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BADIOU-MONFERRAN, FREDERIC CALAS, JULIEN PIAT, et CHRISTELLE REGGIANI, eds. La Langue, le style, le sens: études offertes à Anne-Marie Garagnon. Paris: L'Improviste, 2005.

Review: M. Seijido in MLR 102.3 (2007), 849–850: Collection of articles published in honor of Anne-Marie Garagnon by colleagues and former students. Four sections: "La langue entre histoire et système;" "Faits de langue et faits de style;" "Effets de style et effets de discours;" "Stylistique et herméneutique des formes." "In short, the volume offers insights into a wide range of perspectives which are currently being applied to the study of French language and literature. What they perhaps all have in common is the desire to reflect on 'le geste herméneutique' (p.1)."

BALDINGER, KURT. Etymologien: Untersuchungen zu FEW 21–23, Vol. 3. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003.

Review: J. Lengert in RF 118 (2006): 248: Welcome volume supplements and corrects the FEW, links the materials to word families and new etymologies. Important bibliography and extensive indices of vols. 1–3.

AARONSON, BEA. "La Civilisation du goût. Savoir et saveur à la table de Louis IV (ou, Gastéréa et l'histoire de la cuisine française au dix-septième siècle)." FLS 33 (2006): 85–116.

The author picks up the seventeenth-century theme of "Des mots pour dire les mets": the banquet and its relation to the identity and identification of France. Discusses how the Gastéréa has marked French aristocratic culture through many different voyages: a historical journey, an economic journey, a civil journey, etc. Examines the notion of gastronomy and taste in the seventeenth, which are not inventions of the nineteenth century.

ANDERSON, KATHLEEN. "A Baroque Banquet: Representations of the Meal in France, 1571–1661. DAI 67/10 (2007):

Study explores written and visual texts produced in France from 1571 to 1661, starting with Montaigne's numerous commentaries on culinary practices in his Essais and Journal de voyage en Italie and extending through 1661 when we encounter "the first concrete literary illustration of new cooking methods and ingredients in seventeenth-century France." Theoretical approaches include sociology and the semiotics of culture. Through culinary representations, this dissertation intends to explore the "symbolic strategies used by monarchy and elites to establish their social and political positions."

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

Review: M. Touzery in RBPH 84.4 (2006), 1311–1313: ". . .l'ouvrage que donne Michel Antoine est le livre fondamental sur le gouvernement central des finances de l'ancienne monarchie de France. Il est absolument sans équivalent par la durée traitée, à savoir la totalité de l'Ancien Régime, la constance et la complétude de l'information sur ces trois siècles, et enfin par la hauteur de vue et la synthèse que permet cette maîtrise de la totalité du sujet et de la durée."

BEASLEY, FAITH. "Gender and the Marketing of Seventeenth-Century France." CdDS 11.1 (2006): 137–46.

Subtle study of Pierre Nora's Les Lieux de Mémoire, as a tool to help American students learn about French identity. Yet also points to drawbacks, as Nora's work does not touch upon 1) how women's studies are developed and have helped to develop the literary world. 2) The institution of the salon. What do we make of a false image of historical truth that has been brushed under the rug? Argues that we must rectify Les Lieux de Mémoire de Nora and points to the interest of Americans today in the study of early modern women.

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

Review: J. Campbell in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1225–26: Both a "critique of critiques" and "a study on canon formation," Beasley's examination is also "valuable for its consideration of the shaping of the history of Louis XIV's reign" (1225). Judged "timely," "convincing," and "of interest to scholars of women's literary history as well as those who specialize in the literature of le Grand Siècle" (1226).

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 102.4 (2007), 1155–56: "Focusing on the influential salon culture led by women, Faith Beasley retraces the various stages of the appropriation and obfuscation of this rich heritage by later generations. Not only were the seventeenth-century salons reinterpreted and their role in literary culture redefined, the influence exerted by women through the salons was also misrepresented and eventually erased from the nation's collective memory. Less concerned with determining the historical 'truth' of the salon than with analysing how it has been 'remembered' by posterity, Beasley offers a compelling account of the rewriting of France's literary past at the hands of successive generations of Academicians and literary historians." Work "destined to become an essential reference for the field of French seventeenth-century literary studies."

Review: J. Prest in FS 61.2 (2007), 221–222: Beasley's account of women's roles in the seventeenth-century salon is a "sobering reminder" of the misogynist, revisionist and inaccurate literature that continues to inform even literary historians of today. Her book "convincingly" argues the importance of women in the literary world of the period and then charts their historical suppression or marginization from Boileau to Victor Cousin to the present.

BELLANGER, JACQUELINE. Histoire du verre: l'aube des temps modernes 1453–1672. Paris: Massin, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 685 (2006), 46: "Visant une approche pédagogique, cet ouvrage passe en revue les grands centres de production du verre en Europe, d'abord les dépendances de Venise, puis de multiples foyers comme la Lorraine, le Saint Empire, l'Alsace, la très raffiné Bohème, les Pays Bas. . ."

BERCE, YVES-MARIE. "Allées et venues dans les campagnes de l'Angoumois vers 1650." DSS 234 (2007), 83–96.

Taking judicial documents as rich source material, the author explores peasant migratory patterns in the Angoumois countryside in the mid 17th century.

BERRADA, TAREK. "Les lieux de la pratique musicale dans l'architecture privée au temps de Louis XIV." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 395–407.

Listening to music was a social activity that came to require specially-designed spaces. The author examines the development of alcoves, music salons, ballrooms, cabinets de musique, and terrasses as special spaces dedicated to music and pays close attention to the introduction of the harpsichord which ultimately made separate music rooms a necessity.

BLUCHE, FRANCOIS. Le Grand règne. Paris: Fayard, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 691 (2007), 108–109: "Ce volume rassemble les textes de trois livres de François Bluche publiés précédemment. Il comprend une 'vie quotidienne' des Français au temps de Louis XIV, très vivante, ne délaissant aucun des groupes sociaux, ni aucune province, une biographie du roi, présentant avec le maximum d'objectivité ses politiques intérieure et extérieure (pages 255–915); enfin, sous le titre Louis XIV vous parle, un recueil de 'mots et anecdotes' (pages 923–1201) comme il en existait un dans le classique ouvrage de Voltaire, mais réalisé à partir d'autres documents. C'est là sans doute la partie la plus captivante du volume."

BONNET, ANNE-MARIE & BARBARA SCHELLEWALD, eds. Frauen in der Frühen Neuzheit: Lebensentwürfe in Kunst und Literatur. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2004.

Review: S. Ruby in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 238–39: This first in a new series of publications by the Institute of Art History at the U of Bonn gathers essays from a symposium and is particularly useful for scholars in Romance literature and Art History. French specialists will be interested in Andreas Toennesmann's excellent contribution on art patronage of women regents in France (Catherine and Marie de Medici and Anne d'Autriche). Emphases of sociopolitics connects with memory of the women regents and "highly original architectural statements" (239).

BONNIFFET, PIERRE. Structures sonores de l'humanisme en France: de Maurice Scève: Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 1544) à Claude Le Jeune, Second livre des Meslanges (Paris, 1612). Bibliothèque Littéraire de la Renaissance 57. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: L.K. Donaldson-Evans in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 530–31: A "Ficinian-inspired humanist perspective" guides Bonniffet, "who is both a musicologist and a singer" (530). Impressive for its attention to both primary and secondary sources from the early modern period as well as to recent criticism. A grounding in music theory is judged helpful to the reader of this praiseworthy examination of the relationship between music and poetry in the long Renaissance.

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 144: Bonniffet's analysis of the structure of significant musical examples and poetic texts demonstrates the diversity and talent of the period from 1544 to 1612 as it focuses on genres such as the psalm, the "chanson spirituelle" and the "air spirituel." Convincing testimony to the rhetorical elaboration of the trivium: (l'inventio, la dispositio and l'elocutio).

BOUDON-MACHUEL, MARION. "Putto ou enfant? Étude d'une figure singulière dans la sculpture française de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 187–216.

The author examines the modifications of of sculpted putto figures in wall decorations and funerary art of the seventeenth century. As a decorative element, the putto remains a stylized figure in spite of a more realistic representation and begins to symbolize childhood's playfulness: its abundant use at Versailles, for example, contributed to its banalization and put an end to the stylistic innovations of the early seventeenth century. In funerary art, the putto is used to elicit emotion and represents tenderness and fragility, but this innovation was also obscured by overuse during the reign of Louis XIV.

BRENNAN, MICHAEL, ed. The Origin of the Grand Tour: The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, 1649–1654, William Hammond, 1655–1658, Banaster Maynard, 1660–1663. London: The Hakluyt Society, 2004.

Review: D. Stymeist in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 250–51: Although the travel narratives are by 17th c. English gentlemen, descriptions of palaces and other places may be "directly compiled and translated. . . [from] French travel guides" (in Montagu's case, for example). Hammond's letters give us a glimpse of his impressions of ballet performances of Louis XIV. These previously unpublished examples present social, political and economic motivations for travel while they display the traveler/ narrator's wide knowledge in several fields.

BROOMHALL, SUSAN. "Familial And Social Networks in the Later Sixteenth-Century French Convent: The Benedictines Of Beaumont-Les-Tours." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Rockwood Press, 2007, 59–74.

The author does not intend to treat the class boundaries and familial networks inside of the monastic walls, but to emphasize the importance and need for a study of how the nuns themselves perceived the significance of their own connections "to familial and other social communities." Questions discussed include: How did their writing alter the perception of their familial and social networks, and, what were these networks? The authors make use of listed records, financial, spiritual, historic, eyewitness accounts, correspondence, necrologies, etc., of the abbey of Beaumont & co. Emphasis is also placed on the nuns' importance in community life and, finally, on the family networks (social cohesion) within and outside the convent.

BRUNET, SERGE. "Les prêtres des campagnes de la France du XVIIe siècle: la grande mutation." DSS 234 (2007), 49–82.

An interesting article on the challenges (from within the Church and without) facing rural 17th c. French clergy. Brunet concentrates on the dramatic decline in "l'effectif du clergé séculier," from the early 16th c. to the end of the 17th c., termed "la grande mutation."

BULL, MALCOLM. The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods. New York: Oxford UP, 2005.

Review: S. B. McHam in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 239–41: Judged a "most valuable. . . overview of a vast field"; Bull here traces classical mythology's reception from the 14th through the 17th c. The "artists" of the title includes authors of literature as well as artistic objects. Both primary and secondary sites are analyzed as are political applications such as ceiling paintings in state apartments. Includes a separate analysis of 6 most favored pagan deities, illustrations, appendices, maps, a bibliography (if only judged "sparse") and endnotes.

BUR, MICHEL. Le château d'Epinal XIIIe–XVIIe siècle. Paris: Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002.

Review: M. de Waha in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 530–532: "M. Bur donne avec ce livre richement illustré la conclusion d'une entreprise scientifique et pédagogique. Le chantier d'Epinal servit de chantier école pour l'Université de Nancy et rappelle combien nos institutions universitaires ont besoin de semblables chantiers pédagogiques où peuvent se former non seulement les futures archéologues mais aussi des historiens qui auront toujours davantage besoin du cours de leurs recherches de recourir aux sources archéologiques et de pouvoir les interpréter correctement. Grande entreprise scientifique aussi, puisqu'Epinal offre un cas remarquable de genèse du domaine rural à la "ville", dans le cadre également de la ou plutôt des politiques de l'Empire ottonien."

BURY, EMMANUEL. "Un idéal de la culture française entre humanisme et classicisme: 'civiliser la doctrine.'" FLS 33 (2006): 117–130.

Bury explores how the writing of letters in the seventeenth century can be traced back to its heritage in classical antiquity and its rendition by the humanists of the sixteenth century. He argues that the seventeenth century got rid of the pedantic aspect of its sources, therefore keeping a balance between a mastered culture and individuality. He also studies the difference between pedantic thought patterns and true humanity that makes up humanism: "civiliser la doctrine" (Guez de Balzac). Bury argues that the art of letters makes an honnête homme, while l'honnêteté is nothing more than the accomplishment of a man after his nature.

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. "Le divertissement à la cour des Bourbons et des premiers Stuarts, ou comment ordonner le désordre." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 333–353.

The growing use of theatre and performance to celebrate and enhance the social and political order of absolute monarchy saw a rise in disorder on the part of an undisciplined audience eager for spectacle and distinction. Thus the space of the theater began to win out over the use of ballrooms and great halls: in theaters spectators were restrained in their seats and neatly ordered according to rank and position, neatly mirroring the monarchical political order.

CARILE, PAOLO. Huguenots sans frontières. Voyage et écriture à la Renaissance et à l'Age classique. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: L. Sozzi in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 119–120. Judged stimulating and rich, Carile's volume is useful for the perspectives it offers on themes of happiness and desolation as well as "renouveau spirituel." Other dimensions such as romanesque adventures and the "mondo primitivo" are highlighted (119). Valuable contribution to politics, socio-economics as well as to literature and culture.

CARRIER, HUBERT. "La crise de la Fronde: mémorialistes et pamphlétaires devant la guerre civile." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 37–49.

Certain Frondeur observations on the notion of civil war (e.g., civil war is dangerous, deadly to the state, and advantageous to foreign enemies) are based on empirical evidence, while another category draws on moral arguments. The arguments that circulated in pamphlets and memoirs on the horrors of civil war seem to have had little effect on the participants and points to how the political reality of the Fronde won out over moral considerations.

CARRIER, HUBERT. Le Labyrinthe de l'État: Essai sur le débat politique en France au temps de la Fronde (1648–1653). Bibliothèque d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 14. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: A. Amatuzzi in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 120–122: Carrier's valuable volume examines not only the vast pamphlet production in question (see as well his previous publications on the Mazarinades), but also correspondence, memoirs, gazettes, etc. The comprehensive study (of 694 pages) includes the following sections in addition to a rich critical apparatus: "Les courants de la pensée politique," "Problèmes économiques et questions fiscales," and "Structures et mentalités sociales."

Review: J.R. Fehleison in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 525–26: Recommended for its command of an impressive body of research, exploring pamphlets, correspondence and cahiers de doléances and addressing "the monarchy, the Parlement of Paris, the princes of the blood, the nobility, and the various bodies of the Third Estate as the Frondeurs challenged Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin's management of the monarchy. . . during the minority of Louis XIV" (525). Carrier's ambitious study is organized around sections dealing with the diversity of political thought (yet support for the monarchy by many), fiscal crises (focusing on excessive taxation and hunger), and "the multifaceted issue of social orders. . . [particularly] the role of the people" (Fehleison, 526).

CARROLL, STUART. Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Review: F. Baumgartner in Choice 44 (2007), 1819: Argues that noble blood feuds persist well after the end of the Middle Ages and thus cannot be understood as a 'medieval' phenomenon. Looking at the seventeenth century, "Carroll concludes that the creation of a large standing army under Louis XIV provided an outlet for vindicatory violence" (1819). Reviewer finds the book somewhat difficult to read, but well worth the effort.

Review: R. Briggs in TLS 5409 (Dec 1 2006): 26. Treats violence in France from fifteenth through seventeenth century, especially feuds and revenge killings. Chief sources are pardon letters, judicial proceedings of parlements and family histories. Shows that formal duels under Louis XIV were mainly associated with army officers. Hypothesizes that the incorporation of many lesser nobles into royal army had "immense social consequences" as aggression "was redirected to service of the crown." An "excellent and thought-provoking book."

CATTEEUW, LAURIE. La Modernité de la raison d'état et le masque du temps. RdS 3-4 (2007), 369–394.

This article covers Liebniz and political thought. In the course of the centuries, the theoreticians of the reason of State define the new notion by comparing ancient and modern times: they affirm, almost unanimously, that the Ancients knew the reason of State — thus willingly depriving it of its modernity. Yet it is not less true that historically reason of State accompanies the advent of the modern State and participates in the elaboration of its political rationality. In this article, we hear recalled those multiple antique figures of the reason of State, brought it light and exploited by its own theoreticians, in order to grasp their stakes for the history of the notion, their relations to the political modernity and their effects on the art of governing proper to the modern State. Beginning with the description of its constitutive polymorphy, through which it seems to adapt itself to every era, it is a question of seizing in what consists the modernity of the reason of State.

CHAURAND, JACQUES. "Le vocabulaire que révèlent les inventaires après décès dans l'est picard au XVII siècle." DSS 234 (2007), 169–187.

Much can be learned from looking at these specific legal registers: "une somme de richesse considérable pour qui veut connaître le vocabulaire et à travers lui la vie quotidienne [...]" Chaurand lists a multitude of these documents and proposes a brief analysis.

CHERBULIEZ, JULIETTE. The Place of Exile. Leisure Literature and the Limits of Absolutism. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005.

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in Fr F 31.3 (2006): 159–162: As Leibacher-Ouvrard so felicitously states, Cherbuliez's Place of Exile is "lui-même un voyage de distanciation critique" (161). Continuing along the lines of Joan DeJean's Tender Geographies (1991) and Nicholas Paige's Being Interior. . . (2001), Cherbuliez focuses on the imposition of "vivre 'à l'extérieur'" for representative women authors but also indicates "combien ces écrits de femmes ont souvent accueilli la participation de collaborateurs masculins (secrétaires, correspondants, imprimeurs, etc.) tels que Huet, Segrais ou Saint-Evremond" (161, Leibacher-Ouvrard). Cherbuliez's thesis is illustrated by four cases in as many chapters: "Diversions: Montpensier's Exilic Communities," "Detours: Ovidian Fantaisies of Community and Villedieu's Les Exilez de la Cour d'Auguste," "Periphery: Zayde and the Domestic Conquest of the Nation," and "Diaspora: Francophone Refugee Fiction from Hortense Mancini to Anne de La Roche-Guilhen." Judged a "bel ouvrage" which proves the significance (literary, socio-cultural, political, for example) of this "leisure literature."

CIAVOLELLA, MASSIMO and PATRICK COLEMAN, eds. Culture and Authority in the Baroque. Toronto: UTP, 2005.

Review: L. R. N. Ashley in BHR 69.1 (2007), 198: Superior anthology that contributes "to the better definition of baroque" and "permits of a wide range of interests: architecture, exploration, music, poetry,. . ."

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. "Le discours sur la guerre de l'opposition nobiliaire à Richelieu: amorce d'une autre vision politique et philosophique du monde." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 25–35.

During the regency of Marie de Médicis, a dévot anti-war discourse predominated which was superceded by a noble discourse in the wake of the Journée des Dupes. While retaining certain dévot elements, this princely discourse added new themes: the stuggle against tyranny, a call for the return of the Etats généraux, and an idyllic political vision inspired by pastoral literature, most notably d'Urfé's Astrée.

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. La Folle liberté des baroques 1600–1661. Paris: Perrin, 2007.

Review: D. Bermond in RDM (mai 2007), 187–189: "Dans cet essai tout en nervosité, baroque, se risquerait-on à dire, Jean-Marie Constant décline les mille et une manières de manifester sa liberté en cette première moitié du XVIIe siècle. L'auteur brosse des figures d'une belle trempe, qui ont fait de l'indocilité une règle de conduite, tells la duchesse de Chevreuse et la Grande Mademoiselle, deux croqueuses de pouvoir, ou ce comte de Montrésor, contestataire impénitent, conseiller de Gaston d'Orléans, lui-même prince de l'équivoque, qui se revendique 'esprit libre' par opposition aux 'esclaves' vivant dans 'la servitude' à la cour."

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. "La lecture des cahiers de doléances des villages entre 1576 et 1651 permet-elle de parler d'un imaginaire politique paysan au XVIIe siècle?" DSS 234 (2007), 31–48.

In trying to understand rural political tendencies in early modern France, the historian must seek out creative sources. In this case, the author attempts to decipher "le contenu quelquefois très formel des cahiers de doléances des communautés d'habitants et des châtellenies pour en extraire le message que les villageois voudraient envoyer au roi et retrouver, à travers le langage et les idées exprimées, l'imaginaire politique des populations paysannes."

CORBIN, ALAIN, JEAN-JACQUES COURTINE, & GEORGES VIGARELLO, eds.

Histoire du corps. Vol. 1: De la Renaissance aux Lumières. Identified in Choice 44 (2006) as a "Significant European Scholarly Title" for 2005.

COURSE, DIDIER. D'or et de pierres précieuses. Les paradis artificiels de la Contre-Réforme en France (1580–1685). Lausanne, Éditions Payot, 2005.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 254–257. According to the reviewer, "Le mérite de cette étude, centrée sur des matières précieuses et sur leur interprétation dans le contexte des mentalités de l'époque, consiste à voir éclairé d'importants aspects de la pensée religieuse et de l'esthétique de la Contre-Réforme, de l'imaginaire, en particulier en ce qui concerne une large galerie de figures féminines tirées de l'histoire, de la tradition scripturale et hagiographique. On le recommendera aux bibliothèques universitaires, aux spécialistes de l'âge baroque et à leurs étudiants."

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA. L'âge de la conversation. Traduit de l'italien parEliane Deschamps-Pria. Paris, Gallimard, 2002.

Review: R. Marchal in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 980–981. Review argues that this study "decrit une poétique et une mondanité. . . et qui dans le glissement insensible de l'oralité à l'écrit produit ces genres mimétiques de la conversation: ana, anecdotes, entretiens et dialogues, jeu de portraits, marques d'oralité de l'écriture épistolaire et mémorielle, etc." Author values the amount of information assembled, which extends from "l'âge de la conversation, de l'Hôtel Rambouillet jusqu'à. . . Mme de Staël."

CRAWFORD, KATHERINE. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Harvard Historical Studies 145. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

Review: B. Gaehtgens (trans.S.J. Rabin) in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 182–83: Although Crawford's thesis "that the female practice of regency for the young king ultimately made the royal power replaceable and therefore led to the end of the Ancien Régime" may, according to the reviewer, remain debatable (183), Gaehtgens praises Crawford's work for its ambition and its thorough investigation and reinvestigation of primary and secondary sources in a multi-disciplinary context.

CRESCENDO, RICHARD, MARIE ROIG-MIRANDA & VÉRONIQUE ZAERCHER, eds. Le Mariage des XVIe et XVIIe siècles: réalités et représentations. Nancy: Université de Nancy II, 2003. eds.

Review: B. Boudou in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 968. This collection assembles forty scholarly papers that were presented during a three-day conference in Nancy in November 2001. Papers given analyzed the question of marriage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a phenomenon "qui engage la vie des individus et même des nations dans le cas des mariages politiques." Among the questions discussed in this volume are hierarchies, the dichotomy between ideal/reality, the economic order, etc.

DAMME, STÉPHANE VAN. Paris, capitale philosophique: de la Fronde à la Révolution. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2005.

Identified in Choice 44 (2006) as a "Significant European Scholarly Title" for 2005.

DAUBRESSE, SYLVIE. Le Parlement de Paris ou la voix de la raison (1559–1589). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 398. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: M.P. Holt in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 522–523: Daubresse's archival training at the École des Chartes is evident in this "thoroughly researched and clearly argued study" of the Parlement de Paris' relations with the last three Valois kings. Convincingly demonstrates that "the reality was much more nuanced and complex" than the "confrontation and opposition" typically presented by critics. Key issues are religious uniformity and royal finances. This volume is of much value to 17th c. historians and offers a complement to Michel De Waele's 2000 study Les relations entre le Parlement de Paris et Henri IV.

DINAN, SUSAN E. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: L. J. Taylor in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1223–25: This welcome extension of scholarly investigation into the role of women and active spirituality demonstrates the dependence of the state on religious women's social and education services in 17th c. France. Nuanced study argues that the feminization of the "French church of the modern era. . . began in the 17th c." (141).

DOMENECH, JACQUES, ed. Censure, autocensure et art d'écrire. De l'Antiquité à nos jours. Bruxelles : Éditions Complexe, 2005.

Review : J.-F. Somain in DFS 78 (Spring 2007), 159–161 : 《  L'ouvrage de Jacques Domenech permet d'approfondir ces notions qui sont au coeur de la conquête de la liberté, de la réflexion philosophique et de la pratique littéraire. Cet ouvrage, nettement eurocentrique, constitue les actes du Séminaire européen du CTEL (Centre transdisciplinaire d'épistémologies et de littérature) qui s'est déroulé à l'Université de Nice d'octobre 2001 à juin 2003.  》 Dans la première partie qui va de l'Antiquité au dix-huitième siècle, Olivier Bloch étudie le cas de Molière et Michel Bernsen étudie celui de La Fontaine. Dans la seconde partie, qui couvre l'Ancien Régime et l'Âge des Lumières, Marie-Paule de Weerdt-Pilorge étudie la censure et l'autocensure chez Saint-Simon. Le critique trouve que 《  les travaux de ces chercheurs éclairent bien les motivations des auteurs et le travail de révision littéraire.  》

DONTENWILL, SERGE. "Aspects de la vie quotidienne et de l'organisation sociale des communautés paysannes du centre sud-est de la France au temps de Louis XIV (1638–1715)." DSS 234 (2007), 97–134.

A lengthy and comprehensive socio-historical case study of rural social organization during the reign of Louis XIV. The author analyzes the social implications of many aspects of daily life, paying close attention to both external influence and community interaction.

DREVILLON, HERVE. Batailles, Scènes de guerre de la Table Ronde aux Tranchées. Paris : Seuil éd., 2007. Coll. L'Univers historique.

Review : C. Denys in QL 948 (du 16 au 30 juin 2007), 20–21 : 《  Après deux ouvrages de recherche historique savante, [...] Hervé Drévillon s'autorise ici un récit plus ouvert au grand public, récit qui sans s'écarter des méthodes rigoureuses de l'histoire scientifique-telle la critique des sources, essentielle pour passer au crible les témoignages des combattants-, se présente d'une manière plus allégée, sans appareil de notes, ni longs raisonnements socio-politiques. [...] L'auteur nous conduit de la fin du Moyen Âge jusqu'à l'aube du XXe siècle, à suivre la naissance puis la disparition par dilution dans l'espace et le temps de la bataille 'classique,' celle qui se décide en un jour, sur un terrain limité, entre deux armées face à face.  》 Le critique souligne le fait que l'auteur n'oublie jamais 《  le premier acteur de la bataille : le simple combattant, le fantassin ou le cavalier que l'on envoie marcher vers une haie de lances ou un déluge de feu  》.

ERBEN, DIETRICH. Paris und Rom. Die staatlich gelenkten Kunstbeziehungen unter Ludwig XIV. Berlin: Akademie, 2004. Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus, 9.

Review: M. Dauss in RF 118 (2006): 507–10: Highly informative "Habilitationsschrift" by Erben, an art historian whose erudition in literature is also impressive. Important for specialists interested in the relationship between cities in the Early Modern as well as between the politics and the production of art (architecture, sculpture, heraldry, painting, ceremonies, and so forth).

FARR, JAMES R. A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France. Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

Review: B. Sandberg in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 526–28: Praiseworthy as both "riveting and readable, equally appropriate for an audience of university students or general readers" (528). Farr's close examination of a particular case of the sudden disappearance of a presiding judge in Burgundy's Chambre des Comptes along with his valet allows us to appreciate the "complex and prolonged judicial investigation " in this case as well as "excruciatingly slow. . . mechanisms of justice" and "nefarious corruption within Dijon's highest court" (527). Impressive use of "voluminous manuscript records" plus faithfulness to "well-established social-historical methodology" (527).

FAVREAU, MARC. "De la bordure au tableau: l'évolution de la représentation enfantine dans les tapisseries françaises du Grand Siècle (1598–1715)." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 217–237.

As an elite art form available to only very few, tapestries generally reflect the values of their ecclesiastical or noble patrons who showed very little interest in child subjects. When they appear, children are represented in tapestry as "l'enfant divinisé" (Christ and other biblical figures), decorative border figures (putti) and, very infrequently, as "l'enfant héroïsé."

FAVREAU, MARC. "Deux couronnes en représentation" les marriages franco-espagnols de 1615 et 1659." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 281–306.

The author compares and contrasts the royal marriage of Louis XIII and Anne d'Autriche (1615) with the nuptials of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse and fills in gaps in our knowledge of these state occasions through readings of contemporary accounts.

FOLLAIN, ANTOINE. "L'administration des villages par les paysans au XVIIe siècle." DSS 234 (2007), 135–156.

Lamenting the lack of modern progress in understanding the administrative and social intricacies of the rural 17th c. French village, the author jousts with Albert Babeau's 18th c. contribution to the subject, adds a refreshing new perspective, and exhorts his colleagues to action in exploring this neglected yet exciting avenue of research.

FRASER, ANTONIA. Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006.

Review: P. Mansel in TLS 5410 (Dec 8 2006): 32. A "fluent and energetic book" which treats the king's relationship not just with his mistresses but with his mother and granddaughter-in-law, among others. Reviewer praises Fraser's "vast knowledge" and says readers will appreciate "details about background to court life." A different Louis XIV emerges here, for he appears as a "strong" monarch who was more easily swayed by his emotions than either Louis XIII or Louis XVI. The court of France becomes, in this book, "a school of psychology."

FRISCH, ANDREA. The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2004.

Review: L. Chang in E Cr 46.1 (2006): 108: Although Frisch's focus is 16th c., it helpfully illuminates for the entire early modern period the notion and the reality of the witness and its development from "feudal 'ethical'" to "epistemic," the latter informed by Calvinist theology (as in the case of Jean de Léry) "which itself relied on the notion of the witness, a 'faithful interlocutor' who interprets experience and makes testimony meaningful" (rev.). Chang finds the project's greatest strengths to be the "juxtaposition of postmodern theory and early modern texts."

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

Review: n.a. in FMLS 42 (2006): 326: Eleven essays explore animals in European culture in the early modern. 17th c. scholars will find of interest the sections on "conceptions and connotations of animals" at the court of Louis XIV. If animals are "instrumentalised and objectified," boundaries between them and humans were "porous and vulnerable."

GAILLARD, AURELIA. "L'enfant en peinture au XVIIe siècle dans le tableau d'histoire: histoires d'enfance ou histoires de peinture?" In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 305–326.

While the influence of both religion and classical mythology account for the abundance of representations of children (particularly nude child figures) in seventeenth-century painting, children and childhood per se are neglected and instead communicate an allegorical meaning. The use of the figure of the child in painting thus reveals "toute l'ambivalence du langage pictural de la peinture d'histoire à l'âge classique."

GARRAWAY, DORIS. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.

Review: A. Stahl in FR 80 (2007), 706–07: "Through analysis of little-studied Old Regime texts from the French Caribbean, this book investigates disavowed aspects of colonial history, namely, the libidinal economies dominating power relations" (706). Drawing on texts by white male colonizers from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Garraway examines the ways in which narratives of incestuous family romance wind their way through these writings and how they contribute to white male supremacy in Caribbean societies. Engages many disciplines and takes up several contemporary scholarly debates. "Garraway's attention to terms and tropes, i.e., the distinction between flibustiers and buccaneers, the etymology of "cannibal," and the development of the figure of the "zombie," adds to [the work's] appeal for use in some undergraduate courses" (707).

Review: S. Toczyski, in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 263–266. Favorable review remarks: "Garraway's work is a compelling account of the ways in which race, gender, sexuality, deviance, violence, religion, filiation and segregation influenced the cultural transformation of the French Caribbean, and the problematic hybridization of populations that resulted from the inevitable and often coerced cross-cultural encounters that took place there. Helping to fill a lacuna born of what Edouard Glissant has called our 'collective amnesia,' Doris Gallaway's study will both challenge and change the way contemporary literary scholars read colonial narratives." She later adds, "one finds little to fault in this remarkable study of the profound ambivalences and contradictions emanating from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French colonies in the Carribean."

GIRON, CAROLINE. "Orfane filarmoniche L'éducation des orphelines à la musique dans la Venise du XVIIe siècle." 133–146.

GLENISSON, JEAN, ed. Histoire de l'Aunis et de la Saintonge. 3: Le Début des Temps modernes (1480–1610)/Marc Seguin. La Crèche: Geste, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 689 (2006), 107–108: "Le livre embrasse donc à la fois ce qu'on appelle 'le beau XVIe siècle et celui des troubles civils, particulièrement dévastateurs sur toute leur durée en Aunis et Saintonge. L'auteur, Marc Seguin, accomplit là son oeuvre maîtresse et il faut souligner d'emblée l'importance de ce livre. . . Il s'agit d'une avancée considérable dans la connaissance des deux provinces de l'ouest, dont l'auteur, en dépit de leur appartenance au diocèse de Saintes et de leur réunification départementale tardive, critique d'emblée l'unité factice."

GOEURY, JULIEN. "Guerres spirituelles et guerres temporelles dans les temples réformés au moment de la paix des Pyrénées." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 65–79.

Protestant preachers in 1659–1660 were torn between the desire to be loyal subjects (and using the pulpit to support France's war with Spain) and an ethical call to decry war's destruction and violence. This tension created a "secular pessimism" that prepared the Protestant community for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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, 2004.

Review: S. Macé in DSS 233 (2006), 755–756: Widely recognized as an extraordinary contribution to the field, reviewer praises the author's accomplishment in achieving such an ambitious project, combining study of literature, music, cultural history, and sociology and situating the Maison Ballard in the greater context of the century.

GROVE, LAURENCE. Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture: Emblems and Comic Strips. Studies in European Cultural Transition, 32. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: D. Graham in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1272–73: Grove's study provides "parallel mentalities," and case studies rather than a comprehensive survey. Theory, production, thematics and reception inform Grove's examination of these seemingly disparate mosaics. Reviewer appreciates the "thought provoking and unpretentious examples" studied enthusiastically and with intelligence, but regrets the publisher's lack of attention to details and striking printing errors.

HABIB, CLAUDE. La Galanterie française. Paris: Gallimard, 2006.

Review : D. Batude in QL 935 (du 1er au 15 déc. 2006), 26 : Habib 《  entend nous révéler comment l'alliance des rôles des femmes et des hommes valorise l'un et l'autre sexe, en réinventant dans un jeu complémentaire élégant le langage et les modes de vie liées à la différence sexuelle. (...) Dans les moeurs, le langage, en particulier écrit, joue un rôle fondamental, le livre de Claude Habib est donc très riche de citations et d'analyses d'oeuvres littéraires ; peut-être trop d'auteurs du XVIIe siècle sont-ils cités, même si c'est l'époque essentielle, alors que le livre est bien centré avec les auteurs des siècles suivants.  》

Review: M.-O. Padis in Esprit 1 (2007), 194–195: "Cet ouvrage se présente comme une histoire de la galanterie et nous entraîne donc, en suivant un movement régressif qui comble de proche en proche notre incompréhension de l'érotique galante, de la Belle Epoque au moment romantique avant de nous introduire dans l''âge galant', dont les libertés et les fictions constituent le coeur de l'ouvrage. Mais sa préoccupation n'est pas avant tout historienne: elle est de comprendre quelles sont nos ressources culturelles pour faire vivre la mixité, le mélange des sexes, dans la vie publique."

HAFFEMAYER, STEPHANE. Information et espace public. La presse périodique au XVIIe siècle. RdS 1 (2005), 109–137.

Abstract: " Depuis une vingtaine d'années, les spécialistes de la littérature du XVIIIe siècle ont accordé une attention croissante à l'étude de la presse d'Ancien Régime et mis en évidence la montée en puissance et le rôle révolutionnaire de l'imprimé auprès de l'opinion. À l'opposé de ce séduisant contexte culturel, la création de la presse au début du XVIIe siècle ne bénéficie pas d'un tel engouement. Discréditée pour sa servilité, l'information de la Gazette n'avait encore jamais fait l'objet d'une étude systématique et exhaustive. Pourtant, elle rencontra immédiatement un succès important, au point qu'elle suscita aussitôt des contrefaçons. À Grenoble, entre 1647 et 1663, les registres du libraire Nicolas dressent la liste de 171 abonnés fidèles à la lecture de sa réimpression lyonnaise. Cette passion du public pour la Gazette met en évidence le goût d'une nouvelle culture profane et nationale, ainsi qu'une conscience du politique que la lecture du périodique développe et enrichit. L'information place les actes du pouvoir sous le regard attentif des hommes et leur dévoile une certaine mécanique de la politique; ce faisant, en concédant ce premier partage de l'information, elle ouvre un champ de réflexion et de critique qui finira par lui être fatal."

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

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 147–148: Prose, poetry, drama and opera provide examples for Harris's analyses of the socio-cultural and literary-historical phenomenon. Considers reactions of institutions, the bienséances and the particularly well-documented case of the abbé de Choisy. Well documented and with rich bibliography.

HOLLSTEN, LAURA JOHANNA. "Knowing Nature: Knowledge of Nature in Seventeenth-Century French and English Travel Accounts for the Caribbean." DAI 67/02, 287.

Study argues that travel narratives written "during a period when knowledge about nature was undergoing significant changes, can illuminate important aspects of the history of environmental ideas." Focuses on new scientific and mechanistic views, but also discusses the older, organic knowledge of nature. Describes trends in the development of the production of knowledge of nature through the interaction between the known and the unfamiliar; the encounters of three different groups of people; the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, the Europeans and the Africans; and changes in the discipline and practise of natural history. "A study of the use of nature on the Caribbean sugar islands shows how the production of knowledge on the sugar plantations led both to deteriorating environments and improved agricultural techniques."

JACOB, MARGARET C. Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Review: D. Heimmermann in Choice 44 (2007), 1819–20: Concentrating on cultural and social practices, Jacobs examines forms of cross-class interaction and other forms of "border crossing" that laid the groundwork for cosmopolitan ideals. Jacobs traces a path between premodern cosmopolitanism and the emergence of universal principals under the French Revolution and republican movement. Highly recommended by the reviewer.

Review: B. T. Moran in Isis 97 (Dec 2006), 183–184. The work identifies pre-Enlightenment sources of cosmopolitanism, with special attention to early modern alchemy. The reviewer notes that the focus on alchemists does little to point to cosmopolitanism as a positive virtue, insofar as many of them were working at the margins of society and desired social rewards as much as financial payments.

JOHNSON, E. JOE. Once There Were Two True Friends : Idealized Male Friendship in French Narrative from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2003.

Review: E. Benkov in DFS 78 (Spring 2007), 149–150: This study is organized chronologically into four broad periods: medieval, renaissance, the "Age of Absolutism" and the "Age of Enlightenment." The third chapter treats the seventeenth century and examines Rosset's Histoires tragiques, one of La Fontaine's Fables, "Les Deux amis", and Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves where the focus is not on the princess but on the "amis intimes." The critic thinks that Johnson "overstates his case" in asserting that "these French texts on male friendship have gone beyond their national border and exerted a significant influence on modern, normative discourses concerning gender, sexuality, and friendship" but she does agree that the texts are "central to the French literary tradition of idealized male friendship."

JONES, JENNIFER. Sexing "La Mode," Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France. Oxford: Berg, 2004.

Review: D. McCallum in FS 60.4 (2006), 513–514. This "well-researched and articulate study" is an "intriguing" work of cultural history according to the reviewer. The book follows fashion, dominated by the person of Louis XIV during the latter half of the seventeenth century, through a process of democratization and feminization during the eighteenth. Jones covers the increasing importance of boutiques and the emergence of a fashion press as they replace the royal gift economy and court-centered life. The reviewer notes a few flaws—quotations are given only in English with no translation and too frequent typos—but insists that these do not detract from the value of the whole.

KAMMERMAN, DAVID. "Making the Cut: Medical, Political, and Textual Bodies in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France." DAI 67/10 (2007): 577.

From Descartes' construction of mechanized bodies to Sade, the dissertation examines radical differences in the conceptualization of corporeal figures. The dissertation explores the tensions "between understandings of bodies in the universe as indivisible or divisible, identical or different, and continuous or contiguous in select works."

KENNY, NEIL. The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Review: N. Paige in MLQ 68 (2007), 119–22. Brings a broad and potentially unruly topic under control, organizing its material in terms of two groups, "institutions" and "discursive tendencies." Reviewer finds Kenny particularly strong in his discussion of literary and aesthetic uses of curiosity, and applauds his conscientious use of scholarship, resistance to hype, and scholarly care. The book is deemed not entirely convincing in its attempt to argue against a generalized cultural shift toward the valorization of curiosity, but the reviewer nonetheless grants the work praise.

LAMAY, THOMASIN, ed. Musical Voices of Early Modern Women: Many Headed Melodies. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2004.

Review: A.L James in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 145–47: Divided into five sections: "Introduction to the Many Headed Ones," "Women En-voiced," "Women on Stage," "Women from the Convents," and "Women, Collections and Publishing," the volume includes two essays focusing on women in France, one on music and eroticism and another on gender representation and the influence of Lully's 'Operatic Style.'

LANDRY, NICOLAS. "Pêcheurs-engagés à Terre Neuve sous le Régime français, 1688–1713." French Colonial History 8 (2007): 1–21.

Uses archival sources to explore the working conditions of hired fishermen in both "dry" (dried and salted) and "wet" (fresh) fisheries in Plaisance, Newfoundland.

LOPEZ, DENIS. "L'éducation du prince au XVIIe siècle: regards sur l'enfance." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 61–113.

The author examines the historical context of royal education programs in order to separate seventeenth-century innovations from the practices of previous eras. He challenges the persistent belief that the education of royal heirs was largely neglected and offers details on the experience of Henri IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and the Grand Dauphin. He then examines la pudeur and les châtiments corporels before analyzing the royal programs of study. What emerges is an image of tremendous care and concern for royal children's upbringing rather than casual neglect.

LOTTIN, ALAIN, ANNIE CREPIN et JEAN MARC GUISLIN, eds. Intendants et préfets dans le Nord-Pas-de-Calais. (XVIIe–XXe siècle). Artois: Presses Université, 2002.

Review: J. Logie in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 505–509: Un volume comprenant "les communications d'un colloque organisé par l'Université d'Artois en mars 2000, à l'occasion du bicentenaire de l'institution préfectorale. . ." On trouve que le mérite du volume "outre l'intérêt propre des communications, réside évidemment dans la perception de la longue durée et des vicissitudes multiples que la succession des régimes imposa aux représentants locaux du pouvoir central dans cette région du nord de la France, tellement importante sur les plans politique et économique."

LOYSEN, KATHLEEN. "Chattering Women: From the Evangiles des quenouilles to the Caquets de l'accouchée." SCFS 28 (2006), 21–31.

Through an analysis of a series of oppositions set up by each text ("male/female, literate/illiterate, written literature/oral exchange"), Loysen sets out to evaluate "the differing values ascribed to men's and women's verbal output, knowledge systems, and means of publication and dissemination of their knowledge."

MALEUVRE, DIDIER. "The Threat of Color in Seventeenth-Century Esthetics." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 233–247.

Sets out to examine the philosophical ideas underpinning the debate in aesthetics which pitched partisans of Form (les Anciens) against partisans of Colour (les Modernes).

MCCLURE, ELLEN M. Sunspots and the Sun King. Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Review: D. Baxter in Choice 44 (2007), 1598: Explores inconsistencies in Grand Siècle representations of kingship which arise from conflicting sacred and secular / scientific notions of authority in the period. McClure shows how royal representations attempted to close up this divide. Her work makes admirable use of period political writing, as well as theater.

Review: R. Racevskis in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 543–546. Reviewer welcomes this "expertly researched study that problematizes early modern constructions of royal authority." Is particularly appreciative of the analysis of political theories and the "fine work on primary sources," both of which "make this book a significant contribution to early modern historical, literary and cultural studies."

MCTAVISH, LIANNE. Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: C. Klestinec in Isis 97 (Dec 2006), 184–185. "This book treats the obstetrical treatises produced in France from 1550 to 1750 as a genre with particular conventions, as a site for producing authority, and as a window into the politics of seeing that structured power relations in the birthing chamber." (185) The reviewer particularly appreciates the attention to the relationship between surgery and midwifery rather than simply to that between learned and practical medicine, and calls it an important study.

Review: V. Worth-Stylianou in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 180–81: McTavish focuses on some 24 French obstetric treatises published over two centuries. This thematically organized volume draws upon methodologies of art history, semiotics and cultural studies. Reviewer notes reservations and limitations but praises "other major achievements," for example, where she combines "the eye of an art historian with incisive questions of cultural history" (181).

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "L'enfant-roi: une figure de l'imaginaire politique moderne." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 329–341.

As a symbol of obedience and weakness, the image of the child was uniquely suited to representing the ideology behind the emerging modern concept of the nation-state. The figure of the enfant-roi, however, develops the paradoxical interplay of political force and weakness.

MECHOULAN, ERIC. "La guerre, source du lien social: les exemples de Hobbes et Pascal." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 51–61.

The author compares and contrasts the philosophical positions of Pascal and Hobbes on war and society and concludes that both philosphers view war as a natural, human phenomenon that is the origin of the state and, paradoxically, a source of social bonds.

MILNE, ANNE. "Fables of the Bees: Species as an Intercultural Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Scientific and Literary Texts." E Cr 46.2 (2006): 33–41.

Although the focus of this article of eco-criticism is on John Gay's and Bernard Mandeville's writings, there are some considerations of La Fontaine's "The Drones and the Bees." Milne concludes that La Fontaine "fails to take into account the holistic perspective and fails to imagine bees as essential to a larger biological community. . . The scenario played out [in the fable] is completely unnatural and uncharacteristic of bee behavior. . . The major truth derived is not that of a cooperative, socially-dependent ecosystem but of a social hierarchy that emphasizes power relations and imperatives of ownership" (38).

MILOVANOVIC, NICOLAS. Les grands appartements de Versailles sous Louis XIV: catalogue des décors peints. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2005.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 675 (2005), 43–44: "L'auteur, Nicolas Milovanovic, est conservateur au musée national du château de Versailles et spécialiste de la grande peinture décorative du XVIIe siècle. Il a pu aborder ce sujet complexe sous ses angles les plus importants: historique et iconographique, représentatif et esthétique." L'ouvrage apporte beaucoup d'éclaircissements sur "le rôle des hommes de lettres réunis par Colbert dans ce qu'il était coutume d'appeler la 'Petite Académie'," sur "les contributions de nombreux artistes qui travaillèrent sur le chantier des Appartements", sur "la composition d'un 'portrait du roi', dont l'aspect glorieux était l'un des principaux et des plus constants soucis du Roi-Soleil et de ses surintendants successifs."

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. "Evil communications corrupt good manners." SCFS 28 (2006), 173–182.

Examines "the view of human beings' relationship to language that leads it to be perceived as dangerous," focusing particularly on Pierre Nicole's "Discours où l'on fait voir combien les entretiens des hommes sont dangereux" from the second volume of the Essais de morale.

MOUSNIER, ROLAND. Les Institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue, 1598–1789. Paris: PUF, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 675 (2005), 104: La première partie de cet ouvrage (dont la première édition date de 1974) "présente d'une part la société d'Ancien Régime avec sa classification en ordres, d'autre part l'Etat, les moyens dont il dispose, qui s'accroissent avec le temps. La seconde partie étudie ces moyens et leur fonctionnement, mais sans les séparer de la vie de leurs titulaires, ce qui rend ces pages étonnamment vivantes." On regrette le manque de développement substantiel consacré "à l'armée, à la marine, à la police, qui furent d'indéniables instruments du développement de la puissance royale." Volume bien documenté.

MULSOW, MARTIN & JAN ROHLS, eds. Socianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 134. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Review: R. E. McLaughlin in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 915–16: Wide-ranging geographically and focusing on the 17th and the early 18th c., these selected proceedings of a 2003 Munich symposium on "Socianism and Cultural Exchange" demonstrate "the pervasiveness of Socianism speculation among dissenters and progressive thinkers from Poland to the British Isles." The essays also contribute "to our understanding of the often surmised, but rarely demonstrated, links between Reformation, Radicalism and the Enlightenment" (915). French scholars will find of particular interest Didier Kahn's examination of Nicolas Barnaud, alchemist and printer of radical texts. Useful index of names.

NELSON, ERIC. The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590–1615). Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Jesu 58. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: T. Worcester in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 883–84: Main focus of this examination is "the Edict of Rouen of 1 September 1603, the royal edict by which Henry readmitted the Jesuits" (883). Nelson illuminates royal patronage, Jesuit expansion and treats "royal will as law" as well as the religious order (883). Valuable for scholars of early modern politics and religion.

NIDERST, ALAIN. "Les peintres du théâtre (Gillot, Watteau)." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 511–523.

Overview and analysis of the paintings of Gillot and Watteau devoted to late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century theatre. Four paintings are reproduced in miniature.

NOUIS, LUCIEN. "Politiques de l'hospitalité (1632–1796)." DAI 67/04 (2006).

Dissertation discusses the emergence of the new discourse on hospitality within the institution of the modern nation-state, and the new understanding of space and community. It address how hospitality "became increasingly bound to questions of religious tolerance, sovereignty, territory, law, and cosmopolitanism." Authors studied include Pierre Bayle's Commentaire philosophique sur les paroles de Jésus-Christ 《 Contrains-les d'entrer 》, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Kant. "From this historical inquiry into the political re-conceptualization of hospitality emerges the idea that it can be best understood as a systemic tension between the inside and the outside—an immunological process, by way of which the sphere of the familiar admits, rejects, or distances that which is foreign."

PASQUIER, PIERRE. "L'Hôtel de Bourgogne et son evolution architecturale: elements pour une synthèse." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 47–71.

The author surveys the history of the Hôtel de Bourgogne which was built in 1548 by the Confrérie de la Passion for the staging of mystery plays (which had ostensibly been banned by the Parlement de Paris). The article traces the evolution of the space to show how a theatre with roots in medieval drama became synonymous with theatrical modernity and innovation.

PASQUIER, PIERRE, ed. Le mémoire de Mahelot: Mémoire pour le décoration des pièces qui se représentent par les Comédiens du Roi. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: D. Muller in ThS 47 (2006): 129–31. An edition that "goes a long way to remind us that there is much to learn (and unlearn) from the sources we think we already know." Pasquier's introduction is excellent as "a survey of scenic practice" and as a "contextual synthesis" of the historical work that relies on this manuscript. This new edition is "exemplary" in its description of the physical manuscript and in the analysis of the manuscript's functions and textual development.

PELLEGRIN, NICOLE, ed. Histoires d'historiennes. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'université Sainte-Etienne, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 689 (2006), 99: "Coordonné par Nicole Pellegrin, Histoires d'historiennes se propose pourtant, en dépit de la ténuité de la matière, d'étudier la participation du sexe prétendument faible aux études historiques, 'sujet largement ignoré' et qui risque de le rester, tant les figures convoquées par les auteur-e-s (il n'y pas un seul homme à la table des matières: faudra-t-il des quotas pour qu'ils soient représentés?) appartiennent—dans le meilleur des cas—au second rang. On lira quelques articles sur des 'historiennes' d'Ancien Régime, en fait le plus souvent des écrivains de fiction: Christine de Pizan, Mmes de Villedieu, de Genlis, de Charrière."

PERKINS, WENDY. "Women, conversation and silence." SCFS 28 (2006), 205–220.

Examines the role women played in fostering conversation at informal everyday gatherings, given the emphasis placed on silence and submission in their convent educations.

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

Review: J. Tsien in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 556–557. Reviewer welcomes this "subtle and well-argued exposition of the relationship between the early modern scientific aspirations to map out the world and the creative use of those same methods to express a multiple, ever-changing field of human behavior and sentiment. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as students of post-colonialism, will find this to be an informative and enjoyable read."

PHILLIPS, HENRY. "Voices And Choices: Culture As Conversation." SCFS 28 (2006), 1–19.

Focuses on "the notion of conversation as exchange, the mutual relation involved in that exchange, and the value or use of conversation ascribed to human intercourse and society generally." Phillips aims to "offer some considerations concerning the nature and validity of conversation as a model of cultural discourse by looking at examples in the seventeenth century and at certain more recent historical and critical positions on conversation and social relations. In other words, conversation will be considered as an order of discourse, but also in terms of an order of discourse related to social order. In addition, conversation will be seen to exist in relation to other forms of discourse which might seem to run counter to order."

PICCO, DOMINIQUE. "L'éducation des demoiselles de Saint-Cyr (1686–1719)." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 115–131.

Saint-Cyr offers the possibility to study women's education as it was actually practiced as opposed to its conceptualization in the seventeenth century. The author surveys the policy of selecting girls from the nobility for the school as well as the goals of their education: creating a proper, Christian home for husband and children. The school itself stressed piety and the traditional notion of mens sana in corpore sano. In the classroom, reading and writing French (and eradicating traces of patois) were primary.

PIQUE, NICOLAS. Diversité des réactions réformées à la Révocation. L'esprit du monde en question. RdS 1 (2005), 91–108.

Abstract: "À partir de l'analyse de la diversité des réactions réformées à l'édit de Fontainebleau, cet article se propose de suivre l'avènement de deux des concepts fondateurs de la modernité politique, la distinction des sphères religieuse et politique d'une part, la souveraineté populaire d'autre part. Toutefois, l'analyse généalogique soulignera l'émergence distincte de ces deux notions, en fonction de logiques croisées et apparemment paradoxales dont il faudra chercher la cohérence dans les positions anthropologiques qui les sous-tendent. L'étude des débats théologiques modernes dessine de la sorte l'une des voies par laquelle les concepts politiques modernes ont été formés."

PLOUCHART-COHN, FLORENCE, trad. & ed., avec la collaboration d'Anne Bouscharain. Tommaso Campanella. Sur la mission de la France. Paris: Rue d'ULM, 2005.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 676 (2005), 90: "Le volume intitulé Sur la mission de la France réunit quatre textes soit peu avant l'installation de leur auteur à Paris, soit après que Campanella s'est fixé en France: un Dialogue politique entre un Vénitien, un Espagnol et un Français à propos des récents troubles de France (1632), des Aphorismes politiques en faveur des nécessités présentes de la France, des Avertissements à la nations française (1635) et des Discours politiques en faveur du siècle présent (1636)." Campanella "constate le déclin de la monarchie très catholique [en Espagne]. Il ne fait pour lui aucun doute que la France doit reprendre à son compte cet idéal universel et il ne se fait pas faute d'écrire sa pensée à Louis XIII et à Richelieu."

POMIAN, KRZYSTOF. Des saintes reliques à l'art moderne. Venise-Chicago. XIIIe–XXe- siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 2003.

Review: C. Loir in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 526–527: "C'est en 1987 qu'il publie son ouvrage, devenu célèbre, Collectionneurs, amateurs et curieux. Paris, Venise, XVIe–XVIIIe siècles. Grâce à la rédition de onze articles et contributions publiés depuis cet ouvrage, la collection 'Bibliothèque des Histoires' met aujourd'hui à la disposition des chercheurs un recueil réunissant les apports les plus substantiels de cet auteur à la recherche sur les collections depuis une quinzaine d'années. Les thèmes traités couvrent différents aspects de l'histoire des collections depuis la fin du moyen âge jusqu'au début de l'époque contemporaine, en Europe et en Amérique du Nord."

ROHOU, JEAN. Le XVIIe siècle, une révolution de la condition humaine. Paris: Seuil, 2002.

Review: M. Bouvier in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 245. Bouvier speaks favorably of this study, which leaves us with many questions to ponder and manifests Rohou's erudition on his subject. Rohou conceives of the classical era as a time of anxiety, as opposed to stability. He analyzes the anthropological system, then shows how men of great influence (including lettrés and bourgeois), looked to satisfy their personal desires by trying to force the established system to tumble, while nonetheless remaining modelled by this system, directed by its values, living the lifestyle of hardship in their pretended antimony. Such tension comes to a head at the time when Pascal and La Rochefoucauld were major figures who, in fact, would turn out to be sources of this tension during Louis XIV, while the values of raison, conscience and desire came to light, naturally leading to the Age of Enlightenment. This book brings into play all aspects of knowledge and science in the seventeenth century. It brings back into usage old concepts, while making them new, as well as exploring new theories. Bouvier does find fault with the work's treatment of the secularization of divine ideas throughout the course of the century.

ROLLIN, SOPHIE. "De la société de salon à la société de cour: l'ambivalence du processus de civilization." FLS 33 (2006): 134–145.

Rollin observes how the seventeenth century is marked by a passage from salon civilization to court civilization. The political values (politiques et politesse), borrowed from salon culture, are reinserted into French court life, first by Richelieu, then by Louis XIV. Mundane tastes and usages are thereby given more developed visibility. She also explores how salons continued to offer access to hommes d'esprit while the court, submitting to the idea of taste and nobility, would not allow for such liberality. The gallants hommes became honnêtes hommes, as audacity was slowly replaced by subdued conformity.

SAUZET, ROBERT. Au grand siècle des âmes. Guerre sainte et paix chrétienne en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris : Perrin éd., 2007.

Review : J.-M. Le Gall in QL 948 (du 16 au 30 juin 2007), 19–20 : Le critique énumère plusieurs critiques de l'œuvre comme, par exemple, 《  l'auteur ne hiérarchise pas clairement les causes du reflux de l'esprit de guerre sainte à la fin du XVIIe siècle, qu'il relativise du reste en rappelant la guerre des Camisards en pleine crise de conscience européenne  》, ou encore 《  Il me semble que le transfert de la guerre sainte dans le cadre des conflits entre Etats et Nations aurait été aussi une piste à explorer. Certes, Robert Sauzet montre que la guerre crée parfois une union sacrée entre sujets d'un même roi, appartenant à des confessions rivales. Mais il aurait fallu peut-être aussi voir en quoi la défense de la patrie prend l'allure d'une guerre sacrée qui diabolise l'adversaire, en évoquant par exemple le sa du Palatinat  》. Malgré tout ceci, le critique trouve que 《  ce livre écrit d'une plume alerte offre un tableau vivant, ample et synthétique de l'intolérance du Grand Siècle  》.

SCHLEINER, WINFRIED. "L'exercice physique des jeunes à l'époque de la Renaissance." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 33–43.

The author examines the hierarchization of different jeux and exercices according to different views of child physical and moral development. Renaissance pedagogues were divided over whether children should be toughened by sport or protected from it. Others viewed sport as a window onto a child's personality and temperament. Finally, the game of tennis (jeu de paume), for example, was lauded as a game that taught moderation but in practice the game was contentious and occasionally violent.

SECRETAN, CATHERINE. L'Edit de Nantes et l'indifférence hollandaise. RdS 1 (2005), 15–32.

Abstract: "La promulgation de l'édit de Nantes, en 1598, a-t-elle connu aux Pays-Bas un écho comparable celui provoqué par la Révocation de ce même édit, un siècle plus tard? Une première enquête menée à partir de documents directement liés aux évènements de l'époque (correspondances d'hommes politiques, pamphlets, actes de synodes, etc.) ne livre aucun témoignage révélateur d'un intérêt néerlandais pour le règlement français du biconfessionnalisme. Les hypothèses avancées dans cet article pour expliquer ce silence se fondent sur les déplacements des enjeux politiques et théologiques de la tolérance entre la France et les Pays-Bas dans la période considérée."

SERVANT, ISABELLE. "Foucault revisité par les sociologues et les historiens: la marginalisation productive des pauvres au XVIIe siècle." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 323–332.

Returns to Foucault's idea of a 'grand renfermement' to analyse perceptions and representations of poverty and exclusion in both the seventeenth century and today.

SHOEMAKER, PETER. "Learning to Drink: Attitudes toward Drinking in Seventeenth-Century Guides to Manners." CdDS 11.1 (2006): 283–294.

Article deals with the conventions and rituals of eating; how man and how the aristocratic culture of eating in the seventeenth century revolved around two poles: that of the cabaret and that of "polite society." As aristocrats embraced the idea of polite society, the drunken body became increasingly vulgar, marking "inferior social status." Author gives numerous examples of how important drinking and eating was in the classical age.

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

Review: M. Jurdjevic in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 183–85: Important reassessment of Amelot de La Houssaye's role as 17th c. French author, printer, editor and "tireless disseminator of Tacitus, Machiavelli and Paolo Sarpi" (183). Jurdjevic finds that Soll "makes a convincing case "that the Enlightenment owes a greater debt to the seventeenth century than has been appreciated, but. . . suggests that [it] is smaller than [that] to the Italian sixteenth" (185).

Review: V. Kahn in Fr F 31.2 (2006): 127–130: Soll's focus is Amelot de La Houssaye (1634–1706) who edited and translated writers such as Tacitus and Machiavelli. Soll emphasizes the importance of humanist editors and translators for absolutism. Reviewer finds the study engaging, provocative and useful for the reception of Machiavelli, if less than convincing at times (due to generalizations about secular political theory in early modern Europe, for example).

SOURIAC, RENE. "Le 《  sens politique  》 des paysans aux Temps modernes en France. Cultures et comportements paysans, vers 1550 – vers 1650." DSS 234 (2007), 11–29.

Concentrating on historical documents and information from the region around Toulouse, the author weighs in on the greater polemic surrounding the controversial quest to determine "l'identité politique des paysans," while attempting to tease out individual and collective attitudes throughout this ambitiously defined period.

STANDRING, TIMOTHY J. "Claude Lorrain." Burlington 1250 (2007): 356–57.

A review of the exhibition Claude Lorrain: The Painter as Draftsman. Drawings from the British Museum that traveled to San Francisco, Williamstown and Washington, D.C. Lorrain was a French-born painter of the late seventeenth century who studied in Rome and Naples before establishing himself as a forerunner of Wilson, Turner and Cole. The reviewer praises the exhibition and Lorrain's talents, as well as Richard Rand's catalog, declaring that exhibition and text together cause one to "part from Claude's works regretfully, wishing to continue witnessing his drawings as records of poetic responses."

STEINBERG, SYLVIE. "Nés de la terre? Les bâtards dans leurs familles au XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 343–358.

Legal treatises offer over-simplified principles concerning the legal status of illegitimate children and the constitution of families. Records of actual legal proceedings, however, reveal a wide variety of family situations and legal remedies, diverging conceptions of lineage, and the importance often accorded to bonds of affection and tenderness.

STICKER, HENRI-JACQUES, ed. Corps infirmes et sociétés. 3e ed. Paris: Dunod, 2006.

Review: G. Vigarello in Esprit 10 (2006), 223–225: "Le thème central est la notion de l'infirmité. C'est que l'image de l'infirmité, pour longtemps, s'efface d'abord devant celle de la monstruosité, la seule retenue traditionnellement lorsque la culture occidentale veut signifier le bouleversement de l'intégrité corporelle." Au 17e siècle, la création de l'Hôtel des Invalides en 1674 "définit. . . des territories du malheur physique hors celui de la mendicité, et, bien sûr, de la monstruosité. L'invalide, loin d'être gueux, est celui qu'une attenite corporelle a brisé. Il existe à partir de son mal. Il est identifié à lui."

STICKER, HENRI-JACQUES. Les Fables peintes du corps abîmé. Les Images de l'infirmité du XVIe au XXe siècle. Paris: Cerf, 2006.

Review: G. Vigarello in Esprit 10 (2006), 223–225: ". . .ce livre a une ambition plus grande: montrer que l'histoire de la peinture est aussi l'histoire de l'exploration du 'difforme', ou plus encore que l'histoire de la peinture est aussi l'histoire de l'abandon du corps chrétien. D'où cet éloignement non limité aux formes, explorant ce qui les habite, sondant les effets de l'intériorité, ceux de la folie, ceux de l'extême individualité."

THIEBAUD, JANE RATHER. "Madame de Rambouillet's Chambre Bleue: Birthplace of Salon Culture." DAI 86/06 (2007): 170.

This dissertation studies the scope and value of Madame de Rambouillet's innovative contribution in the light of the twenty-first century, "as communication by machine overshadows living face to face conversation and sociability. Her inestimable contribution to French culture deserves full recognition to inspire its much needed revival."

THOMSON, ERIK. "Commerce, Law, and Erudite Culture: The Mechanics of Théodore Godefroy's Service to Cardinal Richelieu." JHI 68 (July 2007), 407–427.

Traces Godefroy's self-invention as an expert on commerce to Richelieu, and argues that his underanalyzed papers demonstrate that "early seventeenth century commercial debated focused on the just and effective exercise of sovereignty." (409) Using manuscripts that reveal his reading, connections and intellectual methods, it shows how Godefroy used his connections in the Parisian lettered circles and a politicized group within the Republic of Letters to gather commercial information, and used the techniques of juridical scholarship to organize his collection. Demonstrates at length Godefroy's efforts to compile commercial knowledge from hundreds of books, maxims, documents, arguments, and counsels from across the continent; concludes by stating that we should not underestimate "interested scholarship's role in the expansion of knowledge." (427) Godefroy's papers suggest that historians must look beyond a narrow canon of "mercantilist" works to understand seventeenth-century debates about the governance of commerce, to a broader context of debates about law, history, and sovereignty." (abstract)

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les spectateurs de la vie. Généalogie du regard moraliste. Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2005.

Review: G.C. Banderier in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1222–23: Banderier finds Van Delft both a "boar" and a "fox"; while he is devoted to the examination of French moralists he also surveys an ancient and ongoing philosophical tradition. Although most of the essays here have been published previously, they are revised and richly deserving of an English translation. Scholars from diverse fields will benefit from this "welcome work of Toposforschung" which interprets engravings and paintings as well as literature.

Review: R. Baustert in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 279–282. Very favourable review where reviewer comments: "En somme, nous voici en présence d'une magistrale histoire du Spectateur qui, de contemplateur de l'absolu, se mue, aux temps nouveaux, en explorateur d'optiques."

Review: M.-O, Sweetser in FR 80 (2007), 1373–74: Van Delft's highly praised study attempts to think about moralist writing from the perspective of spectatorship. Its premise is that the early modern spectator, even when developing a more secular view of the world, and even when attempting to restrict him or herself to pure description, "demeure tenté de promouvoir une morale" (1373). The work is thought-provoking on issues of genre as well as on specific texts.

VAN DER CRUYSSE, DIRK. De Branche en branche: études sur le XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles français. Eds. Kris Peeters, Paul Pelckmans, Luc Rasson, and Bruno Tritsmans. La République des Lettres 26. Paris: Peeters, 2005.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 80 (2007), 1374–75: This collection of eighteen articles by Dirk Van der Cruysse celebrates a long and wide ranging career. The volume holds particular interest in its discussion of the Grand Siècle's foreign ambitions, which Van der Cruysse has addressed in monographs like Louis XIV et le Siam and critical editions such as the Journal du voyage au Siam de l'abbé de Choisy. He broaches these subjects again here.

VAN ELSLANDE, JEAN-PIERRE. "Imiter et désobéir: les enfants dans la littérature pré-moderne (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 45–59.

The author sketches a history of the representation of childhood by focusing on the figures of "l'enfant sage" and "l'enfant terrible" which represent two distinct pedagogical orientations. The former objectifies the child and viewed childhood as a time to mold and shape the passive child, whereas the latter sees the child as having "son mot à dire" as an active subject for whom norms and authority must be adapted.

VAN ORDEN, KATE. Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005.

Review: A.E. Moyer in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 528–30: "Persuasive" and "masterful," this "impressive contribution both to the history of music and to European cultural history" argues that "music played a central role in the transformations of French culture from the 16th to the 17th c." (528, 530). "Music" is understood here in its broadest sense, embracing education with its reforms, social roles, "musical activities with court participants" (including rulers), official ceremonies, military life (we see, for example, in dance manuals and military handbooks "remarkably similar charts for the movement of participants" (529).

VIALA, ALAIN. "Querelles galantes." SCFS 29 (2007), 9–18.

Analyses two distinct attitudes towards the model of galanterie, "une qui fait de la galanterie une modernité temperée et une autre qui en fait une modernité radicale. La première a été théorisée en particulier par un auteur comme Pellisson, la seconde par Charles Perrault notamment. Leur contraste s'éclaire par l'existence de deux courants différents de la galanterie, mais aussi par la façon dont la France vise, dans la seconde moitié du siècle, à imposer la galanterie comme son modèle national, et éminemment moderne."

WAGNER, MARIE-FRANCE. "Vers la disparition du lieu de la cérémonie. La tribune des harangues dans les entrées royals au XVIIe siècle." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 261–279.

The tribune des harangues disappeared from the royal entrée ceremony because it valorized the orator and offered a "democratic" contact between sovereign and municipal powers, thereby minimizing the monarch. Its removal allowed for total royal control of the entrée's symbolic message and reduced "le peuple" to silence and a "decorum sclérosé."

WAINWRIGHT, JONATHAN and PETER HOLMAN, eds. From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: B. Bullard in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 558–59: Praiseworthy for the "laudable research," the "valuable information" and "significant correctives" provided (559). This selection of papers and workshop reports from the 1999 conference of the National Early Music Association held in York, England includes numerous areas of interest to 17th c. French scholars, for example, on French lute style, the contribution of theorboed lutes to Airs de Cour, the evolution of consorts into orchestras in France, etc. Bullard would have preferred the inclusion of definitions and cross-referencing as well as better quality illustrations.

WARD, SEAN. "Functional Differentiation and the Crisis in Early Modern Upper-Class Conversation: The Second Madame, Interaction, and Isolation." SCFS 28 (2006), 235–247.

Argues that Elisabeth Charlotte, countess Palatine, was "not as reclusive as she often made herself out to be and that her dissatisfaction with society, though perhaps extreme (or at least extreme as chronicled in her letters), was to a considerable degree a consequence of a crisis in interaction in early modern high society," an interaction characterised by increasingly vapid polite conversation.

WATERLOT, GHISLAIN. La Tolérance et la crainte. La relation au pouvoir sous le régime de édit de Nantes. Agrippa d'Aubigné et Moyse Amyraut. RdS 1 (2005), 33–50.

Abstract: "La tolérance, telle que l'entend l'édit de Nantes, est un pis-aller. Les partis catholiques et réformés s'accordent sur l'idée que la tolérance est provisoire, car la restauration de l'unité religieuse doit demeurer la visée. Mais les réformés, minoritaires, sont en position défensive. Beaucoup parmi eux pensent que la tolérance ne tiendra que s'ils continuent de se faire craindre des catholiques. D'où la promotion, par Agrippa d'Aubigné, de l'esprit de résistance. Mais les forces armées protestantes sont réduites en 1629. En fonction de ce nouveau contexte, Moyse Amyraut, tout en professant un parfait loyalisme à l'égard du monarque catholique, sera amené à formuler les linéaments d'une nouvelle théorie de la tolérance, selon laquelle la tolérance n'est plus une grâce temporaire, mais un droit."

WETSEL, DAVID & FRÉDÉRIC CANOVAS with CHRISTINE MCCALL PROBES and BUFORD NORMAN, eds. Les femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: musique et littérature. Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Vol. 2. Tübingen: Narr, 2003.

Review: U. Jung in RF 118 (2006): 278–81: These selected, refereed contributions to the 2001 conference of NASSCFL held at Arizona State are organized in two sections, the first with 16 essays on "Les femmes au Grand Siècle" edited by Probes, the second with 3 essays on "Le Baroque: music et littérature" edited by Norman. In her introduction Probes correctly reminds us that recent decades have seen numerous and important studies on the woman from both sides of the Atlantic. This section is wide-ranging, from studies on concepts of "préciosité" and "galanterie" to specific feminine friendships as revealed in letters, to the theatre (5 articles), fairy tale authors (sexuality and gender), women's voices, and others, giving a taste of the 4 sessions that series editor and president of the society Wetsel had charged Probes with organizing. Norman's edited section includes a rich discussion of "opera mania" over three periods of French opera history, a study of Charpentier's religious music in his Médée, and conversely an examination of the worldly quality of Jean Gilles' Requiem, a composition which itself was featured in a performance for congressistes and the community-at-large.

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. "A Modest Proposal for Queering the Past: A Queer Princess with a Space of HER OWN." FLS 34 (2006): 35–49.

Article claims that the queer existed before the invention of the homosexual in the nineteenth century. It searches for a queer seventeenth century, moving "from the figure of Monsieur, Louis XIV's brother. . . to the Princess of Clèves." The author deliberately uses the word queer and not gay, as it relates best to a form of "contextual discomfort." In La Princesse de Clèves, he views the princess' decision not to marry Nemours as a sort of homosexual dénouement, which challenges the received ideas of 'proper' feminine behavior.

BAUDRY, HERVÉ. "Modernité du paracelsisme (1560–1660) et 'antiquité moderne'." SCFS 29 (2007), 89–100.

Sets out to evaluate Paracelsism in terms of "une forme de positivité au sens où la notion de modernité fait réference à une actualité conçue dans son évolution par différence ou opposition. Cette démarche se propose de cerner les contours d'une certaine conscience historique, aux origines de la 'modernité classique' [et] implique la formation d'un sens de l'histoire au XVIe qui est 'conscience de la différence entre passé et présent'. Notre réflexion vise donc à définir une modernité en cherchant à saisir à travers l'étude de figures thématiques et discursives l'expression de cette différence dans un courant de pensée participant pleinement du 'nouvel esprit' de la Renaissance."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. La Conversation intérieure: la méditation en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: R. Parish in FS 61.1 (2007), 91–92: This positive review praises both the tight focus of Belin's examination of meditation as a specific practice and form of writing in the seventeenth century as well the diverse choices he makes in analyzing literary form, from La Ceppède, Bérulle and Bossuet to Pascal, Descartes and Malebranche. Belin's "remarkable book" contains an "elegance of density and expression" while it maps a period of increasing internalization of the spiritual experience. Belin's work is, the reviewer implies, a worthy continuation of and contribution to this field of study.

BERGER, MARCEL. Cinq siècles de mathématiques en France. Paris: Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, 2005.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 38: "En moins de trois cent pages, l'auteur se propose de parcourir les mathématiques françaises de 1500 à nos jours.

BILINKOFF, JODI. Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450–1750. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005.

Review: E.A. Lehfeldt in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 929–30: Although relying primarily on Spanish examples, Bilinkoff uses sources themselves complex and offers important insight into "the production and diffusion of cultural values" (Bilinkoff 9). Illuminating and rich, the examination includes a "broader overview than the case studies that have dominated the existing scholarship" (929), and adds "tremendous dimension to our understanding of Catholic devotion in this period" (930). Chapters treat the "contours" and motivations of the confessor-penitent relationship, certain life-stories with analyses of narrative and didactic dimensions, interpersonal dynamics and dissemination of spiritual biographies and audiences.

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT. L'optique du discours au XVIIe siècle: De la rhétorique des jésuites au style de la raison moderne (Descartes, Pascal). Saint-Nicolas: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005.

Review: Sven Dupré in Isis 97 (Dec 2006), 746–747. While the reviewer regrets the lack of a general history of rhetoric for historians of science, as well as the small role of "the perspectivist tradition of optics" in the discussion of Descartes, Dupré finds Blanchard's central argument—that "ways of seeing and ways of speaking did interact"—convincing, and recommends the work for "anyone interested in rhetoric and science." (747)

BLOCKER, DÉBORAH. "Territoires de savoirs et espaces de temporalités: le sublime de Boileau aux prises avec quelques 'modernités'." SCFS 29 (2007), 113–123.

Through an analysis of the debates which, from 1674 to 1713, pitched Boileau against Perrault, Huet and the theologian Jean Le Clerc, argues that "les définitions de la 'modernité' y dépendirent étroitement de la manière dont les différents intervenants construisirent leurs rapports aux 'mondes' dans lesquels ils circulaient (la 'cour', les 'salons', l'Ecole, l'Eglise)."

BOSS, GILBERT. Lectures philosophiques. Zurich-Québec : Editions du Grand Midi, 2004.

Review : M.-F. Pellegrin in RPFE 197.1 (janvier-mars 2007), 103–104 : 《  Ce volume réunit différents articles déjà publiés de Gilbert Boss sur Abélard, Descartes, Hobbes et Spinoza, écrits entre 1983 et 2002. Leur cohérence réside dans une même méthode, définie par [Boss] comme une 《  lecture philosophique  》 qui ne vise pas à 《  accroître la science, mais à entrer elle-même dans le jeu philosophique pour le continuer  》 (p. 5). [Boss] choisit effectivement de commenter et de discuter librement de grandes thématiques et des passages très connus des quatre penseurs envisagés.  》

BOST, HUBERT. Des porte-parole protestants au chevet de l'édit de Nantes moribond. RdS 1 (2005), 67–90.

Abstract: " L'article montre comment l'édit de Nantes (1598), qui avait été critiqué par les protestants français au moment où il fut promulgué, devint peu à peu pour eux le symbole de leur appartenance à la communauté nationale française et de la reconnaissance de leur spécificité religieuse. Mais c'est en définitive après sa révocation (1685) que cet édit prend, aux yeux des porte-parole huguenots, toute sa valeur. Réfléchissant d'un point de vue théologique, mais aussi historique, juridique et philosophique, ils y voient le symbole de la liberté religieuse. Cependant, c'est en faisant le deuil de leur statut perdu depuis la révocation de l'édit de Nantes qu'ils parviennent à développer une pensée originale à propos des rapports entre l'État et l'individu. Ils doivent pour cela distinguer le sujet ou le citoyen d'une part, et le croyant d'autre part. Or cette distinction impose de renoncer à la nostalgie d'un corps protestant, reconnu comme tel, au sein du royaume de France."

BRUNET, SERGE. "Les prêtres des campagnes de la France du XVIIe siècle: la grande mutation." DSS 234 (2007), 49–82.

An interesting article on the challenges (from within the Church and without) facing rural 17th c. French clergy. Brunet concentrates on the dramatic decline in "l'effectif du clergé séculier," from the early 16th c. to the end of the 17th c., termed "la grande mutation."

CARABIN, DENISE. Les Idées stoïciennes dans la littérature morale des XVIe et XVIIe siècles (1575–1642). Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: C. Daniélou in FR 80 (2007), 1372–73: This monumental thèse d'état attempts to fill the gaps of earlier studies on early modern stoicism, and undertakes in its scope a history of ideas, mentalities, genres, and publishing. Carabin calls attention to the pragmatic and non-erudite ways in which stoicism was used from 1575–85, and attests to the presence of stoic rationales in pamphlets calling for civic order following the reign of Henri III. The work's final section discusses ways in which stoicism was used in the 17th century for ends other than political calm and quiet. Identified by the reviewer as extremely dense reading.

CARILE, PAOLO. Huguenots sans frontières. Voyage et écriture à la Renaissance et à l'Age classique. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Review: L. Sozzi in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 119–120. Judged stimulating and rich, Carile's volume is useful for the perspectives it offers on themes of happiness and desolation as well as "renouveau spirituel." Other dimensions such as romanesque adventures and the "mondo primitivo" are highlighted (119). Valuable contribution to politics, socio-economics as well as to literature and culture.

CARR, THOMAS M. JR. "A Checklist Of Published Writings In French By Early Modern Nuns (231–57)." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 231–57.

Non-definitive bibliography of works written by nuns between 1500 and 1789, including modern editions and biographies of nuns written by males.

CARR, THOMAS M. JR. "The Cloister and the World: Mainstreaming Early Modern French Convent Writing-An Etat Présent." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 7–26.

This article sheds new light on the cliché stating that women wrote very little during the Ancien Régime. In fact, the author argues that they wrote rather profusely. Even if nuns were not considered prodigious writers and did not produce the greater majority of writings written at the time, they did in fact constitute the vast majority of female publications of the 18th century. Convents were thus fertile for female production. This field has only been looked at closely by scholarship the past 20 years, and the author offers a broader scope of reflection on religious life and writing.

CAVAILLÉ, JEAN-PIERRE. Dis/simulations. Jules-César Vanini, François La Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé, Louis Machon et Torquato Accette. Religion, morale et politique au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: J. Grimm in RF 118 (2006): 361–64: As an outgrowth of a 1994–1996 seminar on the theme "Libertinage, irréligion, incroyance, athéisme dans l'Europe de la première modernité (XVIe–XVIIe siècle)," the volume contains essays and "portrait studies" of representative authors (yet Cavaillé warns us that the choice "dépend, dans une large mesure, du hasard et de l'arbitraire" n.p.). Grimm underscores Cavaillé's emphasis on factors that contribute to the volume's coherence, strategies of "la dis/simulation" or "une écriture de la persécution et de la censure. . . incontestable évidence que l'histoire de la philosophie s'obstine généralement à ignorer" (n.p.). Importantly connects "dis/simulation" to "honnêteté": [an] aimable retenue dans la manifestation de ses propres qualités, qui contribue à la douceur et à l'agrément de la vie sociale, à l'urbanité cicéronienne. . . une sorte de vertu sociale, et non plus un vice" (29).

COURSE, DIDIER. D'or et de pierres précieuses. Les paradis artificiels de la Contre-Réforme en France (1580–1685). Lausanne, Éditions Payot, 2005.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 254–257. According to the reviewer, "Le mérite de cette étude, centrée sur des matières précieuses et sur leur interprétation dans le contexte des mentalités de l'époque, consiste à voir éclairé d'importants aspects de la pensée religieuse et de l'esthétique de la Contre-Réforme, de l'imaginaire, en particulier en ce qui concerne une large galerie de figures féminines tirées de l'histoire, de la tradition scripturale et hagiographique. On le recommendera aux bibliothèques universitaires, aux spécialistes de l'âge baroque et à leurs étudiants."

DASTON, LORRAINE and FERNANDO VIDAL, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2004.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 42 (2006): 96–97: Wide-ranging collection of essays gathered from a 1999–2000 conference at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Organized in sections on "Values," "Necessity and Freedom," and "Boundaries," the 18 essays treat topics ranging from Greek literature to modern Asian political thought. Includes an examination of "social insects as models for human society in early modern Europe" (97).

DAUBRESSE, SYLVIE. Le Parlement de Paris ou la voix de la raison (1559–1589). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 398. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: M.P. Holt in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 522–523: Daubresse's archival training at the École des Chartes is evident in this "thoroughly researched and clearly argued study" of the Parlement de Paris' relations with the last three Valois kings. Convincingly demonstrates that "the reality was much more nuanced and complex" than the "confrontation and opposition" typically presented by critics. Key issues are religious uniformity and royal finances. This volume is of much value to 17th c. historians and offers a complement to Michel De Waele's 2000 study Les relations entre le Parlement de Paris et Henri IV.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE. "Nuns, Demons, and Exorcists: Ventriloquism and the Voice of Authority in Provence (1609–1611)." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 75–112.

Study examines the mass demonic possessions of the nuns that took place in the south of France, the "group possessions" which helped form the imaginary of the convent, the reception, influence, pamphlets, literature, etc., that took place in Loudun, Louviers, Auxonne, etc. It tries to give voice, through a literary perspective, to the "women religious of the period who ostensibly experienced possession through a reading of the rhetorical construction and deployment of the speech of exorcism and its loopholes for one young Ursuline nun."

DE COURCELLES, DOMINIQUES. Langages mystiques et avènement de la modernité. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: A. Traninger in RF 118 (2006): 102–103: Found highly useful for future examinations of the intersections of philosophy, theology and literature. Focusing on wisdom, love of the word and embracing a time period from the 13th to the 17th c., De Courcelles's work includes helpfully analyzed case studies and is attentive to biography, chronology, geography and theories of genre.

DINAN, SUSAN E. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: L. J. Taylor in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1223–25: This welcome extension of scholarly investigation into the role of women and active spirituality demonstrates the dependence of the state on religious women's social and education services in 17th c. France. Nuanced study argues that the feminization of the "French church of the modern era. . . began in the 17th c." (141).

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. Montaigne et les libertins. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 687 (2006), 58: "Montaigne et les libertins s'intéresse avant tout à la réception des Essais aux XVIIe siècle dans les différents milieux que l'on qualifie de libertins." Dotoli a contribué "à montrer que le XVIIe siècle libertin a fait de Montaigne une lecture spécifique, qui eût sans doute quelque peu décontenancé l'auteur lui-même sur bien des points."

DUGGAN, ANNE. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: U of Delaware Press, 2005.

Review: J. Perlmutter in FR 80 (2006), 451–52: A book anchored in readings of Scudéry and d'Aulnoy which attempts to unsettle the centrality of the seventeenth-century canon and to question the idea that women writers undertake their work first and foremost as women. Accords importance to the salon as an alternative public sphere, a site for utopic play, and a locus for wide-ranging debates between male and female writers. The book is praised by the reviewer.

Review: A. Stedman in M&T 20 (2006), 270–272: "[A] compelling study of how seventeenth-century French writers used literary production to dialogue with one another over issues of class, gender, nobility, religion, politics, morality, and individual subjectivity. Over the course of six clearly written chapters, which weave the stories of the individual writers into a complex sociohistorical context, Anne E. Duggan "tells a story" (20), beginning with Madeleine de Scudéry and the public influence of salon women, moving on to the patriarchal reaction of academicians like Boileau and Charles Perrault, and finally focusing on Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's response to the decline of the salon, the nobility, and the moralist discourses responsible for late seventeenth-century parental and spousal domination."

FACULTES JESUITES DE PARIS. Science et présence jésuites entre Orient et Occident. Journée d'études autour de Fronton du Duc. Paris: Mediasèvres, 2004.

Review: V. Kapp in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 276–279. Reviewer welcomes the seven essays in this volume, first presented at a one-day conference in 2002, indicating how they highlight "l'envergure extraordinaire de ce jésuite à ce moment important de la République européenne des Lettres[;] ces actes importent donc autant pour le domaine des lettres que pour celui de la théologie ou de la vie religieuse."

FARRELL, JOHN. Paranoia and Modernity. Cervantes to Rousseau. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006.

Review: S.G. Wong in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1255–56: Judged an "ambitious study," this wide-ranging collection of readings includes not only "representations of the classical symptoms of paranoia. . . but also. . . its 'metaphysical extension'" (1255). 17th c. French scholars will note the inclusion of Descartes and Pascal in the corpus under investigation.

FERGUSON, GARY. "Rules for Writing the 'Dames de Poissy.'" EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 44–58.

This article deals with the 1550/1650 publication of works by a group of nuns living at the Dominican priory of Saint-Louis à Poissy, most notable of whom was Anne de Marquets. Author discusses the "particular characteristics of communal life prevailing at the priory at this time" and the conditions that governed the writings by the nuns, viz., truth to the austerity and seclusion, gendered interactions, the noble origins of, authority at the close of the sixteenth century, reform, books used, translation in the nuns' literary production, published works as opposed to written and forgotten works, polemical issues, and the spiritual collaboration of the nuns, surrounding the convent.

FORSTER, MARC. R. & BENJAMIN J. KAPLAN, eds. Piety and Family in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of Steve Ozment. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: J. R. Watt in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 927–29: Articles of high caliber make up this "compelling testimony to Steven Ozment's positive impact on Reformation scholarship" (929). Wide-ranging and organized into two parts: 1) on Reformation theology and 2) on the spiritual life of families, the volume includes, of special interest to 17th c. scholars, an essay by Forster on piety "in the late 16th and early 17th c. [when] Catholic leaders encouraged the recitation of the rosary at home but deemphasized family devotions after 1650, as Baroque Catholicism stressed pilgrimages and other communal practices" (928).

GLENISSON, JEAN, ed. Histoire de l'Aunis et de la Saintonge. 3: Le Début des Temps modernes (1480–1610)/Marc Seguin. La Crèche: Geste, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 689 (2006), 107–108: "Le livre embrasse donc à la fois ce qu'on appelle 'le beau XVIe siècle et celui des troubles civils, particulièrement dévastateurs sur toute leur durée en Aunis et Saintonge. L'auteur, Marc Seguin, accomplit là son oeuvre maîtresse et il faut souligner d'emblée l'importance de ce livre. . . Il s'agit d'une avancée considérable dans la connaissance des deux provinces de l'ouest, dont l'auteur, en dépit de leur appartenance au diocèse de Saintes et de leur réunification départementale tardive, critique d'emblée l'unité factice."

GOEURY, JULIEN. "Guerres spirituelles et guerres temporelles dans les temples réformés au moment de la paix des Pyrénées." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 65–79.

Protestant preachers in 1659–1660 were torn between the desire to be loyal subjects (and using the pulpit to support France's war with Spain) and an ethical call to decry war's destruction and violence. This tension created a "secular pessimism" that prepared the Protestant community for the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

GREGOIRE, VINCENT. "La mainmise des jésuites sur la Nouvelle-France de 1632 à 1658: l'établissement d'un régime théocratique?" CdDS 11.1 (2006): 19–44.

Grégoire captures the multifaceted role ("missionnaires, confesseurs, chapelains, directeurs de conscience mais aussi linguistes, interprètes, enseignants, colonisateurs, administrateurs, explorateurs, ethnographes, géographes") of the Jesuits after the establishment of the Nouvelle France through the conquering of Quebec. He then moves on to discuss the theocratical governing of the Nouvelle France and the results that this form of government would have. In exploring these questions, he also deals with the politico-economic consequences, e.g., the Jesuits' role in the economic development of the colonies and general commerce.

GUTTON, JEAN-PIERRE. Dévots et société au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Belin, 2004.

Review: C. Bruneel in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 471–473: "L'édition de dix documents et illustrations met à portée du lecteur des textes particulièrement révélateurs pour la compréhension du mouvement [des dévots]. La bibliographie, très étoffée, et les renvois aux archives se retrouvent tout au long des 275 notes en fin de volume. Il faut remercier Jean-Pierre Gutton d'avoir méthodiquement replacé, avec son habituelle largeur de vues, le phénomène dévot dans le contexte global de la France du XVIIe siècle. Son étude devient dès lors indispensable tant aux historiens de la religion que de l'économie et de la société."

HAMMOND, NICHOLAS. Fragmentary Voices: Memory and Education at Port-Royal. Tübingen: Narr, 2004.

Review: T. M. Harrington in RF 118 (2006): 518–519: Important for the light it sheds on the double theme of memory and education, Hammond's study is organized in four sections: "From Mémoirs to Memory," "Les Petites Écoles," "Pascal and Memory" (personal and collective), and "Racine and Memory." Hammonds's conclusion enlarges his corpus to include Bossuet, Madame de La Fayette and La Rochefoucauld in relation to his double theme.

HIRAI, HIRO. Le concept de semence dans les théories de la matière à la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin à Pierre Gassendi. De Diversis Artibus. Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 72. Turnhout: Brepols P, 2005.

Review: C. Martin in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 226–27: Praiseworthy as highly useful and convincingly argued, Hirai's exploration of numerous infrequently studied texts along with classic ones provides "a nearly exhaustive history of the various ways in which this concept affected matter theory" from mid-15th c. until mid-17th c.

HOEFER, BERNADETTE. "Rethinking Legacies: Descartes, Spinoza, and Contemporary Articulations of the Conscious Mind." SCFS 29 (2007), 51–61.

"This article analyses how the evolution from predominant Cartesian rationalism to the affect revolution of the modern era creates a link from the early modern age to the modern era in understanding consciousness. It develops the thesis that we need to re-evaluate the contribution of Spinoza to the mind/body debate."

HUREL, DANIEL-ODON. "Moines et Moniales en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles: Les Bénédictins de Saint-Maur, Catherine de Bar et la Trinité de Fécamp." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 199–230.

The article seeks to better describe the relation between benedictins and benedictines: what does spiritual direction mean exactly and what role did the monks play in the lives of their female counterparts? The author analyzes the events of the Congregation of Saint-Maur which comprised nearly 200 monasteries in France by 1700, as well as de Bar and la Trinité Fécamp, in order to get a better grasp of this question. In light of the reforms of the past century, the Benedictines needed to impose themselves with clearer rules. More stress is given to spiritual erudition. Finally, Les petites constitutions (1677) are published, emphasizing the need for more rigorous rules in the feminine order. During the 1720s, it seems as though the sisters were given more liberty to rule themselves: their order develops without the strict domination of men.

JAKOBS, BEATRICE. "Le concept de la négligence chez les moralistes français." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 407–427.

Examines the idea of "l'ars est celare artem, le développement d'un principe purement rhétorique en un principe autant rhétorique qu'éthique." Goes on to analyse "la mise en œuvre de la négligence par quelques moralistes: présente non seulement comme thème fréquemment abordé dans les œuvres mais aussi 《  pratiquée  》 lors de la réalisation stylistique de celles-ci, la négligence sera caracterisée comme étant un déterminant de l'écriture moraliste."

JOASSART, BERNARD, ed. Monseigneur Duchesne et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 2002; Von Hugel, Turner et les Bollandistes, Correspondance, 2002; Erudition hagiographique au XVIIIe siècle. Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes. Correspondance, 2003.

Review: D.-O. Hurel in RBPH 84.2 (2006), 523–525: "Le volume consacré à l'abbé Lebeuf (1687–1760) permet de rendre au chanoine d'Auxerre toute sa place dans l'histoire de l'érudition française et de reconsidérer le schéma simpliste d'une réforme liturgique dite néogallicane qui serait qualifiée de janséniste."

JOASSERT, BERNARD, ed. Pierre-François Chifflet, Charles du Cange et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 2005.

Review: D.-O. Hurel in RBPH 84.4 (2006), 1323–1324: "Dans ce volume, B. Joassart continue la vaste entreprise d'édition de la correspondance des Bollandistes, une documentation qui, de volume en volume, s'impose comme élément esssentiel non seulement de l'histoire de l'entreprise des Acta Sanctorum mais aussi de notre connaissance de l'histoire de l'érudition religieuse occidentale et de ses acteurs. Après un volume consacré au XVIIIe siècle (Jean Lebeuf et les Bollandistes), le corpus ici présenté et édité avec précision couvre une grande partie du XVIIe siècle, des années 1625 à 1685." En ce qui concerne Pierre-François Chifflet, ses lettres "nous permettent aussi de mieux connaître un érudit provincial, un peu isolé bien que jésuite, d'abord à Besançon puis Dijon dont les travaux s'apparentent au Spicilegium de Luc Archery, confronté aux habituels problèmes matériels que connaissent les hommes de lettres du temps. . ." Les lettres de Charles Du Cange (1665–1686) "nous permettent de mieux connaître l'auteur du Glossarium."

KAMIL, NEIL. Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics and Material Culture in the Huguenots' New World, 1517–1751. Early America: History, Context, Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.

Review: B. Van Ruymbeke in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 185–86: Concern is indicated about the use of older publications although "recent historiography on the Refuge in North America specifically supports Kamil's thesis of Huguenot cultural creolization" (186). This "imaginative and innovative" treatment of the French Reformation and the Refuge makes an important contribution to our "understanding of Huguenot artisans' training, inspiration and styles, as well as how these were transplanted to America" (186).

KAMMERMAN, DAVID. "Making the Cut: Medical, Political, and Textual Bodies in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century France." DAI 67/10 (2007): 577.

From Descartes' construction of mechanized bodies to Sade, the dissertation examines radical differences in the conceptualization of corporeal figures. The dissertation explores the tensions "between understandings of bodies in the universe as indivisible or divisible, identical or different, and continuous or contiguous in select works."

KRAYE, JILL & RISTO SAARIN, eds. Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity. The New Synthese Historical Library 57. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005.

Review: P.R. Blum in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 938–39: Although the volume could have used some better linguistic editing, it is recommended for the wealth of its up-to-date research (939). History illuminates philosophical problems in this collection of essays which traces "concepts such as agency, obligation, liberty, possession and responsibility back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (938). Human freedom, rationality, divine command, legal-moral-theological paradigms and ethics are just a few of the topics examined in these rich studies.

LAPLANCHE, FRANÇOIS. Ordre des décrets divins, hiérarchie des droits humains. RdS 1 (2005), 51–66.

Abstract: "Jusqu'au XVI siècle, l'emploi de la force publique au service de l'unité religieuse semble être une conséquence du zèle pour le salut d'autrui. Pour parvenir à la concorde civile, dans les nations où s'affrontaient des confessions différentes, il a fallu trouver un fondement théologique à la reconnaissance juridique de la liberté de conscience et de culte. Les théologiens protestants de l'académie de Saumur fondée par Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, négociateur de l'édit de Nantes, ont cherché ce fondement du côté d'une théologie de la création. Dieu a cré l'homme pour vivre paisiblement en compagnie de ses semblables et le drame de la chute originelle, bien qu'il ait entraîné pour sa réparation une révélation de Dieu protégée par l'Eglise, n'a pas détruit cet ordre tout à fait primitif. 'Nous sommes hommes, écrit Amyraut, avant que d'être chrétiens."

LOSONSKY, MICHAEL. Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant: Passionate Thought. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001.

Review: J. M. McCarthy in SCN 64 (2006), 210–212: In analyzing the multifarious influences that informed Kant's "conception of human enlightenment," Losonsky necessarily dwells at length on Descartes as "the exemplar of willful thinking" as opposed to Hobbes as a proponent of "passionate thinking" and uses both as discrete starting points in the evolution of Kantian philosophy. Although the reviewer points to a lack of context beyond the writings at hand, he is impressed by the complexity of the close readings undertaken.

LURIA, KEITH P. Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France. Washington: Catholic UP of American, 2005.

Review: M. Armstrong in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 523–25: Praiseworthy on several counts; Armstrong judges Luria's exhaustive study which focuses on the region of Poitou "a fine book that will contribute significantly to ongoing discussions about the religious authority of the Bourbon monarchy and national identity as well as the distinctive nature of the French Reformation" (525). Belief, the construction of religious identity, culture, economics and state policy are all taken into account in this illuminating work.

LYONS, JOHN D. "Meditation and the Inner Voice." NLH 37 (2006), 525–38.

Praising and responding to Brian Stock's series of lectures "Minds, Bodies, Readers," Lyons details some of the ways in which early modern French writers and theologians encouraged forms of repetition, practice, and 'murmuring' as ways to train the body for action through habit and proper perception in the mind. Lyons' brief consideration of how Descartes' Passions de l'âme complicates the philosopher's notion of mind-body dualism is followed by insightful observations about the meditative, self-directed way in which Père Surin cures Jeanne des Anges of her demonic possession. The article concludes with a discussion of Pascal and how he understood certain political and religious conventions to stem partly from repeated mind-body interactions like always bowing before a king (whom one then comes to revere.)

MALEUVRE, DIDIER. "The Threat of Color in Seventeenth-Century Esthetics." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 233–247.

Sets out to examine the philosophical ideas underpinning the debate in aesthetics which pitched partisans of Form (les Anciens) against partisans of Colour (les Modernes).

MARQUET, JEAN-FRANCOIS, ed. Philosophies du secret: études sur la gnose et la mystique chrétiennes (XVIe – XIXe siècle). Paris: Cerf, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 691 (2007), 16: "Une introduction ou une préface aurait grandement profité au lecteur, qui, mieux qu'avec une quatrième de couverture plus sonnante qu'éclairante, saisirait alors peut-être le fil commun à ces 'philosophies du secret', ce qui aparente [Pierre-Simon] Ballanche à [Guillaume] Postel ou à Madame Guyon et permet de voir en chacun d'eux, sinon un philosophe, du moins l'occasion d'une philosophie. Il n'est reste pas moins que chacune de ces [28] études est déjà en elle-même stimulante, et que, prises ensemble, elles dessinent des cheminements de la pensée trop souvent ignorés ou négligés."

MCCLIVE, CATHY. "L'âge des fleurs: le passage de l'enfance à l'adolescence dans l'imaginaire médicale du XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 171–185.

While in the Middle Ages the onset of menstruation was considered a mark of adulthood, in the seventeenth centry, puberty in young women ushered in a transitional period called "l'âge des fleurs." It is "la ceuillette de la fleur de sa virginité" and childbearing that mark a girl's passage to womanhood which is characterized by her ability not only to "flower" but more importantly to "bear fruit."

MERLEAU-PONTY, MAURICE, ed. Les Philosophes. De l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. Paris: Livre de poche, 2006.

Review: O. Mongin in Esprit 2 (2007), 224–225: "'Qu'est-ce que que le grand rationalisme'? Il se distingue de la période des Lumières mais aussi du petit rationalisme (petit car dogmatique) de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle: 'Jamais, dans la suite, écrit Merleau-Ponty à propos du XVIIe, on ne retrouvera cet accord de la philosophie et de la science, cette aisance à dépasser la science sans la détruire, à limiter la métaphysique sans l'exclure.'" Ouvrage d'abord publié en 1956 sous la direction de Merleau-Ponty (les Philosophes célèbres/Editions Mazenod).

MOUSNIER, MIREILLE, ed. Les Animaux malades en Europe occidentale (du Ve au XIXe siècle). Actes des XXVe Journées internationales d'histoire de l'Abbaye de Flaran, 12–14 septembre 2003. Toulouse: PU du Mirail, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 41: "Cet ouvrage est bien documenté, les références bibliographiques sont nombreuses et la lecture en est facile. Il s'adresse de préférence à un public d'enseignants et de chercheurs historiens médiévaux ou contemporains." Voir l'article de O. de Serres sur l'élevage du ver à soie au XVIIe siècle.

MULSOW, MARTIN & JAN ROHLS, eds. Socianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 134. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Review: R. E. McLaughlin in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 915–16: Wide-ranging geographically and focusing on the 17th and the early 18th c., these selected proceedings of a 2003 Munich symposium on "Socianism and Cultural Exchange" demonstrate "the pervasiveness of Socianism speculation among dissenters and progressive thinkers from Poland to the British Isles." The essays also contribute "to our understanding of the often surmised, but rarely demonstrated, links between Reformation, Radicalism and the Enlightenment" (915). French scholars will find of particular interest Didier Kahn's examination of Nicolas Barnaud, alchemist and printer of radical texts. Useful index of names.

NELSON, ERIC. The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590–1615). Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700. Bibliotheca Instituti Historici Societatis Jesu 58. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Review: T. Worcester in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 883–84: Main focus of this examination is "the Edict of Rouen of 1 September 1603, the royal edict by which Henry readmitted the Jesuits" (883). Nelson illuminates royal patronage, Jesuit expansion and treats "royal will as law" as well as the religious order (883). Valuable for scholars of early modern politics and religion.

NOUIS, LUCIEN. "《  Compelle intrare  》 : Michel Foucault et l'hérésie à l'âge classique." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 333–344.

Returns to the Histoire de la folie to examine the extent to which, despite the absence of an explicit treatment of heresy by Foucault, this text could serve to facilitate a new understanding of the discourse surrounding the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

OGILVIE, BRIAN W. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Review: M.A. Waddell in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1279–80: Praiseworthy volume is detailed and engrossing, "an excellent resource for those interested in natural history before 1650" as well as generally in modern science. Wide-ranging examination of ideas, techniques, spaces and relationships around Europe. Waddell praises Ogilvie's vital arguments but would have appreciated better transitions between chapters, especially as concerns chronology, and less repetition.

O'MALLEY, JOHN W., S.J., GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY, STEVEN J. HARRIS, & FRANK KENNEDY, S. J., eds. The Jesuits II: Culture, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773. Toronto: UTP, 2006.

Review: L. R. N. Ashley in BHR 69.2 (2007), 500: "This collection goes further to prove that 'because of the schools, the Jesuits had a commitment to culture, to urbanity, to civilità, to conversazione, and to the honeste homme in the world that was new for a religious order,' that they served the papacy and heard the confessions of the faithful, that they were involved in conversion, education, and politics, and that they were 'soldiers of Christ' in Europe, South America, Japan, etc."

PAGANINI, GIANNI. Les philosophies clandestines à l'âge classique. Paris : PUF, 2005. Coll. 《  Philosophie  》.

Review : J.-P. Cavaillé in RPFE 197.1 (janvier-mars 2007), 102–103 : 《  Un des meilleurs spécialistes de la littérature philosophique clandestine en offre une présentation d'ensemble avec des résumés synthétiques d'œuvres importantes fort mal connues, parmi les quelque 200 textes répertoriés (pour 2 000 copies subsistantes environ), de la fin du XVIe siècle à celle du XVIIIe. [. . .] L'examen, dense et synthétique, de ces expressions philosophiques précédant les Lumières fait apparaître qu'elles les ont dépassées en radicalité : la question historiographique se pose d'une interprétation du mouvement des Lumières 《  modérées  》 comme réaction et réponse aux provocations clandestines. Mais l'ouvrage montre aussi que ces 《  Lumières radicales  》 ne sauraient se ramener au seul héritage spinoziste.  》

PALMERINO, CARLA RITA & J.M.M.H. THIJSSEN, eds. The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 239. Boston: Kluwer Academic P, 2004.

Review: M. H. Shank in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 224–25: Judged "well-edited" and "first-rate," Palmerino and Thijssen's volume includes eleven important analyses of key expressions, unpublished works of Galileo, tidal theories, correspondence with Gassendi, among others.

PARK, KATHARINE & LORRAINE DASTON. eds. The Cambridge History of Science. Vol 3: Early Modern Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Review: Margaret C. Jacob in Isis 98 (June 2007), 361–365. Contains essays by scholars such as Daniel Garber, Peter Dear, William Eamon, Paula Findlen, among others. "On the whole this volume inscribes a generation of work that has liberated early modern science and medicine from straitjackets largely imposed upon them by nineteenth-century intellectual constructions." All the same, Jacobs notes a "curious reticence" that characterizes the essays, which, perhaps still reacting to Marxist reductionism, refuse to trace the evolution in science to the material conditions of the time. As a result, terms such as "scientific revolution" are suspect, and the Enlightenment is barely mentioned.

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

Review: J. Tsien in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 556–557. Reviewer welcomes this "subtle and well-argued exposition of the relationship between the early modern scientific aspirations to map out the world and the creative use of those same methods to express a multiple, ever-changing field of human behavior and sentiment. Scholars of early modern literature, as well as students of post-colonialism, will find this to be an informative and enjoyable read."

PIERRE, BENOIST. "Les religieux et la glorification du roi de guerre au XVIIe siècle." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 323–336.

Beginning in the 1630s, religious orders, inspired by the counter-reformation, actively embraced the image of the warrior king and advocated just warfare in order to renew and revitalize religion.

PIQUE, NICOLAS. Diversité des réactions réformées à la Révocation. L'esprit du monde en question. RdS 1 (2005), 91–108.

Abstract: "À partir de l'analyse de la diversité des réactions réformées à l'édit de Fontainebleau, cet article se propose de suivre l'avènement de deux des concepts fondateurs de la modernité politique, la distinction des sphères religieuse et politique d'une part, la souveraineté populaire d'autre part. Toutefois, l'analyse généalogique soulignera l'émergence distincte de ces deux notions, en fonction de logiques croisées et apparemment paradoxales dont il faudra chercher la cohérence dans les positions anthropologiques qui les sous-tendent. L'étude des débats théologiques modernes dessine de la sorte l'une des voies par laquelle les concepts politiques modernes ont été formés."

POMATA, GIANNA & NANCY G. SIRAISI. eds. Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

Review: J. Henry in Isis 98 (June 2007), 390–391. A "collection of consistently high-quality papers" which all "discuss to some extent the relationship between natural history and civil history." Includes an essay by Anthony Grafton on humanist discussions of the artes historicae as well as an essay by Peter N. Miller on Peiresc.

Review: S. Perfetti in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 597–99: "Highly refined versions" of papers of a workshop at the Max Planck Institute of Berlin investigate "manifold cultural practices associated with historia," a term which covers disciplines as varied as "medicine, natural history, philology, and antiquarianism" (597). Papers either underline "reciprocal influences between historia naturalis and historia humana" or focus on the "dialectic between historia-format and direct experience" (597, 598).

PULEO, ALICIA H. "Un Parcours philosophique: du désenchantement du monde à la compassion." ECr 46.2 (2006): 5–16:

A veritable plea for justice and active compassion, Puleo's essay provides a philosophical survey of the conceptualization of Nature focusing on the 18th c., but offering sketches of Descartes's and Buffon's thought. Concludes: "à mon avis, pour la vieille Europe qui ne peut pas croire à un sens caché du monde, un matérialisme philosophique doublé d'empathie, de compassion pour tous les êtres vivants pourrait s'avérer le chemin le plus proche vers la responsabilité écologique" (14).

RAPLEY, ELIZABETH. "'Un Trésor enfoui, une lampe sous un boisseau': Seventeenth-Century Visitandines Describe Their Vocation." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 155–166.

The article discusses a question asked to François de Sales in the recorded recollections of Jean-Pierre Camus: why he created a convent for women when his time would have been better employed in creating one for men. The saint responds by saying that it is not up to him to deal with such matters, he just works in metallurgy and pottery. The author interprets this answer. From this anecdote, the author studies how women, particularly the Visitandine nuns of the seventeenth century, perceived themselves, and perceived their institute.

RIBARD, DINAH. Réflexions sur l'écriture comme lieu de savoir sans les livres de philosophie en France Au XVIIe siècle. RdS 3–4 (2007), 395–417.

The article abstract states that this is "a discussion on the sources of a history of knowledge by researching institutions, communities and the broader locations where this knowledge has developed. It shows that the textual nature of the sources of a possible knowledge of these places of learning of the past must be one of the objects of the analysis, with the risk of reproducing social fictions created in their own time to serve diverse political agendas. The case studied proposes an analysis of some of the focal points of the intellectual history of the XVIIth century (academies, salons, schools), and thus permits us to question the unequal social structure of these establishments, by reinserting the activity of writing and publication of a philosophical author into the canon of the numerous discourses on philosophy and those places which, during the era under consideration, turned it into something other than a discipline."

ROBIN, JEAN LUC. 'L'Indiscipline de l'Arrêt burlesque et les deux voies de la légitimation du discours scientifique'. SCFS 29 (2007), 101–111.

Analyses the Arrêt burlesque (1671) — a "satire anti-péripatéticienne prenant pour cible la doctrine scolastique de l'Université et la médicine hippocratico-galénique traditionnellement enseignée à la faculté de Paris," composed by Bernier, Boileau and Racine "à la gloire du cartésianisme menacé de censure" — as an example of one method of legitimising scientific discourse of the time, a method involving "l'abaissement et la vulgarisation de la science officielle."

ROHOU, JEAN. Le XVIIe siècle, une révolution de la condition humaine. Paris: Seuil, 2002.

Review: M. Bouvier in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 245. Bouvier speaks favorably of this study, which leaves us with many questions to ponder and manifests Rohou's erudition on his subject. Rohou conceives of the classical era as a time of anxiety, as opposed to stability. He analyzes the anthropological system, then shows how men of great influence (including lettrés and bourgeois), looked to satisfy their personal desires by trying to force the established system to tumble, while nonetheless remaining modelled by this system, directed by its values, living the lifestyle of hardship in their pretended antimony. Such tension comes to a head at the time when Pascal and La Rochefoucauld were major figures who, in fact, would turn out to be sources of this tension during Louis XIV, while the values of raison, conscience and desire came to light, naturally leading to the Age of Enlightenment. This book brings into play all aspects of knowledge and science in the seventeenth century. It brings back into usage old concepts, while making them new, as well as exploring new theories. Bouvier does find fault with the work's treatment of the secularization of divine ideas throughout the course of the century.

ROUKHOMOVSKY, BERNARD, ed.. L'optique des moralistes de Montaigne à Chamfort. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: B. Jakobs in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 271–274. Reviewer welcomes the wide range of the twenty-five essays in this volume, commenting: "Grâce à la compréhension très étendue de la notion 《  moraliste  》, on a pu rassembler un grand nombre d'auteurs, ce qui a permis une analyse beaucoup plus approfondie et a donné une image multiforme du sujet."

SAUZET, ROBERT. Au grand siècle des âmes. Guerre sainte et paix chrétienne en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris : Perrin éd., 2007.

Review : J.-M. Le Gall in QL 948 (du 16 au 30 juin 2007), 19–20 : Le critique énumère plusieurs critiques de l'œuvre comme, par exemple, 《  l'auteur ne hiérarchise pas clairement les causes du reflux de l'esprit de guerre sainte à la fin du XVIIe siècle, qu'il relativise du reste en rappelant la guerre des Camisards en pleine crise de conscience européenne  》, ou encore 《  Il me semble que le transfert de la guerre sainte dans le cadre des conflits entre Etats et Nations aurait été aussi une piste à explorer. Certes, Robert Sauzet montre que la guerre crée parfois une union sacrée entre sujets d'un même roi, appartenant à des confessions rivales. Mais il aurait fallu peut-être aussi voir en quoi la défense de la patrie prend l'allure d'une guerre sacrée qui diabolise l'adversaire, en évoquant par exemple le sa du Palatinat  》. Malgré tout ceci, le critique trouve que 《  ce livre écrit d'une plume alerte offre un tableau vivant, ample et synthétique de l'intolérance du Grand Siècle  》.

SCHILLING, HEINZ et MARIE-ANTOINETTE GROSS, eds. Spannungsfeld von Staat und Kirche. "Minderheiten" und "Erziehung" in deutsch-französischen Gesellschafts-vergleich 16.–18. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2003.

Review: M. Weis in RBPH 84.4 (2006), 1321–1323: Recueil d'articles du colloque de clôture (février 2000) "d'un groupe de recherches international qui s'est penché, dans le cadre de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft et au sein de la Humboldt-Universität de Berlin, sur l'histoire comparée des sociétés allemande et française à l'époque moderne." Les contributions éclairent "deux facettes essentielles des sociétés européennes par le prisme des rapports, toujours étroits, parfois conflictuels, entre Etat et Eglises. Les droits accordés aux minorités et les structures de l'enseignement sont des indicateurs de choix pour l'étude des ressemblances et des divergences entre la France et le Saint Empire aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles."

SECRETAN, CATHERINE. L'Edit de Nantes et l'indifférence hollandaise. RdS 1 (2005), 15–32.

Abstract: "La promulgation de l'édit de Nantes, en 1598, a-t-elle connu aux Pays-Bas un écho comparable celui provoqué par la Révocation de ce même édit, un siècle plus tard? Une première enquête menée à partir de documents directement liés aux évènements de l'époque (correspondances d'hommes politiques, pamphlets, actes de synodes, etc.) ne livre aucun témoignage révélateur d'un intérêt néerlandais pour le règlement français du biconfessionnalisme. Les hypothèses avancées dans cet article pour expliquer ce silence se fondent sur les déplacements des enjeux politiques et théologiques de la tolérance entre la France et les Pays-Bas dans la période considérée."

SEIDENGART, JEAN. Dieu, l'univers et la sphère infinie: Penser l'infinité cosmique à l'aube de la science classique. Paris: Albin Michel, 2006.

Review: A. Davenport in Isis 98 (June 2007), 393–394. "Seidengart's main thesis is that the concept of a true infinity underwent a key historical transformation at the dawn of modern science, migrating from God to the universe." Argues for the neglected importance of Giordano Bruno before examining his impact on Campanella, Mersenne, Galileo, Kepler, and Gassendi, as well as others such as Cyrano de Bergerac and Fontenelle. While a revised thesis, the work reads well, and the topic is engaging; the only weakness is a slightly out-of-date bibliography.

SIENA, KEVIN, ed. Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe. Essays and Studies 7. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

Review: K.L. Peterson in Ren Q 59.3 9 (2006): 936–38: Praiseworthy for "its breadth of illustrative material and methodological approaches" (938), these collected essays shed "light upon early modern constructions of the pox, as well as textual (re)constructions of the disease" (937). Particularly focusing on France (the pox is often represented as a mal franchese), the volume's essays are organized, after an introduction, into three parts: 1) "Scientific and Medical Responses", 2) "Literary and Metaphoric Responses," and 3) "Institutional and Policing Responses" (937).

SUIRE, ERIC. "Les avatars d'un theme hagiographique. Le puer senex dans la littérature édifiante du XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 149–169.

The author examines the contradiction inherent in the seventeenth century's juxtaposition of innovative pedagogy with older spiritual models typical of hagiography through the renewed use of the figure of the puer senex.

TILLIETTE, XAVIER. Philosophies eucharistiques de Descartes à Blondel. Paris: Cerf, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 685 (2006), 14–15: "Ce livre est une fascinante histoire des tentatives effectuées par la modernité philosophique pour comprendre ce qui demeure fondamentalement, irréductiblement, étranger à l'expérience rationnelle: la présence réelle, 'maximale' du Christ, dans le sacrifice eucharistique."

TRUE, MICAH. "Retelling Genesis: The Jesuit Relations and the Wendat Creation Myth." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 465–484.

Examines what Jesuit accounts of the Wendat (formerly known as Huron) creation story reveal about the European mindset. Argues that "retelling indigenous creation myths to readers back home in France was not only a way for Jesuits to rhetorically subjugate newly discovered cultures, but also was part of a strategy to solve a crisis in European thought, caused by a relatively new awareness of the inhabitants of the New World, by attempting to reconcile the existence of Amerindians with Christian doctrine."

TUCKER, HOLLY. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

Review: P. Hannon in FR 81 (2007), 165–66: "An interdisciplinary study exploring links between medical texts on childbirth and fairy tales in early modern France. The literary fairy tale, born in the late seventeenth-century salon and dominated by women, variously incorporated and challenged received medical "truths" involving embryology, infertility, midwives, and sex selection. As Tucker ably demonstrates, scientific writings on procreation skirted the boundaries between fact and fiction, making tale telling a prominent characteristic of both the male physician and the salonnière" (165). Reviewer praises the informative nature of the work and its potential to inspire future research.

TUTTLE, LESLIE. "Factum or Fiction? Convent Scandal, Cloister, and Publicity in the Era of Louis XIV." EMF. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Vol. II. The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. guest editor, Thomas M. Carr. Charlottesville, VA: Rockwood Press, 2007, 130–154.

The author's point of departure lies in the sexual scandals that circulated in a long pamphlet entitled Factum pour les religieuses de Sainte-Catherine-lès-Provins contre les Peres Cordeliers [sic.] in early 1667. The author discusses the nature of that account as a legal document used in the court of justice. The document proves to be one showing an altercation in the legal voice women had, what they were permitted to read, the purgation of libraries, etc. That work raised questions about the "legitimacy of the public challenge to masculine authorities by women religious."

VAGNON, EMMANUELLE, AXELLE CHASSAGNETTE, JEAN-YVES SARAZIN. . . [et al.], eds. La Cartographie. Paris: BNF, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 691 (2007), 96–97: Cet ouvrage "regroupe neuf articles qui étudient l'évolution des techniques et des usages de la cartographie depuis le XVIe siècle."

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les spectateurs de la vie. Généalogie du regard moraliste. Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2005.

Review: G.C. Banderier in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1222–23: Banderier finds Van Delft both a "boar" and a "fox"; while he is devoted to the examination of French moralists he also surveys an ancient and ongoing philosophical tradition. Although most of the essays here have been published previously, they are revised and richly deserving of an English translation. Scholars from diverse fields will benefit from this "welcome work of Toposforschung" which interprets engravings and paintings as well as literature.

Review: R. Baustert in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 279–282. Very favourable review where reviewer comments: "En somme, nous voici en présence d'une magistrale histoire du Spectateur qui, de contemplateur de l'absolu, se mue, aux temps nouveaux, en explorateur d'optiques."

Review: M.-O, Sweetser in FR 80 (2007), 1373–74: Van Delft's highly praised study attempts to think about moralist writing from the perspective of spectatorship. Its premise is that the early modern spectator, even when developing a more secular view of the world, and even when attempting to restrict him or herself to pure description, "demeure tenté de promouvoir une morale" (1373). The work is thought-provoking on issues of genre as well as on specific texts.

VENESOEN, CONSTANT, ed. Anne Marie de Schurman femme savante (1607–1678). Correspondance. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: N. Grande in RHLF 107.1 (2007). Grande remarks that the writings by Schurman are often less well-known than her name. While she was very well educated, and polyglot (she wrote in fourteen languages), most research done on her has been accomplished in Dutch. The new work by Venesoen partially fills this gap, giving a detailed bibliography and thirty-eight letters, some of which were written directly in French, while others were done in Latin, translated by Guillaume Collet, showing the savant's personal concerns as well as her correspondence with the Pastor André Rivet on female education. Sadly, there is no biography, despite brief introductions to each letter by Venesoen.

VON GREYERZ, KASPAR. Religion et culture. Europe 1500–1800. Trad. de l'allemand parE. Kaufholz-Messmer. Paris: Cerf, 2006.

Review: J.-L. Schlegel in Esprit 6 (2007), 210: "Ce livre relève brillamment une gageure: traiter son sujet sur trois siècles en couvrant l'espace de l'Europe occidentale et centrale. Il y parvient en reprenant, souvent à nouveaux frais, des thèmes transversaux: les conséquences diverses de la Réforme, la portée de la contre-Réforme, du jansénisme, le comportement des puritains, le rôle des mouvances et dissidences sectaires, spirituelles, réformistes ou radicals, la religion populaire, les exclus (juifs, hérétiques, sorcières), les débuts de la sécularisation au XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre et en Allemagne, de la 'déchristianisation' en France."

Review: n.a. in BCLF 689 (2006), 105: "L'intérêt du livre de K. von Greyerz tient en grande partie à ce qu'il ne porte point de jugement de valeur et qu'il envisage l'ensemble de l'Europe occidentale et pas seulement un pays en particulier. Il faut souligner sa grande probité intellectuelle et la qualité de sa réflexion."

WATERLOT, GHISLAIN. La Tolérance et la crainte. La relation au pouvoir sous le régime de édit de Nantes. Agrippa d'Aubigné et Moyse Amyraut. RdS 1 (2005), 33–50.

Abstract: "La tolérance, telle que l'entend l'édit de Nantes, est un pis-aller. Les partis catholiques et réformés s'accordent sur l'idée que la tolérance est provisoire, car la restauration de l'unité religieuse doit demeurer la visée. Mais les réformés, minoritaires, sont en position défensive. Beaucoup parmi eux pensent que la tolérance ne tiendra que s'ils continuent de se faire craindre des catholiques. D'où la promotion, par Agrippa d'Aubigné, de l'esprit de résistance. Mais les forces armées protestantes sont réduites en 1629. En fonction de ce nouveau contexte, Moyse Amyraut, tout en professant un parfait loyalisme à l'égard du monarque catholique, sera amené à formuler les linéaments d'une nouvelle théorie de la tolérance, selon laquelle la tolérance n'est plus une grâce temporaire, mais un droit."

ARNOUL, ELISABETH. "Rôle et représentations de la belle-mère: les enfants du premier lit face au remariage du père." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 359–372.

The author contrasts myth and reality by examining the figure of the stepmother in literature (e.g., contes de fées) and autobiographical texts (e.g., mémoires). In spite of their overwhelmingly negative image in literary texts, stepmothers were in fact important for assuring family balance and continuity and acted positively in their stepchildren's upbringing.

AYRES-BENNETT, WENDY. "La modernité de l'usage linguistique de L'Astrée vue par les yeux d'un remarqueur." DSS 235 (2007), 255–273.

Using Vaugelas' Remarques sur la langue françoise as a foil, the author attempts to situate d'Urfé in Vaugelas' chronological appreciation of French authorship and she examines, "dans quelle mesure l'usage linguistique de L'Astrée est conforme à l'usage dit 《  moderne  》 par Vaugelas [...]"

BARBAFIERI. CARINE. Atrée et Céladon. La galanterie dans le théâtre tragique de la France classique (1634–1702). Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006.

Review: S. Rollin in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 527–529. Reviewer welcomes this volume and its analysis of a vast corpus, seeing it as providing "une meilleure compréhension de la cohérence du théâtre du XVIIe siècle en dessinant sur la cartographie de celui-ci une seconde voie esthétique parallèle à la voie héroïque communément mise en lumière."

BARON, PHILOPPE, DENNIS WOOD & WENDY PERKINS, eds. Femmes et littérature. Colloque des Universités de Birmingham et de Besançon. Paris: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises 2003. Annales littéraires de l'Université de Franc-Comté, 749.

Review: S. Bung in RF 118 (2006): 376–78: This volume embraces woman "à la fois comme objet et comme créatrice de littérature" (7) and is composed of selected contributions to the January 1998 Colloque of Birmingham jointly organized with colleagues from Besançon. The necessarily heterogeneous material is organized historically and methodologically in the following sections: "Mythes et symboles de la femme," "Corps de femmes," "Femmes et société" and "Subtiles écrivaines."

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

Review: J. Campbell in Ren Q 59.4 (2006): 1225–26: Both a "critique of critiques" and "a study on canon formation," Beasley's examination is also "valuable for its consideration of the shaping of the history of Louis XIV's reign" (1225). Judged "timely," "convincing," and "of interest to scholars of women's literary history as well as those who specialize in the literature of le Grand Siècle" (1226).

Review: M.-C. Canova-Green in MLR 102.4 (2007), 1155–56: "Focusing on the influential salon culture led by women, Faith Beasley retraces the various stages of the appropriation and obfuscation of this rich heritage by later generations. Not only were the seventeenth-century salons reinterpreted and their role in literary culture redefined, the influence exerted by women through the salons was also misrepresented and eventually erased from the nation's collective memory. Less concerned with determining the historical 'truth' of the salon than with analysing how it has been 'remembered' by posterity, Beasley offers a compelling account of the rewriting of France's literary past at the hands of successive generations of Academicians and literary historians." Work "destined to become an essential reference for the field of French seventeenth-century literary studies."

Review: J. Prest in FS 61.2 (2007), 221–222: Beasley's account of women's roles in the seventeenth-century salon is a "sobering reminder" of the misogynist, revisionist and inaccurate literature that continues to inform even literary historians of today. Her book "convincingly" argues the importance of women in the literary world of the period and then charts their historical suppression or marginization from Boileau to Victor Cousin to the present.

BIET, CHRISTIAN & CHRISTOPHE TRIAU. Qu'est-ce que le théâtre? Paris: Gallimard, 2006.

Review: N. Müller-Schöll in ThR 32 (2007): 197–98. Examines Western theatre from all sides and implants "Foucault's way of dealing with historical objects into the historiography of theatre." Author's points of reference are the practices of theatre on stage and in the auditorium. Where seventeenth-century France is concerned, the authors avoid describing the theatre "as if the normative ideas of D'Aubignac had defined the everyday life on stage of the Grand Siècle" and instead show the theatre to be "a space for social exchange and for many-sided crossed gazes. . . a space of discourse where the society of the city started to come to terms with itself."

BOISSEAU, MARYVONNE, ed. Traduire la figure de style. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 687 (2006), 29: "De manière intéressante, ces huit contributions, loin de se succéder de façon parallèle et disjointe, trouvent des échos les unes dans les autres et font apparaître la place centrale de la figure de style dans une théorie de la traduction." Voir l'article de M. Boisseau sur Racine qui "montre que c'est du rythme que surgit la métaphore et que les écarts entre traducteurs proviennent essentiellement de l'adoption d'une rythmique différente."

BONNIFFET, PIERRE. Structures sonores de l'humanisme en France: de Maurice Scève: Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 1544) à Claude Le Jeune, Second livre des Meslanges (Paris, 1612). Bibliothèque Littéraire de la Renaissance 57. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: L.K. Donaldson-Evans in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 530–31: A "Ficinian-inspired humanist perspective" guides Bonniffet, "who is both a musicologist and a singer" (530). Impressive for its attention to both primary and secondary sources from the early modern period as well as to recent criticism. A grounding in music theory is judged helpful to the reader of this praiseworthy examination of the relationship between music and poetry in the long Renaissance.

Review: M. Mastroianni in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 144: Bonniffet's analysis of the structure of significant musical examples and poetic texts demonstrates the diversity and talent of the period from 1544 to 1612 as it focuses on genres such as the psalm, the "chanson spirituelle" and the "air spirituel." Convincing testimony to the rhetorical elaboration of the trivium: (l'inventio, la dispositio and l'elocutio).

BRUYER, T. & J. VANACKER. Che dire di te, Lucrezia ? Parodies italiennes et françaises du mythe de Lucrèce à la Renaissance et à l'Age baroque. BHR 69.2 (2007), 327–351.

《  Qui dit Lucrèce, dit : vertu, fidélité conjugale, héroïsme et révolution politique. Pourtant, de Machiavel à Mlle de Scudéry, une série de textes renversent ce paradigme conventionnel. Selon Dentith, toute pratique culturelle, offrant une imitation polémique d'une autre production culturelle relève de la parodie. Cette définition suscite les questions suivantes : A quel type de parodie, ces auteurs recourent-ils ? Quels sont les motifs parodiés ? Et enfin, les parodies françaises sont-elles redevables à la littérature italienne ?  》 Pour le XVIIe siècle en France, voir la discussion de Lucrèce ou l'Adultère puni d'Alexandre Hardy et de Clélie de Mlle de Scudéry.

BURY, EMMANUEL & FRANCINE MORA, eds. Du roman courtois au roman baroque : Actes du colloque des 2 – 5 juillet 2002. Paris : Belles Lettres, 2004.

Review : R. Brown-Grant in MLR 102.4 (2007), 1153–1154 : 《  In a welcome attempt to remedy the traditional lack of dialogue between scholars of medieval literature and early modern texts, this collection of twenty-six conference papers asks whether the relationship between medieval romance and baroque romance is one of rupture or of continuity." See articles by A. Berthelot on Perrault, E. Eglal on Honoré d'Urfé; M.-G. Lallemand on La Calprenède; C. Esmein who "regards the seventeenth century as the point at which medieval romances were no longer deemed acceptable owning to their lack of verisimilitude and loose rules of composition."

Review: J. Grimbert in FR 80 (2007), 1118–19: "This stimulating collection, based on papers presented at a colloquium at the University of Versailles, focuses on whether sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French novels continued, or broke with, the tradition of their medieval predecessors." Consideration is given to Chapelain, Perrault, d'Aulnoy, d'Urfé, and La Calprenède, among others.

CALAME, CLAUDE & ROGER CHARTIER, eds. Identités d'auteur dans l'Antiquité et la tradition européenne. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon, 2004.

Review: D. Donnet in RBPH 84.1 (2006), 129–131: Onze communications: "Une double question. . . plane sur cet ouvrage: quelles sont les modalités énonciatives et les formes poétiques auxquelles renvoie la 'fonction-auteur' dans l'Antiquité? Comme pistes de réponses, une enquête interne, et des confrontations avec d'autres traditions littéraires, du Moyen-Age européen, de la Renaissance, du 17e siècle."

CANOVA-GREEN, MARIE-CLAUDE. "Le divertissement à la cour des Bourbons et des premiers Stuarts, ou comment ordonner le désordre." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 333–353.

The growing use of theatre and performance to celebrate and enhance the social and political order of absolute monarchy saw a rise in disorder on the part of an undisciplined audience eager for spectacle and distinction. Thus the space of the theater began to win out over the use of ballrooms and great halls: in theaters spectators were restrained in their seats and neatly ordered according to rank and position, neatly mirroring the monarchical political order.

CAPRON, AURELIE C. "Staging Women: Representation of Female Scholarship in Seventeenth-Century Spanish and French Drama." DAI 68/02.

This dissertation is a critical examination of how women's education was highly debated in the early modern period. A comparative approach is adopted (Spain and France), as well as a literary historical perspective. Study contributes "an intellectual and literary historical perspective to the fields of gender studies and theater, broadening our understanding of the socio-historical context of women's education and scholarship in Early Modern Europe."

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

Review: Chr. Biet in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 240–242. This work rewrites the theatre itself, putting into question theatrical modes and the purpose of several places: seeing for example, Dom Juan, not just as satire but a renewal of linguistic expression. The third part of the work discusses the banquet, Titus Andronicus, cooking in the theatre, horror, violence in action, monsters, etc. Finally, the authors deal with "conscience d'être du théâtre." It studies métathéâtralité, rhetorical devices, and ends with modern points of view on classical works, as well as the influence of the theatre on today's world.

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 80 (2007), 1119–20: Taking shape in response to Tobin's work on theater, this collection of essays pays considerable attention to works by Corneille, Racine, and Molière, but also contains essays by several medievalists and includes a section on "Modern Perspectives". The volume contains contributions from Georges Forestier, John Lyons, Jean-Marie Apostolidès, and Ralph Albanese, among others. Recommended by the reviewer.

CAROL, PAL. "Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters, 1630–1680." DAI 67/11 (2007).

Dissertation studies the heterogeneous Republic of Letters as a community that included men and women. Focus is on the "multinational network of female scholars," the network's scholarly activity, and the "real and supportive intellectual women's network [that] centered around the erudite Anna Maria van Schurman of Utrecht." It is argued that understanding that network is vital for the intellectual history of the early modern time period.

CASANOVA-ROBIN, HÉLÈNE. Diane et Actéon. Éclats et reflets d'un mythe à la Renaissance et à l'âge baroque. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: B. Kuhn in RF 118 (2006): 251–54: Organized in two major sections: "Le mythe de Diane et Actéon à travers les siècles, la place prédominante du poème d'Ovide dans sa transmission" and "La lecture ovidienne de la fable et ses échos dans la poésie et l'art figuré à la Renaissance et à l'âge baroque", Casanova-Robin's rich and comprehensive study is valuable additionally as a study of Ovid and his work's reception in the Early Modern.

CAZES, HELENE. "Spectacles et rumeurs: la cérémonie de l'enfant prodige devant les Docteurs." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 373–390.

The author examines the representation of the child prodigy, "un nouveau héros classique de la scène littéraire," in Adrien Baillet's Des Enfans devenus célèbres par leurs etudes ou par leurs écrits and a booklet written by twelve-year-old prodigy Antoine Lancelot. These texts focus on preaching as the greatest proof of prodigious abilities, allude to the biblical story of Christ in the temple, and make the child prodigy a figure of collective redemption.

CHARTIER, ROGER. Inscrire et effacer: culture écrite et littérature (XIe–XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Gallimard, 2005.

Identified in Choice 44 (2006) as a "Significant European Scholarly Title" for 2005.

CHERBULIEZ, JULIETTE. The Place of Exile. Leisure Literature and the Limits of Absolutism. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2005.

Review: L. Leibacher-Ouvrard in Fr F 31.3 (2006): 159–162: As Leibacher-Ouvrard so felicitously states, Cherbuliez's Place of Exile is "lui-même un voyage de distanciation critique" (161). Continuing along the lines of Joan DeJean's Tender Geographies (1991) and Nicholas Paige's Being Interior. . . (2001), Cherbuliez focuses on the imposition of "vivre 'à l'extérieur'" for representative women authors but also indicates "combien ces écrits de femmes ont souvent accueilli la participation de collaborateurs masculins (secrétaires, correspondants, imprimeurs, etc.) tels que Huet, Segrais ou Saint-Evremond" (161, Leibacher-Ouvrard). Cherbuliez's thesis is illustrated by four cases in as many chapters: "Diversions: Montpensier's Exilic Communities," "Detours: Ovidian Fantaisies of Community and Villedieu's Les Exilez de la Cour d'Auguste," "Periphery: Zayde and the Domestic Conquest of the Nation," and "Diaspora: Francophone Refugee Fiction from Hortense Mancini to Anne de La Roche-Guilhen." Judged a "bel ouvrage" which proves the significance (literary, socio-cultural, political, for example) of this "leisure literature."

CHONE, PAULETTE. "En marge de L'Astrée. A propos de l'inspiration pastorale de Claude Lorrain et de son Campus agni de Vienne." DSS 235 (2007), 325–335.

A look at some of the artistic and cultural pastoral context on the margins of L'Astrée.

CIAVOLELLA, MASSIMO and PATRICK COLEMAN, eds. Culture and Authority in the Baroque. Toronto: UTP, 2005.

Review: L. R. N. Ashley in BHR 69.1 (2007), 198: Superior anthology that contributes "to the better definition of baroque" and "permits of a wide range of interests: architecture, exploration, music, poetry. . ."

CIVADI, JEAN-MARC. La Querelle du Cid (1637–38). Edition critique intégrale. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: G. Peureux in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 972. This edition fully captures the debate and provides us with new possibilities to understand certain aspects of it, "notamment l'influence de la querelle sur la critique littéraire, mais aussi sur le dramaturgie, et son insertion dans les questions politiques du temps." The author "recense des corrections effectuées entre le manuscrit. . . et l'édition de 1638."

CLARKE, JAN. "Un théâtre qui n'a jamais existé: le tripot dans la rue du Temple." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 103–117.

The author examines the recently-discovered bail for a theater that was to be built in the rue du Temple in the 1630s to see what it reveals about the design of theatrical spaces in the seventeenth century. Additionally, Clarke concludes that the planned theater offered a template of sorts for the layout of the rebuilt Théatre du Marais (1644).

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. La Folle liberté des baroques 1600–1661. Paris: Perrin, 2007.

Review: D. Bermond in RDM (mai 2007), 187–189: "Dans cet essai tout en nervosité, baroque, se risquerait-on à dire, Jean-Marie Constant décline les mille et une manières de manifester sa liberté en cette première moitié du XVIIe siècle. L'auteur brosse des figures d'une belle trempe, qui ont fait de l'indocilité une règle de conduite, tells la duchesse de Chevreuse et la Grande Mademoiselle, deux croqueuses de pouvoir, ou ce comte de Montrésor, contestataire impénitent, conseiller de Gaston d'Orléans, lui-même prince de l'équivoque, qui se revendique 'esprit libre' par opposition aux 'esclaves' vivant dans 'la servitude' à la cour."

COUCHMAN, JANE & ANN M. CRABB, eds. Women's Letters across Europe, 1400–1700: Form and Persuasion. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.

Review: E. Moody in Ren Q 59.3 (2006): 930–32: Praised for its archival scholarship and high quality historical analysis, this volume of 15 essays focuses on letters and lives including pragmatic circumstances. Connections between "the state," "the private," "the public" and "the domestic" are shown to be tightly interwoven (Couchman and Crabb, 143) as the very organization of the volume underscores them with its sections presenting 1) "letter-writers attempting to influence family members and friends to achieve personal goals," 2) "women attempting to influence events and decisions in public spaces," and 3) women who 'derive authority' (16) for forceful aggression in public arenas from their religious beliefs" (931).

COUDERC, CHRISTOPHE. "Entre traduction et transfert culturel: de La villiana de Getafe de Lope de Vega à La Diane de Jean de Rotrou." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 107–131.

A comparative analysis of the two plays which highlights particularly the creative originality of Lope de Vega.

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

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 975–976. Reviewer states the ambitious objective of this work, which intends to know "too much at the same time." Furthermore, he finds fault with the book's length, with the discussion of certain topics and its attempt to go beyond the Grand Siècle in its historical analysis. Yet he values the discussion of lesser known works in Courtès' book.

CRAVERI, BENEDETTA. L'âge de la conversation. Traduit de l'italien parEliane Deschamps-Pria. Paris, Gallimard, 2002.

Review: R. Marchal in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 980–981. Review argues that this study "decrit une poétique et une mondanité. . . et qui dans le glissement insensible de l'oralité à l'écrit produit ces genres mimétiques de la conversation: ana, anecdotes, entretiens et dialogues, jeu de portraits, marques d'oralité de l'écriture épistolaire et mémorielle, etc." Author values the amount of information assembled, which extends from "l'âge de la conversation, de l'Hôtel Rambouillet jusqu'à. . . Mme de Staël."

DAGEN, JEAN & PHILIPPE ROGER, eds. Un siècle de deux cents ans? Les XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: continuités et discontinuités. Paris: Éditions Desjonquères, 2004.

Review: E. Leborgne in RF 118 (2006): 505–507: Stemming from the June 2001 colloque "Un siècle de deux cents ans?" at the Sorbonne and the Fondation Singer-Polignac, this volume demonstrates a politico-historical continuity which limits the liberty to think, write and publish thereby constraining writers to invent a personal style, both subversive and natural (505). As Dagen's presentation reminds us, "les règles d'ordre et de perfection. . . fondent au XVIIe siècle le mythe du français classique comme langue universelle de l'esprit et de la clarté" (506, reviewer). Referring to the permanence of the model of Antiquity, the spirit of the Counter-Reformation and the progress in the sciences, the essays present "une grande homogénéité" (506). While regretting a certain inequality of representation among fields of research, no analysis of "le sensualisme. . . qui naît au XVIIe siècle" (506), little reflection on evolution of literary genres (yet in preparing this annotation we did note a section devoted to that very subject!), or esthetics, as well as a slim consideration of minor subjects, Leborgne highlights useful emphases of the volumes's five sections: "Siècles littéraires, siècles philosophiques," "Perception du temps et légende des siècles," "Poétiques, pratiques," "Evolution des genres" and "Un même monde littéraire?"

DANDREY, PATRICK, ed. Anthologie de l'humeur noire: Ecrits sur la mélancolie d'Hippocrate à l'Encyclopédie. Paris: Gallimard, 2005.

Review: S. Guenoun, in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 258–263. Reviewer welcomes this anthology where "Seule l'énigme de ce 《  noir carburant  》 qui a fait tant couler d'encre, sollicite l'attention de notre anthologiste-fabuliste, exigeant la restitution minutieuse et rigoureuse de textes-clés, symptomatiques de constructions médicales et théologiques quasi-délirantes, sauvés, le temps d'une lecture, par une élégante et magistrale présentation."

DANDREY, PATRICK. "La comédie héroïque de Wolfgang Leiner." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 87–92.

Overview of Wolfgang Leiner's role in the development of seventeenth-century studies through, for example, his creation of PFSCL, Œuvres et critiques, and the collection Biblio 17.

DANDREY, PATRICK. "Democritus ridens. Rire, morale et folie dans les Lettres Hippocratiques." Poétique de la pensée. Etudes sur l'âge classique et le siècle philosophique. En hommage à Jean Dagen. Eds. Béatrice Guion et al. Paris: Honoré Champion Editeur, 2006.

DAUVOIS, NATHALIE & JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSPERRIN, eds. Songes et songeurs (XIIIe – XVIIIe siècle). Sainte-Foy, Québec: PU Laval, 2003.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 675 (2005), 54–55: L'ouvrage est "le produit d'un séminaire qui se tint à Toulouse de 1998 à 2000. Comme on pouvait plus ou moins s'y attendre, aucune synthèse n'émerge de cette série d'articles, parce que les rêves que racontent les écrivains n'ont pas nécessairement eu lieu, ou alors pas sous la forme mise en scène. La seule exception est peut-être consitutée par les trois songes de Descartes, songes à la croisée des chemins, messagers d'une aventure individuelle à venir." Manque d'index et de bibliographie.

DAYBELL, JAMES. "Recent Studies in Seventeenth Century Letters." ELR 36.1 (2006): 135–170.

Although the focus of most of the general studies is English letters, they include others of a broader nature such as the mention of a special issue of HLQ (2003), Studies in the Cultural History of Letter Writing. Individual topics include genre, epistolary manuals, women's letters, female literacy, letters of petition, epistolary models (articles cited here indicate that from the mid-seventeenth century "French epistolary models supplanted classical letters as exemplars for imitation, especially by women, 138), material aspects, publication, homoeroticism and letters, manuscript newsletters, prehistory of the newspaper, emotions, family relations, the love letter, transatlantic correspondence, epistolary communities, delivery of letters and postal system. Among the studies of individual writers, 17th c. French scholars will appreciate entries on 17th c. publication of Milton's state letters to France and on "textual echoes of the 'powersharing' between Louis XIV and Mazarin in Paradise Lost" (147). A final section assesses the state of criticism, pointing to greater accessibility through several electronic initiatives and indicating areas important for future inquiry.

DE CAPITANI, PATRIZIA. Du spectaculaire à l'intime: Un Siècle de commedia erudita en Italie et en France (début du XVIe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle). Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: M. Bregoli-Russo in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 537–39: From de Capitani's examination of French translations and adaptations of Italian theatrical works, notably currents of romance, intrigue and serious comedy, and with her focus on the intercultural relationship of the commedia erudita and the early modern French theatre, we gain a new appreciation for the dynamism of the model and "its capability to adapt to the variations in mentality and taste" (539). De Capitani has organized her impressive work in four chapters: 1) "Pour une approche comparative du théâtre comique italien et français du XVIe siècle et de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle," 2) "La comédie romanesque et ses avatars: La tradition siennoise et la France 1532–1647," 3) "La comédie d'intrigue: De l'Arioste et ses interprètes français aux premières comédies traduites par Larivey," 4) "La comédie sérieuse et sentimentale: Larivey et Rotrou face aux expériences italiennes de la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle—vers 1560–1646" (537–538).

DE COURCELLES, DOMINIQUES. Langages mystiques et avènement de la modernité. Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: A. Traninger in RF 118 (2006): 102–103: Found highly useful for future examinations of the intersections of philosophy, theology and literature. Focusing on wisdom, love of the word and embracing a time period from the 13th to the 17th c., De Courcelles's work includes helpfully analyzed case studies and is attentive to biography, chronology, geography and theories of genre.

DEFRANCE, ANNE. "L'enfant dans le conte de fees littéraire (1690–1715)." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 265–280.

With a few notable exceptions, children and the theme of childhood are curiously absent from the fairy tale. The author surveys representations of childhood and education in the fairy tale to show that children are mere accessories and instruments for addressing an adult audience. She then examines the intersection of the fairy tale and history in texts that evoke the childhood of Louis XIV (Préchac's Sans Parangon) and the Duc and Duchesse de Bourgogne. (Mlle de la Force's Tourbillon). When fairy tales incorporate historical elements, they either become panegyric or they become ambiguously critical through their mélange of féerie and fact.

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

Review: M. J. Muratore in SYM 60.4 (2007), 267–269: "The work consists of an introduction and three chapters devoted to three separate 'obscenity' trials: a poem by Théophile de Viau (published in 1622); an anonomously written narrative, L'Ecole des filles (1655); and Molière's comedy L'Ecole des femmes (1662)." De Jean "traces the evolving meanings of the term 'obscene' from its initial usage in antiquity through its reemergence in sixteenth-century France (after a brief disappearance during the Middle Ages), to its definitive entrance into the seventeenth-century lexicon at around the time of Molière's L'Ecole des femmes."

DE LA GORGE, JÉRÔME. "Un lieu de spectacle à Versailles au temps de Louis XIV: la grotte de Thétis." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 307–318.

The author examines the use of the grotte de Thétis at Versailles as a "lieu de spectacle" for the staging of Lully's La Grotte de Versailles and Molière's Malade Imaginaire. The extraordinary setting was an inspiration to Lully who composed his "églogue en musique" to take advantage of the scale and acoustic qualities of this intimate setting.

DELEHANTY, ANN T. "Mapping the Aesthetic Mind: John Dennis and Nicolas Boileau." JHI 68 (April 2007), 233–253.

Demonstrates how the literary criticism of John Dennis and Nicolas Boileau, in attempting to use a religious model to explain poetry, fails to balance the transcendental with the rationally knowable. "Both theorize a non-rational faculty rooted in sensible experience which is able to gain knowledge outside of reason's grasp. The essay argues that each writer uses a religious model to describe the profoundest intellectual effects of poetry. This appropriation of a religious model, however, results in an inability for both writers to account for the rationally knowable aspects of poetry along with its transcendental effects." (abstract) "The difficulties for their theories teach us a great deal about poetry's liminal status between sacred and profane during the period" (237). Delehanty concludes by saying that "The question which both Dennis and Boileau leaves unanswered is whether it is possible to reconcile the subjective and objective approaches to literary analysis. Their work only points us to some of the great difficulties in any attempt to do so" (252).

XVIIe siècle, avril 2004, 223.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 144: Twelve essays treat in this issue the notion "XVIIe siècle et modernité." Dalla Valle's review lists the titles of each article, suggesting the rich and varied nature of the issue (from classical models to linguistic considerations, moralists, justice, and the theatre, for example).

XVIIe siècle, juillet 2004, 224.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 145: This issue on "Excellence classique et marginalité au XVIIe siècle" includes papers presented at the colloque of the doctoral school of the U. de Toulouse II in April 2003. Additionally there are articles treating Malebranche, Pascal, and widows of the Bordeaux parliament.

XVIIe siècle, octobre 2004, 225.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 145: This issue includes papers from the 2002 colloque of Rouen "Corneille après Corneille, 1684–1791." The review is organized into sections on "Corneille des Lumières," "Corneille édité et mis en scène," "Voltaire critique de Corneille," "Réception critique de Corneille," "L'influence de Corneille sur la dramaturgie du XVIII siècle," and "Récritures de Corneille au XVIIe siècle."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. Montaigne et les libertins. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 687 (2006), 58: "Montaigne et les libertins s'intéresse avant tout à la réception des Essais aux XVIIe siècle dans les différents milieux que l'on qualifie de libertins." Dotoli a contribué "à montrer que le XVIIe siècle libertin a fait de Montaigne une lecture spécifique, qui eût sans doute quelque peu décontenancé l'auteur lui-même sur bien des points."

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI et al. Les Traductions de l'italien en français au XVIIe siècle. Bibliothèque des traductions de l'italien en français du XVIe au XXe siècles. Paris: Schena Editore-Presses de l'université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2001.

Review: R. Crescenzo in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 968–969. This book discusses the appearance of "italianismes" at the French court during the seventeenth century. The author hereby tries to get rid of the negative connotation that the term "italianisme" has acquired in France.

DOTOLI, GIOVANNI. "Wolfgang Leiner ou une nouvelle façon de lire le XVIIe siècle." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 29–33.

A personal recollection of a friendship, and an overview of Wolfgang Leiner's approach to the seventeenth century.

DU CREST, SABINE. "Le lieu de l'ailleurs dans les spectacles de cour au XVIIe siècle en Italie et en France." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 319–331.

The exotic—"la représentation de l'Autre et de l'ailleurs"—was an important theme in seventeenth-century culture that came from a profound desire to discover and know the Other. Nevertheless the representation of the exotic was less real than evocative and obeyed the esthetic principles of vraisemblance rather than reality. Above all, exotic images sought to capture spectators' imaginations rather that confront them with images of difference.

DUGGAN, ANNE. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: U of Delaware Press, 2005.

Review: J. Perlmutter in FR 80 (2006), 451–52: A book anchored in readings of Scudéry and d'Aulnoy which attempts to unsettle the centrality of the seventeenth-century canon and to question the idea that women writers undertake their work first and foremost as women. Accords importance to the salon as an alternative public sphere, a site for utopic play, and a locus for wide-ranging debates between male and female writers. The book is praised by the reviewer.

Review: A. Stedman in M&T 20 (2006), 270–272: "[A] compelling study of how seventeenth-century French writers used literary production to dialogue with one another over issues of class, gender, nobility, religion, politics, morality, and individual subjectivity. Over the course of six clearly written chapters, which weave the stories of the individual writers into a complex sociohistorical context, Anne E. Duggan "tells a story" (20), beginning with Madeleine de Scudéry and the public influence of salon women, moving on to the patriarchal reaction of academicians like Boileau and Charles Perrault, and finally focusing on Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's response to the decline of the salon, the nobility, and the moralist discourses responsible for late seventeenth-century parental and spousal domination."

DUMORA, FLORENCE. L'Oeuvre nocturne: songe et représentation au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: G. Peureux in FS 61.2 (2007), 221: This review of Dumora's thesis praises her analysis of dreams and visions in the seventeenth century as an "oeuvre logique et complexe, ambitieux et parfois difficile." The work has a strong introduction and doesn't shy away from the epistemological diversity it must confront, in particular the relationship of the dream to artistic production. Dumora's book allows one to see the complexity of "rapports logiques du réel et de l'illusion, du moi et du non-moi, du corps et de l'âme."

ERTLER, KLAUS-DIETER & WERNER HELMICH, eds. Das Rezensionswerk von Ulrich Schulz-Buschhaus. Eine Gesamtausgabe. Tübingen: Narr, 2005.

Review: F.-R. Hausmann in RF 118 (2006): 383–87: This voluminous work of 1107 pages is a testimony to the breadth, depth and judgment of its honoree's prolific scholarship, reviews and direction of numerous theses, dissertations and "Habilitationsschriften." 17th c. scholars will appreciate the considerable emphasis on the baroque. Indices allow for searching of particular authors and themes.

ESMEIN-SARRAZIN, CAMILLE. "Les nouvelles françaises ou la poétique galante d'un roman miroir de la société de son temps." In Guellouz, Suzanne and Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, eds. Jean Renault de Segrais. Actes du colloque de Caen. 9 et 10 mars 2006. Biblio 17, Number 173. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 59–73.

Les nouvelles françaises occupy an intermediate point between the baroque heroic romance and classicism's nouvelle. The text's representation of a reading community that frames the series of nouvelles reduces the distance between reader and text and makes the novel a miroir de son temps for examining contemporary moeurs.

ESMEIN, CAMILLE. Poétiques du roman: Scudéry, Huet, Du Plaisir, et d'autres textes théoriques et critiques du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: J. Mallinson in FS 61.3 (2007), 367–368: This critical anthology, though not exhaustive—which would be impossible—is "a model of scholarly rigour" and its value "would be difficult to overestimate." For works she does not cover in her edition, Esmein provides a "penetrating note" on its importance and its content. An edition that is "unlikely to be superceded for decades."

FÖCKING, MARC & BERNHARD HUSS, eds. Varietas und Ordo. Zur Dialektik von Vielfalt und Einheit in Renaissance und Barock. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2003.

Review: P. Ihring in RF 118 (2006): 106–109: Very wide-ranging volume examines diversity and unity in the Renaissance and the Baroque and embraces numerous geographical areas of Europe and genres from philosophical treatises to the political lyric, from comedy to historiography and others. 17th c. scholars will appreciate the study on laughter and power (the French focus here is Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin's Aspasie).

FUMAROLI, MARC. "Hommage à Wolfgang Leiner." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 11–12.

Personal recollection and homage to Wolfgang Leiner.

GADHOUM, SONIA. "La conversation dans le roman comique: statut et fonctions". SCFS 28 (2006), 103–115.

Analyses the function of conversation within three 'realist' comic novels, namely Tristan l'Hermite's Le Page disgracié, Sorel's Polyandre and Furetière's Le Roman bourgeois, asking: "sous quelles formes les conversations sont-elles introduites? Quelles fonctions ont-elles dans la narration et dans la structure même de l'œuvre? Quelles fonctions assurent-elles au regard des projets d'écriture des uns et des autres auteurs?"

GAUTHIER, PATRICIA. "L'enfant vu par les utopistes du règne de Louis XIV." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 293–304.

While utopian texts neglect childhood as a lived experience, they nonetheless represent children as an essential component of society since the birth and education of children are crucial for the propagation and survival of these invented, ideal worlds' values. The utopian text therefore offers "l'image fantasmée d'un enfant porteur de lendemains qui chantent, image en miniature d'une humanité vierge qui grandira, inchangée par le temps, forte des valeurs inculquées dans le jeune esprit des citoyens, pour atteindre la perfection dans l'âge d'homme."

GENETIOT, ALAIN. Le Classicisme. Paris: PUF, 2005.

Review: A. Niderst in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 538–539. Reviewer queries the validity of a study on the controversial term 'classicism,' although believes the book will be of great use to students and young researchers.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 148–149: Génetiot's highly useful synthesis provides the reader with a solid historiographical and critical basis (149). Génetiot is careful to define "classicism" as "un objet construit par la réception" (9) and then examines this reception and "formation." The "moment classique" is an "aspect" of the French 17th c. and, as Génetiot notes, there is a double polarity: "celle de la régularité normée d'une part et d'autre part celle des agréments, du goût et du sublime qui viennent relativiser les notions de raison et de clartés classiques" (4).

GETHNER, PERRY. "Guerre et combat dans les premières tragédies lyriques." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 257–266.

The author surveys the dramatic, visual, and musical conventions of the representation of war in operatic tragedy and concludes that they all share the common ideological goal of celebrating the monarch.

GINGRAS, FRANCIS, ed. Une étrange constance: les motifs merveilleux dans la littérature d'expression française du Moyen Age à nos jours. Sainte-Foy, Québec: PU de Laval, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 685 (2006), 56–57: "Il s'agit des actes d'un colloque organisé en octobre 2002 à l'université Western Ontario (Canada). F. Gingras est médiéviste et le Moyen Age se taille la part du lion dans cet ouvrage. . ." Deux contributions sur Cyrano de Bergerac et La Fontaine.

GOLDER, JOHN. "'A l'instart et conformément. . .au jeu de paume du Marestz': ce que l'Hôtel de Bourgogne devait au théâtre du Marais en 1647." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 87–101.

Acknowledging a lack of decisive documentary evidence, the author argues that the renovated Hôtel de Bourgogne (1647) imitated and improved on the layout of the rebuilt Théâtre du Marais (1644).

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

Review: C.F. Klaus in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 178–80: Praiseworthy for its rich selection of women's correspondence, this "informative survey" of the multi-faceted development of the letter also analyzes themes, centers of interest, networks of influence and involvement in financial dealings. Letters are diverse and unexpurgated; they provide to scholars in many fields letters previously accessible only with great difficulty or not at all. Extensive documentation includes a selective bibliography.

Review: M. Lazard in FS 60.4 (2006), 510–511: This review is more of a compte rendu than an actual critique of the work. The final paragraph indicates, however, strong support for this collection of writings. The introduction is "nourrie," the reviewer says, and the glossary and extensive indexing bring a great deal of usability to the text. It is a "recueil" that provides "de précieuses indications sur la vie et la mentalite féminines d'Ancien Régime."

Review: M. Longino in FR 80 (2007), 907–08: With a generous introduction which provides a survey of the development of the epistolary genre, as well as copious annotations, the volume is useful for teaching and research alike. The work draws on many scholars' collaboration to introduce and present selections from the letters of ten different French women, most of them completely unknown to us today. "[A]ffords the reader a window into different facets of early modern living conditions for literate and for the most part relatively affluent French women" (908). The volume preserves original spelling.

Review: J. Vignes in IL 58.4 (2006): 56–57. Summarizes the content of this collection, which assembles three centuries of female correspondence with a brief introduction. Points to the variety and range of letters included in this study.

GOSSIP, CHRISTOPHER J. "'Tenir l'affiche' dans les théâtres parisiens du XVIIe siècle." RHLF 107.1 (2007): 19–33.

Gossip attempts to answer two questions, which he poses at the outset of the article: first, "ce qui signale la fin d'une série de représentations, étant donné qu'une pièce peut être reprise d'un jour à l'autre?" He moreover addresses the question of the publication of the manuscripts, and the influence publication has on plays written in the seventeenth century. He argues that it is a general rule that "plus la publication d'une pièce du XVIIe siècle était retardée, plus grand avait été son success."

GOUPILLAUD, LUDIVINE. De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle en France. Genève: Droz, 2005.

Review: T. Conley in SCN (2006), 234–236: Very favourably reviewed, "[t]he ambition of this book is to discern the presence of the Aeneid in French literary circles in the reign of Louis XIV. The author argues that Virgil was present but not always obvious to the poets, artists, architects and orators who defined France's classical age. That the nation sought to define itself by an epic was less evident than its prevailing desire to be known by a founding heroic poem."

Review: D. Maskell in FS 61.1 (2007), 95–96. This is a "copiously documented" analysis of Virgil's reception at the time of Louis XIV. While its index is "meagre and ill serves a book of this nature," Goupillaud's work receives a very positive review for its otherwise thorough and intriguing approach to this topic. Covering painting, theater, the novel, the "grands auteurs" and the "minores," and, of course, the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, this work uses a "wealth of textual material in French and Latin."

Review: n. a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 55–56: "Il n'existait aucune étude d'ensemble sur la réception et l'influence de Virgile au Grand Siècle, aussi surprenant que cela paraisse, dans le mesure où le poète de Mantoue n'a jamais été place ailleurs qu'au premier rang des écrivains." Ouvrage érudit d'une lecture agréable.

GRODEK, ELZBIET A, ed. Écriture de la ruse. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

Review: I. Vissière in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 246–247. This study unites about 20 writers who discuss the idea of the textual ruse in literature from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, most of which, however, are well know to theorists already, among them women writers in the seventeenth century. Vissière questions what the real value is in Toposator.

GUELLOUZ, SUZANNE. "Structures de la nouvelle chez Cervantes et chez Segrais." In Guellouz, Suzanne and Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, eds. Jean Renault de Segrais. Actes du colloque de Caen. 9 et 10 mars 2006. Biblio 17, Number 173. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 75–91.

The author examines Cervantes and Segrais's interest in the creation of "effets de réel," the development of characters, the treatment of time and space, narrative structure, and the use of double identities. In spite of the affinities between the two authors, Segrais is not Cervantes' successor. Each author reflects the situation of his respective society: Cervantes writes in an era marked by the Council of Trent, while Segrais is the product of a transitional period.

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

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 147–148: Prose, poetry, drama and opera provide examples for Harris's analyses of the socio-cultural and literary-historical phenomenon. Considers reactions of institutions, the bienséances and the particularly well-documented case of the abbé de Choisy. Well documented and with rich bibliography.

HASKELL, YASMIN ANNABEL. Loyola's Bees, Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 976–977. This work deals with poetry in Latin, which was created by the Jesuits over two centuries. It includes the work of Italian and French Jesuits. Collinet approves of this study, its two appendixes, and its numerous illustrations.

HELGESON, JAMES. "Early Modernity Without the 'Self': Notes on Anachronism and the First Person." SCFS 29 (2007), 29–39.

Through an analysis of passages from Alberti, Descartes, Pascal and Wittgenstein, focusing on the topos of 'the man at the window,' suggests that "it is possible to make sense of the pronoun 'I' in directional or intentional statements trans-historically without calling on the terminology of the 'self.'" Rather than focusing on 'selfhood,' suggests instead examining "conceptions of 'outwardness' derived, for example, from cognitive models and rhetorical theory."

HENIN, EMMANUELLE. "Plaisir des larmes et plaisir de la representation: d'un paradoxe à l'autre." Poétique 151 (2007), 289–309.

Explores how tears in 17th-century French tragedy become "le creuset ignoré de la pensée esthétique" (290). Hénin notes that tears involve not just a paradoxical experience of pleasure and pain, but also the paradox of a simultaneous emotional and aesthetic pleasure ("le plaisir des larmes" and "le plaisir de la représentation"). Dramatic theorists' handling of this second paradox becomes a way of charting how they prioritize elements such as pleasure and usefulness in drama, a history which Hénin charts from an era of Horatian utile dulci in the 1630s–1660s, to a later, more exclusive emphasis on pleasure, to an 18th-century triumph of the pathetic, in which empathy eliminates catharsis and "la mort de la tragédie coïncide avec l'avènement de l'esthétique" (304).

HENRICHOT, MICHEL. "Mars aux enfers: la guerre vue des dialogues des morts." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 139–150.

Each of three categories of the genre of the dialogue des morts offers a different treatment of war, revealing the genre's richness and variety. Contemporary affairs are the focus of satiric dialogue-pamphlets while in Fénelon's pedagogic dialogue, events are secondary to teaching and entertaining the dauphin with history. Finally, in Fontenelle's Nouveaux Dialogues, war offers a multitude of exempla for the author to treat with a detached wit.

HOGG, CHLOÉ. "The Power of Frivolity: Villedieu, La Force, and the Nouvelle historique." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 359–372.

Suggests reading Villedieu's Les Annales galantes (1670), Les Désordres de l'Amour (1675) and La Force's Histoire secrète de Bourgogne (1694) as "a way of accommodating the unserious, suggested by Bakhtin's dialogic model of parody: the nouvelle historique as the 'parodic double' to the 'straightforward, serious' genre of history."

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

Review: M. Bannister in FS 61.3 (2007), 365–366: This summary and annotation of legal documents sheds significant light on the lives and enterprises of many important seventeenth-century writers: Hardy, Rotrou, Tristan, Corneille, La Calprenède, Baro, and more. The reviewer accentuates Howe's "meticulous" work and the "immense" quantities of details, which confirms his position as "one of the leading authorities" of theater of the period.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 676 (2005), 52: "Après un premier volume consacré au théâtre professionnel à Paris, c'est-à-dire au monde des comédiens et des compagnies qui les emploient, ce second catalogue d'actes notariés se rapporte aux auteurs ayant donné à l'impression au moins une pièce pour le théâtre dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, ainsi qu'aux libraires qui les ont publiés. L'archiviste (M. Jurgens) et l'historien du théâtre (A. Howe) collaborent ici de façon fructueuse en allant bien au-delà du simple travail de catalogage des cent soixante-treize actes, puisés dans cinquante-cinq études de notaires, qui composent l'ensemble." Cet ouvrage constitue "une base de donnée décisive pour les études théâtrales qui invite plus que jamais littéraires et historiens à associer leurs disciplines pour une meilleure compréhension de leurs objets."

HUBERT, JUDD. "Accounting for Critical Displacements." CdDS 11.1 (2006): 1–18.

Study of scholar's experience. He was taught that he lacked the resources in America to do serious work, but with all of the many different kinds of North American interpretive theories, he has overcome what French seventeenth-century traditionalists believed was impossible. He then goes about giving an autobiographical explanation of each of his many publications and how he came to write them.

JAKOBS, BEATRICE. "Le concept de la négligence chez les moralistes français." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 407–427.

Examines the idea of "l'ars est celare artem, le développement d'un principe purement rhétorique en un principe autant rhétorique qu'éthique." Goes on to analyse "la mise en œuvre de la négligence par quelques moralistes: présente non seulement comme thème fréquemment abordé dans les œuvres mais aussi 《  pratiquée  》 lors de la réalisation stylistique de celles-ci, la négligence sera caracterisée comme étant un déterminant de l'écriture moraliste."

JOUHAUD, CHRISTIAN. Sauver le Grand Siècle? La transmission du passé. Paris : Seuil éd., 2007.

Review : V. Milliot in QL 942 (du 16 au 31 mars 2007), 20–21 : 《  Récusant la fragile dichotomie entre témoignages historiques et discours produits par les historiens, [Jouhaud] propose de regarder diverses sortes d'écrits traitant du 'Grand Siècle', comme autant d'objets historiques. Il invite à une mise en histoire de l'historiographie, à une confrontation avec les sources dites littéraires. (...) Chaque chapitre, chaque ouverture est ensuite constitué de vignettes, d'éclairages qui donnent à relire et à reconsidérer des textes plus ou moins célèbres, des lectures du XVIIe siècle. On croise par exemple, Voltaire et son Siècle de Louis XIV, Chateaubriand et la Vie de Rancé ou les Pensées de Pascal. Mais la réflexion convoque aussi la mémoire des Camisards étudiée par Philippe Joutard, les possédées de Loudun de Michel de Certeau, des classiques de l'historiographie comme Baroque et classicisme (1957) de V. L. Tapié, l'Histoire littéraire du sentiment religieux (1916–1933) d'Henri Brémond, ou encore l'ouvrage de Paul Bénichou, Morales du Grand siècle (1948).  》

KAPP, VOLKER. "L'image de l'Allemagne dans le roman d'après les travaux de Wolfgang Leiner." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 63–67.

Overview of some of the central ideas concerning the representation of Germany in French literature as analysed in Wolfgang Leiner's monograph Das Deutschlandbild in der französischen Literatur (1989).

KATRITSKY, M. A. The Art of the Commedia: A Study in the Commedia dell'arte', 1560–1620, with Special Reference to the Visual Records. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006.

Review: R. Andrews in MLR 102.4 (2007), 1166–68: A valuable study that "contains early on (p. 29) a salutary plea for an integration of what we can learn from textual records on the one hand and from iconography on the other. After immersion in the images contained in this book, one comes away with a kaleidoscope of street charlatans, carnival masquerades, grotesques, acrobatics, codpieces, and farcical plots of seduction and humiliation. These things lend themselves, of course to being visually depicted in an entertaining way. By contrast, scholars working on the textual evidence (scenarios, published plays, and actors' self-propaganda) pursue what lends itself to being recorded in words. They observe the close links between improvised and scripted drama, and the ambitions of the snobbier sections of the profession—their pretence that they no longer had anything to do with street theatre or scurrility. A revisionism whish is more interdisciplinary, and to which The Art of Commedia now provides an indispensable contribution, will eventually produce a more comprehensive and accurate view.

KENNY, NEIL. The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Review: N. Paige in MLQ 68 (2007), 119–22. Brings a broad and potentially unruly topic under control, organizing its material in terms of two groups, "institutions" and "discursive tendencies." Reviewer finds Kenny particularly strong in his discussion of literary and aesthetic uses of curiosity, and applauds his conscientious use of scholarship, resistance to hype, and scholarly care. The book is deemed not entirely convincing in its attempt to argue against a generalized cultural shift toward the valorization of curiosity, but the reviewer nonetheless grants the work praise.

KÜPPER, JOACHIM, with ANDREAS KABLITZ & BERNHARD KÖNIG, eds. Margot Kruse. Beiträge zur französischen Moralistik. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003.

Review: H. Schulte in RF 118 (2006): 397–99: This volume honors Kruse, the "Doyenne der Hamburger Romanistik", on her 75th birthday. Welcome both for the pleasure and the profit it will give to its readers, the work remains impressive for its scholarly stringency and stylistic significance in both the German and French languages (399). 17th c. scholars will find numerous treasures here, from global studies on moralists of the Grand Siècle, to individual analyses of themes ("sagesse et folie", "liberté", for example) and no less than 4 studies on Pascal.

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

Review: L. Mackenzie in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 562–63: Highly useful as "an authoritative repertoire of references" for scholars of both literature and philosophy, this study of the satyr extends from the late 15th to the late 17th c. and includes references to source texts of Greco-Roman Antiquity as well as examples from Italian, French, Spanish and English texts. Erudite and wide-ranging with "nuanced analysis," Lavocat's study is organized into chapters dealing with "the disappearance of the allegorical function of Silenus, Midas, and Marsyas," "the 'fall' of Pan from royal allegory and Neoplatonic signifier to a mere commemoration of himself, accompanied by Counter-Reformation [representations]," "rewritings of the story of the death of Pan," "the 'voice' attributed to the satyr," and the satyr's brief presence in pastoral theatre." Pascal is among the authors examined.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 675 (2005), 54: ". . .Pan et les satyres subirent une profonde mutation au long du XVIe siècle, surtout après le concile de Trente et à l'âge baroque. . . L'auteur passe au crible de ses analyses un siècle environ de la création occidentale, entre la cour médicéenne, Pic de la Mirandole et Louis XIII, à la recherche de l'explication du fait que l'allégorie des forces occultes, de la création et de l'inspiration, ait pu muter vers des incarnations de la subversion, de la licence érotique, de la satanisation."

Review: M. Closson in BHR 69.1 (2007), 248–52: ". . .jusqu'à présent, il n'y avait guère d'études sur cette figure [le satyre] dans la littérature des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Le très beau livre de Françoise Lavocat, qui s'accompagne d'un dossier iconographique passionnant, vient donc combler un manque et cela dans une perspective particulièrement originale. . .. Son projet consiste en effet à étudier, comme elle l'écrit dans son introduction, 'le passage des divinités champêtres, en particulier de Pan et de son entourage satyrique, de l'univers de la fable mythologique à celui de la fiction', ou en d'autres termes, de s'interroger sur le processus à la fois de 'dégradation et d'incarnation' qui a permis la transformation d'une figure allégorique en personnage littéraire, transformation qui précède et accompagne sa presque complète disparition au cours du XVIIe siècle."

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Divergences et Queeriosités : Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d'Iphis en garçon (XIIe– XVIIIe)." FLS 34 (2006): 13–34.

With the tale of Ovid's Iphys and Ianthe (Iphis et Ianthé) as a starting point, the author underlines the hetero-normative role the myth had in the fashioning of what would later be viewed as lesbian stories. First considered as queer (queeriosity), and condemned, then viewed as allegorical, moralizing, medical, thus redressed, these tales are once more put into question in modern times. The author also discusses the transformation of anatomical knowledge at the end of the Renaissance and throughout the seventeenth century. She concludes with Louis XIV asking that Ovid's Metamorphoses be transformed into rondeaux in 1676; his Iphys remains a woman before the marriage: "son 'Iphis en garçon' persistera d'ailleurs dicrètement dans la subversion en y faisant du changement de sexe et de l'hétérosexualité obliges une ridicule affaire de 'poil au menton'" (27).

LE MARCHAND, BÉRÉNICE. 'Mise en scène et jeux de miroirs des contes de fées de la fin du Grand Siècle." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 155–179.

Examines the extent to which the interplay between mirrors and reflections in eighty two fairy-tales (published between 1661 and 1715) underpins a theatrical representation of the difference between the beginning and the end of Louis XIV's reign. "Ainsi, dans leurs œuvres les conteurs brossent un tableau décrivant l'aspect spectaculaire [. . .] du temps passé pour ainsi effacer momentanément la réalité du déclin et décrire, par conséquent, un monde appartenant à l'apparence et l'illusion. Cette remise en scène du passé nostalgique dans les contes s'apparente ainsi à la mise en abîme, c'est-à-dire à un effet de profondeur et de cadres enchâssés."

Littératures classiques 51 (2004).

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 145–146: This issue, "Le théâtre au XVIIe siècle: pratiques du mineur," is edited by Hélène Baby with the collaboration of Christian Delmas. Reviews the various connotations of "mineur" from the 17th c. to our day. The issue is organized in sections on "Écritures mineures," "Mineurs ou majeurs" (in function of the success or theatrical legitimization of a play), and "Frontières des genres majeurs" (tragicomedy, heroic comedy, comedy-ballet, etc.)

LOSKOUTOFF, IVAN. "Le mécénat littéraire du président de Maisons." DSS 233 (2006), 717–752.

The château de Maisons has been greatly studied, "mais personne ne s'est intéressé à ce que son fondateur lisait, à ce qu'il faisait écrire, à son goût littéraire." The author explores at length the following questions: "Quelle fut la clientèle du Président de Maisons? Au-delà du simple soutien financier procuré aux écrivains, quelles furent la nature et l'extension de son influence? On a défini le mécénat comme la manifestation de 《  l'esprit de la maison  》; y eut-il un 《  esprit de Maisons  》?"

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

Review: J. Clarke in FS 60.4 (2006), 511: The reviewer is generally sympathetic to this work, though Clarke says its approach is somewhat "pedestrian." The reviewer would have preferred more information on the composition of orchestras and singers, and the details of employment as well. In spite of this, and in spite of a bibliographic style that is at times confusing, the book remains useful as a quick reference linking composer and playwright.

Review: Ch. Mazouer in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 234. The object of this book is precise: viz. where music insertions take place, as well as their role in French theater from 1550 to the end of the classical age. Part one discusses the place of theoretical discourse in classical theater, which is in fact a difficult task, as music has been marginalized in theatrical compositions since Aristotle's Poetics. Chronological approach. Argues that the French (1650) refuse the operatic influence brought up from Italy. The conclusion leaves the doors open to the idea of any fixation, any generalization toward the role music played throughout the period in question. The second part of the work discusses ancient models and modern methods. The third part of the work is most concerned with musical fixation and juxtaposition to coincide with a precise theatrical dramatic sense: tragédie à machines, comédie-ballet, pastorale, théâtre religieux, etc. Mazouer judges this study to be a "livre nécessaire."

LYONS, JOHN & CARA WELCH, eds. Le Savoir au XVIIe siècle. Actes du 34e congrès annuel de la NASSCFL. Tübingen: Narr, 2003.

Review: H. Stenzel in RF 118 (2006): 235–38: After a generally negative review which finds little coherence in this multi-faceted volume, Stenzel does single out certain studies which he judges enlightening to this key notion of the 17th c.: John Campbell's (on mythology and "savoir"), Dominique Bertrand's (on "le rire"), Myriam Maître's (on "les belles" and "les Belles Lettres"), Anne E. Duggan's (Clélie. . . or Writing the Nation), Volker Schröder's (Écrire les Gracques au temps de Louis XIV") and Emmanuel Bury's (philology and ars critica), among others.

MABER, RICHARD G. Publishing in the Republic of Letters: The Ménage-Graevius-Wetstein Correspondence 1679–1692. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

Review: W. Poole in FS 61.2 (2007), 225: While the Graevius-Wetstein part of the correspondence is lost, what remains of the letters illuminating Ménage's publication of Diogenes Laertius in Amsterdam, is "richly informative," in the reviewer's words, and "should be required reading for anyone interested in the later workings of the republic of letters or the history of the book." This is a "unique window" on scholarly publication at the time, a book which portrays vivid characters and interesting details of the late seventeenth-century publishing world.

MANTERO, ANNE & VERONIQUE FERRER, eds. Les Paraphrases bibliques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Genève: Droz, 2006.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 687 (2006), 51: Actes du colloque tenu à Bordeaux des 22, 23, et 24 septembre 2004. Ce volume "d'une excellente qualité d'ensemble, contribuera à une meilleure appréciation de la notion d'originalité d'un maniement si délicat dès qu'on aborde la littérature d'Ancien Régime." On remarque pourtant "des oublis étonnants": personne n'a traité "de ces immenses paraphrases de la Genèse et de l'Apocalypse que sont, dans le domaine français, les Semaines de Du Bartas ou les Tragiques d'Aubigné (et, en Angleterre, les poèmes de Milton)."

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

Review: n.a. in BCLF 691 (2007), 62: Selon l'auteur, "le théâtre fut, dans la période considérée, le lieu privilégié de la représentation du sacrifice. Les mythes d'Iphigénie et d'Andromède ont permis à de nombreux dramaturges, décorateurs et machinistes inégalement talentueux de montrer de quoi ils étaient capables. Il ne fut plus question, comme dans les mystères médiévaux, de mettre sur la scène des épisodes tirés des Evangiles, qui auront désormais la faveur des poètes. . .. Les dramaturges prendront encore leur matière dans les récits hagiographiques, mais le drame édifiant, qui connut une telle faveur aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, perdit de son lustre au siècle des Lumières."

MARCHAL, ROGER, ed. L'Ecrivain et ses institutions. Travaux de littérature XIX. Droz, 2006.

Includes articles by Frank Greiner, "Jean du Puget de La Serre et le roman de cour," Patrick Latour, "《 Donné et dédié 》. Image et réalité du mécénat littéraire de Mazarin en 1643–1644," Jean-Pierre Collinet, "Une institution sous-estimée: les Conférences académiques de Richesource," Alain Génetiot, "Boileau et les institutions littéraires," Monique Vincent, "Le Mercure Galant à l'écoute de ses 《 institutions 》," and Delphine Denis, "Les académies galantes, entre fiction et réalité."

MAZOUER, CHARLES. "Wolfgang Leiner et le théâtre." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 79–83.

Overview of the importance of Wolfgang Leiner's work on early seventeenth-century theatre, particularly on Rotrou.

MAZOUER, CHARLES. "Wolfgang Leiner vu de France." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 15–17.

Personal recollection and homage to Wolfgang Leiner from a French perspective.

MCCLIVE, CATHY. "L'âge des fleurs: le passage de l'enfance à l'adolescence dans l'imaginaire médicale du XVIIe siècle." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 171–185.

While in the Middle Ages the onset of menstruation was considered a mark of adulthood, in the seventeenth centry, puberty in young women ushered in a transitional period called "l'âge des fleurs." It is "la ceuillette de la fleur de sa virginité" and childbearing that mark a girl's passage to womanhood which is characterized by her ability not only to "flower" but more importantly to "bear fruit."

MESNARD, JEAN. "Un compagnonnage avec Wolfgang Leiner." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 93–101.

A personal recollection of a collaboration and friendship which spanned over five decades.

MILNE, ANNE. "Fables of the Bees: Species as an Intercultural Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Scientific and Literary Texts." E Cr 46.2 (2006): 33–41.

Although the focus of this article of eco-criticism is on John Gay's and Bernard Mandeville's writings, there are some considerations of La Fontaine's "The Drones and the Bees." Milne concludes that La Fontaine "fails to take into account the holistic perspective and fails to imagine bees as essential to a larger biological community. . . The scenario played out [in the fable] is completely unnatural and uncharacteristic of bee behavior. . . The major truth derived is not that of a cooperative, socially-dependent ecosystem but of a social hierarchy that emphasizes power relations and imperatives of ownership" (38).

MOREAU, ISABELLE & GREGOIRE HOLTZ, eds. "Parler librement": la liberté de parole au tournant du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle. Lyon: Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines, 2005.

Review : J.-P. Cavaillé in RPFE 197.1 (janvier-mars 2007), 100–102 : 《  Ces textes, presque tous composés par des doctorants, offrent un ensemble d'approches fort stimulantes de la question de la liberté de parole au début de l'époque moderne. Il s'agit de celle qui se joue dans des écrits publiés et assumés par des auteurs, dans des genres divers : philosophie, controverse religieuse, pamphlet, satire, apologie. . . Elle est saisie en action, dans ses contextes, plutôt que négativement, par les institutions de censure et de répression, dans une 《  approche pragmatique . [. . .] L'ensemble de ces analyses ouvertes, jalons dans un travail en cours de longue haleine, est d'une qualité scientifique qui n'a rien à envier aux publications d'actes dues à des chercheurs confirmés, souvent bien moins sérieuses et cohérentes.  》

Review: n. a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 54: Ouvrage qui "réunit les textes présentés lors des trois journées d'étude tenues à l'Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines de Lyon, en 2002 et 2003." On "souhaite 'mettre l'accent sur une analyse pragmatique des discours, sur la situation d'interlocution et les pôles institutionnels et auctoriaux qui délimitent le champ de la prise de parole.'"

MORGAT-LONGUET, EMMANUELLE. Clio au Parnasse. L'invention de l'histoire littéraire aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: L. Fraisse in PSCFL, 67 (2007), 546–554. Lengthy and considered review which itself enters into the debate concerning the notion of 'literary history.' Welcomes this volume "qui concourt à déplacer de façon bénéfique, une fois de plus, notre point de vue sur l'histoire littéraire que nous reduisons si volontiers à Gustave Lanson." Sees it as a volume "sans précédents et destiné désormais à compter."

NAUDEIX, LAURA. Dramaturgie de la tragédie en musique. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 60.4 (2006), 514–515: This work is well aware of the "hybrid nature" of the "tragédie en musique," anachronistically named "opéra." The reviewer lauds Naudeix's approach and goes as far as to compare her work on musical tragedy to that of Jacques Scherer on spoken theater. Her work engages the genre fully, from notions of verisimilitude to the patronage system, and the cultural context in which musical tragedy flourished. The reviewer concludes that future scholars "will have to engage with this book, which is a rich mine of facts and synthesis."

Review: A. Stedman in FR 81 (2007), 167–69: A study of the little-examined genre of the tragédie en musique, a dramatic poem set to music and song. The genre became a point of convergence for French tragedy and Italian opera. Naudeix attempts to sketch the defining rules and characteristics of these works, which modified and transposed many of the conventions of French tragedy, as well as to chart the genre's development from the era of absolutism to the peak of the French Enlightenment. The reviewer suggests that Naudeix accomplishes this second task with only mixed success.

NAUTA, LODI & DETLEV PÄTZOLD, eds. Imagination in the Later Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 12. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.

Review: M.V. Dougherty in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 595–97: Nauta and Pätzold understand and state that "there is no such things as the history of the imagination," and acknowledge the "sheer variety of themes" under consideration here (xiii). They succeed in "producing a scholarly collection of essays on a topic of much importance" (595). Focus is on the traditions of rhetoric and philosophy. French scholars will appreciate erudite reflections on Augustinian thought, poetic imagination and painting, and imagination in Descartes's Méditations.

NEDELEC, CLAUDINE. "Etre poète et narrateur en même temps: le prosimètre romanesque chez Segrais et quelques autres." In Guellouz, Suzanne and Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, eds. Jean Renault de Segrais. Actes du colloque de Caen. 9 et 10 mars 2006. Biblio 17, Number 173. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 131–154.

The 465 verses inserted into the 515 pages of the Nouvelles françaises harken back to the baroque romance (notably L'Astrée) and seem to function as ornaments that slow down the action of the nouvelle and distract from the creation of vraisemblance. The author, however, argues that Segrais's verses contribute to the nouvelles' creation of vraisemblance since they are always motivated by the hero's social status as well as the narrative's action and register.

NIDERST, ALAIN. Anthologie de la poésie à l'âge baroque (1598–1660). Ed. Niderst Paris: R. Laffont, 2005.

Review: J. Conroy in FS 61.3 (2007), 364–365: This is a "splendid and very welcome volume" that leaves as much space as possible for primary texts from over 120 poets. This diversity speaks for itself, the reviewer says, and allows the reader to have a feel for a century when "almost any topic was materia poesis." The volume is organized chronologically and has a useful introduction that examines modern understanding of the baroque as well as nineteenth-century analysis of terms such as "précieux" and "burlesque." A useful complement to the other seventeenth-century poetry anthologies.

Review: J. Goery in RHLF 107.1 (2007): 235. Goery believes that the anthology by Niderst, however attractive and clearly written, is too politically situated, too restricted to the poetic, written, form of the baroque to be more than an opportunistic attempt at making money. The author's glosses are too personal and therefore left to be disputed. However, the pieces united are new, original and beautiful. Many of the 120 authors compiled are new to the reader, which gives the anthology its freshness. The linguistic modernization is tolerable even though many new bibliographies are sadly left out.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 147: Niderst has chosen dates for this anthology reflecting the beginning of the reign of Henri IV and the end of the reign of Louis XIII. Niderst's introduction includes helpful discussions of terms such as "baroque," "précieux," "galant," as well as a useful chronology of artistic, literary, intellectual and socio-political events. Presented chronologically, the poems included range from the religious to the amorous and political. Niderst's volume is divided into four sections: "Le roi et les deux reines," "Du désordre à la dictature," "L'Héroïsme et les mondanités," and "De la guerre civile à l'absolutisme." Helpful critical apparatus includes essential biographies and a bibliography of anthologies and critical studies.

NIDERST, ALAIN. "Les peintres du théâtre (Gillot, Watteau)." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 511–523.

Overview and analysis of the paintings of Gillot and Watteau devoted to late seventeenth-century and early eighteenth-century theatre. Four paintings are reproduced in miniature.

NOILLE-CLAUZADE, CHRISTINE. L'Eloquence du sage: platonisme et rhétorique dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: E. Gilby in FS 61.2 (2007), 224. This is an "accomplished" work of "concision and imagination" according to the review. Her rhetorical and thematic analysis of platonisme takes her to Port-Royal, Lamoignon, Bossuet, Guez de Balzac, Lamothe le Vayer, La Fontaine, La Bruyère and Fleury. The reviewer states that this is "a well-written account" of idealism in early-modern literature and philosophy.

Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 32, 62 (2005).

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 146–147: This issue includes two sections drawn from the meeting of the 2003 Modern Language Association. The first, "Beaux Arts et Belles Lettres," edited by Christine McCall Probes, brings together articles on terminology and the concept itself, "esthetics" and "literature"; Boyceau's treatise on gardening and its contribution to the notion, and an essay proving that although the "vocable" did not exist in the 17th c., the concept was pervasive. The second section "J'ai trop aimé la guerre: gloire, suicide, carnage," edited by Richard E. Goodkin, includes treatments on the actuality of the theme, explorations of Horace and Cinna, the taming of armies in the "pièce à machines" and on war and glory in La Bruyère. Other studies complete the volume (on love and friendship, women translating history, the decline of the "monde héroico-chevaleresque à l'aube de l'âge moderne", among others).

PASQUIER, PIERRE. "L'Hôtel de Bourgogne et son evolution architecturale: elements pour une synthèse." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 47–71.

The author surveys the history of the Hôtel de Bourgogne which was built in 1548 by the Confrérie de la Passion for the staging of mystery plays (which had ostensibly been banned by the Parlement de Paris). The article traces the evolution of the space to show how a theatre with roots in medieval drama became synonymous with theatrical modernity and innovation.

PEREZ-ESPEJO, GUIOMAR HAUTCOEUR. Parentés franco-espagnoles au XVIIe siècle: poétique de la nouvelle de Cervantès à Challe. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005.

Review: n. a. in BCLF 674 (2005), 59–60: L'auteur "commence par s'interroger sur la spécificité de la novela espagnole. . .. Puis, elle examine la diffusion de la novela en France, à l'aide d'une périodisation, contestable, commes elles le sont toutes: introduction du genre (1608–1628), âge d'or (1645–1660), et déclin (après 1660). . . .la dernière partie. . . montre comment la mode de la novela s'est étiolée, une fois que la France est parvenue à créer sa propre esthétique du récit bref, galant et de bon goût (avec notamment La Princesse de Clèves) se substituant aux outrances des récits espagnols."

PERIGOT, BEATRICE. Dialectique et littérature: Les avatars de la dispute entre Moyen Age et Renaissance. Bibliothèque Littéraire de la Renaissance 58. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: B. C. Bowen in Ren Q 59.2 (2006): 533–34: Extremely wide-ranging treatment of "disputatio." Although as Perigot's title suggests the focus is the 14th -16th c., in reality she reaches back to Aristotle and Augustine and forward to the 17th and 18th c. Highly informative and "often convincing," 17th c. scholars will find helpful the treatment of its literature which is shifting toward the rhetoric or becoming "ce qui n'est pas disputative" (Perigot 686), in particular considerations of Descartes and La Rochefoucauld.

PERRIN, JEAN FRANÇOIS, ed. Féeries: etudes sur le conte merveilleux (XVIIe–XIXe siècle). Vol. 1: Le Recueil. Grenoble: Université Stendahl, 2003.

Review: K. Bulver in FR 80 (2007), 1120–1121: This initial issue of what is to be an annual publication sets forth the following goal for the journal: "travailler le conte avec les instruments, les methods et les problématiques des études littéraires contemporaines". Féeries' first issue takes up the question of how tales' grouping and framing shapes their meaning. It contains scholarly essays as well as comptes-rendus of pertinent works; reviewer recommends it for specialists of narratology and fairy tales.

PETERS, JULIE STONE. Theatre of the Book, 1480–1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 42 (2006): 97: Wide-ranging, Peters's study is judged "rich," "varied," "intelligent," and "invaluable." The 500-page exploration is organized into 15 chapters relating to "interactions of page and stage," and analyzes numerous topics such as the "significance of architectural metaphor and space."

PETRIS, LORIS. "La Philosophie morale aux champs: Ethica, œconomica, et politica dans Les Plaisirs de la vie rustique de Pibrac." RHLF 107.1 (2007): 3–18.

"La poésie rustique connaît, dans la seconde moitié du XVIe siècle, une diffusion aussi large qu'apparemment éphémère puisqu'elle se tarira au début du XVIIe siècle ; contrairement à la poésie bucolique et à la pastorale." Author discusses, in this context, Ronsard, [Guy Lefevere de] La Boderie, Du Bartas, and the influence of Horace and Virgil on authors of that period. Topics discussed are the individuum, the couple, and la patrie.

PLAZENET, LAURENCE. "Port-Royal au Prisme du Roman (1657–2004)." RHLF 106.4 (2006): 927–958.

In theory, the author argues, the polemics between drama and novel prohibits "a priori l'idée de tout rapprochement." Yet indirectly, authors manage to subtly portray Port-Royal, such as in Clélie or in Les Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité (Prévost). The article also mentions the historical events of Port-Royal that constituted a base for Montherlant's Port-Royal.

POMMIER, RENE. Explications littéraires: Bossuet, Molière, Racine, Voltaire, Baudelaire. Paris: Eurédit, 2005.

Review: M. Hawcroft in FS 61.3 (2007), 368–69: The reviewer finds the content of Pommier's explications enriching and skillful, yet he is critical of the tone and intention of certain of Pommier's remarks. He notes that Pommier wants to "rétablir le vrai sens du text" and that the author can be dismissive of other critics, traits the reviewer finds offputting. The book is weighted towards Bossuet, while Voltaire and Molière only get a few pages.

PRAT, M.-H. ET J.-P. SERVET. Le doux aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Cahiers de GADGES, 2003.

Review: S. Hache in DSS 233 (2006), 759–760: "un ensemble de textes de grande qualité, qui fait suite au colloque organisé par le GADGES (Groupe d'analyse de la dynamique des genres et des styles, 1520–1720) [...]" 14 articles organised according to "la catégorie du doux, aussi importante que mal définie, entre en résonance avec de larges enjeux à la fois esthétiques, rhétoriques et anthropologiques: la douceur se fait ainsi expression artistique et représentation du monde."

PREST, JULIA. Theatre Under Louis XIV. Cross-Casting and the Performance of Gender in Drama, Ballet and Opera. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Review: R. Goulbourne in TLS 5446 (Aug 17 2007): 28–29. Might seem to be a "slight subject," but Prest "concisely and convincingly demonstrates the inherent interest of a largely neglected feature of seventeenth-century French theatre that is significant precisely because it is so rare." First chapter gives lucid analysis of Molière plays that use cross-casting. Subsequent chapters focus on school drama, court ballet and opera. "What emerges particularly clearly here. . . is the normativity that characterizes the seventeenth-century French stage: homosexual subtexts are invariably denied and women's role as the objects of the desiring male gaze reaffirmed."

Review: C. Kerr in Choice 44 (2007), 1346: A "thoroughly researched and illuminating study" which addresses issues such as the casting of men in unattractive female roles in Molière's comedies, the necessary cross-casting that took place in theater performed in girls' schools such as Saint-Cyr, and why emergent French opera rejected the complex figure of the castrato. Reviewer praises Prest's book as "concise, well-crafted,. . . [and] refreshingly original" (1346).

RACAULT, JEAN-MICHEL. Nulle part et ses environs. Voyage aux confins de l'utopie littéraire classique (1657–1802). Paris: P.U.F., 2003.

Review: P. Berthiaume in RHLF 106.4 (2006): 990–991. A collection of articles, which explicate repetition "inscrite dans un contexte idéologique qui postule la corruption de la nature humaine, l'utopie, parce qu'elle vise à réformer celle-ci 'comme une illusion' ou 'comme une transgression plus ou moins sacrilege.'" Author summarizes the structure into five sections, each dealing with one particular subject.

RIZZA, CECILIA. "Wolfgang Leiner vu d'Italie." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 23–26.

Personal recollection and homage to Wolfgang Leiner from an Italian perspective.

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

Review: E. Keller-Rahbé in RHLF 107.1 (2007) : 244. Modern version of a compilation of these five conteuses fairy-tale tellers from 1690 to 1709. In the introduction, Robert discusses socio-cultural stereotypes, going from childish tales in the early stages to a well-worked genre with a supposed adolescent audience. Robert then discusses the importance of this genre in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reviewer deplores the absence of a worthwhile bibliography. Work is divided into five sections, one on each author, illustrated rather well but lacking exhaustivity. There is, however, at the end of the work, a "résumé des contes," as well as an index, which the reviewer found useful.

ROHOU, JEAN. Le Classicisme (1660–1700). Collection "Didact français" Rennes: Presses Universitaires, 2004.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr no. 148 (2006): 148: Useful manual for students of the 1er cycle is republished here (1996, first edition). Rohou promotes a global vision of this epoch as he defines terms and discusses genesis and evolutions during the reign of Louis XIV. All genres are included and the volume contains a helpful bibliography.

RONZEAUD, PIERRE. "L'écriture dédicatoire, geste social ou acte littéraire? Essai sur les travaux de Wolfgang Leiner consacrés aux épîtres dédicatoires et aux relations entre les écrivains et leurs mécènes." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 43–50.

An examination of the importance of Wolfgang Leiner's work on paratextual épîtres, focusing particularly on the seven articles in the section "Ecrivains et mécènes: autour des épîtres dédicatoires" of Leiner's Etudes sur la littérature française du XVIIe siècle (1996).

ROUKHOMOVSKY, BERNARD, ed.. L'optique des moralistes de Montaigne à Chamfort. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: B. Jakobs in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 271–274. Reviewer welcomes the wide range of the twenty-five essays in this volume, commenting: "Grâce à la compréhension très étendue de la notion 《  moraliste  》, on a pu rassembler un grand nombre d'auteurs, ce qui a permis une analyse beaucoup plus approfondie et a donné une image multiforme du sujet."

SABOURIN, LISE. Le Statut littéraire de l'écrivain. Travaux de littérature, 20. Droz, 2007.

Volume includes articles by Jean-Pierre Chauveau, "Une figure du poète au XVIIe siècle: Tristan L'Hermite (1601–1655)," Patrick Dandrey, "Molière auto-portraitiste: du masque au visage," Alain Génetiot, "Le Parnasse satirique de Sarasin ou l'invention de l'auteur-honnête homme," Olivier Leplatre, "《 Foy d'autheur 》 : ichnographie de l'écrivain comique (autour du Roman comique de Scarron)," Claude Bourqui, "La fable du fabuliste: Esope, du Grand Cyrus à La Fontaine," and Ruth Whelan, "Le sourire du sage: représentations de l'écrivain dans la Critique générale de l'《 Histoire du calvinisme 》 de Mr. Maimbourg (1682) de Pierre Bayle."

SAFTY, ESSAM. La Mort Tragique. Idéologie et mort dans la tragédie baroque en France. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005.

Review: J.-Cl. Vuillemin in PSCFL, 66 (2007), 274–276. Reviewer comments: "Ouvrage de solide érudition, La Mort tragique ouvre de fertiles perspectives de recherches et atteste non seulement l'importance d'une dramaturgie peu fréquentée, sinon superbement ignorée, mais en souligne également les nombreuses résonances externes."

SCHAPIRA, NICOLAS. Le Poète évêque, le Moine, le Financier et l'Académicien, les usages de l'épistolarité au XVIIe siècle. RdS 3–4 (2007), 141–164.

According to the summary, "this article aims to analyze together several kinds of XVIIth century correspondence which usually are studied separately: business letters, devotional letters, 《 literary 》 letters sent and received within a network of friends. In order to understand a strategy of epistolary writing, these letters and the various forms of their publication including scribal publication are here considered as tools used within the social world. This strategy implies, for every writer, an effort to gain social recognition for excellence in the art of writing. Literary institutions are indeed involved here, but put to use to further careers and various other operations. We see, for example, a conflict within a religious order settled, a man of letters recognized in the eyes of the law, a pious individual making his way in society, and the shaping of a bishop's career grounded on influential social circles. These case studies allow us to grasp how social networks function, and to understand the specific role played by men of letters."

SCHOL, DOROTHEE. "Entre la taverne et le monastère : Wolfgang Leiner et la poésie baroque." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 71–77.

Personal recollection and homage to Wolfgang Leiner, followed by an overview of the importance of his work on Baroque poetry.

SCHOLAR, RICHARD. The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something. Oxford: OUP, 2005.

Review: N. Hammond in MLR 102.1 (2007), 186–187: "It is extraordinary how much the term still pervades our daily discourse and equally extraordinary how relatively little work has been done on the provenance and history of the term. This book fills the gap triumphantly, covering fields as diverse as theology, natural science, poetry, philosophy, and theatre." Work includes "a brilliantly original reading of Pascal's fragment on Cleopatra's nose."

SEIFERT, LEWIS C. & CATHERINE VELAY VALENTIN. "Comments on Fairy Tales and Oral Tradition." & RUTH BOTTIGHEIMER. "Reply." "Critical Exchanges." Marvels and Tales 20.2 (2006): 276–284.

While Seifert and Velay-Valentin praise Bottigheimer's efforts to show intertextual relationships between French 17th- and 18th-century fairy tales and earlier tales, particularly those of Straparola, they question some of Bottigheimer's conclusions, particularly what they perceive to be her dismissal of an oral tradition that would serve as the basis for at least some, if not all, fairy tales. In her response, Bottigheimer defends her methodology, narrows her definition of the term "fairy tale" and maintains her stance that French fairy tales have their roots in literary rather than oral traditions.

SPAGNOLO SADR, TABITHA. "Confounding, Enriching Identity: Transvestism in Seventeenth-Century French Theater." DAI 68.04: 181.

The study aims to discern how transvestism "translates into a much deeper humanistic understanding of sexuality, authority, and social position." Spagnolo Sadr's argument is that transvestism, in the theatrical production of this time, "delivers an enriching view of the particular qualities of human nature inherent in the female and male senses of identity by transposing and confounding gendered relationships on stage." Corpus includes Rotrou, Tristan l'Hermite, Quinault, and Antoine de Montfleury.

SPRIET, STELLA. "Enseigner quel XVIIe siècle ?" CdDS 11.1 (2006): 121–136.

The diverse means of envisaging the 17th century render it difficult for the scholar to choose which one to grasp as truth: opposition between classicisme and Baroque, of course, but also multiple other subdivisions. Definition of each period and the zones of interpolation. Examines what defines the classical period and the new currents of thought today: mythanalyse and mutations.

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

Review: R. Whelan in MLR 102.1 (2007), 195–96: "This miscellany of eighteen essays hovers not so much around the themes of culture and conflict, as around high or elite culture (theatre, poetry, theology, fiction, translation, medicine, law), the controversies it generated, and the representations of conflict within it. . .. The papers were originally delivered at a conference held in 1999 to mark the acquisition by Trinity College Dublin in 1996. . . of Geoffrey Aspin's collection of seventeenth-century books, many of which are rare editions of theatrical works. So it is fitting that almost half of the papers are concerned with drama, both tragic and comic." Articles on Racine, Molière, P. Corneille, Furetière, Arnauld, Méré, Camus.

STEDMAN, ALLISON. "Teaching the Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century to Undergraduates: A Literary Historian's Perspective."

Pedagogical article about innovative ways of teaching in our multimedia, high-tech world and with American students who have very little background in reading. Techniques employed in two seminars in order to teach the seventeenth century through a multiple perspective intersecting the visual arts, cultural history, and literary texts.

SURGERS, ANNE. "Les décors de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne: usage et détournements du type 'à l'italienne' en France dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 72–86.

The author examines sketches of the staging of Hardy's La Folie de Clidmant to show that the irregular visual perspective and layout of the theatrical space was the result of an effort to emphasize the actor and maximize the use of space rather than a clumsy or negligent application of rules developed in Italy.

TAILLARD, CHRISTIAN. "Le théâtre de la comédie par D'Orbay: un modèle pour plus d'un demi-siècle." In Mazouer, Charles, ed. Les Lieux du spectacle dans l'Europe du XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 11–13 mars 2004. Biblio 17 Volume 165. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 119–130.

The discovery of a sketch of D'Orbay's Comédie française among the papers of the eighteenth-century architect Victor Louis shows that D'Orbay's plan had become an essential reference point and model for theater design well after its execution in 1688.

THOMAS-CAMPAGNE, HERVE. "L'histoire tragique à la dramaturgie: L'exemple de François de Belleforest." RHLF 106.4 (2006): 791–810.

Examines Belleforest's influence, as a "Sophocle moderne," on the later literary tradition of histoires tragiques. "Si l'auteur de la Tragédie françoise d'un More cruel ajoute plusieurs éléments au récit qu'il porte à la scène en 1612, c'est en lisant la 'prose tragique' de Belleforest qu'il a pu découvrir l'un des éléments fondamentaux de la théâtralité dite 'baroque': le dispositif de mise en abîme imaginé par le conteur se métamorphose aisément en modalité du 'théâtre dans le théâtre' dans une pièce où le 'premier chasseur' joue le rôle de spectateur interne et met en relief les aspects les plus pathétiques de la situation." He also examines Belleforest's influence on Montfleury's Trasibule.

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

Review: R. Ganim in FR 80 (2006), 452–53: Attempting to valorize an overlooked genre, Tonolo examines the portability of the épître across a wide range of social frameworks, stressing its thematic and formal flexibility. A lengthy book, Tonolo's work is nonetheless quite readable, and is divided into two parts, "La naissance d'un genre" and "L'Epître en mouvement". Tonolo suggests that the épître became important to literary and political elites, including women, as a means of self-expression.

TRIPET, ARNAUD. Ecrivez-moi de Rome. . .: le mythe romain au fil du temps. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 686 (2006), 69–70: "Les vingt-six chapitres que compte l'ouvrage sont regroupés en huit parties d'inégale importance, que suit un chapitre de conclusion." Voir la quatrième partie, "Rome tragique," où "apparaissent successivement Shakespeare, Corneille et Racine, suivis par les 'burlesques' qui ont subverti le mythe. . .."

TSIEN, JENNIFER. "Between Cleverness and Folly: The Enigmas of the Mercure galant." CdDS 11.1 (2006): 193–218.

Article deals with word-games brought to life and made accessible to a larger public by Le Mercure gallant from the 1670's, despite a clear-cut hostility toward these games in the literary works from Molière to Louis-Sébastien Mercier. The author then deals with the issue inherent in these word games and tackles the question of why contemporaries felt that they showed the unoriginality of their users, imitating popular journals, while those who used them believed they proved to be hommes d'esprit.

TUCKER, HOLLY. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

Review: P. Hannon in FR 81 (2007), 165–66: "An interdisciplinary study exploring links between medical texts on childbirth and fairy tales in early modern France. The literary fairy tale, born in the late seventeenth-century salon and dominated by women, variously incorporated and challenged received medical "truths" involving embryology, infertility, midwives, and sex selection. As Tucker ably demonstrates, scientific writings on procreation skirted the boundaries between fact and fiction, making tale telling a prominent characteristic of both the male physician and the salonnière" (165). Reviewer praises the informative nature of the work and its potential to inspire future research.

VAN ELSLANDE, JEAN-PIERRE. "Imiter et désobéir: les enfants dans la littérature pré-moderne (XVIe–XVIIe siècles)." In Defrance, Anne, Denis Lopez, and François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre des recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, 24–25 novembre 2005. Biblio 17 Number 172. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 45–59.

The author sketches a history of the representation of childhood by focusing on the figures of "l'enfant sage" and "l'enfant terrible" which represent two distinct pedagogical orientations. The former objectifies the child and viewed childhood as a time to mold and shape the passive child, whereas the latter sees the child as having "son mot à dire" as an active subject for whom norms and authority must be adapted.

VEDRENNE, LAETITIA. "Representations of Ruling Queens on the French Dramatic Stage 1560–1661." CdDS 11.1 (2006): 253–268.

Argues that Catherine and Maria de' Medici and Anne d'Autriche were abnormalities in the French political scene throughout history, since the advent of the Salic Law disassociated women with ruling the country. Queens are cut into categories, including active ruling Queens and consorts. Among the ruling queens, the ones represented on the French stage are considered threatened monarchs. Notable threats are manifested in images of their mortal condition, or through threats to their realms.

VERNET, MAX. "Un soupçon de modernité." SCFS 29 (2007), 41–50.

Examines an extract from Jean-Pierre Camus' L'Esprit du Bienheureux François de Sales (1640) in order to explore "une ou deux difficultés de la représentation au Dix-septième, et plus spécifiquement de la représentation romanesque, puisque l'histoire du roman qui nous est ordinairement proposée [. . .] nous conduit à penser ensemble le vraisemblable et l'historique," a problematic alliance.

WETSEL, DAVID & FRÉDÉRIC CANOVAS with CHRISTINE MCCALL PROBES and BUFORD NORMAN, eds. Les femmes au Grand Siècle. Le Baroque: musique et littérature. Musique et liturgie. Actes du 33e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Vol. 2. Tübingen: Narr, 2003.

Review: U. Jung in RF 118 (2006): 278–81: These selected, refereed contributions to the 2001 conference of NASSCFL held at Arizona State are organized in two sections, the first with 16 essays on "Les femmes au Grand Siècle" edited by Probes, the second with 3 essays on "Le Baroque: music et littérature" edited by Norman. In her introduction Probes correctly reminds us that recent decades have seen numerous and important studies on the woman from both sides of the Atlantic. This section is wide-ranging, from studies on concepts of "préciosité" and "galanterie" to specific feminine friendships as revealed in letters, to the theatre (5 articles), fairy tale authors (sexuality and gender), women's voices, and others, giving a taste of the 4 sessions that series editor and president of the society Wetsel had charged Probes with organizing. Norman's edited section includes a rich discussion of "opera mania" over three periods of French opera history, a study of Charpentier's religious music in his Médée, and conversely an examination of the worldly quality of Jean Gilles' Requiem, a composition which itself was featured in a performance for congressistes and the community-at-large.

WILLIS WOLFE, KATHRYN. "To Be or Not to Be : Overcoming the Persistence of Misleading Genre Classification in two Comédies by Cyrano de Bergerac and Saint-Évremond." PFSCL, XXXIV, 67 (2007), 375–388.

Analyses Saint-Évremond's La Comédie des Académistes and Cyrano's Le Pedant joué as examples of Menippean Satire rather than as plays, despite the insistence of literary criticism from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries to treat them as such.

ZAISER, RAINER. "Wolfgang Leiner et le roman : de l'histoire comique à l'histoire tragique." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 57–61.

Overview of the importance of Wolfgang Leiner's article 'Begriff und Wesen des Anti-Romans in Frankreich' (1964).

ZAISER, RAINER. "Wolfgang Leiner vu d'Allemagne." PFSCL XXXIV, 66 (2007), 19–21.

Personal recollection and homage to Wolfgang Leiner from a German perspective.

ZONZA, CHRISTIAN. "Invention de la nouvelle classique: des Nouvelles françaises aux nouvelles à la françaises." In Guellouz, Suzanne and Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, eds. Jean Renault de Segrais. Actes du colloque de Caen. 9 et 10 mars 2006. Biblio 17, Number 173. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 93–115.

The innovative discourse on prose fiction in the frame tale of the Nouvelles is reflected in each of the individual nouvelles which are concise and anchored in a contemporary historical context.

ZONZA, CHRISTIAN. "Les récits de combat dans les nouvelles historiques." In Garapon, Jean, ed. Armées, guerre et société dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Actes du VIIIe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Université de Nantes, 18–20 mars 2004. Biblio 17, Number 167. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 175–191.

The prominence of battle scenes in the nouvelle historique highlight the genre's blurring of the bounds between history and fiction. Moreover, the evolution of their presence in fiction shows the emergence of an aesthetic of brevity, changing conceptions of heroism, and a new outlook on war.

AMELOT DE LA HOUSSAYE

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

Review: M. Jurdjevic in Ren Q 59.1 (2006): 183–85: Important reassessment of Amelot de La Houssaye's role as 17th c. French author, printer, editor and "tireless disseminator of Tacitus, Machiavelli and Paolo Sarpi" (183). Jurdjevic finds that Soll "makes a convincing case "that the Enlightenment owes a greater debt to the seventeenth century than has been appreciated, but. . . suggests that [it] is smaller than [that] to the Italian sixteenth" (185).

Review: V. Kahn in Fr F 31.2 (2006): 127–130: Soll's focus is Amelot de La Houssaye (1634–1706) who edited and translated writers such as Tacitus and Machiavelli. Soll emphasizes the importance of humanist editors and translators for absolutism. Reviewer finds the study engaging, provocative and useful for the reception of Machiavelli, if less than convincing at times (due to generalizations about secular political theory in early modern Europe, for example).

AATF. Future conventions: 2008 (Belgium); 2009 (San Jose); 2010 (Philadelphia); 2011 (Montréal). Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel. (618) 453–5731.

ACTES d'OXFORD. See BROOKS, W. and ZAISER, R., eds.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Bks: Literary biography of Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731). Crit. Eds: Joint crit. ed. of Anthoine's Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Anthoine brothers' (sons of the precedent) Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. Arts: "Essai d'une térato-lexicologie du XVIIe siècle." Article on the definitions of monsters in 17th-century French dictionaries. "La Réception du Francion" (Solicited article for OEuvres & Critiques). Research Paper: "L'Hiver de 1708–1709" read at 25th Annual SE17 conference (2006), Iowa City. Bk Review: Jean-Paul Sermain & Béatrice Didier (eds.) D'une Gaïté ingénieuse: lectures de 'Gil Blas'. Leuven: Peeters (La République des Lettres), 2004. Requested by Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate. fassaf@uga.edu

ASSOCIATION. Association pour un Centre de Recherche sur les Arts du Spectacle aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Organization aims at restoring the original stage practices, in all its aspects, without competing with other groups. Among its conseil scientifique: Marie-Françoise Christout, François Moureau, Buford Norman. Is sponsoring a Colloque International "Restitution et creation dans la remise en spectacle des oeuvres des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles," at Nantes, 30–31 May, 2008 (proposed dates). Other activities. Contact: www.spectacles17e18e.org

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

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

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

BROOKS, WILLIAM AND ZAISER, RAINER, eds. . Religion, Ethics, and History in the French Long Seventeenth Century/ La religion, la morale et l'histoire à l'âge classique (vol.1); Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century/ Le Théâtre, le roman, et la poésie à l'âge classique (vol. 2, 318 pp. and Index). Medieval and Early Modern French Studies, series ed., Noel Peacock. Oxford, Bern, Frankfurt, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2007. Volume set contains contributions from the International Conference "Modernités/ Modernities" held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK, 28–30 June 2006.

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

CAHIERS DU DIX-SEPTIEME (CdDS). Journal accessible exclusively on-line at www.cahiers17.org, in HTML and PDF format, beginning with vol. VIII,1. Editor, Stephen Fleck, sfleck@csulb.edu. Associate Editor, Rose Pruiksma, rose@amskiurp.org For now, personal subscriptions ($25) & institutional ones ($50) go to SE 17 Secretary Katherine DAUGE-ROTH. Hard copies of submissions to Steve FLECK. Book Review Editor, Andrew WALLIS awallis@whittier.edu (all whom see infra). Membership in SE 17 includes individual subscription, institutional subscription.

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria). Canadian Treasurer, NASSCFL. Bk., ed., Imagining "Contagion" in Early Modern Europe, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2005. Arts., (1) "Marc Fumaroli cornélien." numéro spécial d'Oeuvres et Critiques, dir. Roxanne Roy. Sous presse. (2) "Perfect Harmony: Love and Marriage in Early Modern Pegagogy" in The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France, dir. Anne M. Birberick, Amsterdam, Rodopi. sous presse. (3) "Jeanne de Cambry, Mystic and Marriage Counselor," in Convent Voices in Early Modern France, dir. Tom Carr. EMF/Rookwood Press, Charlottesville, VA. sous presse. Canadian Treasurer, NASSCFL. See NASSCFL DUES. ccarlin@uvic.ca

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

CIR 17. CENTRE INTRNATIONAL DE RENCONTRES. President: Cecilia Rizza. [via Lagustena 16/10, 16131 Genova, ITALY. Tel. 010 5221076]. Next (Xe) biennial Colloque, "L'Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire," to be held at Ajaccio and Corte, CORSICA, April 3–5, 2008. Proposals for papers (one page) due before Sept. 30, 2007; to Christian Zonza zonzachristian@yahoo.com, limit 25 minutes (35,000 signes). The Répertoire international des dix-septiémistes is still available. Annual Membership $30 also from Treasurer; checks payable to "Volker Schröder /CIR 17," Dept. of French and Italian, 303 East Pyne, Princeton NJ 08544–5264. volkers@princeton.edu. Colleagues [still] paid up for 2005 & 2006 will receive a free copy of the Actes de Kiel: l'Art du Spectacle au XVIIe siècle. Members who will be "en règle" for both 2007 and 2008 can expect to receive a free copy of the Actes d'Ajaccio-Corti.

CIR 17. See also KIEL.

CLARK/CESAR SYMPOSIUM. "Visions de la Scène: théatre, art et représentations en France, 1600–1800." Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, September 11–13, 2008. Papers were due 10/31/07. Online CESAR image bank is source of 3500 images on Ancien Régime and Revolutionary theater, and should lead to interdisciplinary projects on art and theater. Contact: Dr. Mark Ledbury, Associate Director of the Research and Academic Program. mledbury@clarkart.edu.

CONROY, DERVAL (University College, Dublin). Contrib. Ed., French 17. Is researching methods and models used in the teaching of early modern French courses. Would appreciate advice/ pointers/ material which apply to this subject. (French & Francophone Studies, School of Languages, Literature and film, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, IRELAND).

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

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

DE JEAN, JOAN (Pennsylvania). Director of Dissertation: Ellen Welch.

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

DIGITAL WORKSHOP (U. Nebraska-Lincoln). 2nd annual workshop, October 5 & 6, 2007. To enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work for evaluation, improvement, showcasing. Contact Katherine L. Walker, Dir., UNL Center for Digital Research, 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 67588–4100. http://cdrh.unl.edu

DUCHENE, ROGER (U. de Provence). In Memoriam Roger Duchêne (1930–2006), internet publication in Web17, 4/25/07. To access, (1) open http//: Web17.free.fr/; (2) On webpage, under photo, scroll down to the subject list; (3) Click on "Souvenir 2007: Hommage à Roger Duchêne." Memorial volume, on anniversary of author's death 4/25/06, is tastefully arranged. Contains c. 50 articles, listed alphabetically by title in French and English, from colleagues, friends and former students in various countries. English translations available. See also Bibliographical presentation and list of books by RD, as they are exhibited at the municipal Library of Marseille, Alcazar. Includes other pertinent docs. on aspects of the author's life and works.

DURHAM CONFERENCE. International Conference: Durham Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies. The latest in the biennial series of major interdisciplinary conferences, held in Durham Castle, was planned for 2007. For further details, contact MABER, RICHARD.

DURON, JEAN. See MUSIC, below.

EKSTEIN, NINA (Trinity U.). Corneille's Irony. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press (EMF Critiques), 2007. 267 pages. "Presents irony as a local feature and develops its broad implications for Corneille's theater as a whole, with special attention to. . . its resistance to conclusive interpretation."

ENFANCE. Regards sur l'enfance au XVIIe siècle. Acts of the Colloque CIR 17 at the U. Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III, November 24–25, 2005. Anne Defrance/ Denis Lopez/ François-Joseph Ruggiu, eds. Biblio 17, vol. 173 (2007), 390 pp.

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

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

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

FRENCH 17 ONLINE (Currently 1995–2005, with 2006 to be added soon). Now available to subscribers at http://french17.unl.edu (for information on how to subscribe). Or contact Suzanne Toczyski, Editor, Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures, Sonoma State U., Rohnert Park, CA 94928 suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu, or http://www.sonoma.edu.edu/users/t/toczyski.

GALLICA 2. New trial version of the Bibliothèque Nationale catalogue online permits a full text consultation of certain texts, with cross-reference links. For access, detailed list of subjects, titles, etc., see http://gallica2.bnf.fr/

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

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

GILBY, EMMA (Sidney Sussex C., Cambridge, CB2 3HU, U.K.). Bks., (1) Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature (London: MHRA [Legenda], forthcoming 2006). (2 ) Pseudo-Longin, De la sublimité du discours, traduction inédite du XVIIe siècle, introduite, éditée et annotée par Emma Gilby, avec une préface de Delphine Denis (Paris: Editions Comp'Act, forthcoming 2007. (3) Space: New Dimensions in French Studies, ed. Emma Gilby and Katja Haustein. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. Arts., (1) "'Émotions' and the Ethics of Response in Seventeenth-Century Dramatic Theory," Modern Philology (forthcoming 2007). (2) 'Œdipe, L'Anti-Œdipe et la logique des multiplicités' in Dialogue avec la critique dix-septiémiste américaine (Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, forthcoming 2007). (3) 'Les textes qui nous restent de Tallemant des Réaux: mise au point bibliographique', XVIIe siècle 231 (2006), 499–507. (4) 'Economies of Perspective in Seventeenth-Century France', Seventeenth-Century French Studies, 27 (2005), 29–38. (5) 'Sous le signe du sublime: la rencontre de Boileau et Longin', in Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, XXXI (2004), 416–426. Reviews: Jean de la Bruyère, Dialogues posthumes sur le quiétisme (1699): Texte établi et présenté par Richard Parish (Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Million, 2005) in French Studies (forthcoming 2007). Christine Noille-Clauzade, L'Éloquence du sage. Platonisme et rhétorique dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004) in French Studies (forthcoming 2006). John J. Conley, The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), in French Studies 59.4 (2005), 544–555. Nicholas Cronk: The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature (Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003) in The Modern Language Review 100.3 (2005), 815. Jean Garapon, La culture d'une princesse. Ecriture et autoportrait dans l'œuvre de la Grande Mademoiselle (1627–1693) (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003), in French Studies 59.3 (2005), 241–242. Julie Boch: Les Dieux désenchantés. La fable dans la pensée française de Huet à Voltaire (1680–1760) (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002), in French Studies 59.1 (2005), 93–94. David Wetsel and Frédéric Canovas (eds.), Pascal/New Trends in Port-Royal Studies (Tübingen: Gunther Narr Verlag, 2002), in French Studies 58.1 (2004), 101–102.

GOLDSTEIN, CLAIRE. Bk., Vaux and Versailles: The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents that made Modern France. UP Pennsylvania, 2007. Goldstein "discovers in the apogee of classicism the remnants of repressed cultural vision."

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

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

GRIMAS (Groupe de Recherche Interdiscipilinaire sur la Musique et les Arts du Spectacle). Seminars for 2007–2008, 12/7,1/19, 2/16, 3/14, 5/24, 6/13–14, at the Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. For further information, consult www.spectacles17e18e.org.

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

HOEFER, BERNADETTE (Harvard U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

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

HUET, MARIE-HELENE (Princeton). Director of Dissertation (Eva Madeleine Martin, defended 6/06).

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (U. of LEIDEN). "Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production. University of Leiden, Netherlands, 21–23 August 2008. A volume of selected papers is scheduled to appear in 2009. Contact Alicia C. Montoya. A.C.Montoya@Let.Leidenuniv.nl

ISPAFA. See PHENOMENOLOGY.

JUDOVITZ, DALIA (Emory U.). Arts., "Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting in Georges de La Tour," in Representing Emotions: Evidence, Arousal Analysis, eds. Helen Hills and Penelope Gouk (London: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 109–122). "Georges de La Tour: The Enigma of the Visible," in The Beholder: The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe, eds. Thomas Frangenberg and Robert Williams (London: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 143–163). Dissertation Dir. (Davis, L.; Coropceanu, L.; Karanjian, M.).

JUDOVITZ, DALIA (Emory U.). Arts., "Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting in Georges de La Tour," in Representing Emotions: Evidence, Arousal Analysis, eds. Helen Hills and Penelope Gouk (London: Ashgate, 2005, pp. 109–122). "Georges de La Tour: The Enigma of the Visible," in The Beholder: The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe, eds. Thomas Frangenberg and Robert Williams (London: Ashgate, 2006, pp. 143–163). Dissertation Dir. (Davis, L.; Coropceanu, L.; Karanjian, M.).

KOCH, EREC (Tennesee-Knoxville). Arts: "Voice, Aurality, and the Natural Language of Passion in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle." Seventeenth-Century French Studies. 28 (2006): 77–89. "Cartesian Corporeality and (Aesth)Ethics." PMLA. 121.2 (2006): 405–420. "Ethics, Death, and the Cartesian Body." Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature. 65 (2006): 379–88. Book Ms. submitted: "The Aesthetic Body: Sensibility, Passion, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France." Dissertation Dir. (Adrien, H.M.; Ciret, Florence, at Tulane). erkoch@utk.edu

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

LAGARDE, FRANCOIS (Texas-Austin). Auvray, Esternod, Sigogne, Régnier, poètes satiriques du début du siècle.

LALANDE, ROXANNE (Lafayette C.). See NASSCFL 08. lalander@lafayette.edu

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

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

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

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

MIAMI U. Conference "Translation and Transitions," 15–16 February, 2008. To address the literary exchange between languages and nations of the Americas and Europe, across time and space. Abstracts were due by 11/15/07, to Graduate Student Conference, c/o Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, U. of Miami, P.O. Box 248093, Coral Gables, FL 33124–2074. Consult translation.transitions@gmail.com.

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

MONTOYA, ALICIA C. (U. Leiden). Bk., Marie-Anne Barbier et la tragédie post-classique, Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2007. Forthcoming, Arts.: Marie-Anne Barbier, Arrie et Pétus et Le Faucon, éd. crit., in A. Evain, H. Goldwyn and P. Gethner (eds.), Théâtre de femmes XVIe–XVIIIe siècle. Anthologie, Publications de l'U. de Saint-Etienne, 2008, vol. 3, pp. 265–37. "D'un Amadis à l'autre. Anciens et modernes devant la littérature médiévale, 1684–1750", in T. Coignard, P. Davis and A.C. Montoya (eds.), Lumières et histoire / Enlightenment and History (Etudes internationals du XVIIIe siècle), Paris, Editions Honoré Champion, 2008. "Contes du style des troubadours. The Memory of the Medieval in 17th-century French Fairy Tales", Studies in Medievalism XVI (2007). "A Woman Translator of Montaigne. Appreciation and Appropriation in Maria Heyns's Bloemhof der Doorluchtige Voorbeelden (1647)", in P.J. Smith (ed.), Montaigne and the Low Countries (Intersections. Yearbook for Early Modern Studies, vol. 8), Leiden, Brill, 2007, pp. 223–245. In progress: Book, provisionally entitled Literary modernity and Gallic antiquity. New readings of French medieval literature, 1675–1750 (due date mid-2010).

MUSIC. Jean Duron, ed. Bk., Regards sur la musique en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Publications du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, 4 vols., 2007. Interdisciplinary survey of the four periods Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI.

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

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

NASSCFL 08. 40th Annual Conference, Lafayette College, April 24–26, 2008. Roxanne Lalande, Présidente; Jorge Torres, Co-Organizer (torresg@lafayette.edu). Guest Speakers: Faith Beasley, Erec Koch, Ronald Tobin. Sessions on: Le goût; Nourriture et médicine; L'Art culinaire; Poisons, drogues et aphrodisiaques; Festins et famine; Appétits et désirs; L'Art de la table (la nature morte); Nourritures célestes; L'imaginaire du vin; La Fayette à Lafayette; Cannibalisme; Nature — nourriture — maternité. Registration due by March 31 to avoid late fee (form is forthcoming). See NASSCFL DUES./ Calls for Papers, for Research/ Dissertations in Progress, and for Nominations to NASSCFL Editorial Board. Airport is Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton (ABE), and is c. 20 miles from campus. For further information, contact RL, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Pardee Hall 409, Lafayette C., Easton, PA 18042. lalander@lafayette.edu. Phone (610) 330–5252, Fax: 610 330 5656.

NASSCFL 09. 41st Annual Conference, New York University, NYC. Hosted by Henriette Goldwyn and Benoît Bolduc.

NASSCFL DUES. The United States and Canadian dues are now $20 for tenured faculty and $10 for untenured faculty, emeriti, part-time, and graduate students. Membership required for those presenting papers. Make checks payable to NASSCFL, and send them, as appropriate (USD/ CAD), to Perry GETHNER, Dept. of Foreign Languages, 309 Gunderson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078–1054. Phone: 405–744–9535 perry.gethner@okstate.edu, OR to his Canadian counterpart, Claire CARLIN, Office of the Dean of Humanities, University of Victoria, PO Box 3045 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P4, CANADA. ccarlin@uvic.ca.

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina, Emeritus/ Paris). Bk., Racine et la musique. [Opera performances in Paris and at court, 1659–1715: an annotated chronology. Database managed by the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Work continues on the period 1687–1715]. Arts., (l)"Les sons des coulisses: Esther et Athalie" (to appear in the proceedings of "La scène et la coulisse", 2007). (2) "Les Songes et les charmes: la représention du merveilleux dans Esther et Athalie" (to appear in the proceedings of Le Neuvième Colloque International du CIR-17, 2007). (3) Quinault's Proserpine for Glossa records; (4) Quinault up through 1673 (Cadmus et Hermione), for Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. (5) Three entries for the Cambridge UP Handel Encyclopedia.

OXFORD, Acts of. See BROOKS, W. & ZAISER, R.

PAIGE, NICOLAS (Calif.-Berkeley). MLA Executive Committee of the Division for 17th C. French Literature is seeking title proposals for a pre-constituted panel, similar to the Special Sessions. Deadline 12/17/07. Contact: npaige@berkeley.edu

PARKIN, JOHN (Bristol U.) & PHILLIPS, JOHN (London Metropolitan U.), eds. Bk., Laughter and Power. Oxford, etc: Peter Lang, 2007. For further information, consult e-mail: info@peterlang.com or website: www.peterlang.com.

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

PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE, International Society. 32nd Annual Conference, May 5–6, 2008, Radcliffe Gymnasium, Cambridge, MA. Theme: "Human Destiny in Literature." (See below).

PHENOMENOLOGY, FINE ARTS AND AESTHETICS. International Society. 13th Annual Conference, May 7–8, 2008, Radcliffe Gymnasium, Cambridge, MA. Theme: "The Artist and the Message — Creativity and Communication." Contact: Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Secretary General, ptrutty@siena.edu. For both above conferences, Abstracts due 1/1/08; Full papers 3/1/08; Registration $150, entitling access to both conferences. Send abstracts and papers to Prof. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Program Coordinator, World Phenomenology Institute, 1 Ivy Pointe Way, Hanover, NH 03755. Phone (802) 295–5963; Fax (802) 295–5963. Website: http://www.phenomenology.org.

PHENOMENOLOGY, 4th World Congress. Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, August 17–20, 2008. Theme: "The Phenomenology and Existentialism of the 20th Century. Abstracts due 1/1/08; Full papers 3/1/08. Registration fee: before June I, 2008, US $150; after June 1, US $250. Contact: Prof. Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (address above). Website: http://www.phenomenology.org.

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

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

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. South Florida). Grant: pending, "Taste, Literature and the Arts," applied to the France Florida Foundation for the Arts. Speakers' award applied for at request from the Miami Consulate, Presentations: (1) "La Représentation emblématique de la femme à l'entrecroisement de l'art et de la poésie: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnets franc-comtois" for the IXe Colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, March 16–18, 2006 at Kiel, Germany. In press for CIR 17 volume, editor Rainer Zaiser. (2) "Modernisation des Écritures: Becoming Global in the Early Modern, A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics" for the international conference on "Modernités" held June 28–30, 2006 at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, organized by the following five international societies: The British Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies, La Société d'Études du XVIIe Siècle, CMR, La Société d'Étude du XVIe Siècle (France), NASSCFL (US and Canada). In press for volume edited by William Brooks and Rainer Zaiser. (3) "Devotional Poetry as a 'miroir du prince'" at the annual MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 27–30, 2006. (4) "Session of four speakers organized at the annual MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 27–30, 2006: "Le Grand Siècle: Le divin, le moderne, le subversif et l'ambigu." (5) "The Emblematic Power and diversity of the 'Incidental' Woman: The Sonnets franc-comtois", for the annual convention of the Renaissance Society of America, Miami, FL, March 22–24, 2007. (6) Organizing session with William Brooks for the conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, May 10–12, 2007, at Lincoln, Nebraska: "Madame Palatine and Louis XIV: From Innocence and Happiness to Eavesdropping and Embarrassment: Portrait of Madame Palatine by Mignard, 1680–1681 and letter to Louis XIV of May 24, 1685. (7) "In Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales: 'l'Amour de Dieu', Rhetorical Strategies of the Controversy" for 2007 MLA, session chair Erec Koch. Conference: organizing with Humanities Institute and Philosophy Department, USF, conference in Fall 2007 on "Pascal, His Times and Influence: In Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Lettres Provinciales." Publications: (1) Contributing Editor. French 17: Annotated Bibliography of French Seventeenth Century Studies. No. 54, 2006 (Rohnert Park, CA: Sonoma State University). (2) Contributing Editor. French 17: Annotated Bibliography of French Seventeenth Century Studies. No. 55, 2007 (Rohnert Park, CA: Sonoma State University). In progress. (3) PFSCL, XXXIIII (2007): "Le Grand Siècle: le divin, le moderne, le subversif et l'ambigu". MLA session of 4 papers I organized and am presently refereeing it with a committee. Expected date of publication is Fall 2007. Arts., (4) "Rhetorical Strategies for a locus terribilis: Senses, Signs, Symbols and Theological Allusion in Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris," accepted for refereed volume edited by Robert Logan and Sara Deats, in press with Ashgate for 2007. (5) "The Prince and the Subject at the Intersection of Emblematic Poetry and Art: Moral and Pragmatic Reflections," accepted for refereed volume, edited by Anne Birberick, The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century France, in press with Rodopi for 2007. (6) "Bossuet, poète lyrique? Deux lectures," with Mary Rowan, for refereed volume, editor Buford Norman, Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006, 210–223. (7) "La Mémoire et l'identité transmises par la femme antillaise: stratégies littéraires cinématographiques" accepted for refereed volume edited by Kanaté Dahouda, in press for 2007. (8) "Engraving, Sonnet, Devise: Harmony or Disharmony at the Intersection of Emblematic Art in the Sonnets franc-comtois", accepted for Emblematica vol. 16 for 2007, Mara Wade, editor. (9) "Becoming Global in the Early Modern: A Case of Modernity in French Emblematics," accepted and in press at Oxford, England, for refereed volume edited by William Brooks, for 2007. (10) "La Représentation emblématique de la femme à l'entrecroisement de l'art et de la poésie: les gravures de Pierre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les Sonnets franc-comtois," accepted for publication in refereed volume, Rainer Zaiser, editor, for 2007. (11) "La Perception de Dieu créateur et protecteur chez Jean Racine: des continuités d'un lyrisme à travers des genres," accepted for 2007 refereed volume of Travaux de Littérature, editor Olivier Millet. Associate Director, Humanites Institute, USF; Secretary, NASSCFL.

PRUIKSMA, ROSE. Associate Editor, Cahiers du dix-septième.

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

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). Arts.: (1) "Further Manuscripts of Saint-Amant, in Souvenir 2007. Hommage à Roger Duchêne. Internet publication: http://web17.free.fr/RD03/1300.htm. (2) "Saint-Amant and the Caroline Monarchs: Unknown Manuscripts," in Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century, William Brooks and Rainer Zaiser, eds.. Oxford et al.: Peter Lang, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 267–285. (3) "Research in Progress 2006," French 17, vol. 54 (2006), Part VI, pp.165–177. (4) In press: "Political Symbolism in the Porte St. Antoine," Analecta Husserliana, 2007/08, vol. 97. (5) Bibliographer, NASSCFL; Directeur, CM; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE (Virginia, Emeritus). Publisher, Rookwood Press (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, EMF Critiques, Rookwood Texts, Rookwood Reprints). Postal address: 520 Rookwood Place, Charlottesville VA 22903–4734. E-mail: dlr@rookwoodpress.com.

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

SCFS. See Society for Seventeenth-Century French Studies.

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

SE17 2006. Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century French Studies/ Société d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires du XVIIe Siècle. 25th Annual Conference took place at U. of Iowa, 12–14 October 2006. President and Organizer, Ronald Racevskis. (French & Italian, U.of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242–1409). roland-racevskis@uiowa.edu See also C17: DAUGE-ROTH, Secetary-Treasurer.

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

SEGRAIS. Jean Regnault de Segrais. Actes du colloque de Caen (9–10 March, 2006). Suzanne Guellouz and Marie-Gabrielle Lallemand, eds. Biblio 17, vol. 173, 2007. First colloque dedicated to this author and to all aspects of his work.

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

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES. Seventeenth-Century French Studies, published by Maney Publishing as of 2007, offers a world-class forum for solid and cutting-edge research on early modern France in all of its diversity, from its visual images to its textual monuments, from gossip to ghosts, from court society to popular culture. Welcoming contributions in English or in French on the long seventeenth century, the journal will enter its 30th year in 2008. For more information, to subscribe online or to recommend this journal to your library, please visit www.maney.co.uk/journals/c17. To view free sample content, please visit www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney

SFS. See SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES.

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

SHOEMAKER, PETER (Catholic U.). Bk., Powerful Connections: The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII. UP Delaware, 2007. Reappraisal of literary culture cites texts by contemporary writers, in broad interdisciplinary context, including visual arts and dance. shoemaker@cua.edu

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

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

SPAGNOLO SADR, TABITHA (U-Mass. Boston). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SWEETSER, MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago). Arts.: "'Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon': vision et esthétique nouvelles," in De l'éventail à la plume. Mélanges offerts à Roger Marchal, PUF de Nancy, 2007, pp.369–387. In press: "Marc Fumaroli, interprète de Corneille, dramaturge et poète de l'humanisme chrétien," for Oeuvres et Critiques, 2008. "'Les Amours de Psyché de Cupidon:' un conte subversif?," for PFSCL, 2008.

THEATER. Bk., Art et usages du costume de scène, Anne Verdier and Didier Doumergue, eds. Beaulieu: Lampsaque, 2007, 520 pp. (16 pp. in color). Preface by Daniel Roche; Introduction by Christian Biet. Papers from International Colloque at U. Nancy-Metz in March 2006; numerous authors represent litertaure, history, art and theater.

THEATER. Call for Papers for Conference "Avatars du 'Théâtral' en France sous l'Ancien Régime." Oxford, U.K., Maison Française, June 27–28, 2008. Scientific Committee is comprised of Mark Bannister, Sabine Chaouche, Alexis Tadié, Alain Viala, Valerie Worth-Stylianou. E-mail proposals due by January 18, 2008, to mhbannister@brookes.ac.uk Various viewpoints welcome, exploring spaces outside the stage, in literature, art, and other loci.

THEATER. See ASSOCIATION POUR UN CENTRE DE RECHERCHE.

TOCZYSKI. SUZANNE C., (Sonoma State U.). Arts.: (1) "Navigating the Seas of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat's Voyage aux Iles," in PFSCL XXXIV, 67 (2007); (2) "Chimène, or the Scandal of the Feminine Word," reprinted in Literature Criticism, 1400–1800 (v.135) of Literature Criticism, ed. Larry Trudeau, Thomson Gale, May 2007. (3) "Rodrigue's Balancing Act," under revision for the Actes de Lincoln. Paper (in preparation for NASSCFL '08): "《 Voilà bien des documents de cuisine pour un missionnaire apostolique 》: Jean-Baptiste Labat and the Buccaneer Barbecue." Editor, French 17. [Dept. of Modern Langs & Lits, SSU, 1801 E. Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park, CA 94928]. Tel: (707) 664–4177; Fax: (707) 664–2363. Contact: suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu or http://www.sonoma.edu.edu/users/t/toczyski

TONOLO, SOPHIE (Paris). Rattachée à l'équipe ESR Moyen Âge — Temps modernes, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Poste actuel: rédacteur au Service du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. Académie française, 23 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris Tél : +33 (0)1–44–41–44–41. Projet: Éd. Crit. des œuvres poétiques d'Antoinette Deshoulières à la S.t.f.m. Intervention 《 Rhétorique du cœur et écriture intime: l'art épistolaire d'Antoinette Deshoulières《 , Colloque international 《  Femmes, rhétorique et éloquence sous l'Ancien Régime 《 , U. du Québec à Rimouski, 13–15 septembre 2007. 《  Voyage en Languedoc de Chapelle et Bachaumont et Relation d'un Voyage en Limousin de La Fontaine: deux modèles de récit de voyage  》, Colloque de Toronto, mai 2006, 《  Écrire des récits de voyage : esquisse d'une poétique en gestation. 》 Publication automne 2007. 《 Le tissage du vers et de la prose dans l'épître galante  》, Revue de l'Aire, n° 31, déc. 2005, sous la direction de Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac, Nicole Masson et Sylvain Menant. Thèse: Divertissement et profondeur. L'épître en vers et la société mondaine en France de Tristan à Boileau. Paris, H. Champion, 2005 (soutenue en décembre 2002). 《  De la froideur de Diane au Palais de la Volupté: quelques aspects de la chasse dans la poésie mondaine au XVIIe siècle  》, XVIIe siècle, n° 226, janvier 2005, sous la direction de J.-M. Bercé. 《  L'épître chez Tristan: une forme poétique vigoureuse et révélatrice  》 et 《  La métaphore du nourrisson à l'époque mondaine. Autour de quatre épîtres  》, Cahiers Tristan L'Hermite, XXVI, 2004. 《  Boileau, praticien de l'épître en vers  》, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, n° 61, 2004, sous la direction de V. Kapp.

TORRES, JORGE (Lafayette U.) Co-Organizer, NASSCFL 2008 Conference.

TRISTAN. "Amis de Tristan L'Hermite" have created an Internet site dedicated to this author "encore trop peu connu du public savant et lettré." Click on address: http://www.lesamisdetristan.org, then on the "image" for the Nouveautés 2007. Sorbonne workshop 2/3/07, Cahiers, the Association. Contributions from colleagues (or their students) welcomed.

TRISTAN. "Tristan L'Hermite et le théâtre de son temps." One day conference at U. de Paris IV-Sorbonne, 26 January 2008. Program combines papers, discussions, readings; organized by Sandrine Berrégard; sponsored by l'Association des Amis de Tristan L'Hermite. URL: http://www.lesamisdeTristan.org/. Address of Sandrine Berrégard, Secretary of the Association, U. Marc Bloch, U.F.R. des Letres, 14 rue Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg cedex.

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

VEDVIK, JERRY V. (Colorado State). Editor Emeritus, French 17.

VOS-CAMY, Jolene (Calvin C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WALLIS, ANDREW (Whittier C.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WILKIN, REBECCA (Indiana-Bloomington). Arts.: "Renaissance Historiography and Novel Anthropology in Pierre-Daniel Huet's De l'Origine des romans," Forthcoming in Studi Francesi; "Descartes, Individualism, and the Fetal Subject," forthcoming in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.

WYGANT, AMY. Bk., Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France: Stages and Histories, 1553–1797. Ashgate Publishing (http://www.ashgate.com), 217 pp., 2007. Shows how the glamour of the historical witch developed through 300 years and into theater and music. Analyses 17th c. demonology treatises, treats Diderot and theater of the Revolution.

ZAISER, RAINER (U. Kiel). Arts.: 2006: (1) "La mise en abyme: Mode d'emploi de la modernité dans la littérature et l'art du XVIIe siècle. Le cas de Don Quichotte de Cervantès et des Ménines de Vélasquez", in F. Claudon, S. Elias, S. Jouanny, N. Parola-Leconte, J. Thélot (éds.), La modernité mode d'emploi. Paris: Edition Kimé, 2006, pp. 125–131. (2) "Récit spéculaire et métanarration dans les romans de Sorel, de Scarron et de Furetière", in Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Actes du 37e congrès annuel de la NASSCFL, U. of South Carolina, Columbia, 14–16 April 2005. Ed. par Buford Norman. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006 (Biblio 17, 168), pp.163–171. (3) "Gefährliche Leidenschaften: Vom Wandel des amour galant zum amour passion im Roman der französischen Klassik: La Princesse de Clèves und Les Lettres portugaises," in Kirsten Dickhaut, Dietmar Rieger (Hg.), Liebe und Emergenz. Neue Modelle des Affektbegreifens im französischen Kulturgedächtnis um 1700. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006. Recent papers: (1)"Corneille héritier de Trissino: Sophonisbe et la naissance de la tragédie moderne", communication tenue au colloque international "Pierre Corneille et l'Europe," organisé par la Société Internationale d'Histoire Comparée du Théâtre, de l'Opéra et du Ballet avec le concours du Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, 1er–5 septembre 2006, Paris, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art. (2) "La modernité de Saint-Amant : Une lecture métapoétique de l'ode La Solitude", communication tenue au congrès de la MLA, 27–30 décembre 2006, à Philadelphie. Arts. 2007: "Wolfgang Leiner vu d'Allemagne", in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XXXIV, No. 66 (2007): 19–21; "Wolfgang Leiner et le roman: de l'histoire comique à l'histoire tragique", in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XXXIV, No. 66 (2007): 57–61; In press: Arts., "Le pli: Deleuze et le baroque", in Œuvres et Critiques, XXXII, 2 (2007), La question du baroque. Coordonnatrice Dorothea Scholl; Ed. Bks., Theatre, Fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century/Le théâtre, le roman et la poésie à l'âge classique. Ed., William Brooks and Rainer Zaiser. Oxford: Peter Lang; Religion, Ethics, and History in the French Long Seventeenth Century/ La religion, la morale et l'histoire à l'âge classique. Ed. by William Brooks and Rainer Zaiser; L'âge de la représentation: L'art du spectacle au XVIIe siècle. Actes du IXe Colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle. Édités par Rainer Zaiser. Tübingen: Narr (Biblio 17); Editor, (1) Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Biblio 17, Œuvres et Critiques, Etudes littéraires françaises. (2) L'âge de la représentation: L'art du spectacle au XVIIe siècle. Actes du IXe colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le XVIIe siècle, Université de Kiel, 3. rzaiser@gmx.de (Romanisches Seminar der Universität Kiel, Leibnitzstr. 10, D-24098 Kiel, GERMANY). <rainer.zaiser@romanistik.uni-kiel.de>. ] See also BROOKS, W. and ZAISER, R. Eds. SFS. See SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES.