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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."