how prevalent, explicit, and voluble the discourse on emissions of bodily waste was" (980). Order is chronological and there is an important interdisciplinary element, especially at "the intersections between literature and science" (981). Index, illustrations, bibliography.

PETERS, JEFFREY N. Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Review: S. O'Hara in FR 79 (2006), 1363–4: Peters' book "explores the ways in which maps function as instruments of power (rhetorical, political, ideological)" (1363), and suggests that the elaboration of allegorical maps in early modern writing created an affiliation between scientific and poetic/literary discourse in an era when the former was increasingly dethroning the latter. Peters' "wide-ranging, imaginative, thought-provoking writing" is said to open up the interest and relevance of allegorical maps to multiple fields of inquiry. He of course addresses Scudéry's famous "Carte de Tendre," but also goes beyond it, discussing Montaigne, d'Aubignac, Boileau, Furetière, Sorel, and participants in the quarrel between the ancients and moderns.

Review: R. Racevskis in E Cr 45.4 (2005): 92–93: Judged "substantial" and "exciting," Peters's volume argues that "the increasingly geometrical representation of geographical space in early modern cartography did not eliminate figurative signifying processes: it merely displaced them" (92). Organized into five chapters, the study includes sections focusing on the history of maps from the Middle Ages to the 17th c., Madeleine de Scudéry's "Carte de Tendre," d'Aubignac's "Carte du royaume de Coquetterie," Boileau's Dialogue des héros de roman, Furetière's "Carte de la bataille des romans," and François de Callières's Histoire politique de la guerre nouvellement déclarée entre les anciens et les modernes. Useful to readers of wide-ranging interests "from medieval culture to postmodern theory" (93).

PICKAVÉ, MARTIN. "La notion d'a priori chez Descartes et les philosophes médiévaux." EP 4 (2005), 433–454.

Uses the perspective of medieval philosophy to explain Descartes's emphasis on the "a priori" in the proofs used in his methodology, particularly parts pertaining to the Meditations and the existence of God.

RADELET-DE-GRAVE, PATRICIA & JEAN-FRANCOIS STOFFEL, éds. Les "enfants naturels de Descartes". Actes du colloque commémoratif du quatrième centenaire de la naissance de René Descartes (Louvain-la-Neuve, 21–22 juin 1996). Turnhout: Brepols, 2000.

Review: F. Duchesneau in RPL 104 (2006), 229–231: A strong collection of articles, each dealing with "l'héritage cartésien" and how it has influenced science, theory and philosophy over the last four centuries.

REISS, TIMOTHY J. Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003.

Review: C. Kallendorf in Ren Q 58 (2005): 308–10: Reiss's thesis is that "the concept of a separate, private individual, of a self free and independent in its will, intentions, and choices, was not even conceptualized until the beginning of the first or second centuries AD at the earliest, and was considered aberrant until well into the seventeenth century. . . [that is] person and society were mutually constructed" (308). Reiss argues that "the self-conscious subject agent who resolved conflict rationally began with Descartes and ended with Hobbes and Locke, but in losing its roots in the old order, it eventually became un-Cartesian" (309). Impressive by its "mastery of over three hundred primary sources", Reiss's work challenges periodic divisions and certain recent studies on class and gender (309–10).

SANCHI, LUIGI-ALBERTO,trans. Corrado Vivanti. Guerre civile et paix religieuse dans la France d'Henri IV. Paris: Desjonquères, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 680 (2006), 111: "Cet essai est la traduction française par Luigi-Alberto Sanchi de la fameuse étude de l'historien italien Corrado Vivanti, publiée chez Einaudi en 1963, ou plus exactement d'une traduction partielle, effectuée sous le contrôle de l'auteur lui-même et agrémentée de notes enrichies et parfaitement mises à jour."

SASAKI, CHIKARA. Descartes's Mathematical Thought. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Review: M. L. Jones in Ren Q 58 (2005): 998–99: Regretting the pervasive typographical and grammatical errors in Sasaki's volume, Jones nevertheless praises its compelling discussions and "hitherto untranslated letters" as well as "the development of Descartes's mathematical projects, his philosophical accounts of mathematics, and the interaction between the two" (998). Particularly singled out for praise is the "lucid examination of the full range of Descartes's activities" and for the illustration of "the centrality of algebra for the development of Descartes's broader philosophical thought" (998). Index, illustrations, bibliography.

Review: M. Serfati, Isis 96 (December 2006), 657–658. A revised dissertation, the book purports to contextualize Descartes's mathematical thought historically, but the reviewer asserts that "This long and ambitious work is, however, rather deceptive. It turns out to be a very large compilation that never presents any genuine conclusions about Descartes's mathematical thought, while ranging far from the stated subject." He adds that it also "fails to offer any serious analysis of the mathematical contents of the Géométrie."

SCHIEBINGER, LONDA & CLAUDIA SWAN, eds. Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce and Politics in the Early Modern World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Review: M. Dettelbach in Isis 97 (June 2006), 355. A collection of sixteen essays, including contributions dealing with Paris and the Académie des Sciences, the essays do not, in the opinion of the reviewer, map as neatly onto the framework of regime change and nation-state as the editors would like. The volume does offer "important and substantial material for a new synthetic history of botany in the early modern period," however.

SILVERA, MYRIAM, ed. Jacques Basnage. Corrispondenza di Rotterdam (1685–1709). Amsterdam: Holland UP, 2000.

Review: D. Tollet in DSS 230 (2006), 173–174: A collection of 143 letters engaging 29 correspondents on various subjects, carefully edited and annotated by Silvera. Basnage sought and received permission to leave France with his family after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Though in Rotterdam, he never severed ties with his countrymen as his letters reveal. "Le premier thème d'intérêt de ces lettres [...] est la recherche d'informations concernant la vie littéraire." The information garnered often appeared in his serial publication, l'Histoire des ouvrages savants. He was further preoccupied with matters of theology.

SMITH, SOSHANA ROSE. "Clear and Distinct Perception in Descartes's Philosophy." DAI 66/08 (2006), 2958.

Intends to show how Descartes answers complaints about unclear definitions of his theory of knowledge, revolving around his concepts of distinct perception and clarity. Reveals the influence of scholasticism, but also the new insight Descartes develops for his transcendental arguments "establishing clarity and distinctness as a criterion of truth."

SORELL, TOM. Descartes Reinvented. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.

Review: W. F. Desmond in Choice 43 (2006), 3972: Argues that typical assumptions about Descartes often draw on faulty interpretations of his work, then attempts to outline why the rejection of certain portions of "unreconstructed Cartesianism" do not necessitate "a repudiation of all unreconstructed Cartesianism" (1241). The work is deemed especially helpful for those who wish to understand how recent analytic philosophers draw on Descartes.

STEINLE, FRIEDRICH. "Savoir, technique, pouvoir: l'électricité au XVIIIe siècle." RSH 281 (janvier-mars 2006): 11–37.

Traces the relatively late development of interest in electricity in relationship to the other sciences during the first half of the 18th century, thanks to Francis Hauksbee and Stephen Gray. Looks at how, by mid-century, research on electricity had an important influence on religious culture, medicine, and entertainment.

TOUYA DE MARENNE, ERIC. "Rethinking the 'Postmodern' Impediment: Variations on French Letters from Descartes to Derrida." DFS 73 (2005), 55–63.

Examines the concepts of modernism and post-modernism through "Rameau, Wagner and Schoenberg's ideas and works, and Descartes, Diderot, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, Valéry, Barthes and Derrida's reflections on instrumental music, as an autonomous form 'that claims to have no history.'"

TROUVE, STEPHANIE. "Les écrits de Molinier, Pader et Vendages de Malapeire et la peinture religieuse à Toulouse au XVIIe siècle." DSS 230 (2006), 101–115.

Looking at the texts of these three authors, Trouvé sheds light on a uniquely Toulousian approach to sacred art.

TRUE, MICAH. "What's in a Name? The Roots of Christian/Islamic Tension in 17th Century France." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 533–550.

"Here I examine how the common French word for Islam at the time, 'Mahométisme,' entered the lexicon and how its use contributed to a culture of fear of Islam by shaping and framing French thought." Draws on Sapir and Whorf's hypothesis that language shapes thought and culture.

TURREL, DENISE. Le Blanc de France. La construction des signes identitaires pendant les guerres de religion (1562–1629). Genève : Droz, 2005.

Review : B. Nicollier in BHR 67.3 (2005), 798–800 : 《  Belle démonstration de la pertinence de l'analyse des symboles, que cette étude sur le 'blanc de France ' ! Bien écrite, en huit courts chapitres, mélangeant avec finesse sources écrites et iconographiques, la démonstration est irréfutable : l'évolution des signes identitaires de l'un et l'autre camp au cours des guerres de religion se calque complètement sur l'histoire des protagonistes de ce drame.  》

Review: J. Smither in Ren Q 58 (2005): 1359–60: Turrel examines multiple and varied sources "including histories, diaries, and memoirs written by witnesses to the wars, as well as contemporary pamphlet literature, paintings, engravings, and woodcuts" to trace the "shifting uses of the white scarf as a badge of identification" (1359). Praised for its valuable insights and accessible writing, Turrel's work is recommended for its political and cultural analysis. We learn, for instance, that thanks to Henri IV's conversion, the white scarf becomes disassociated from its Protestant origins to become a symbol of the Catholic monarchy. Color plates, index, illustrations, bibliography.

VAN DAMME, STEPHANE. "'The world is too large': Philosophical Mobility and Urban Space in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Paris." Translated byDavid Beecher andPeter Sahlins. FHS 29.3 (Summer 2006), 379–406.

Van Damme argues "it is worth trying to understand how each practical regime of philosophical mobility was tied to a different political representation of the city. The different practices of mobility that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries blurred a simple sense of territorial belonging and multiplied the sites of identification."

AMODEO, IMMACOLATA. "Le spectacle du corps. Images corporelles du XVIIe siècle au cinéma." In Erdmann, Eva and Konrad Schoell, eds. Le comique corporel: Mouvement et comique dans l'espace théâtral du XVIIe siècle. Biblio 17 Number 163. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 149–160.

The author examines the representation of the body in three modern films: Ariane Mnouchkine's Molière focuses on the use of the boy to create comic effects; Gérard Corbiau's Le roi danse illustrates how dance reflected court society's desire for mastery and control of the body as well as the theology of the king's two bodies; Roberto Rossellini's La Prise du pouvoir par Louis XIV displays the royal body in the public spectacles of the "lever," "coucher," and mealtimes at Versailles.

AROUI, JEAN-LOUIS. "Remarques métriques sur le sonnet français." SFr no. 147 (2005): 501–509.

Fills a lacuna in sonnet studies as it examines the functioning of the sonnet form "sur le plan perceptif" (501). Extensive and helpful literature review and bibliography complement Aroui's design and analysis of "un modèle du genre, un 'prototype' formel" (507).

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Philosophies et visions de la mort dans le premier âge baroque." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 403–418.

Examines the topos of death in the work of poets Agrippa d'Aubigné, Jean de Sponde, Jean-Baptiste Chassignet, and François de Maynard.

BAUSTERT, RAYMOND. La Consolation érudite: huit études sur les sources des lettres de consolation de 1600 à 1650. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2003.

Review: R. Parish in FS 59.3 (2005), 392–393: Though the mise en page of this work leads to some confusion as to whether one is reading a source, a comment, or something else, according to the reviewer, this grouping of Baustert's articles, and in particular the last half of them, is "an impressive piece of scholarship in its own right." The author brings many little-known authors to light while lending cohesion and understanding to the genre of consolation letters.

BEASLEY, FAITH E. Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: C. B. Kerr in Choice 44 (2006), 117: Noting that collective memory is regulated by cultural and political forces, Beasley probes the deliberateness with which early modern salon women were culturally elevated and then dismissed. Beasley then "revitalizes the image of the salonnières by showing how they defined taste, created new genres with important social messages, and helped mold a language that became a unifying tool under Louis XIV." With admirable attention to rarely studied authors; an "exceptional book" (117).

BEASLEY, FAITH E. & KATHLEEN WINE, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005.

All articles in this volume are summarized in the current issue of French 17.

BERTAUD, MADELEINE, ed. Travaux de Littérature, 16. Les Grandes Peurs I. Diable, fléaux, etc. Genève: ADIREL, 2003.

Review: D. Reynaud in RF 117 (2005): 562–63: The aim of this ambitious, encyclopedic number of TL, the first of two on the theme of "Les Grandes Peurs", is to illuminate "ce que les écrivains ont voulu dire" on this diverse and fascinating subject. Demonstrates both a "unité d'objet" and a "unité méthodologique" as it leads us from the Middle Ages to the late 20th c. Divided into five parts ("Diables et diableries", "Fléaux-épidémies", "Peurs mises en scène", "Autres temps, autres peurs", "Peurs des fins") each of which is organized chronologically, the volume contains among its erudite and pertinent essays several of interest to 17th c. scholars, in particular Dennis Donetzkoff's on the devil at Port-Royal and Jean-Pierre Collinet's on the fear of the wolf chez La Fontaine (the latter is appreciated both for its "précision du propos et. . . perspective d'ensemble"). Index includes some 800 names. Only reservation of Reynaud is the volume's "caractère franco-français."

BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE, éd. Mémoire du volcan et modernité. Actes du colloque international du Programme Pluriformation " Connaissance et représentation des volcans,  》 Université Blaise Pascal, 16–18 octobre 2001. Paris : Champion, 2004.

Review : M. Closson in BHR 68.1 (2006), 168–70 : 《  Rassemblant les communications de vingt-sept spécialistes, l'ouvrage est divisé en cinq parties qui, en confrontant les analyses sur des textes et des images de diverses époques, répondent bien au titre donné au livre; il s'agit d'interroger le lien entre les représentations fabuleuses et mythiques et l'émergence à partir de la Renaissance d'un 'discours moderne' sur le volcan, généralement lié à l'observation directe, discours qui lui-même ne peut être pensé en dehors d'un intertexte littéraire. . .. 》 Voir les contributions de J.-C. Margolin sur les 《  impressions des voyageurs de la Renaissance et du XVIIe siècle  》 du Vésuve ; de S. Taussig sur 《  le regard des libertins Naudé et Gassendi, sur l'éruption du Vésuve de 1631  》 ; de C. Cerf sur 《  le travail souterrain de l'imaginaire du volcan aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles  》 ; de D. Bertrand sur le 《  'palimpseste burlesque' par Scarron de la légende de l'Etna.  》

BERTRAND, DOMINIQUE, ed. Penser la nuit (XVe–XVIIe Siècle). Actes du colloque international du C.E.R.H.A.C. (Centre d'Etudes sur les Réformes, l'Humanisme et l'Age classique) de l'Université Blaise Pascal (22–24 juin 2000). Paris : Honoré Champion, 2003.

Review : O. Pot in BHR 68.2 (2006), 382–386 : 《  Or ce colloque à qui la phrase de Nietzsche 'La nuit est aussi un soleil' aurait pu servir d'épigraphe vise à déterminer dans quelles mesure il est possible de 'penser' la nuit, de la dire, autrement et diversement selon que son traitement ressortit au discours de la science, au genre narratif, à la poésie ou à la mise en scène politique.  》 Voir les contributions de S. Taussig 《  Gassendi contre la métaphore : la nuit  》) ; C. Martin (《  Entretiens sur la pluralités des Mondes de Fontenelle  》 ; D. Mauri (《  Le temps-espace de la nuit dans les romans de Béroalde de Verville  》) ; P. Rossetto (《  La nuit approvoisée dans l'Astrée) ; M. Closson (《  Scénographies nocturnes du baroque : l'exemple du ballet français 1581–1653  》) ; A. Gaillard (《  Le soleil à son coucher : la nuit réversible de la mythologie solaire sous Louis XIV  》) ; C. Carlin (《  La nuit du couple : la dissolution du mariage dans l'imaginaire des XVIe et XVIIe siècles  》).

BEUGNOT, BERNARD. "Fascination du minéral: la contemplation du temps." E Cr 45 (2005): 10–18.

"L'imaginaire minéralogique" is the focus of this rich, instructive and highly evocative essay. Beugnot's panorama, from the jewels of sacred and profane antiquity to Claudel and other moderns, includes important examples drawn from the 17th c. relating to eloquence and poetry. Beautifully written and with highly useful documentation, Beugnot's essay reminds that "les pierres sont 'les vrais archives de l'humanité, la mémoire du monde'" (Frederico Cesi, qtd. by B., 16).

BIET, CHRISTIAN. Droit et littérature sous l'Ancien Régime. Le jeu de la valeur et de la loi. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

Review: P. Ronzeaud in DSS 231 (2006), 361–364: The reviewer finds this to be Biet's most ambitious, important, and fascinating book to date. "Dans le cadre d'une analyse des rapports entre fictions juridiques, fictions judiciaires et fictions littéraires, dont la dynamique comparatiste met presque en abyme son approche globale des relations entre droit et littérature, sous l'Ancien Régime, Biet étudie le fonctionnement de la 《 fiction de continuation 》 (p.147) par laquelle 《 une personne se poursuit quel que soit le corps qui l'enveloppe. 》"

BIET, CHRISTIAN. "'Libérez Fouquet ! Expulsons les jésuites !', La lecture d'une théâtralité janséniste comme lieu politique de sociabilité." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 161–192.

A brilliant insightful piece concerning the anonymous L'Innocence persécutée. "L'idée est. . . de démontrer ici que l'assemblée-séance, qui caractérise le théâtre de ce temps, peut déborder l'événement pour, dans le cas de ce texte clandestin, produire une reception multiple, militante et efficace, un effet d'assemblée dirigé vers une action politique, tout en manifestant une véritable recherche formelle. Déployer l'espace particulier de la lecture dans l'espace mondain, déployer l'espace mondain dans l'espace politique actif, malgré la défaite, déployer l'espace clandestin des vaincus afin de dépasser le ressentiment par une action encore possible à partir d'une analyse des enjeux, de l'établissement des causes et des effets, enfin par l'évaluation des cibles à atteindre, telles semblent être les functions de ce texte militant et experimental qui fait de la performativité une sorte de doctrine esthétique."

BIET, CHRISTIAN, ed. Théâtre de la cruauté et récits sanglants en France (XVIe–XVIIe siècle). Paris: Robert Laffont, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 683 (2006), 96–97: "L'anthologie de C. Biet invite les lecteurs d'aujourd'hui, abreuvés d'horreur par les journaux télévisés et le cinéma, à considérer la part sombre de ceux qui vécurent avant eux. Elle rassemble sous une forme maniable des textes [1550–1660] qui n'étaient guère accessibles qu'aux spécialistes. . ."

BORGEOIS, MURIEL. "Des invraisemblances de la vraisemblance classique." RSH 280 4 (2005): 49–65.

Elucidates and complexifies the idea of "vraisemblance" in the 17th c. through a close examination of several period authors' views on relationship between historical truth and vraisemblance, looking in particular at Racine's historical inspirations for Phèdre.

BOURQUI, CLAUDE. "La transmission des sujets galants hispaniques à la scène française du XVIIe siècle: l'hypothèse sur le rôle du Grand Cyrus." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 97–108.

Examines the hypothesis that Scudéry's Grand Cyrus may have played an intermediary role in the transmission of subjects from Spanish to French theatre. That role may have been either one of transformation (where the subject is transformed from its original) or incitation (that is, where Scudéry's treatment of a subject incites the French dramatist to return to the original Spanish subject).

BRETZ, MICHÈLE. "Le Combat des moniales de Port-Royal ou la primauté des droits de la conscience: leurs Relations de captivité." RF 117 (2005): 165–86.

Bretz's in-depth study provides a welcome and rich analysis of important documents both in the context of Jansenist spirituality and in the tradition of women's historiography and hagiography. Pluridisciplinary in their complexity, the documents necessitate criticism which reflects this character, taking into account along with "sentiment religieux", history of women (their writing, their autonomy), law, sociology, psychology and theology (184). Bretz's particularly well-documented analyses reveals a number of "constantes": "la communauté d'attitudes et de réaction des moniales face aux épreuves subies,. . . la force de leur lien spirituel,. . . le profond esprit de solidarité qui les animait, et la solidité de leurs convictions, leur forte personnalité, leur sensibilité et l'originalité et leur écriture" (185).

BRITNELL, JENNIFER & ANN MOSS, eds. Female Saints and Sinners / Saintes et mondaines (France 1250–1650). Durham: U of Durham (Durham Modern Language Series FM 21), 2002.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 41.1 (2005): 108–109: Wide-ranging and "liberally interpreted" examination of female saints and sinners. Focus is on early modern women and includes among the 17th c. essays, one on Madeleine de Scudéry's Clélie. Scholars of emblematics will welcome the chapters on women as subject and author of emblems.

BURY, EMMANUEL. "Les 《  réalités  》 de l'espace mondain et les conventions théâtrales." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 147–159.

"Il conviendra de commencer par un bref rappel du caractère proprement théâtral des conventions qui régissent l'espace mondain, avant de rappeler quelques convergences entre univers scénique et espace mondain (notamment dans le cadre de l'évolution de la comédie), puis, dans un dernier temps de proposer quelques pistes pour l'exploration de l'univers sérieux présenté par la tragédie et la tragi-comédie."

CARABIN, DENISE. Les idées stoïciennes dans la littérature morale de XVIe et XVIIe siècles (1575–1642). Paris: Champion (Etudes sur la Renaissance, 51), 2004.

Review: D. Cecchetti in SFr no. 146 (2005): 409: Highly praised thèse, in particular for its rich material, systematic and complex structure, and multifaceted approach. Carabin's valuable work presents a precise picture of the evolution of stoic or neostoic ideas, indicating particularly important periods and representatives.

Review: U. Langer in Ren Q 58 (2005): 1345–46: In this vast study which "builds on the classic work of Léontine Zanta, Gerhard Oestreich, and Günter Abel, 17th c. scholars will appreciate discussions of Du Vair and Lipsius, Charron, and generally "the resonances of Stoicism. . . during the final years of Henri IV and the reign of Louis XIII" (1346). Langer notes several possible sources of confusion, yet recommends the study as "a useful if somewhat wandering guide" (1346). Index, bibliography.

CARLIN, CLAIRE & KATHLEEN WINE, eds. Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin. Charlottsville: Rockwood Press, 2003.

Review: R. Whelan in FS 60.3 (2006), 392–393: This review of the 27 essays written in honor of Ronald Tobin praises the collection as a useful tool to undergraduates as well as stimulating reading for scholars in the field, with authors such as John Lyons, Larry Riggs, John Cloonan providing thought-provoking analyses. Given whom it is honoring, the essays not surprisingly cover larger figures such as Corneille, Racine and Molière. Overall, this is a very positive review.

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC. "Les Silences de l'histoire, les mémoires français au XVIIè siècle." Québec: Presses de l'université de Laval, 2000.

Review: D. de Garidel in RHLF 106.2 (2006), 435. This work is a study of memoirs as a literary genre in the seventeenth century and comments on a large corpus that starts out with the Renaissance. Charbonneau also examines questions of dissidence and marginality: "il étudie avec différents exemples les récits de dissidence — politique, plus rarement littéraire, ou encore religieuse. Un chapitre moins attendu éclaire le jeu de la marginalité et de la dissidence à l'oeuvre dans l'édition meme des différents mémoires."

CHARTIER, ROGER. "Genre between Literature and History." MLQ 67 (2006), 129–39.

Observes that the notion of genre has survived the influence of 20th-century literary theory movements and discusses the continued pertinence of notions of genre to New Historicism. Chartier describes the social energies and worldly contingencies that can inflect works' relation to genre and makes mention of Le Cid and the revision of its status as a "tragic-comédie."

CIVIL, PIERRE & DANIELLE BOILLET, eds. L'Actualité et sa mise en écriture aux XVe – XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Espagne, Italie, France et Portugal. Paris: Presse de la Sorbonne nouvelle, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 681 (2006), 111–12: Actes d'un colloque tenu à Paris en octobre 2000: "Les batailles de cette époque-nullement pacifiques-donnaient naissance à de longues chroniques rimées ou en prose et l'imprimerie leur assurait une diffusion inconnue jusqu'alors. Il est intéressant d'étudier, à travers des exemples choisis, la tension qui existait entre les événements d'une période donnée et leur transcription dans l'ordre de l'écrit."

CIVARDI, JEAN MARC, ed. La querelle du "Cid" (1637–38). Édition critique intégrale. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in SFr no. 146 (2005): 410: Considered an "opera assolutamente essenziale nella biblioteca di un secentista," Civardi's critical edition of 1216 pages contains in addition to the plays and pamphlets that constitute the querelle, a large introduction (250 pages, versus the 50 in the previous edition by Gasté). Rich notes, bibliography, glossary and linguistic observations complement the works themselves which include the Anatomie du Cid from the manuscript in the BNF.

CLÉMENT, BRUNO. "Écrire singulièrement au siècle des règles et du Dieu caché." Littérature 137 (mars 2005): 69–82.

Traces indications of the development of a notion of singularity in the passage from 17th century to the 18th, looking for the first signs of a preoccupation with uniqueness of expression. Authors cited include Guez de Balzac, Montaigne, Descartes, La Fontaine, Chapelain, Barbier Aucour, Corneille, Racine, La Bruyère, Guilleragues, and Rousseau.

CONLEY, JOHN J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 59.4 (2005), 544–545: This generally negative review finds fault with Conley's work for its patronizing tone of "discovery" and "rehabilitation" in dealing with a subject (salon writing) which needs little or none, since much good research has been done on it recently. Conley's work does contain good biographies of Mme de Sablé, Mme Deshoulières, Mme de la Sablière, Mlle de la Vallière and Mme de Maintenon. That said, the work "barely scratches the surface of early-modern women's writing" and often fails to back up some of its claims.

COURT, MARC. "L'esprit et la bêtise dans 'La Lettre sur la reception de Lully aux Enfers' de Sénèque." CdDS 10.2 (2006), 95–106.

Explores "bêtise" in relation to claims of superiority and taste, as for example in music and poetry, but reveals how these claims actually reveal the opposite; i.e., absence of judgment, inflexibility, and rigidity of authors, poets, and musicians.

COURTES, NOEMIE. L'Ecriture de l'enchantement: magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in SFr no. 145 (2005): 152–53: Although the panorama of this imposing work focuses on French texts, there is awareness of contacts with other European literatures in this volume which is found "particularmente curato, attento, ricco di riferimenti. . ." (152). Organized in three sections, Courtès's study includes an historical approach, discussion of genres "porteurs de magie," description, function and rhetoric relative to the subject. Although the reviewer takes issue with certain incongruities such as the consideration of Corneille's l'Illusion comique under the pastoral rather than comedy, she finds the study "molto utile per riempire un settore che non era mai stato così puntualmente e specificamente studiato" (153). Rich critical apparatus including an ample bibliography.

Review: S. O'Hara in FR 79 (2006), 832–33: An exploration of specifically literary magic (rather than actual practices of magic, or mentalities about them), Courtès' book approaches magic through the lenses of genre and literary history. Courtès also examines magician characters whose versatility and variability is emphasized. Praised by the reviewer.

COURTES, NOEMIE. "Sit Medea ferox invictaque — modèle et contre-modèle de la vengeance féminine au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 431–446.

Examines the myth and the representation of Medea. Concludes: "Médée incarne la vengeance et surtout la vengeance feminine car sa persona est à la fois la matrice de toutes les vengeresses — puisque, venant de la plus haute Antiquité, elle précède toutes les autres —, mais également leur point d'aboutissement — puisque c'est elle qui en vient à signifier la vengeance, l'hybris et le crime dans d'innombrables comparaisons qui l'érigent en antonomase."

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership: Teaching the Occult Early Modern." CdDS 10.2 (2006), 107–142.

This is a valuable resource for creating a class on Early Modern Literature that builds bridges between the past and the present. In addition to providing a comprehensive summary of her methodology, Dauge-Roth exposes some strategies implemented in her course that are created to make students more active inside and outside the classroom.

DAUVOIS, NATHALIE & JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSPERRIN, éds. Songes et songeurs (XIIIe–XVIIIe siècle). Ste. Foy: PU de Laval, 2003.

Review : B. C. Bowen in BHR 67.2 (2005), 479–81 : Fifteen articles chronologically ordered from a 1998–2000 seminar at the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail and "addressed to very different readers; specialists in Medieval, Renaissance, Classical and Enlightenment literature, as well as in seventeenth- to eighteenth-century music and modern dream theory." See contributions by Y. Loskoutoff who treats "Jeanne Guyon's dream narratives addressed to Fénélon" and A. Gaillard who discusses "dreaming and enchantment at the end of the Classical period" in works of Descartes, Scipion Dupleix, and La Fontaine.

DAVIDSON, HILDA AND ANNA CHAUDHRI, eds. A Companion to the Fairy Tale. London: D. S. Brewer, 2003.

Review: E. Wanning Harries in Marvels & Tales 19.2 (2005), 319–322: Unlike Zipes's Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, this one is less an encyclopedia and more a wide-ranging collection of essays—Harries refers to it as a "grab bag" approach—on both oral and written fairy tales. Harries finds it has "interesting moments" but lacks focus and clarity of position; generally it is less useful as a reference tool than the Oxford volume.

DAX, LIONEL. "Les Subtilités du goût. Vauvenargues/Voltaire Correspondance de 1743 à 1746. L'Infini. 93 (Winter 2005), 52–69.

Here, Dax introduces and republishes a selection of letters exchanged between Voltaire and his friend Vauvenargues. The subjects broached include a comparison of Corneille and Racine, especially as concerns the verbosity of Corneille's characters; a comparison of La Fontaine and Molière, with attention to Molière's choice of low subjects; and brief mentions of Bayle, Bossuet, Boileau, Pascal, and Fénelon.

DEELY, JOHN. "The Role of Thomas Aquinas in the Development of Semiotic Consciousness." Semiotica 152 1/4 (2004): 75–139.

Examines the role of Thomas Aquinas in the growth of semiotic consciousness among the Latins, dealt with systematically for the first time in John Poinsot's1632 Treatise on Signs. Author discusses Cartesian philosophy as in part responsible for Aquinas's oubli.

DENIS, DELPHINE. "Lire le nom propre de fiction au XVIIe siècle." Littérature 140 (décembre 2005): 83–94.

Author argues the interest of "socio-poétique" analysis of the question of the proper name in the 17th century through examples from a variety of authors (Furetière, Sorel, Mme de Villedieu, La Fontaine, l'abbé d'Aubignac). Demonstrates how proper names are susceptible of varied levels of readings, from the pedantic to the naïve, and authorize or institute reading protocols.

DIX-SEPTIEME SIECLE. Dix-septième siècle 222 (janvier-mars 2004).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in SFr 147 (2005): 632: Wide-ranging volume includes studies on the celebration of Louis XIII's marriage to Anne d'Autriche, absolutism and Louis XIV's memoirs, philosophy (Spinozian), baroque poetics (La Ceppède), geographical literature, and reliures (an account of the 2002 exhibit at the Musée Condé (Chantilly).

DOIRON, NORMAND. "Porcie, ou la tragédie du feu." Poétique 144 (2005): 413–428.

Portia, the daughter of Cato and wife of Brutus who commits suicide by swallowing hot coals, inspired early modern tragedies by Garnier, Guérin de Bouscal, and Boyer, which Doiron examines here in tandem. The article unpacks the plays' pervasive imagery of hell, smoke, and hazy vision to suggest that "Plus que nulle autre tragédie, peut-être, Porcie est la tragédie du feu, plus même que l'Andromaque de Racine" (421). Doiron also notes various ways in which the playwrights adapt the classical framework of Portia's story to their own Christian monarchical culture.

DUFLO, COLAS and LUC RUIZ, eds. De Rabelais à Sade: l'analyse des passions dans le roman à l'âge classique. Presses de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2003.

Review: V. de Senarclens in FS 59.3 (2005), 401–402: This book contains a dozen or so articles seeking to answer the question of whether there is a specifically romanesque treatment of human passions. In this somewhat negative review it is noted that the book's articles never really coalesce around the topic. This lack of cohesion is perhaps due to the large timeframe covered and a choice of materials focusing on the XVIIIth century, meaning the text doesn't live up to its promise in breadth or depth, though it contains some interesting materials on Rabelais, Montesquieu and Rousseau.

DUMORA, FLORENCE. L'œuvre nocturne. Songe et représentation au XVIIe siècle. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2005.

DUPRAT, ANNE. "Les trois formes du vraisemblable au XVIIe siècle." LC 2 (2004), 219–234.

A discussion of this all-important topic during the 17th century. Duprat identifies and elaborates on "trois domaines de rattachement de la vraisemblance, qui apparaissent tour à tour de façon privilégiée dans le discours théorique." They are: "la dimension référentielle," "dimension logique," and finally "une vraisemblance déterminée par la pensée ou par l'opinion de celui-ci: on peut donc la qualifier de gnomique ou de doxale."

EMELINA, JEAN. "Mondanité et libido: les charmes inavouvés du théâtre 《  sérieux  》." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 109–123.

"Ce que nous voudrions montrer, c'est combien, sous sa forme la plus noble, la plus 《  honnête  》 et la plus pudique, [le théâtre] doit aussi son succès, de façon ouverte ou voilée, consciente ou inconsciente, moins à sa charge d'idéal qu'à sa charge de désirs. La question concerne les textes, mais, plus encore, les représentations et le monde de la comédie lui-même."

ERDMANN, EVA. "Le corps baroque. Du 'bizarre' et du 'comique.'" In Erdmann, Eva and Konrad Schoell, eds. Le comique corporel: Mouvement et comique dans l'espace théâtral du XVIIe siècle. Biblio 17 Number 163. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 161–173.

The author examines the translation of seventeenth-century corporal comedy and physicality into a modern idiom. In order to capture the early-modern comic body, theatrical performances turn to the bizarre in order to recreate the comic impact of texts from the seventeenth century.

ESCOLA, MARC, ed. Nouvelles galantes du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Flammarion, 2004.

Review: C. Zonza in DSS 231 (2006), 351–352: A useful selection of six "fictions historiques de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle," found here in a pocket edition. Organized around the absent Princesse de Clèves, the texts are: La Princesse de Montpensier, La Comtesse de Tende de Mme de Lafayette, Dom Carlos de Saint-Réal, La Duchesse d'Estramène de Du Plaisir, Le Comte d'Amboise et Inès de Cordoue de Catherine Bernard.

ESCOLA, MARC. "'Une singularité d'esprit et conséquemment de style': De Montaigne à La Bruyère et de Pascal à Marivaux." Littérature 137 (mars 2005): 93–107.

"Marivaux' reasoning in the Sixth installment of Le Cabinet du philosophe shows that his equation of style and thought, which eliminates style altogether, is ultimately the logic of literary commentary-as is shown by Marivaux' commenting a La Rouchefoucauld maxim's wording as ultimately necessary to its meaning."

ESMEIN, CAMILLE, ed. "Poétiques du roman. Scudéry, Huet, Du Plaisir et autres textes théoriques et critiques du XVIIe siècle sur le genre romanesque." Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in SFr no. 146 (2005): 411–12: This rich and stimulating anthology of principal 17th c. texts (including prefaces to novels) is well annotated. Esmein's introduction situates and defines the problem, and each text is furnished with a critical bibliography. The reviewer finds that while some aspects of this work may be open to criticism or discussion, it is overall an indispensable research tool.

Review: F. Greiner in DSS 231 (2006), 347–348: Destined to become a very useful reference book, Esmein has assembled a varied selection of textes: "épîtres, préfaces, extraits de fictions et traités dont l'abondance évoque moins une anthologie [...] qu'une de ces bibliothèques que les érudits du XVIIIe siècle consacrèrent autrefois au même genre." The collection, its annotation, and preface form something of a companion compendium to Esmein's thesis (L'Avènement d'une poétique romanesque au XVIIe siècle: Discours théorique et constitution d'un genre littéraire (1641–1683)).

Review: G. Peureux in RHLF 106.2 (2006), 426–427. "Cette anthologie. . . contient notamment d'utiles indices des noms, des romans et des notions, ainsi qu'une bibilographie analytique des sources utilisées. Chaque extrait ou texte intégral contenu. . . est introduit, ses enjeux théoriques sont mis en évidence et la bibliographie récente en est signalée." Some shortcomings concerning "la périodisation. . . [qui est] coupée au cordeau."

FERREYROLLES, GERARD, ed. "Littérature et histoire au XVIIè siècle." Dalhousie French Studies 65, 2003.

Review: B. Guion in RHLF 106.2 (2006), 436–438. Anthology containing individual contributions. The articles united here deal with the writing of history, by looking at a variety of genres. Particular focus is devoted to d'Aubigné, Nicole, Varillas, Boursault, La Bruyère and du Fossé. "Il s'en degage une réflexion sur l'écriture de l'histoire qui fait apparaître des tensions récurrentes, entre le vrai et le vraisemblable, entre l'utilité et l'agrément, entre l'histoire publique et l'histoire privée."

FRANKO, MARK. "La théàtralité de Louis XIII et Louis XIV dans leurs rôles travestis aux ballets de cour du XVIIe siècle." LC 2 (2004), 201–213.

"Cette étude vise à porter au jour l'ambiguïté des positions fluctuantes de la présence du roi sur scène. Tous les rôles qu'il incarne sont en effet scindés. Il en résulte que le roi apparaît comme une figure du neutre et de l'indifférence qui, elle, fonctionne comme principe de la conjonction des contraires."

FRISCH, ANDREA. "French Tragedy and the Civil Wars." MLQ 67 (2006), 287–312.

Describes the 16th-century use of tragedy and theatrical metaphors as commentary on the political calamities of the era, then notes the disappearance of explicit connections between contemporary history and tragedy in the early 17th century. Identifies the new neoclassical aesthetics of pleasure as part of a national work of forgetting the nation's past and present religious strife. "Royal legislation commanding the French to obliterate memories of the wars helped shape the aesthetics of seventeenth-century French tragedy in subtle but central ways" (288).

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

Review: B. Boehrer in Ren Q 58 (2005): 286–88: Finds the volume which focuses on England and France "essential reading" and "a nice compendium of animal-related work at its best-and perhaps at its silliest as well" (286). Of particular interest to 17th c. scholars is Peter Harrison's "informative analysis of the early modern culture of animal experimentation and Matthew Senior's. . . discussion of the French royal menagerie from 1662 to 1792" (286).

FUMAROLI, MARC. Exercices de lecture. De Rabelais à Paul Valéry. Paris : Gallimard, 2006.

Review : M. Crépu in RDM (avril 2006), 159–60 : 《 . . .au sujet de Pascal, dont Fumaroli montre bien comment il cherche un chemin à mi-distance du cartésianisme strict et du mobile montaignesque, ne se résumant nullement à cette raideur janséniste où l'on a voulu le tenir enfermée.  》

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

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 80 (2006), 209–10: Explores the uses and meanings of statues in period fiction and philosophical writing. Fantastical genres like the fable and the fairy tale, as well as a host of works drawing on the Pygmalion story, draw on statues' mythology of animation. The Commander statue in versions of the Don Juan story is contextualized in terms of the pagan belief that statues held hidden gods. Turning to philosophy, Gaillard suggests that "even for the rational mindset of the Enlightenment, the statue retains some of its mystical aura" (209). Philosophers used the figure of the statue to explore human body-mind relations and the role and hierarchy of the senses. The work is praised by the reviewer.

Review: M. Percival in FS 59.4 (2005), 543–544: This work garners a very positive review for its comprehensive exploration of statues (real and imagined), dolls, automatons, puppets, and even fairies and sylphids. This book is a "cornucopia" of period sources that engages primary and secondary literatures. Gaillard's interpretations of works by Molière, Thomas Corneille and a multitude of lesser-known authors, are "fascinating" and "perceptive." Overall, this is an "intelligent contribution to studies of the body in the classical period."

GANIM, RUSSELL. "Going Through the Trash: Meaning in the Cabaret and Cabinet Baroque Lyric." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 307–315.

The "trash culture" of cabaret and cabinet poetry which privilege "the ribald, the scatological, and the grossly erotic" articulate an alternative discourse on sexuality, gender, and literature. This counter-culture also allows us to recognize the interaction between "high" and "low" cultural forms in early-modern France.

GELY, VERONIQUE. L'Invention d'un mythe: Psyché: allégorie et fiction du siècle de Platon au temps de La Fontaine. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 682 (2006), 60–60: Gély "examine la naissance et la fortune de Psyché, jusqu'au Grand Siècle inclusivement (La Fontaine, mais également Molière et Corneille)." On trouve ce "travail comparatiste admirablement maîtrisé" mais regrette "la présence de références bibliographiques parfois étranges."

GENETIOT, ALAIN. "Le classicisme." Paris: PUF, 2005.

Review: M. Fumaroli in RHLF 106.3 (2006), 719–722. The reviewer recognizes the impact of this informative study on Classicism that has been preceded by determining works, yet offers a new perspective. A lot of discussion is devoted to the concept of "classicism" itself with a minor regret that Génetiot does not clarify his individual perspective on this seminal term. Fumaroli also stresses the underlying influence of René Bray's work on the "doctrine classique" for this study.

Review: M. Sweetser in FR 79 (2006), 1058–1059: Tries to move away from a view of classicism as a normative and restrictive formal movement, an aesthetics of absolute monarchy. Instead, Génetiot presents "la synthèse classique. . . comme un juste temperament, un miracle d'équilibre" (1059), emphasizing writers' embrace of the "je ne sais quoi" and of fabulous subject matter in the genre of the fairy tale, as well as their attempts at artistic naturalism and grace. "L'auteur a nettement perçu que la notion de classicisme ne se réduisait pas à une liste de règles. . . Il existe des classicismes du vingtième siècle et nous parlerons bientôt de ceux du vingt-et-unième" (1059).

GENETTI, STEFANO. Saperla corta. Forme brevi sentenziose e letteratura francese. Fasano: Schena, 2002.

Review: W. Helmich in RF 117 (2005): 498–502: Comprehensive and knowledgeable, Genetti's study of "formes brèves" helpfully indicates various characteristics, offers an important historical survey of French sentential texts from the Middle Ages through the 20th c., and indicates numerous forms and subgenres. The masterful examination is completed by an exhaustive bibliography and an index of names.

GHEERAERT, TONY. Le Chant de la grâce: Port Royal et la poésie d'Arnauld d'Andilly à Racine. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: R. Parish in FS 60.1 (2006), 103–104: The reviewer very positively notes Gheeraert's ability to bring Port-Royal's accomodation of poetry into a critical framework. The author likewise demonstrates an evolution of poetics using the writings of d'Andilly, de Sacy, La Fontaine, and Racine. This "magistral" work, reveals Port-Royal to be a microcosm of poetic creation across many different creative traditions.

GODENNE, RENE. "Place de la nouvelle du XVIIe siècle dans une histoire du genre" RF 117 (2005): 344–51:

Traces convincingly the large and important place of the "nouvelle" or "histoire" ("un parfait synonyme," 345) both in the Grand Siècle and in the history of the genre. The nouvelle is seen as a "petit roman" with its "exposition lente, détaillée, récit in medias res, retours en arrière, intrigue fondée sur une succession d'aventures, plusieurs intrigues menées de front, récits intercalés sans rapport avec l'intrigue de base, etc." (346). Godenne challenges the critics: " Si l'histoire de la nouvelle du XVIIe siècle n'a été mise à jour que depuis peu, est-ce raison pour l'ignorer, l'occulter ainsi?" (347). Godenne enumerates several benefits of examining the 17th c. nouvelle in the perspective of a general history of the genre and provides a selective bibliography of recent publications, both collections of nouvelles and works of criticism.

GOLDSMITH, ELIZABETH C. & COLETTE H. WINN, eds. Lettres de femmes: textes inédits et oubliés du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2005.

Review : W. Brooks in MLR 101.3 (2006), 846: "The enterprise deserved firmer general editorial control but the letters themselves are riveting and the anthology will be an essential primer until overtaken by the fuller individual studies of these women's eloquent correspondence that Elizabeth C. Goldsmith and Colette H. Winn presumably intended to provoke."

GOSSIP, C. J. 《  The Orateur in Seventeenth-Century French Theatre Companies.  》 MLR 101.3 (2006), 691–700 :

Treatment of Book III of Samuel Chappuzeau's 1674 work, Le Théâtre françois, on the nature and functions of the orateur. Gossip acknowledges the scholarly analysis of William Brooks on Chappuzeau yet takes exception to some of his conclusions and finds Chappuzeau's treatment of the three main theatre companies and their orateurs "to be more balanced that Brooks would have us believe."

GOULET, ANNE-MADELEINE. Poésie, musique et sociabilité au XVIIe siècle. Les Livres d'airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard de 1658 à 1694. Paris: Honoré Champion, coll. "Lumière classique", 2004.

Review: A. Génetiot in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 287–289. "Avec son érudition minutieuse qui fait la synthèse de la recherche récente et son sens aigu de la formule précise, la monographie d'A.-M. Goulet [. . .] ouvre donc à la recherche un champ nouveau qui complète les études littéraires et sociologiques existantes en articulant les deux domaines de la musicologie et de la littérature au sein de l'histoire de la civilisation mondaine."

Review: M. Pavesio in SFr no. 146 (2005): 412–13: Goulet's rich study, a refinement of her 2002 thèse directed by Christian Biet, is part of Champion's Lumière Classique collection, directed by Philippe Sellier. A forthcoming publication also chez Champion will furnish a catalogue of the 1,220 aria which are the basis of Goulet's study. Multifaceted, Goulet's work includes sections on the material aspects of the collection, its public, generic considerations, social and cultural contexts. Goulet's careful analyses are completed by a rich critical apparatus: biographical and bibliographical notices, three indexes and an imposing bibliography of over 100 pages.

Review: A. Stedman in FR 79 (2006), 182–83 : Addressing a collection of "airs sérieux" whose publication directly coincided with the rise and fall of the aesthetic of galanterie, Goulet's work expands our knowledge of music's participation in this aesthetic and the world of mondanité. Although Goulet admirably utilizes recent French scholarship on salon culture and worldly sociability, the reviewer regrets her oversight of important contextualizing American criticism (Dejean, Seifert) which could have been helpful.

GROVE, LAURENCE. Emblematics and 17th Century French Literature: Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine, and Perrault. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2002.

Review: U. Winter in RF 117 (2005): 392–94: Emblematics is considered not only as a cultural phenomenon of the 17th c., but, through close case studies, can offer us a new understanding of classical culture itself. Grove's rich study is informed by theoretical perspectives ranging from philology to cultural studies, and is indebted to M. Praz and to D. Russell's works on imagery and emblematic structures. After a section on the overarching place of emblematics in areas such as education, religion, life at court and everyday, Grove examines the emblematic substrata chez Descartes and La Fontaine, Tristan and Perrault, and indicates future avenues of investigation.

GUENANCIA, PIERRE. "Passions et représentations dans la conception cartésienne des passions." LC 2 (2004), 31–50.

HEADRICK, ASHLEY. "Images of Women Mentoring Women in French Literature 1650–1750." DAI 67/02 (2006), 579.

"This study considers the representation of ways in which female characters help one another in prose and plays written in France between 1650 and 1750." Offers an analysis of the concept of mentoring, as applied to mother-daughter relationships and friendships. Explores how women negotiate obstacles during the Ancien Régime.

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. "《  Pyrrhus n'avait pas lu nos romans  》 : le héros tragique à l'épreuve de la galanterie (1666–1676)." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 63–83.

Sets out to understand "comment Racine a pu être assimilé à un auteur galant, puis la stratégie qu'il oppose à cette accusation, et enfin les moyens qu'il déploie pour dépasser la tragédie galante, culminant dans une lecture inédite de la catharsis aristotélicienne."

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. Ut pictura theatrum. Théâtre et peinture de la Renaissance italienne au classicisme français. Genève: Droz, 2003.

Review: A.-E. Spica in DSS 230 (2006), 177–179: "Point d'ut pictura poesis sans un ut pictura theatrum originaire, dans lequel seul s'ancre toute réflexion théorique sur la poétique et les beaux-arts: [...] A travers un corpus aussi impressionnant que cohérent, celui des théoriciens italiens puis français de la peinture et du théâtre, qui n'avait encore jamais fait l'objet d'une étude des deux points de vue conjugués, E. Hénin éclaire deux siècles capitaux pour l'histoire occidentale des représentations comme de la représentation."

HÖFER, BERNADETTE. "'I Feel, Therefore I Am': Psychosomatic manifestations in seventeenth-century French literature." DAI 66/11 (2006), 4041.

The mind-body correlation in Surin, Molière, Racine, and Lafayette, based on the philosophical discourses of the seventeenth century. Attending to the theme of illness, this study explores the philosophical, medical and socio-political significance of seventeenth-century mind/body debate from a clear interdisciplinary perspective. Investigation that suggests a continuum of mind/body understanding from the classical period through the present day.

HOWE, ALAN, ed. A partir des analyses de MADELEINE JURGENS. Archives nationales: documents du Minutier central des notaires de Paris. Ecrivains de théâtre 1600–1649. Paris : Centre historique des Archives nationales, coll. 《 Documents de Minutier central des notaires de Paris 》, 2005.

Review : M. Bombart in CTH XXVIII (2006) , 101–103.: 《  Le livre se compose de deux grandes parties : dans la première, des 《 notices et analyses 》 rangés par ordre alphabétique d'auteur (de Baro à Villiers) présentent une synthèse des informations apportées par les documents, suivie d'un résumé de chaque pièce retrouvée. Dans la seconde, on trouve, organisée cette fois selon ordre chronologique, la transcription intégrale des actes les plus intéressants du Minutier. A la suite, une 《 table des analyses 》 (par ordre chronologique), une bibliographie et un index des noms de personnes permettant un maniement aisé du volume.  》 Reviewer notes that 《  la richesse du volume [est] incontestable 》 (102).

Review : C. Gossip in MLR 101.4 (2006), 1113–1114 : 《  This volume is a valuable complement to Alan Howe's Le Théâtre professionnel à Paris 1600–1649, published in the same series in 2000. . .. Whereas that book refined and greatly expanded our knowledge of theatre buildings, companies, actors, and actresses in the first half of the seventeenth century, the present inventaire-étude exploits 172 notarial deeds in the Minutier central relating to twenty-five dramatists of the period."

JEANNERET, MICHEL. Eros rebelle. Littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique. Paris: Seuil, 2003.

Review: M. Richter in SFr no. 145 (2005): 153–54: Judged a "bel libro," Jeanneret fulfills his stated intention to "faire une promenade dans quelques quartiers mal famés" (qtd by Richter, n.p.). Rich in perspectives (manuals of anatomy, as well as literary texts are examined), Jeanneret affirms that "le XVIIe siècle atteint, dans l'humiliation de la créature et la crainte de faillir, un point culminant' (J. 100). Scholars of Béroalde, Théophile, Ninon de Lenclos, Molière, among others will find much value in Jeanneret's vigorous and persuasive reflections, in particular his conclusion which finds in Molière's Don Juan "l'esemplarità di tutta un'epoca variamente attraversata da un 'éros rebelle.'"

JUNOD, SAMUEL, FLORIAN PREISIG & FREDERIC TINGUELY, éds. La Littérature engagée aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Etudes en l'honneur de Gérard Defaux (1937–2004). MLN 120.1 Italian Supplement Issue (2005).

Review : C. Skenazi in BHR 67.2 (2005), 771–73 : Dix essais tous d'étudiants de Defaux. Les éditeurs 《  notent la nature anachronique du terme et de la notion sartrienne d'engagement durant la période envisagée et précisent les conditions socio-politiques qui déterminent l'action d'un écrivain de ce temps : le système du mécénat, le rôle du libraire-imprimeur, l'absence de sphère publique.  》 Voir les contributions de D. Brancher qui examine 《  la façon dont le tempérament caractérise la personnalité styliqtique d'auteurs du début du dix-septième siècle  》 et d'A. Clerc 《  sur l'ambiguïté comme forme d'engagement dans les genres pastoral et utopique.  》

KENNY, NEIL. The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Review: P. Bayley in MLR 101.2 (2006), 619–20: Work of significant "chronological and linguistic range" that is "destined to become a classic in the field of early modern European intellectual history." Kenny "interprets and illuminates not simply the organization of knowledge in the early modern world, but the neuroses that controlled that organization of knowledge."

Review: E. Peters in Ren Q 58 (2005): 675–76: Finds Kenny's work "the best study of the meaning and uses of the term and the variety of ways by which it was understood and deployed in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe" (675–76). Finds Kenny to be a "remarkably learned and intelligent guide through what he calls 'a semantic swamp'" and judges that the study has broad implications for the intellectual history of modern Europe. Sweeping through an "enormous number and variety of sources," the study is organized into three sections: institutions, discursive tendencies and sex/gender (676). Index, illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography.

KNAPP, BETTINA L. French Fairy Tales: A Jungian Approach. SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture. New York: SUNY UP, 2003.

Review: P. Hamon in FR 79 (2005), 400–01. Although by no means limited to consideration of the 17th century, Knapp's book examines two tales by Perrault and one by d'Aulnoy. The author's analysis is rooted in Jungian notions of the collective unconscious and archetypes, considering tales as mirrors of "individuation. . . the psychological processes involved in acquiring an integrated personality" (401).

KOLBOOM, INGO, THOMAS KOTSCHI & EDWARD REICHEL, eds. Handbuch Französisch. Sprache-Literatur-Kultur-Gesellschaft. Für Studium, Lehre, Praxis. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2002.

Review: B. Kuhn in RF 117 (2005): 75–79: Recommended, if at times judged perfunctory, this compendium focuses less on literary history than on linguistics and scholarship relating to culture and the nation.

LACHAUX-LEFEBVRE, DANY. Le Discours dans le spectacle en musique de 1661 à 1686. Des comédies de divertissements de Molière aux tragédies lyriques de Quinault. Tübingen: Narr, 2002.

Review: H. Schneider in RF 117 (2005): 105–06: Both literary and linguistic perspectives inform Lachaux-Lefebvre's study which examines, in comparison, Molière's "comédies de divertissements" (with singing and dancing) with Quinault's "tragédies en musique." Methodological orientation follows Leo Spitzer and includes three sections: 1) "Un discours spectaculaire bref, et l'inventio rhétorique", 2) "Un discours spectaculaire amoureux et les dispositio et elocutio rhétoriques" (the most extensive section), and 3) didascalies and implicit qualities.

LALLEMAND, MARIE-GABRIELLE & CHANTAL LIATOURZOS, éds. De la Grande Rhétorique à la poésie galante : l'exemple des poètes caennais aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Caen : PU de Caen, 2004.

Review : A. Cullière in BHR 67.2 (2005), 535–37 : 《  Comme le rappelle l'introduction de ce volume d'actes [les 8–9 mars 2002 à l'Université de Caen Basse-Normandie], il s'agissait de 'situer les pratiques poétiques dans le contexte de la vie culturelle, intellectuelle, sociale et politique du temps.' Dix contributions ont été présentées, regroupées ici chronologiquement et concernant aussi bien les perspectives historiques que les modalités de l'écriture.  》 Parmi les auteurs figurent Malherbe (G. Mathieu-Castellani et F. Bauer), Brébeuf (S. Guellouz), Sarasin (J.-F. Castille), Jean Bertaut, Madeleine de Scudéry, Fontenelle, (M.-G. Lallemand).

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE. La Syrinx au bûcher: Pan et les satyres à la Renaissance et à l'âge baroque. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: F. Rigolot in SCN 64 (2006), 86–89: Favourably reviewed as a "well-researched and amply documented book with numerous illustrations on [...] the representation of the figure of Pan and the satyr [...] from the end of the 15th century to the first third of the 17th in several European countries," the author is thought to have surpassed previous studies of the subject in scope and intellectual ambition, analysing the "ubiquitous theme in a variety of cultural media, including lyric poetry, narrative, essay, drama, dance, opera, and iconography." The reviewer remarks that the author's treatment of pastoral literature will be of particular interest to 17th c. specialists.

LAVOCAT, FRANÇOISE, ed. Usages et théories de la fiction: Le débat contemporain à l'épreuve des textes anciens (XVI–XVIIIe siècles). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

Review: V. Krause in Fr F 30 (2005): 143–45: Praiseworthy for its coherence despite its adoption of "a variety of approaches from law and literature to the history of ideas" (145). Judged "innovative" and "rigorous", contributors "directly engage" Jean-Marie Schaeffer's 1999 study Pourquoi la fiction, noteworthy for its anthropological perspective. Essays examine linguistic theory, legal and literary practices of fictionality and early modern works themselves. 17th c. scholars will particularly appreciate Laurence Giavarini's study of "libertine uses of fiction. . . in Théophile de Viau's trial and Molière's Dom Juan" (145).

LESTRINGANT, F., B. NERAUDAU, D. PORTE, & J.-C. TERNAUX, eds. Liber Amicorum. Mélanges sur la littérature antique et moderne à la mémoire de Jean-Pierre Néraudau. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2005.

Review : P. Hummel in BHR 68.2 (2006), 379–80 : Pour le XVIIe siècle, voir les contributions de L. Zilli (《  Le sanglier de Calydon (Mét., 8), récritures théâtrales aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles  》) ; G. Forestier (《  Devoir et passion dans la tragédie française : de Chimène à Phèdre  》) ; G. Conesa (《  Rien de trop  》 sur Molière).

LEVORATO, ALESSANDRA. Language and Gender in the Fairy Tale Tradition: A Linguistic Analysis of Old and New Story Telling. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Review: J. Jorgensen in Marvels & Tales 19.2 (2005), 316–319: Uses linguistic strategies to examine the diverse ideologies present in twelve different versions of Little Red Riding Hood, including an earlier French oral variation.

LICHA-ZINCK, ALEXANDRA. "La vengeance, une vertu dramatique dans la construction du caractère féminin tragique au XVIIe siècle?" PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 459–468.

Across a wide range of plays, examines the tensions "entre les auteurs qui rusent. . . avec les enjeux dramatiques et les buts moraux du théâtre, les théoriciens qui sont partisans de la vertu récompensée et les ennemis du théâtre qui débusquent les mensonges et la perversion morale des dramaturges corrompant le public."

LIM, CHAE-KWANG. "L'idéal de l'autonomie esthéthique de l'écriture dramatique à l'époque classique." RHLF 106.1 (2006), 17–36.

This article analyzes "l'idée classique de l'intelligence dramatique" by comparing text, representation and reception. The first part of the study deals with the evolution of the hierarchical relationship between the verbal and the visual inside the dramatic text. The second part moves toward questions of reception and perception by the audience.

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

Review: D. Fricke in RF 117 (2005): 261–65: Rich and erudite "cross-reading" of history and literature focusing on "the high point of the Orientalist obsession in French classical theatre—Corneille, Racine and Molière (149). Important for scholars of "mentalités," Longino's study demonstrates without hesitation that the theatre of the "trinity of French High Culture" (5) is "the locus of a massive misinformation campaign, a devious way of setting the charter for 'Frenchness'" (222).

LOPEZ, DENIS. "Le théâtre à l'Hôtel de Rambouillet." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 239–268.

"L'Hôtel de Rambouillet a-t-il joué un rôle d'accompagnement dans [le renouveau théâtral de la période 1633–1640]? Y avait-il là une véritable prescience des réactions du public? Au-délà, se trouve-t-on devant un phénomène d'appui aux innovations et aux évolutions du goût? Y a-t-il un 《  style Rambouillet  》 en matière de théâtre. . .? Bref, cette chambre du bon goût a-t-elle eu des prérogatives critiques et en retour cela a-t-il pu avoir quelque incidence sur la création?"

LOUVAT-MOLOZAY, BENEDICTE. Théâtre et musique. Dramaturgie de l'insertion musicale dans le théâtre français (1550–1680). Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: J-Y Vialleton in RF 117 (2005): 108–11: Provides a comprehensive historical study of the use of music in classical theatre and is organized in three sections: 1) "Les lieux du discours théorique", 2) "Modèles anciens et pratiques modernes, 1550–1650", and 3) "L'âge des possibles: théâtre en musique et théâtre avec musique, 1650–1680". Praised both as a "synthèse copieuse" and for the ease with which it may be consulted, Louvat-Molozay's rich volume offers numerous avenues of reflections. Index of names and titles of plays, table describing the 200 plays of her corpus.

LYONS, JOHN D. Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Review: C. Kerr in Choice 43 (2006), 1020: Lyons explores the early modern meanings of imagination, which was primarily understood as a mental re-creation of something seen or experienced in the world, rather than as a specifically creative faculty. The work undertakes a history of imagination from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and explores various writers' engagement with this practice/notion. Includes treatment of Montaigne, François de Sales, Descartes, Pascal, Sévigné, La Fayette, Fénélon, and Rousseau. Recommended by the reviewer.

MABER, RICHARD G. Publishing in the Republic of Letters. The Menage-Grævius-Wetstein Correspondence, 1679–1692. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2005.

Review: G. Banderier in PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 300–302. "Chacune des soixante-dix lettres est éditée avec le plus grand soin, en mentionnant les ratures, les ajouts interlinéaires ou marginaux. Un résumé succinct, en anglais, accompagne chaque missive, les notes bien conçues éclairent les allusions." Reviewer impressed with the quality of the edition.

Review: L. Cruz in SCN 63 (2005), 180–182: The author examines a very specific correspondence on the editing and publication for French consumption of Ménage's Diogenes Laertius by Dutch printer Henrik Wetstein. The reviewer finds that "the letters, reprinted in their original French, constitue a valuable case study which sheds considerable light on the inter-workings of the Dutch publishing trade as well as the social and professional milieu of prominent European scholars on the eve of the Enlightenment." At the same time, however, the reviewer feels the narrow focus on a single book limits its "wider applicability."

MACE, STEPHANE. L'Eden perdu: pastorale dans la poésie de l'âge baroque. Lumière Classique 38. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: R. Corum in FR 79 (2006), 161–62: Addressing a vast, multi-faceted genre (one whose parameters Macé sometimes struggles define) the work attempts to rehabilitate the pastoral. The work's analysis "sees in the pastoral two major unifying threads reflecting the diverse ideological preoccupations of a turbulent historical period: a nostalgia for the delights of an imaginary Golden Age, and more realistically, longing and regret at losing this paradise at the Fall" (162).

Review: D. Nelting in RF 117 (2005): 396–99: Extensive and precise, Macé's work is a welcome, informative and stimulating examination which illuminates "plusieurs principes de création caractéristiques de l'esthétique baroque" and demonstrates the "émergence d'un nouveau type de sensibilité." Organization includes sections on the following: "Héritage," "Un genre protéiforme," and "La Pastorale et l'univers baroque: horizons esthétiques" (397–98).

MAGUIRE, MATTHEW W. The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Review: B. Murchland in Choice 44 (2006), 495: Outlines a history of imagination's ascent such that it came to be perceived as a powerful and crucial mental faculty. Maguire figures Pascal as a thinker who "radicalizes the inner, initial logic of the self's constitution, so that the imagination becomes not the licensed agent of self constitution, but its very ground, from which the direction of reason and the desire for temporal happiness can and often do emanate" (395, quoting Maguire).

MARCHAL-NINOSQUE, FRANCE. Images du sacrifice 1670–1840. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005.

Review: M. Chihaia in OeC 31.1 (2006), 171–74: "Le présent ouvrage, qui traite du thème du sacrifice dans la période qui sépare l'Iphigénie de Racine et la Lucrèce de Ponsard, invite à une double lecture, en suivant les analyses détaillées autant que l'approche synthétique qu'il offre de la question."

MAZOUER, CHARLES, ed. L'animal au XVIIe siècle. Actes de la première journée d'études du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700). Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, Biblio 17, no. 146 (2003).

Review: T. Allott in FS 59.4 (2005), 540–541: Though the reviewer finds the title too general to actually reflect the proceedings of a one-day conference, he signals his approval of this collection of papers dealing with animals in art and literature in France. There is a helpful survey of attitudes leading up to the seventeenth-century's prejudices against animals, and a detailed study of Adrian Collaert's engravings. An interesting piece on Mlle de Scudéry's pet chamelon, Méléon, provides insights into her anti-materialism also makes it into this volume, according to this overall positive review.

Review: L. Rescia in SFr no. 146 (2005): 413–414: This volume, reflecting the ambitions of a new center of research, focuses on the animal in 17th c. literature and art. Ranging from the general to the particular, the animal is appreciated and analyzed in its numerous connections with, for example, theology, mythology, philosophy, politics, the salons, and Versailles.

MAZOUER, CHARLES. "Le jeu avec les objets dans le Scenario de Domenico Biancoletti." In Erdmann, Eva and Konrad Schoell, eds. Le comique corporel: Mouvement et comique dans l'espace théâtral du XVIIe siècle. Biblio 17 Number 163. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 85–99.

The body of the comic actor is brought to the fore through his use and manipulation of objects which are often the source of comic effects. The author examines clothing as well as other objects that transcend utility and become comic accessories in Biancoletti's Scenario.

MECHOULAN, ERIC. Le livre avalé : De la littérature entre mémoire et culture. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2006.

Awarded the Prix Raymond-Klibansky du meilleur ouvrage de langue française en sciences humaines, December 2006. Publisher's Summary: "La littérature telle que nous l'entendons aujourd'hui date du Siècle des lumières. Auparavant, les constellations sociales où brillent les oeuvres étaient tout autres ; on était loin, en particulier, d'une évidente autonomie, telle qu'elle apparaît constitutive de la sphère littéraire à partir de 1850. Comment alors concevoir la littérature quand elle n'est pas autonome ? Qu'est-ce que 《  la littérature d'avant la littérature  》 ? Selon quelles cristallisations historiques l'art des oeuvres d'écriture s'est-il transformé ?"

MENIEL, BRUNO. Renaissance de l'épopée épique en France de 1572 à 1623. Genève: Droz, 2004.

Review: D. Bjaï in BHR 67.3 (2005), 796–98: ". . .un travail de recherche extrêmement riche, qui s'appuie sur le dépouillement d'un nombre impressionnant de textes: un corpus d'environ quatre-vingts poèmes en français (répertoriés dans la première section de la bibliographie, p. 513–521), pour la plupart méconnus ou inconnus. Br. Méniel les cite abondamment et les commente avec bonheur. . .."

Review: D. Cecchetti in SFr no. 146 (2005): 408–409: Praiseworthy for its clarity and wealth of material, Méniel's study examines successively the theory and pratice of the epic from classical Antiquity through the Italian Renaissance (33–250), the "éclatement" of the epic (253–425) and finally a tentative explanation for the flowering emphasizing philosophy, history and esthetics (429–500).

Review: G. Ferguson in MLR 101.2 (2006), 535–36: Revised doctoral thesis directed by D. Ménager examines the theory and practice of l'epos in the first section, presents a typology of the corpus of works reviewed in the second section, and concludes by "examining the epic in relation to different philosophies of history (Fortune vs. Destiny, etc.) and ethics (Aristotelian magnanimity and heroic virtue; Stoical self-mastery), where differences between Protestant and Catholic attitudes are delineated with care."

Review: K. Wine in Ren Q 58 (2005): 615–16: Judged a "rewarding book that amply justifies its attention to a much-belittled genre," this study is "both exhaustive in its scholarship and richly suggestive in its treatment of individual poems and broader patterns" (616). The terminus ad quem of 1623 is due to Chapelain's introduction into French of the word épopée at that date. Although Wine offers some suggestions for improving this study (a clearer indication of the "broad outlines of the argument," the inclusion of secondary works in "the otherwise excellent bibliography"), she concludes by praising both the depth and complexity of Méniel's treatment.

MERTZ-WEIGEL, DOROTHEE. "From Jean de Meun to Molière, via Montaigne, Descartes, Rotrou and Corneille." DAI 66/05 (2005), 1756.

Depiction of melancholy over three centuries via literary and medical texts. Intends to study the transformation of the concept. The authors examined "use melancholy to understand, define, represent, in other words, to figure human nature, and examine human weakness at a deeper level than does any other disease." Also investigates laughter and entertainment as forms of treatment.

MOMBELLO, GIANNI and PAOLA CIFARELLI, eds. La Correspondance d'Albert Bailly, volume 5, années 1654–1655. Aoste: Académie Saint-Anselme, 2003.

Review: P. Wolfe in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 583–584. "L'érudition de cette correspondance est impeccable par sa présentation et par son érudition. Elle sera précieuse pour les spécialistes de l'histoire diplomatique, aussi bien que pour les historiens des ordres religieux et de la cour de France."

MONCOND'HUY, DOMINIQUE. Histoire de la littérature française du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: S. Berregard in CTH XXVIII (2006), 100: "D. Moncond'huy se propose de montrer la complexité qui caractérise cette période de l'histoire littéraire, par un examen attentive des genres et du contexte (culturel, idéologique. . .) dans lequel ils se développèrent." Notes the attention paid to Tristan L'Hermite in the text.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 679 (2006), 66–67: "L'ouvrage de D. Moncond'huy s'adresse plutôt aux étudiants débutants (qui n'ont guère de notions d'histoire littéraire, à peu près disparue des programmes du secondaire) et à celles ou ceux qui préparent des concours où la culture générale forme un élément d'évaluation important.

NAUDEIX, LAURA. Dramaturgie de la tragédie en musique (1673–1764). Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: B. Norman in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 584–586. Reviewer comments on the author's ability to "not only offer a wealth of primary sources. . . and of sophisticated analysis," but also to be able to "pull all this information together'. The volume 'provides the information and the conceptual framework necessary to appreciate this type of theatre that dominated the Parisian stage for a century."

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE. Les Etats et empires du burlesque. Lumière Classique 51. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: M. Alcover in DSS 230 (2006), 174–177: This ambitious project aimed at understanding 《 ce que le XVIIe siècle pense en pensant burlesque 》 (19) is favourably reviewed here. Nédélec divides her study into three parts, 《 Les origines du "monstre appelé burlesque" 》, 《 Le Burlesque tel qu'en lui-même 》, and 《 Ridendo dicrere 》, followed by a substantial bibliography and exhaustive indices.

Review: R. Corum in FR 79 (2006), 833–34: "Nédélec emphasizes that although the burlesque can exist in. . . any literature, it can flourish. . . only within a well-regulated aesthetic milieu. Such was the classical moment" (834). Identifying Saint-Amant, Scarron, and Sarrasin as the era's main proponents of the burlesque, Nédélec situates the genre within "a subversive mondanité, a modernist reaction that devalued the humanistic values of the preceding generation" (833). A favorable review.

NEEMANN, HAROLD. "The Contes Merveilleux: Point(s) of Contact between Two Cultures." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 317–322.

The conte merveilleux is the product of the interaction of the mondain, literary world of conteurs/conteuses and popular, oral traditions. Mondain authors erased traces of popular influence to create highly polished, literary tales in an aristocratic, classical style.

NIDERST, ALAIN, ed. La poésie à l'âge baroque, 1598–1660. Paris: Robert Laffont (Bouquins), 2005.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 586–589. Reviewer welcomes "cet important recueil," and is impressed with the paratextual information which the editor has included.

NOILLE-CLAUZADE, CHRISTINE. "Styles ou style? L'invention du singulier dans la réflexion rhétorique classique." Littérature 137 (mars 2005): 55–68.

Shows how during the second half of the seventeenth century, though a break is not make with dominant ideas about rhetoric, a place is created to talk about the singularity of writing—"the style"—and even "the voice." Examination in particular of Lamy's 1675 La Rhétorique ou l'Art de parler.

NORMAN, LARRY F. "Tragic Violence in Performance and Print Illustration: From Monléon's Thyeste to Corneille and Racine." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 143–156.

The author examines illustrations of violence in the printed editions of classical tragedies. If verbal art was considered sufficient for the representation of violence on stage, why then were readers offered visual representations? The attraction and repulsion of violence "breeds a complex interplay of speech and action, dialogue and didascalie, text and image, all charged with a vexed desire for the shock of the visual."

NOYE-CLAUSADE, CHRISTINE. "Le comique et la poétique du faux-semblable (Molière, La Bruyère)." LC 2 (2004), 235–248.

A close look at the debate between La Bruyère and Molière on the subject of "vraisemblance." "C'est alors en étudiant la question de la vraisemblance en liaison avec la poétique du genre comique (prosaïque ou dramatique), que l'on pourra forumler trois hypothèses complémentaires sur la crise de la vraisemblance chez ces deux auteurs."

ORTNER-BUCHBERGER, CLAUDIA. "Métamorphoses d'Arlequin. Le rôle de la corporalité comique dans le Théâtre italien de Gherardi." In Erdmann, Eva and Konrad Schoell, eds. Le comique corporel: Mouvement et comique dans l'espace théâtral du XVIIe siècle. Biblio 17 Number 163. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 101–116.

The author compares and contrasts the Italian theater's use of physicality and the body with the aesthetics of classicism in order to examine the acceptance of "la comédie italienne" by seventeenth-century French audiences.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS. "The Storyteller and the Book: Scenes of Narrative Production in the Early French Novel." MLQ 67 (2006), 141–170.

Identifying in romances a kind of open, willing storytelling which he terms "the coterie model," Paige attempts to follow its fate as a means of reconsidering Benjamin's claim that the novel, with its emphasis on information, put an end to the story, with its accent on moral guidance. Paige concludes that "[t]he erosion of the coterie model in the 1660s and the 1670s never 'killed' the storyteller, after all. The figure simply went on to provide a new generation with a means of thinking about transformations in the cultural uses of print" (166). The article ranges quite broadly in its consideration of texts.

PAPERS ON FRENCH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature. 31, 60 (2004).

Review: C. Rolla in SFr 147 (2005): 632–33: Diverse and wide-ranging issue includes several articles on theatre as well as others on Ronsardian reception, Tristan, affinities of La Fontaine with Racine, Lafayette and Théophile, Cartesian autobiography, badinage chez Mme de Sévigné, lexical-stylistic features of works often attributed to le comte de Carmain, and a response of Fritz Nies to an earlier article by Roger Duchêne.

PASQUIER, PIERRE, ed. Le Mémoire de Mabelot. Paris: Champion, 2007.

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 60.3 (2006), 390–391: Le Mémoire de Mabelot is a critical document for understanding the survival of the Hôtel de Bourgogne theater and thus for understanding life and conditions in seventeenth-century theaters as a whole. This is the first edition of the Mémoire since 1920 and it comes with a 200 page introduction which offers, in the reviewer's opinion, the "best available account of... French scenography pertaining to the spoken drama" of the period. A very enthusiastic review which concludes that Pasquier's work is a "major revision" to Scherer's Dramaturgie classique.

PERCHELLET, JEAN-PIERRE. L'héritage classique. La tragédie entre 1680 et 1814. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: F. Piva in SFr no. 146 (2005): 417: Welcome study which, in spite of certain debatable conclusions, "ha i meriti per far nascere questo interesse e per attrarre sulla tragedia settecentesca quella curiosità che fino ad ora sono mancati" (417). Illuminates this théâtre méconnu as well as the mentality of the later 17th c, as over 50 tragedies are analyzed and dramatic theory after Racine examined.

PERSELS, JEFFREY & RUSSELL GANIM, eds. Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology. Studies in European Cultural Transition, 21. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: C. Freccero in Ren Q 58 (2005): 980–81: Judges that "the essays gathered in this volume contribute importantly to the cultural materialist and Foucauldian project of constructing a genealogical history of the body's discursively productive wastes" (981). The essays focus on French, German and English early modern visual art and literary culture, aiming "to showcase just how prevalent, explicit, and voluble the discourse on emissions of bodily waste was" (980). Order is chronological and there is an important interdisciplinary element, especially at "the intersections between literature and science" (981). Index, illustrations, bibliography.

PETERS, JEFFREY N. Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Review: S. O'Hara in FR 79 (2006), 1363–4: Peters' book "explores the ways in which maps function as instruments of power (rhetorical, political, ideological)" (1363), and suggests that the elaboration of allegorical maps in early modern writing created an affiliation between scientific and poetic/literary discourse in an era when the former was increasingly dethroning the latter. Peters' "wide-ranging, imaginative, thought-provoking writing" is said to open up the interest and relevance of allegorical maps to multiple fields of inquiry. He of course addresses Scudéry's famous "Carte de Tendre," but also goes beyond it, discussing Montaigne, d'Aubignac, Boileau, Furetière, Sorel, and participants in the quarrel between the ancients and moderns.

Review: R. Racevskis in E Cr 45.4 (2005): 92–93: Judged "substantial" and "exciting," Peters's volume argues that "the increasingly geometrical representation of geographical space in early modern cartography did not eliminate figurative signifying processes: it merely displaced them" (92). Organized into five chapters, the study includes sections focusing on the history of maps from the Middle Ages to the 17th c., Madeleine de Scudéry's "Carte de Tendre," d'Aubignac's "Carte du royaume de Coquetterie," Boileau's Dialogue des héros de roman, Furetière's "Carte de la bataille des romans," and François de Callières's Histoire politique de la guerre nouvellement déclarée entre les anciens et les modernes. Useful to readers of wide-ranging interests "from medieval culture to postmodern theory" (93).

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "L'Empire du Milieu dans la fiction narrative du XVIIe siècle." In Beasley, Faith E. & Kathleen Wine, eds. Intersections. Actes du 35e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Dartmouth College, 8–10 mai 2003. Biblio 17 Number 161. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2005. 219–228.

China offers a locus amoenus or scenic backdrop for novelists who draw on commonplaces dating from Marco Polo and the Renaissance to create a place both distant and familiar to seventeenth-century readers.

PRIGENT, MICHEL (dir). Histoire de la France littéraire. Tome 1 : Naissances, Renaissances, Moyen Age—XVIe siècle, dirigé par Frank Lestringant et Michel Zink; Tome 2 : Classicismes, XVII–XVIIIe, dirigé par Jean-Charles Darmon et Michel Delon ; Tome 3 : Modernités, XIX–XXe, dirigé par Patrick Berthier et Michel Jarrety. Paris : PUF (Quadrige-Dicos poche), 2006.

Review : E. Pieiller in QL 921 (du 16 au 30 avril 2006), 25 : 《  A vrai dire, on ne sait pas très bien à qui s'adressent ces ouvrages. Ils ne proposent quasiment aucune monographie rendant compte précisément de la démarche d'un auteur singulier, les liens avec l'Histoire sont souvent absents, les notions sont peu explicitées—un index des notions clefs ou concepts aurait été souhaitable-ainsi qu'entend—on par 《  nature  》 au XVIIe siècle, est-ce la même chose qu'au Moyen Age ?... Les citations sont rares, et de façon générale, ce qui est l'enjeu même d'une œuvre n'est guère considéré. (...) Quelques rares contributions peuvent stimuler  》 mais en général la critique est bien déçue.

QUINT, DAVID. "The Tragedy of Nobility on the Seventeenth-Century Stage." MLQ 67 (2006), 7–29.

Considers Phèdre, Suréna, Shakespearian tragedy and Tirso de Molina's El burlador de Sevilla as dramatizations of the laying low of the nobility by state centralization and the rise of absolutism (à la Norbert Elias). Quint also discusses the "sense of belatedness that haunts seventeenth-century tragedy" (28).

RACAULT, JEAN-MICHEL. Nulle part et ses environs: Voyage aux confins de l'utopie classique (1657–1802). Collection Imago Mundi, no. 7. Ed. François Moureau. Paris: P.U.F., 2003.

Review: J.-P. Engélbert in RLC 315 (2005), 379: "L'utopie revèle alors l'immensité du territoire qu'elle structure de l'âge classique à la fin des Lumières et la méthode se montre adaptée à la demonstration de l'auteur, pour qui elle est moins un mode de l'imaginaire social qu'un genre littéraire, qui peut donc être décrit par les liens structuraux qu'il entretient avec les genres connexes. C'est la thèse de l'ouvrage, qui, contre les études d'inspiration historique et sociologique qui voient dans les utopies des modèles politiques, s'attache à montrer que la politique est rarement au premier plan des utopies classiques, que celles-ci représentent encore plus rarement des sociétés idéales mais au contraire conduisent souvent la critique des sociétés qu'elles décrivent, qu'elles ne postulent pas un avenir, mais explorent un ailleurs."

Review: J. Stalnakeri in RR 96.1 (2005), 115–117. Explores "literary works at the margins of the classical utopia, in an attempt to articulate the relationship between the utopia as a literary genre and travel literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth century." Focuses on spatial readings of utopia and offers readings that are primarily structural and formal, excluding historical considerations.

LE RECUEIL. Le Recueil. No. 1: "Féries. Études sur le conte merveilleux XVIIe–XIXe siècle", MR Lire, no. 5611. Grenoble: Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, Ellug, 2003.

Review: R. Bochenek-Franczakowa in SFr no. 146 (2005): 416–17: Welcome first issue of a new annual which will be devoted to literary studies on "le conte merveilleux de langue française, du 17e au 19e siècle" (416). Contemporary research methods will bring illumination as well as "un espace d'échange entre les genres, un creuset d'expérimentation formelle et de réflexion esthétique" (p. 7 of the annual) and each issue will be organized around a precise theme. Thus first issue, examining "le recueil" is appreciated for its rich perspectives and interpretations.

REISS, TIMOTHY J. Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003.

Review: C. Kallendorf in Ren Q 58 (2005): 308–10: Reiss's thesis is that "the concept of a separate, private individual, of a self free and independent in its will, intentions, and choices, was not even conceptualized until the beginning of the first or second centuries AD at the earliest, and was considered aberrant until well into the seventeenth century. . . [that is] person and society were mutually constructed" (308). Reiss argues that "the self-conscious subject agent who resolved conflict rationally began with Descartes and ended with Hobbes and Locke, but in losing its roots in the old order, it eventually became un-Cartesian" (309). Impressive by its "mastery of over three hundred primary sources", Reiss's work challenges periodic divisions and certain recent studies on class and gender (309–10).

RIGOLOT, FRANÇOIS. L'Erreur de la Renaissance. Perspectives littéraires. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: D. Nelting in RF 117 (2005): 119–23: Judged highly profitable, interesting and stimulating in all its multifaceted perspectives. Wide-ranging examination of error (in thought, in nature, in love, in the world, in language and rhetoric) as it relates to art, philosophy, theology, rhetoric and poetics. Important considerations on the 17th c., in particular as concerns "la doctrine classique" and exponents such as Pascal, Malherbe, Boileau and Guez de Balzac.

ROBERT, RAYMONDE, ed. Mademoiselle Lhéritier, Mademoiselle Bernard, Mademoiselle de La Force, Madame Durand, Madame d'Auneuil. Contes. Paris: Champion 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in SFr 147 (2005): 637: This highly useful second volume of the Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées includes a general introduction, a general bibliography on 17th c. women's writing, the Contes de fées, popular literature, and useful dictionaries. Notices for the contes include the author's biography, specific bibliography, annotations, indices of principal characters and illustrations.

Review: M.-A. Thirard in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 592–597. Detailed description of the contents of the volume. Concludes: "Grâce soit donc rendue à Raymonde Robert qui nous propose de redécouvrir des textes souvent injustement méconnus et qui permettra à une nouvelle génération d'adeptes des contes de fées de retrouver avec un autre regard que celui de l'enfance le royaume de la merveille."

ROHOU, JEAN. Le classicisme. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2004.

Review: J.-M. Civardi in IL 58.2 (2006), 60–61. New revised edition of the 1996 version. Praises the insightful perspective Rohou adopts, his non-reductionism, his caution and his judicious interpretation. Argues in particular that the author intends to show us the "vision pessimiste de l'homme" in the seventeenth century through the analysis of passions and that he offers a subtle analysis of the classical rules. Praises the conclusion that discusses Louis XIV's weakened state at the end of his regime. Important work by an illustrious specialist that will be of tremendous help to students, due to its extraordinary insight and pertinent analysis.

ROLLIN, SOPHIE. "Psyché, ou la mondanité mise en scene." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 11–28.

Through the tragédie-ballet Psyché, examines "le croisement des points de vue sur la mondanité, et l'élaboration, à partir d'une norme sociale, d'un modele esthétique."

ROLLINAT-LEVASSEUR, EVE-MARIE. "Péritexte des œuvres théâtrales: société et dramaturge en miroir." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 221–237.

Examines the role of the peritextual elements (title-page, frontispiece, épitre, dédicace. . .) in a number of printed plays. Concludes: "Ainsi les dramaturges évoquent-ils volontiers dans les textes liminaires un public plus large que celui des spectateurs de la pièce. [. . .] [L]es textes liminaires semblent être un espace qui fonde une sociabilité littéraire et qui se présente aux yeux des lecteurs comme le théâtre de la diffusion d'un sentiment français et d'une image de la France."

LE ROMAN BAROQUE. Cahiers de l'Association International des Études Françaises. May 2004, no. 56.

Review: L. Rescia in SFr no. 146 (2005): 411: This issue of CAIEF reflects the society's rich and varied 55th meeting of July 2003 as it focuses on three domains. French studies: in Lebanon, Egypt and in the work of Raymond Roussel (1877–1933); Paul Bénichou's critical reflections, and the baroque novel. Rescia particularly finds this third section noteworthy incorporating perspectives of theoretical, historical, formal and stylistic nature as well as a selective bibliography.

ROY, ROXANNE. "Du mariage comme honnête vengeance dans quelques nouvelles au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 469–479.

Concludes (on examination of a number of nouvelles, by, for example, Scudéry, La Roche-Guilhen and Poisson): "Les nouvellistes se donnent [. . .] comme tâche (plus ou moins conscieusement selon les cas) d'enseigner aux lecteurs une pratique honnête de la vengeance en leur présentant une série d'exemples à imiter ou à fuir, les incitant du coup à corriger les débordements de la vengeance qui entravent la civilité." However, they also play considerably with "les règles qui sous-tendent la vengeance honnête" in order to entertain the reader.

ROYÉ, JOCELYN. "Les Bestiaire pédantesque et ses enjeux à l'âge classique." CdDS 10.2 (2006), 83–94.

Royé examines the bestiality of the seventeenth-century "pédant" and its functions, by looking at its tradition in Italian texts and texts of the French Renaissance. He also shows how the depictions of the "pédant" in the seventeenth century contribute to shift awareness onto the role of the body, bringing about the period known as Enlightenment.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE, ed., et al. La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: Textes et contexts. Gunter Narr Verlag, 1986. 2e edition, revue et augmentée avec la collaboration de R. T. Corum, Charlottesville, Rookwood Press, 2004.

Review: G. Peureux, CTH XXVIII (2006), 96–97: Extensive anthology with commentary from a number of prominent scholars, "l'annotation étant le plus souvent précise et utilement placée." Bibliography follows each section. Reviewer cites in particular three introductory essays by R. N. Nicolich, F.-J. Hausmann, and Cl. Abraham. However, the reviewer also notes, "Si les questions posées par ces trois essays, à visée clairement pédagogique, sont encore agitées aujourd'hui, ils n'en souffrent pas moins d'un deficit d'actualité théorique et critique" (97). Review also laments that typographical errors present in the first edition have not been corrected, and that the bibliographies have not been updated to include criticism past 1991.

RUGGERI, MARC. "Cioran ou la Leçon de Ténèbres des moralistes français." DSS 231 (2006), 217–241.

"Il existe entre Cioran et les moralistes français une harmonie prétablie. Un accord de spiritualité et de goût qui, par delà les siècles, lui permet de comprendre La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère ou Pascal. En nous autorisant de cette amitié affranchie du Temps, c'est à une lecture anachronique que nous nous livrerons ici, nous rendant à quelques points de rencontre où Cioran aime à fréquenter les moralistes, et soumettant son œuvre aux critères d'appréciation du Grand Siècle."

SALAZAR, PHILIPPE-JOSEPH, ed. L'art de parler: Anthologie de manuels d'éloquence. Paris: Klincksieck, 2003.

Review: V. Kapp in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 597–599. Reviewer sees Salazar's volume as filling a very important gap in rhetoric studies: texts which are difficult to access are included within an impressive critical framework. In terms of the choice of texts, reviewer remarks that the influence of 'l'éloquence de la chaire' is minimised, hardly surprising from a specialist of libertine rhetoric.

SELLIER, PHILIPPE. Essais sur l'imaginaire classique. Pascal, Racine, Précieuses et moralistes, Fénelon. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003.

Review: T. Gheeraert in DSS 231 (2006), 364–367: Comprised of both previously published articles and new work, "Sellier s'interroge sur le relatif désintérêt des thématiciens pour le XVIIe siècle." Through rigorous analysis of the time and texts, he concludes that "quelles qu'en soient les causes, l'indifférence [...] relève d'un injuste aveuglement."

SHAW, MARY LEWIS. The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 41.1 (2005): 119: Judged "ambitious," "erudite," "technically detailed," Shaw's volume is organized into chapters on prosody, poetry, politics and philosophy and includes an epilogue on poetry and the visual arts. Bibliography and glossary.

SIMKIN, STEVIE. Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Review: H. Hayton in Choice 44 (2006), 92. "Provocative exploration of the shared traits of 17th-century revenge tragedies and their late 20th-century cinematic counterparts" (92). Particularly concerned with the representation of violence against women and the notion that outlaw justice responds to failures of institutional law. Focused on literature in English.

SPIELMANN, GUY. Le jeu de l'ordre et du chaos: Comédie et pouvoirs à la fin de règne, 1673–1715. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002.

Review: A. Blanc in DSS 231 (2006), 359–361: An exceptional and innovative work, "M. Spielmann veut montrer, comme l'annonce son titre, que le théâtre fin de règne est un théâtre dérangeant. A double titre: d'abord en soi, comme émergence d'une infraconscience sociale, qui n'est encore acceptée que comme fiction théâtrale, puis surtout pour nous, qui pouvons mieux discerner après trois siècles son rôle véritable. C'est cette vérité, insuffisamment admise, qu'il s'applique à démontrer dans un ouvrage passionné[.]"

SPIELMANN. GUY. "Mises en scène du 《  Mariage à la mode  》 en Angleterre et en France: Déconfiture annoncée du pouvoir monarchique?" PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 355–372.

Examines the theme of marital discord and 'mariage à la mode' in a wide range of French and English plays from the last decades of the century within their socio-political context.

STACEY, SARAH ALYN & VERONIQUE DESNAIN, eds. Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Dublin and Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 2004.

Review: L. Gregorio in Fr F 30 (2005): 121–23: Welcome, wide-ranging collection, although quite disparate, makes "a fine contribution to literary history in areas not often examined by dix-septiémistes in literature" (123). Organized into sections on "Women, men and texts in conflict", "Moral conflicts", "The theatre in conflict", and "Military conflict", these acta of the Trinity College Dublin Colloquium of November 1999 marking "the acquisition of a collection of rare seventeenth-century texts" also includes reflections on problems of translation.

SWAIN, VIRGINIA E. "Beauty's Chambers: Mixed Genres and Mixed Messages in Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast." Marvels & Tales 19.2 (2005), 197–223.

Though more relevant to 18th century studies, fairy tale specialists and women's studies scholars may be intrigued by the thesis that "Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast stands at the intersection of two aesthetics and two sets of values for women and manifests this junction in its own hybrid form."

TATAR, MARIA. Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Review: R. A. Jordan in Marvels & Tales 20.1 (2006), 199–122: Addresses why this gory tale continues to fascinate writers, filmmakers, and artists. Chapter one will be of special interest to dix-septièmistes, as it examines in depth Perrault's version, notably the depiction of the wife, which differs considerably from the tale's oral tradition.

TONOLO, SOPHIE. Divertissement et Profondeur. L'épître en vers et la société mondaine en France de Tristan à Boileau. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: D. Denis in PFSCL XXXIII, 65 (2006), 600–603. Reviewer praises author for her ability to "assurer à l'épître en vers, pour la période retenue, sa pleine reconnaissance générique," and her ability to "nous guider avec sensibilité dans la poétique de l'épître en vers." Also worthy of praise is the socio-political contextualisation and the breadth of the corpus included.

ULAGLI, SERHAT. "Le Rôle de l'exotisme dans la formation de l'image turque." SFr no. 146 (2005): 315–24.

Focusing on perception or "percevoir" as a principal element representing the influence of the author as well as the role of the "voyageur-lecteur", Ulagli's objective is to present and analyze "le rôle de l'Ailleurs de l'auteur dans la formation de l'Ailleurs du lecteur" (315). Ulagli finds in récits de voyages and other works four different Turkeys: "un pays à conquérir, un pays à découvrir, un pays d'introspection ou le pays des changements" (319). Paragraphs on the 17th c. are based on works by Jean Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Pierre Bayle, Racine and Molière. Extensive notes. This survol complements other studies such as R. Galli Pellegrini's Le Voyage en Turquie dans l'imaginaire français au XVIIe siècle (2004) and the several articles on Turkey in the remarkable volume XVII (2004) of Travaux de Littérature.

VERDIER, ANNE. '《  Les Trois Tailleurs  》. Vêtement et costume de théâtre au XVIIe siècle'. PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 139–146.

Examines the figure of the tailor (as social reality), the theatre costume designer and the character of the tailor (as theatrical invention). Argues that "le personnage du tailleur au théâtre est tout autre chose qu'un reflet, même diabolisé du tailleur mondain : c'est un personnage type, le double métaphorique du 《  meneur de jeu  》 [. . .], un personnage machiniste, un élément qui fait avancer l'action."

VIALLETON, JEAN-YVES. "Les compliments dans le théâtre sérieux du XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXIII, 64 (2006), 29–45.

Asks: "Quelles difficultés soulèvent la définition même de cet acte de parole qu'est le compliment? Quels rapports entretient le compliment avec la rhétorique savante et scolaire? Enfin, question épineuse, mais essentielle, quels sont les rapports entre le compliment sur scène et le compliment dans la vie?"

VIALLETON, JEAN-YVES. Poésie dramatique et prose du monde. Le comportement des personnages dans la tragédie en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: M. Pavesio in SFr 147 (2005): 633. A rich bibliography and an index of names and plays analyzed complements this fascinating study by Vialleton (a revision of his doctoral dissertation directed by Georges Forestier). This long study (over 800 pages), part of the "Lumières Classiques" collection directed by Philippe Sellier, includes the following sections: "Dramturgie et mise en scène de soi," "Poésie tragique et bon usage de la parole," "Morale tragique et science du monde (notions of "civilité, honnêteté, bienséance).

VUILLERMOZ, MARC. "Le spectacle en process. Réflexions sur le sens des réquisitoires chez les théoriciens du théatre à l'âge classique." RHLF 106.3 (2006), 629–642.

Examines "la nature et les enjeux des arguments avancés par les ennemis du théâtre dans le grand concert de voix qui s'élèvent contre les artifices de la scène." Opposes the arguments voiced and strategies employed by both opponents and defendants.

WAGNEUR, JEAN-DIDIER, DANIEL ROCHE, ARNAUD DHERMY, et al. Voyages. . .: carnets de route, voyage architectural, Louis XIV, R. Caillié, J. Vallès, échappée poétique avec J. Réda. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 683 (2006), 75–76: "La vingt-deuxième livraison de la Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France consacre son dossier aux Voyages. . ., avec de prometteurs points de suspension. Circulant parmi les ressources immenses d'une des plus grandes bibliothèques du monde, les collaborateurs de ce fascicule n'ont pu se livrer qu'à des explorations bien partielles: les livres de voyage à l'époque moderne (XVIe–XVIIIe siècle) et, en particulier, la Bibliothèque universelle des voyages de Gilles Boucher de La Richardière (Daniel Roche); les chemins à l'époque moderne (Arnaud Dhermy, qui ignore bizarrement le beau livre du regretté Georges Livet); la tournée entreprise en 1680 par Louis XIV dans le Nord de son royaume (Maxime Préaud). . ."

WEISGERBER, JEAN. La Muse des jardins. Jardins de l'Europe littéraire (1580–1700). Berlin: Lang, 2002.

Review: M.-T. Leuker in RF 117 (2005): 418–20: Fertile in ideas, stimulating and wide-ranging (texts and art from Germany, France, England, Italy and the Netherlands are examined). Symmetry and mastery over nature are central themes. 17th c. French scholars will particularly appreciate the examinations of Madeleine de Scudéry's Le Grand Cyrus, La Fontaine's Le Songe de Vaux and Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon, and Madame de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves. Illustrations.

WETSEL, DAVID & FREDERIC CANOVAS, eds. Les Femmes au Grand Siècle—Le Baroque: musique et liturgie. (Biblio 17, 144). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003.

Review: J. Prest in FS 60.1 (2006), 101–102: This review of the 2001 NASSCFL proceedings is fairly neutral one. As for many conference proceedings that make their way to publication, this one suffers from imbalance: many articles about women; a few on music. The reviewer, while not objecting to the content, indicates that the volume as a whole would have been more successful had it dedicated itself to a single topic. Of particular interest here are articles on d'Aulnoy, Scudéry and the unknown De La Chapelle, a nun and playwright.

WODIANKA, STEPHANIE. Betrachtungen des Todes: Formes und Funktionen der meditatio mortis in der europäischen Literaur des 17. Jahrhunderts. Frühe Neuzeit 90. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2004.

Review: J. P. Aiken in Ren Q 58 (2005): 1366–67: Praised for its "breadth and depth of knowledge," Wodianka's volume focuses on poetic texts and includes some less accessible ones in an appendix. Mme de Blémur is among the 17th c. authors examined. Wodianka makes important discoveries relating to the examination of conscience, self-analysis and the construction of self-identity.

AATF. Future conventions: 2006 (Milwaukee, July 5–8);2007 (Baton Rouge, July 12–15); 2008 (Belgium); 2009 (San Jose). Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel.(618) 453–5731.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). In progress: Bk., Houdar de La Motte : Literary biography of Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731). Crit. ed., Chroniques de deux morts annoncées : Joint critical edition of Anthoine's Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Anthoine brothers' (sons of the precedent). Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. Arts., (1) "Essai d'une térato-lexicologie du XVIIe siècle." Art. on the definitions of monsters in 17th-century French dictionaries. Submitted to Studi Francesi. (2) "Sorel, Francion et l'écriture baroque." Sollicited art. for Oeuvres & Critiques. (final title may differ). (3) "Scarron, la représentation (du) burlesque." Submitted to Biblio 17. Burlesque performance and the representation of the burlesque in Scarron's theatre. In press: crit.ed., Houdar de La Motte, Antoine. L'Iliade. Introduction, text and variants, notes. Forthcoming from Littératures Classiques, Toulouse, 2006. Arts., (1) "Dystopie, désir, discours dans L'Orphelin infortuné, de Préfontaine . Forthcoming in Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch. (2) "Les retrouvailles dans Gil Blas." Forthcoming in Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate. (3) "Paradoxe de la mise en scène des Maximes et réflexions sur la comédie." Forthcoming in conference proceedings: Journée Bossuet, Dijon, October 2004. (4) "Francion: travesti du roman, roman du travesti." Forthcoming in Cahiers du Dix-septième. (5) "Furetière, ou la modernité de l'écriture. Forthcoming in Seventeenth-Century French Studies. Research Paper: "L'Hiver de 1708–1709" read at 25th Annual SE17 conference (2006), Iowa City. Bk. reviews, Sophie de Laverny: Les Commensaux en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: PU de la Sorbonne, 2002. Forthcoming in PFSCL. Béatrice Didier & Jean-Paul Sermain (eds.) D'une Gaîté ingénieuse. Leuven: Peeters (La République des Lettres 18): 2004. Forthcoming in Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate. fassaf@uga.edu

AYRES-BENNETT, WENDY (U of Cambridge, UK). Bks., A new crit. ed. of Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue françoise (1647), to be published by Champion. A monograph on the genre of Observations on the French language (with Magali Seijido).

BEASLEY, FAITH E.(Dartmouth). Recent: Bks., (1) Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Ashgate, 2006. (2) Intersections, ed. with Kathleen Wine, Gunter Narr, 2005. Currently: (1) Working on "Options for Teaching 17th and 18th-Century French Women Writers" (volume for the MLA). (2) Researching the relationship between France and India in the 17th century.

BOITANO, JOHN (Chapman U.). Editor 2003–2006, Cahiers du Dix-Septième (C17) jboitano@chapman.edu

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

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria). Canadian Treasurer, NASSCFL. Bk., ed., Imagining "Contagion" in Early Modern Europe, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005. Arts., (1) "Marc Fumaroli cornélien." numéro spécial d'Oeuvres et Critiques, dir. Roxanne Roy. Sous presse. (2) "Perfect Harmony: Love and Marriage in Early Modern Pegagogy" in The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, dir. Anne M. Birberick, Amsterdam, Rodopi. Sous presse. (3) "Jeanne de Cambry, Mystic and Marriage Counselor," in Convent Voices in Early Modern France, dir. T. Carr. EMF/Rookwood Press, Charlottesville, VA. Sous presse. Canadian Treasurer, NASSCFL. See NASSCFL DUES. ccarlin @uvic.ca

CARR, THOMAS M, Jr. (Nebraska-Lincoln). Bks., Voix des abbesses du Grand Siècle. La Prédication au féminin à Port-Royal. Contexte rhétorique et dossier. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. In progress: Editing volume 11 of EMF: Studies in Early Modern France. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Long-term project: History of writing and publishing by Ancien Régime nuns. Co-Organizer, NASSCFL 2007 Conference. tcarr1@unlnotes.unl.edu

CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME (CdDS). Journal accessible exclusively on-line at www.cahiers 17.org, in HTML and PDF format, beginning with vol. VIII,1. Editor, Stephen Fleck sfleck@csulb.edu. Associate Editor, Rose Pruiksma, rose@amskiurp.org For now, personal subscriptions ($25) & institutional ones ($50) go to SE 17 Secretary Katherine DAUGE-ROTH. Hard copies of submissions to Steve FLECK. Book Review Editor, Andrew WALLIS awallis@whittier.edu (all whom see infra). Membership in SE 17 includes individual subscription, institutional subscription.

CIR 17. President: Cecilia Rizza. [via Lagustena 16/10, 16131 Genova, ITALY. Tel. 010 5221076]. Next (Xe) biennial Colloque, "L'Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire," to be held at Ajaccio and Corte, CORSICA, April 3–5, 2008. The Répertoire international des dix-septiémistes is still available. Annual Membership $30 (includes free copy of colloquium proceedings), also from Treasurer: Volker Schröder, French & Italian, Princeton U., Princeton, NJ 08544. Tel. (609) 258–1171; Fax: (609) 258–4535. volkers@princeton.edu. See also KIEL.

CONROY, DERVAL (University College Dublin). 'Iconographie et mise en scène d'un pouvoir au féminin : les quatre livres d'entrées de Marie de Médicis en exil' in Les jeux de l'échange: entrées royales et divertissements, sous la direction de Marie-France Wagner, en collaboration avec Louise Frappier et Claire Latraverse (Paris, Champion, 2007); 'Ekphrasis, edification and the iconography of women: the case of Pierre Le Moyne's Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647)' in Michael Brophy, Phyllis Gaffney and Mary Gallagher, eds., Reverberations: Staging Relations in French Since 1500 (Dublin: UCD Press, 2007); 'The Displacement of Disorder: Gynæcocracy and Friendship in Catherine Bernard's Laodamie (1689)', PFSCL, vol. 67, June 2007. In progress: 'À un carrefour des genres : les relations d'entrée de Puget de La Serre quant à l'exil de Marie de Médicis (1631–1642)'. 'Model sisters and sister models: female friendship and moral philosophy in early modern tragedy'. Bk. "Ruling Women: Gender, Government and Sovereignty in Seventeenth-Century France". Bk: "Strategies of the Image: The Iconography of Women in Seventeenth-Century Book Illustration". Contrib. ed. French 17. derval.conroy@ucd.ie

COURTES, NOEMIE (Institution unknown). "Tricks and Effects in the Theatre of the Early Modern Era" (investigating special effects on the stage, before Méliès). I want especially to focus on the relations between machinery and the notion of genre, as well as on effects of a smaller scale, without infrastructure—the ones more related to conjuring tricks and props, in opposition to the machinery of the setting. The aim is to discover whether a relation exists between the possibility—or the impossibility—of effects and the way texts are written. noemie.courtes@free.fr

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE (Bowdoin C.). Recent: "Textual Performance: Imprinting the Criminal Body," PSCFL; "Crossing Lines, Encouraging Ownership: Representing the Occult Early Modern," CdDS. Forthcoming: "Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists: Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority in Provence (1609–1611)," EMF. In revision: "Impressionable Women: Demon Marks and Divine Stigmata in Early Modern France," Sixteenth Century Journal; Bk. under contract with Ashgate Press, Signing the Body in Early Modern France, an interdisciplinary examination of the body as a literally inscribed, marked, and imprinted object in the early modern period. Contrib. Ed., French 17. Secretary-Treasurer, SE17, 2005 to present. [Send CI7 journal subscriptions c/o Dept. of Romance Langs., Bowdoin C., 7800 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011–8478]. kdauge@bowdoin.edu For information about SE17 membership please see Society website.

DE JEAN, JOAN (Pennsylvania). Director of Dissertation: Ellen Welch. "Cosmopolitan Fictions in 17th-Century France" (for August 2007).

DENNIS-BAY, LAURA (Cumberland C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). CD-ROM "Mon XVIIe siècle: de la marquise de Sévigné à Marcel Proust, Cent articles parus entre 1962 et l'an 2000." Extraits substantiels des biographies et autres ouvrages de Roger Duchêne (Molière, La Fontaine, Mme de Sévigné, Mme de La Fayette, Ninon de Lenclos, Marcel Proust), plus une partie inédite comportant 600 lettres de femmes du XVIIe siècle avec une bibliographie de la publication de ces lettres, et les "Mémoires du CMR17" L'Èquivalent, dans un cédérom, de plus de 2000 pages imprimées. Editions du CMR17 available @ 20 euros, from Mme Roger Duchêne, 174 rue Abbé de l'Epée, 13005 Marseille, FRANCE. She and their son Hervé will continue to update the WEB 17 newsletter, at http://web17.free.fr

DURHAM CONFERENCE. International Conference: Durham Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies. The latest in the biennial series of major interdisciplinary conferences, held in Durham Castle, is currently being planned for 2007. Further details will be made available in due course. See MABER, Richard

ESMEIN-SARRAZIN, Camille. (U. de Nice-Sophia Antipolis). Bks., (1) Ed., Mme de Lafayette, Zayde. Histoire espagnole (1670–1671), Paris, Flammarion, coll. Garnier Flammarion, 2006. (2) Ed. (with Dominique Boutet), Palimpsestes épiques. récritures et interférences génériques. Actes du colloque "Remaniements et récritures de l'Epique, de l'antiquité au xxe siècle." (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 11–12 juin 2004). Paris, PU Paris-Sorbonne, (à paraître en octobre 2006). (3) L'Essor du roman au xviie siècle. Discours théorique et constitution d'un genre. Paris, Honoré Champion, coll.Lumière classique.

FAVA, ANTONO (International School of the Comic Actor). The Comic Mask in the Teatro dell'Arte. Actor Training, Improvisation, and the Poetics of Survival. Northwestern UP, 2006 (illustr.). "The first aesthetic and methodological study...to describe, in a precise and practical way, what Commedia is and what it should be. The mask—as object, symbol, character, theatrical practice, even spectacle itself—is the central metaphor around which Fava builds his discussion."

FLECK, STEPHEN (California State). Editor, CIR 17. Send hard copies for submissions to S.F. c/o Romance, German, Russian Langs & Lits, California State-Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Rd., Long Beach, CA 90840–2405. sfleck@csulb.edu. Website: http://www.cahiers17.org

FRENCH 17. See PREFACE to Bibliography, p. ii.

GANIM, RUSSELL (Nebraska-Lincoln). President, NASSCFL 2007. [Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588–0315]. Fax: (402) 472–0327. Phone: Dept. Office (402) 472–3745. rganim@unlnotes.unl.edu

GETHNER, PERRY J. (Oklahoma State). Treasurer, NASSCFL [Dept. Foreign Langs, Oklahoma SU, Stillwater, OK 74078]. perry.gethner@okstate.edu See NASSCFL DUES.

GILBY, EMMA (Sidney Sussex C., Cambridge, CB2 3HU, U.K.). Bks., (1) Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (London: MHRA [Legenda], forthcoming 2006). (2 ) Pseudo-Longin, De la sublimité du discours, traduction inédite du XVIIe siècle, introduite, éditée et annotée par Emma Gilby, avec une préface de Delphine Denis (Paris: Editions Comp'Act, forthcoming 2007. (3) Space: New Dimensions in French Studies, ed. Emma Gilby and Katja Haustein. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005 Arts., (1) "'Émotions' and the Ethics of Response in Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Theory," Modern Philology (forthcoming 2007). (2) 'Œdipe, L'Anti-Œdipe et la logique des multiplicités' in Dialogue avec la critique dix-septiémiste américaine (Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, forthcoming 2007). (3) 'Les textes qui nous restent de Tallemant des Réaux: mise au point bibliographique', XVIIe siècle 231 (2006), 499–507. (4) 'Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-Century France', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 27 (2005), 29–38. (5) 'Sous le signe du sublime: la rencontre de Boileau et Longin', in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, XXXI (2004), 416–426. Reviews: Jean de la Bruyère, Dialogues posthumes sur le quiétisme (1699): Texte établi et présenté par Richard Parish (Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Million, 2005) in French Studies (forthcoming 2007). Christine Noille-Clauzade, L'Éloquence du sage. Platonisme et rhétorique dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004) in French Studies (forthcoming 2006). John J. Conley, The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), in French Studies 59.4 (2005), 544–555. Nicholas Cronk: The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature (Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003) in The Modern Language Review 100.3 (2005), 815. Jean Garapon, La culture d'une princesse. Ecriture et autoportrait dans l'œuvre de la Grande Mademoiselle (1627–1693) (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003), in French Studies 59.3 (2005), 241–242. Julie Boch: Les Dieux désenchantés. La fable dans la pensée française de Huet à Voltaire (1680–1760) (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002), in French Studies 59.1 (2005), 93–94. David Wetsel and Frédéric Canovas (eds.), Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies (Tübingen: Gunther Narr Verlag, 2002), in French Studies 58.1 (2004), 101–2.

GOODMAN, ELISE (U. Cincinnati). Arts: "Minerva Revivified: Mademoiselle de Montpensier," Mediterranean Studies 15 (forthcoming 2006). "Bosse's Etchings of Women's Coteries: Print Quarterly (forthcoming). Bk., The Cultivated Woman: Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century France (submitted).

GREGOIRE, VINCENT (Berry C., GA). Arts., (1)"Une correspondance transatlantique au 17ème siècle: l'échange épistolaire entre Marie (Guyart dite) de l'Incarnation et son fils, 1640–1672." SCFS 26 (2004), 71–83. (2) "Du bon usage de l'autre dans la relation mère-fils: Marie (Guyart) de l'Incarnation — Claude Martin." Actes de Portland, Biblio 17, 166 (2006), 289–302. Papers: (1) "Marie (Guyart) de l'Incarnation (1599–1672): première écrivain-femme de Nouvelle-France?," 14th Biennal Conference of the American Council for Quebec Studies, Quebec City, 12/04. (2) "La mainmise des Jésuites sur la Nouvelle-France de 1632 à 1658: une tentative d'établissement d'un régime théocratique?," 24th Annual Conference of SE 17, Bowdoin C., 10/05). (3) "Le tremblement de terre de 1663 en Nouvelle-France d'après les écrits des missionnaires." 25th Annual Conference of SE 17, U. Iowa, 10/06).

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

HOEFER, Bernadette (Harvard). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

HOFFMAN, KATHRYN (U. Hawaii-Manoa). Arts., (1) "Of Hairy Girls and a Hog-Faced Gentlewoman: Marvel in Fairy Tales, Fairgrounds, and Cabinets of Curiosities," Marvels and Tales 19:1 (2005), 67–85; (2) "Sleeping Beauties in the Fairground: The Spitzner, Pedley, and Chemisé Exhibits," Early Popular Visual Culture (in press, 2006). Essays: (1) "The Odd and the Dead: Spectacle, Curiosity, and the Making of Corporeal Knowledge in the Early Modern," in UCLA Clark Library series (Toronto UP, 2007); (2) "The West Looked up the Skirts of Venus: Myth and Social Commentary in Masami Teraoka's Art 1995–2005," in Ascending Chaos Chronicle Press, in press 2006. Bks., (1) Palatino Book on images of female body in literature, demonology, art, the fairground from the Medieval through the early modern. (2) Book on the history of anatomical museums and popular displays of the body.

HUET, MARIE-HELENE (Princeton). Director of Dissertation: Eva Madeleine Martin (Princeton), "Port-Royal Aesthetics" (defended 6/2/06).

KIEL, COLLOQUE DE. CIR17, IXe Colloque "L'Art du Spectacle au 17e siècle" was held at the University, March 16–18, 2006. Contact: Rainer Zaiser rzaiser@gmx.de

KOCH, EREC (Tulane). Dissertation Director: (1) Florence Ciret, "La Refonte du folklore chez Perrault" (2005). (2) H. Maxford Adrien, "Les Fables de La Fontaine et la pédagogie." (in progress).

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Massachusetts-Boston. Dean, College of Liberal Arts. Donna.Kuizenga@umb.edu

LEIBACHER, LISE (Arizona). Dissertation Director for (1) Wendy Ring-Freeman: "Marie de Gournay: Culture Wars and the (De)Construction of a Writer's Persona (17th–20th)". (Expected completion 12/06). (2) Valerie Ferguson: "Surnaturel et Fantastique dans la prose narrative de l'âge classique (17ème–18ème siècles), de Montfaucon de Villars à Baculard d'Arnaud." (Expected completion 12/07. Co-Directed with Reg McGinnis).

LEINER, WOLFGANG (Tübingen). (1) Témoignages publiés: Bellenger, Yvonne. "Wolfgang Leiner in memoriam," Oeuvres et Critiques, 30, no. 2 (2005), 5–6; Chauveau, Jean-Pierre. "Les Dix-Septiémistes en deuil." Cahiers Tristan L'hermite, XXVII (2005), 76–77; Kapp, Volker. "Nachruf — Wolfgang Leiner (1925–2005)," Romanische Forschungen, 117, no. 3 (2005), 352–355; Nies, Fritz. "In memoriam Wolfgang Leiner," Romanistische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte/ Cahiers d'histoire des littératures romanes, 29, 1–2 (2005), 249–250; Norman, Buford. "In Memoriam, Wolfgang Leiner." Actes de Portland, Biblio 17, 166 (2006), 13–15 [volume dedicated to W.L.]; Rizza, Cecilia. "In Memoriam. Hommage à Wolfgang Leiner," in Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, Guerre et Société dans la France du XVIIe siècle, Biblio 17, 167 (2006), 11–12 [Entire volume dedicated to W.L.]; Ronzeaud, Pierre, "In Memoriam Wolfgang Leiner," XVIIe Siècle, vol. 57, no. 228 (2005), 387–390; Sweetser, Marie-Odile. "In memoriam Wolfgang Leiner," French 17 Bibliography, 53 (2005), iii; Tobin, Ronald W. "In Memoriam. Wolfgang Leiner (1925–2005)," Revue d'Histoire Littéraire, 2005, no. 3, p. 765; Zaiser, Rainer. "Wolfgang Leiner: Une vie à la lumière de la littérature française," Le Monde, le 1er mars 2005; idem, "In memoriam Wolfgang Leiner," PFSCL, XXII, 63 (2005), 345–349. (2) Mémorial à Tübingen: Akademische Trauerfeier zum Gedenken an Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Leiner, Romansiches Seminar der Universität Tübingen, 11/26/05: Alain Niderst, "La réception de l'oeuvre de Wolfgang Leiner"; Volker Kapp, "Wolfgang Leiners Wissenschaftsmethode"; Rainer Zaiser. "Wolfgang Leiner als Lehrer und Vermittler zwischen den Kulturen (3) Journée d'hommage en Sorbonne, 7/2/05. Liste des communications: Charles Mazouer, "Avant-propos"; Sylvain Menant, "Accueil;" Marc Fumaroli, de l'Académie française, "Hommage à Wolfgang Leiner." Points de vue: Charles Mazouer, "Wolfgang Leiner vu de France"; Rainer Zaiser, "Wolfgang Leiner vu d'Allemagne"; Cecilia Rizza, "Wolfgang Leiner vu d'Italie." Littérature et société dans son oeuvre: Giovanni Dotoli, "Wolfgang Leiner ou une nouvelle façon de lire le XVIIe siècle"; Francis Assaf, "Comment Wolfgang Leiner voit Francion et son monde." Wolfgang Leiner et le roman: Pierre Ronzeaud, "L'écriture dédicatoire, geste social ou acte littéraire ? Essai sur les travaux de Wolfgang Leiner consacrés aux épîtres dédicatoires et aux relations entre les écrivains et leurs mécènes"; Alain Niderst, "La romancière et le directeur de conscience"; Rainer Zaiser, "Wolfgang Leiner et le roman: de l'histoire comique à l'histoire tragique"; Volker Kapp, "L'image de l'Allemagne dans le roman d'après les travaux de Wolfgang Leiner." La poésie et le théâtre dans son oeuvre: Dorothee Scholl, "Entre la taverne et le monastère: Wolfgang Leiner et la poésie baroque"; Charles Mazouer, "Wolfgang Leiner et le théâtre." Leiner et les études dix-septiémistes: Patrick Dandrey, "La comédie héroïque de Wolfgang Leiner"; Jean Mesnard, de l'Institut, "Un compagnonnage avec Wolfgang Leiner;" "Allocution," Jacqueline Leiner (lue par Stéphane Leiner). [N.B. All the above communications to appear in the next number of PFSCL, 66 (2007).]

MABER, RICHARD G. (Durham). Publications: (1) Ed. of Pierre Le Moyne, Entretiens et lettres poétiques (1665), for Droz , Geneva, , 2007; (2) Analytical repertory of the correspondence of Gilles Ménage (1613–1692) —c. 1,600 letters — to be completed 2007; (3) Major project : complete edition of Ménage's correspondence; (4) Molière : 'La ballade de Vadius', to be published in Le Nouveau Moliériste, 2006/07; (5) Madame de La Fayette : revisions to her accepted biography in the light of newly-discovered documents. Other professional activities: Secretary, SCFS. [Dept. of French, U. of Durham, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT UK. Centre for 17th Century Studies at same address.]. General Editor of leading interdisciplinary journal The Seventeenth Century. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/information_areas/journals/seventeenth/ seventeenth.htm . R.G.Maber@durham.ac.uk

McCLURE, ELLEN (Illinois-Chicago). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

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

NASSCFL 06. Joint Conference, hosted by the Society for Seventeenth Century French Studies, at St. Catherine's C., Oxford University, June 28–30. Papers from Early Modern U.S,, British and French Societies, Theme: "Modernités/Modernities." President, Noel Peacock. N.Peacock@french.arts.gla.ac.uk

NASSCFL 07. 39th Annual Conference, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, May 10–12, 2007. Sessions on Natural Science/ History, Libraries & Scholarship, Journalism, Salons, Descartes/ Cartesians, Farce, Italianism, Moralists & Artists, Maintenant Now, Technology: Research & Pedagogy. Round Table. Museum receptions. New Business. See GANIM, RUSS and CARR, TOM. Website: http://www.unl.edu.edu/modlang/nasscfl

NASSCFL DUES. The United States and Canadian dues are now $20 for tenured faculty and $10 for untenured faculty, emeritus faculty, and graduate students. Membership required for those presenting papers. Make checks payable to NASSCFL, and send them, as appropriate, to Perry GETHNER, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078 perry.gethner@okstate.edu, OR to his Canadian counterpart, Claire CARLIN, Office of the Dean of Humanities, University of Victoria, PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4, CANADA. ccarlin@uvic.ca

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina, Emeritus). Bk., Racine et la musique. [Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659–1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Work continues on the period 1687–1715]. Arts., (l)"Les sons des coulisses: Esther et Athalie" (to appear in the proceedings of "La scène et la coulisse", 2007). (2) "Les Songes et les charmes: la représention du merveilleux dans Esther et Athalie" (to appear in the proceedings of Le Neuvième Colloque International du CIR-17, 2007).

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER R. (Portland State). Bk., Ed., Relations & Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Actes du 36e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Portland State University, 6–8 mai 2004. Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 166 (2006). Arts., (1) "Sociopolitical Education and the 'Nouvelles' of Le Mercure galant," to appear in Ann e E. Biberick's The Art of Instruction: Education and Pedagogy in Seventeenth-Century France. Amsterdam, Eds. Rodopi B.V., 2007. (2) "Ana and Commemorative Truth," projected publication 2007. (3) "Traces of Women in the Ana,"(tentative title) in progress.

PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE, International Society. 31st Annual Conference, May 16–17, 2007, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Theme: "Existence and Historical Fabulation."

PHENOMENOLOGY, FINE ARTS AND AESTHETICS. 12th Annual Conference, May 18–19, 2007, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Theme: "The Artist's Account and Philosopher's Interpretation." Contact: Patricia Trutty-Coohill <ptrutty@siena.edu> . For both above conferences, Abstracts due 1/1/07; full papers 3/15/07; Registration $125. Send abstracts and papers to Prof. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, NH 03755. Phone (802) 295–5963; Fax (802) 295–5963. Website: http://www.phenomenology.org

PIOFFET, MARIE CHRISTINE (York U., Canada). Livres, (1) rédition critique des livres IV et VI de l'Histoire de la Nouvelle-France de Marc Lescarbot. Le manuscrit intitulé Voyages en Acadie (1604–1607) suivis de la description des mœurs souriquoises comparées à celles d'autres peuples sera coédité aux Presses de l'Université Laval et aux Presses de Paris-Sorbonne (lancement prévu pour 12/06) (585 pages). Obtention en juin 2005 d'une subvention du Programme d'aide à l'édition savante du CRSHC. (2) Espaces lointains, espaces rêvés dans la fiction narrative du Grand Siècle, ouvrage à paraître 4/07 aux PU de Paris-Sorbonne, 320 pages. Collectifs en preparation, (1) Rédaction d'un ouvrage ayant pour titre Dictionnaire analytique des toponymes imaginaires dans la prose narrative de 1605 à 1712, en collaboration avec Daniel Maher, professeur à l'Université de Calgary. Subvention ordinaire de recherche de 91 181,00 $ obtenue du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSHC) et subvention du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSHC) de 17 000,00 $. (2) Publication des actes du colloque international 《  Écrire des récits de voyage (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles) : esquisse d'une poétique en gestation  》, en collaboration avec Andreas Motsch ; ouvrage accepté pour publication par les Presses de l'U. Laval (publication prévue pour 9/07). Organisation d'un colloque international : Principale organisatrice du XXIIe colloque international de la Société d'analyse de la topique romanesque intitulé 《  Geographiae imaginariae : dresser le cadastre des mondes inconnu dans la fiction narrative de l'Ancien Régime  》, qui se tiendra à l'Université York les 24, 25 et 26 septembre 2008. Articles récents : (1)《  Charles Sorel et la topographie allégorique  》, Actes du Colloque 《  Charles Sorel, polygraphe  》, PU Laval dans Les Collections de la République des Lettres, sous la direction d'Emmanuel Bury et d'Éric Van der Schueren, septembre 2006, p. 399–419 (2)《  La rencontre du Noir dans quelques romans du Grand Siècle  》, PU Laval dans Les collections de la République des Lettres, sous la direction de Max Vernet, 6/06, p. 157–172. (3)《  La forêt dans l'imaginaire baroque  》, Locus in fabula, Nathalie Ferrand, éd., Éditions Peeters (Louvain/Paris), 2005, p. 373–386. (4)《  L'Empire du Milieu dans la fiction narrative du Grand Siècle  》, Intersections. Actes du 35e Congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Faith. E. Beasley et Kathleen Wine (éd.), Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17, 161(2005), 219–228. (5)《  Le rêve colonial français de La Popelinière à Marc Lescarbot  》, Francophonie en Amérique. Quatre siècles d'échanges Europe-Afrique-Amérique, textes sélectionnés et réunis par Justin K. Bisanswa et Michel Tétu, Cidef-AFI, vol. XV, no 1, 2005, p. 71–79. (6)《  Le mythe des îles bienheureuses et quelques-uns de ses avatars romanesques au XVIIe siècle  》, dans Les Écritures poétiques de l'insularité, Mustapha Trabelsi (dir.), Clermont-Ferrand, Cahiers de recherches du CRLMC, PU Blaise-Pascal, 2005, p. 159–176. Activités professionnelles: Depuis 7/06, membre du comité éditorial de la revue Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Depuis 6/06, vice-présidente de la SATOR (Société d'analyse de la topique romanesque).

PREST, JULIA (Yale). President, SE 17 (07). Director of Dissertations: (1) Michael Call (Yale), "The Poet, the Playwright, and the Pirate: Molière and Authorship in Seventeenth-Century France" (submitted 9/06/06, soon to be approved). (2) Rachael Sterner (Yale). "Broken Walls: Saints Jeanne de Chantal and Louise de Marillac. Writing Faith and Independence outside the Cloister" (in progress; title tentative). julia.prest@yale.edu

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. South Florida). Bks., co-editor, (1) La Femme à l'âge classique; le baroque, musique et littérature, Gunter Narr, Tübingen, 2003. (2) PFSCL, XXXII (2005) no. 62, intro. and pp. 10–64, "Beaux Arts et Belles Lettres: MLA 03 Convention. Arts. & Bk. Chapters (1) "Les Sonnets franc-comtois de Jean-Baptiste Chassignet: la représentation du premier lecteur' et la persuasion du lecteur idéal," for vol. ed. by Anne Mantero and Alain Cullière, La Poésie religieuse et ses lecteurs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (Dijon, France: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, Collection Écritures, 2005). 151–170. (2) "Avez-vous senti Dassoucy? Pour une rhétorique des sens chez l'Empereur du Burlesque" for vol. ed. by Dominique Bertrand of the Université Blaise Pascal at Clermont-Ferrand (Centre d'Études sur les Réformes, l'Humanisme et l'Âge Classique), 2005. 127–142. (3) "Bossuet, poète lyrique? Deux lectures,"co-author Mary Rowan, for 2006 Biblio 17 vol. (Gunter Narr), ed. Buford Norman. Papers: (1) "Bossuet, poète lyrique?" with Mary Rowan, for NASSCFL conference, Columbia, SC, 4/14–16/05; (2) "Sensory Appeal in the Oraison funèbre d'Henriette d'Angleterre, ibid."; (3) "Engraving, Sonnet, Devise: Harmony or Disharmony at the Intersection of Emblematic Art and Poetry in the Sonnets franc-comtois?," 7th Triennial Conference of the International Society for Emblem Studies, Illinois-Urbana, 7/24–30/05. (4) "La Représentation emblématique de la femme à l'entrecroisement de l'art et de la poésie: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec les Sonnets franc-comtois" for the IXe Colloque of CIR-17, 3/16–18/06 at Kiel, Germany; (5) "Becoming Global in the Early Modern: A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics," 15th Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, March 9–11/06 New College, Sarasota, FL. Please note that this is a first and much shorter version of the following paper; (6) "Modernisation des Écritures: Becoming Global in the Early Modern, A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics" for the international conference on "Modernités," St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 6/28–30/06; (7) "Devotional Poetry as a 'miroir du prince'," accepted for the 2006 MLA Convention. Accepted and in Press: "Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," accepted for refereed vol. ed. by Robert Logan and Sara Deats, in press for 2006 or early 2007." The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflections," accepted for refereed vol. ed. by Anne Birberick, The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century France, for 2006. In press. "La Mémoire et l'identité transmises par la femme antillaise: stratégies littéraires et cinématographiques" for refereed volume ed. by Kanaté Dahouda for 2006 or 2007. "Modernisation des Écritures: Becoming Global in the Early Modern, A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics" for the international conference on "Modernités" delivered in June 2006 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, accepted and in revision. Papers submitted: (1) "Engraving, Sonnet, Devise: Harmony or Disharmony at the Intersection of Emblematic Art in the Sonnets franc-comtois" (delivered for the 7th Triennial Conference of the International Society for Emblem Studies, 7/05. (2) "Hope Kindled by a Cinema in the Service of the People? Women and the Marginalized in Recent Francophone African Films", submitted to a refereed journal. Session Organizer, 2006 MLA Convention; Contrib. Ed., French 17; Secretary, NASSCFL.

RACEVSKIS, ROLAND (Iowa). Bk., Tragic Passages: Jean Racine's Art of the Threshold (for Bucknell UP, forthcoming in 2008). Presents a new, theoretically informed reading of Racine's nine secular tragedies, from La Thébaïde (1664) to Phèdre (1677). This detailed study focuses on literary/ theatrical constructions of space, time, and identity. The central hypothesis holds that in a number of his tragedies, Racine places his characters in a position of limbo, between the self and the other, between what is onstage and what is offstage, between life and death, the transcendent and the terrestrial, the personal and the public. Racine's secular tragedies thus highlight the paradoxical human predicament of being caught in in-between states of being, and develops an esthetics of the threshold. Exploring multiple intermediary spaces of experience, from the personal to the eschatological, Racine's tragedies undertake a sustained inquiry into philosophical questions of world limits and of the boundaries of human experience, questions that have become urgent in the present day. President and Organizer, SE 17 2006. roland.racevskis@uiowa.edu

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Arts., (1) "Perelle's Veües des plus beaux endroits de Versailles, " CdDS 9.11 (2004), 49–60. (2) "Research in Progress 2005," French 17, vol. 53 (2005), Part VI, pp. 177–188. (3) "Perelle's Topographical Albums: Problems and Solutions," Actes de Portland, Jennifer R. Perlmutter, ed. , Biblio 17, 166 (2006), 163–176. (4) "Saint-Amant and the Caroline Monarchs: Unknown Manuscripts," (forthcoming in Acts of Oxford, 2007). Papers, (1) "Rubens, Marie de Medici, and England," International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts & Aesthetics, 9th Conference, Harvard; 5/14/06. (2) "Unknown Manuscripts of Saint-Amant," Colloque International "Modernités/Modernities," Oxford, UK, 6/28/06. Bibliographer, NASSCFL; Directeur, CM; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SADR, TABITHA SPAGNOLO.(Duke). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SATOR. XXIIe Colloque International. "Geographiae imaginariae: dresser le cadastre des mondes inconnus dans la fiction narrative de l'Ancien Régime.", York University, Canada, 24–26 September, 2008. See PIOFFET.

SCFS. See Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

SCHRÖDER, VOLKER (Princeton). North American Treasurer, CIR 17. See CIR 17. volkers@princeton.edu

SE17 2006. 25th Annual Conference took place at U. of Iowa, 10/12–14/06. President and Organizer, Ronald Racevskis. (French & Italian, U.of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242–1409). roland-racevskis@uiowa.edu

SE17 2007. Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century French Studies/ Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe Siècle. 26th Annual Conference, Beinecke Library, Yale, 8–10 November, 2007. Session topics: Voyage et dépaysement, La vision: voir et savoir, Des salons et des hommes, Témoins et témoignages, Performing the XVIIe; Sorciers/sorcières, magiciens/magiciennes, et possédé(e)s; Enseigner le XVIIe. Contact: SE17 President: Julia Prest julia.prest@yale.edu. See also C17; DAUGE-ROTH.

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

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN (Holy Cross). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SFS. See SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES.

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN (Holy Cross). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). 48th Annual Conference, U. of Birmingham, July 2–4, 2007. SFS Home page: http://www.sfs.ac.uk. Society's journal: French Studies.

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (U.K.). 13th Annual Conference, U. of Liverpool, September 6–8, 2007. Theme: "Voyages in Early Modern France." Call for Papers: by 3/1/07. Secretary: Richard Maber (Durham). r.g.maber@durham.ac.uk Website: http://www.c17.org.uk Society's journal: Seventeenth-Century French Studies (SCFS).

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). In press: Arts., (1) "'Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon': vision et esthétique nouvelles," in De l'éventail à la plume. Mélanges Roger Marchal, PU de Nancy (end 2006 or early 2007). (2) "Marc Fumaroli, interprète de Corneille, poète et dramaturge de l'humanisme chrétien," Oeuvres & Critiques, 2007,1 (février ?). Paper: "'Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon.'" To be presented at MLA Annual Mtg., 12/28/06, in Session chaired by Christine Probes.

TOCZYSKI. SUZANNE C, (Sonoma State U.). "Navigating the Seas of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat's Voyage aux îles," forthcoming in June 2007 volume of PFSCL. Editor, French 17. [Mod Langs & Lits, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928]. Tel: (707) 664–4177; Fax: (707) 664–2363. suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu

VAN DELFT, LOUIS (Laval). Bk., Les Spectateurs de la vie. Généalogie du regard moraliste. Montréal, PU Laval, 2005. For further recent publications please consult his website: www.louisvandelft.com lvandelftfr@hotmail.com

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ZAISER, RAINER (U. Kiel). Arts: (1) "La mise en abyme: Mode d'emploi de la modernité dans la littérature et l'art du XVIIe siècle. Le cas de Don Quichotte de Cervantès et des Ménines de Vélasquez", in F. Claudon, S. Elias, S. Jouanny, N. Parola-Leconte, J. Thélot (éds.), La modernité mode d'emploi. Paris: Edition Kimé, 2006, pp. 125–131. (2) "Récit spéculaire et métanarration dans les romans de Sorel, de Scarron et de Furetière", in Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Actes du 37e congrès annuel de la NASSCFL, U. of South Carolina, Columbia, 4/14–16/05. Ed. par Buford Norman. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006 (Biblio 17, 168), pp. 163–171. (3) "Gefährliche Leidenschaften: Vom Wandel des amour galant zum amour passion im Roman der französischen Klassik: La Princesse de Clèves und Les Lettres portugaises,"in Kirsten Dickhaut, Dietmar Rieger (Hg.), Liebe und Emergenz. Neue Modelle des Affektbegreifens im französischen Kulturgedächtnis um 1700. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006. Recent papers: (1)"Corneille héritier de Trissino: Sophonisbe et la naissance de la tragédie moderne", communication tenue au colloque international "Pierre Corneille et l'Europe,"organisé par la Société Internationale d'Histoire Comparée du Théâtre, de l'Opéra et du Ballet avec le concours du Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, 1er–5 septembre 2006, Paris, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art. (2) "La modernité de Saint-Amant : Une lecture métapoétique de l'ode La Solitude", communication tenue au congrès de la MLA, 27–30 décembre 2007, à Philadelphie. Editor: (1) Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Biblio 17, Œuvres et Critiques. (2) L'âge de la représentation: L'art du spectacle au XVIIe siècle. Actes du IXe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Université de Kiel, 3/16–18 /06. (3) Modernités/Modernities. Actes du colloque international, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 28–30 juin 2006 (with William S. Brooks). <rzaiser@gmx.de> . (Romanisches Seminar der Universität Kiel, Leibnizstr. 10, D-24098 Kiel, GERMANY). rainer.zaiser@romanistik.uni-kiel.de