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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.