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ADAMS, DAVID. Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda: the Fermiers-Généraux edition of La Fontaine's Contes et Nouvelles en vers of 1762. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2006.

Review: D. Williams in FS 62.1 (2008), 77–8. This book should be read by those interested in La Fontaine, the history of the book and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century book illustration. Adam's "luminous interpretative study" contains detailed reproductions of the 1762 edition as well as those of earlier illustrated editions in 1732 and 1745 by Romeyn de Hooghe and Nicolas Cochin, respectively. Appealing to the generalist and specialist alike, this edition offers interesting and unexpected insights in the "aesthetic, moral, political and social mentality of mid-eighteenth-century France."

ADAMS, DAVID & ADRIAN ARMSTRONG, eds. Print and Power in France and England, 1500–1800. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: P. Bromilow in MLR 103.1 (2008), 857–58. "In addition to the obvious potential for a comparative approach between France and England, this book opens up the engagement of a wide range of printed matter such as poetry, the Bible, pamphlets, academic writing, illustrated books, memoirs, and newspapers with four major themes: reading and control, progaganda and institutional power, publishing and intellectual elites, and clientism and faction."

Review: n.a. in FMLS 43 (2007), 480. This cohesive collection particularly as concerns techniques and rhetoric, is wide-ranging geographically, chronologically, and in the diversity of its subjects, all of which are related to print and power ("publishing, pamphlet politics, literary criticism, self-censorship, official costume, Protestant translations of the Bible [etc.]"). Includes a "useful and even-handed survey of the theoretical and historical terrain of. . .'power' and 'discourse'."

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Pour une térato-lexicologie du XVIe siècle." S Fr 151 (2007), 32–41.

Examines a multitude of early modern texts, from Francion and Ambroise Paré's Des monstres et prodiges to letters and journals recounting observed "monstruosités," but focuses on key seventeenth-century dictionaries, leading Assaf to conclude that "la sémiotique et la lexicologie du monstre effectuent. . . un cheminement comparable à celui de tout autre savoir scientifique. Nous constatons une évolution à la fois du concept même du monstre et [d'] un développement intellectuel" (37, 38). Appendix contains extracts of monstrous births taken from accounts in le Journal des Sçavans from 1665 to 1707 and includes eyewitness records by noted physicians, for example, Joseph Guichard Duverney, "chirugien et anatomiste au Jardin du Roi."

AYRES-BENNETT, WENDY. Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France: Methodology and Case Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Review: A. E. Duggan in PFSCL XXXV (69), 749–752: Highlights the difficulty of the enterprise, i.e. the reconstruction of "non-standard usage and the spoken language of seventeenth-century France in order to account for linguistic variation according to socioeconomic status, register and style, and gender." Concludes that the study provides "important insights into how we might approach the representation of spoken French and linguistic variation in written texts, and in this regard [the] book can be of very practical use to scholars and students of seventeenth-century literature."

AGAPIOU, NATALIA. Endymion au carrefour: La fortune littéraire et artistique du mythe d'Endymion à l'aube de l'ère moderne, Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa 4. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005.

Review: P. Hunt in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 983–85: Highly recommended as "an insightful new study by a gifted linguist and sensitive literary imagist" who is also praised for her "sleuthing" efforts through an extensive corpus, both artistic and literary (984). A useful guide for future studies. seventeenth-century specialists will appreciate the inclusion of Poussin and Galileo. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

APPELBAUM, ROBERT. Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food among the Early Moderns. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Review: J Purnis in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 1038–39: Wide-ranging geographically and chronologically, Appelbaum's volume "deftly synthesizes myriad critical perspectives in his interpretation of the 'semiotics of food and feeding' (216) in an impressive range of textual material-including drama prose fiction, epic, travel writing, medical documents, and cookbooks-from a number of European nations and ranging from the classical period to the eighteenth century" (1038). Recommended to scholars as well as to the general reader, Appelbaum's study not only treats allusions to food in literature, but also the influence of publication on diet and eating as a cultural practice, utopian dining and myth, the colonial experiment, among other subjects.

BAES, CHRISTIAN. "Prendre l'argent plutôt que le sang: la contribution de guerre au XVIIe siècle." RBPH 85.3–4 (2007), 663–684.

"De nos jours synonyme d'impôt, la contribution est une taxe de guerre spécifique au XVIIe siècle, dont la nature comme le mode de perception changent graduellement tout au long de la période. La documentation ici rassemblée permet d'esquisser une périodisation en trois temps qui transforme cette taxe aléatoire en un impôt collectif systématique."

BARILLY-LEGUY, MARTINE. "Le livre de mes anciens grands-pères." Le livre de raison d'une famille mancelle du Grand Siècle (1567–1675). Rennes: PUR, 2006.

Review: I. Robin-Romero in DSS 239 (2008), 368–369: "Cette très belle source, éditée de façon rigoureuse dans une première partie de l'ouvrage, nous fait entrer dans la chronique d'une famille mancelle racontée par Jehan, Julian, Julien et enfin Charles Bodreau. Pour mieux comprendre la trame des existences, pour restituer la famille dans son environnement urbain, social et culturel, un patient travail de collecte dans les archives manuscrites et imprimées était nécessaire." In great detail, the author outlines over the course of six chapters, "la lignée, l'éducation, l'amitié conjugale, la mort chez les Bodreau, puis la sédentarité, les peurs du temps, la religion et leur insertion dans la cité et le royaume."

BÉLIN, CHRISTIAN, ed. La méditation au XVIIe siècle: rhétorique, art, spiritualité. Paris, Champion, 2006.

Review: V. Kapp, PFSCL XXXV (69), 752–755: Reviewer applauds the publication of this volume which he sees as complementary to Bélin's La Conversation intérieure (2002), while developing analyses of the links between la méditation and music, drama and the novel.

BENOIT, MARCELLE. Les événements musicaux sous le règne de Louis XIV. Chronologie. Paris: Picard, 2004. "La vie musicale en France sous les Rois Bourbons," n. 33.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 173: Inventory, year by year, from 1644 to 1715, of all the musical events in France; also includes various indications such as dates of the birth and death of the musicians, their works, critical works relating to the music of the time, music of the church, the academy, the role of music and general history and, for each year, one or more texts concerning music is reproduced. A bibliography accompanies the chronology.

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES & MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, eds. La Mémoire des guerres de religion. La concurrence des genres historiques (XVI–XVIIIe siècles). Genève: Droz, 2007.

Review: E. Herdman in MLR 103.2 (2008), 533–34: "The fifteen articles in this volume explore the historiographical genres employed to evoke the wars between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; a further volume studying the nineteenth century is envisaged. Marie-Madeleine Fragonard's excellent methodological introduction raises historiographical questions such as the blurring of traditionally literary and historical genres, the quest for authenticity and the position of the historian, and the challenges to historiography in different historical contexts. The chronologically arranged articles combine explorations of individual genres and specific case studies: contextual readings are often employed and elisions with each historian's contemporary political concerns frequently emerge."

Review: A. Mellet in BHR 69.3 (2007), 828–31: "Cet ouvrage réunit les actes du premier colloque de l'équipe Formes et idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières (Université de Paris III). Il est constitué de quinze articles consacrés à la représentation des guerres de religion françaises dans différents genres littéraires entre 1560 et 1780. Comme l'indique M.-M. Fragonard dans un beau texte introductif, trois problématiques majeures se croisent dans ces études: celle de la nature de l'actualisation d'un passé conflictuel, celle de la constitution d'une méthode historique et de l'utilisation de textes anciens, enfin celle de la circulation des références au passé à travers plusieurs genres historiographiques."

Review: N. Salliot in DSS 238 (2008), 178–180: "Les quinze contributions et leur présentation (par M.-M. Fragonard) s'attachent à l'écriture de l'histoire des guerres de Religion du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Classées par ordre chronologique, elles posent le problème de la relation mémorielle à un passé plus ou moins proche, traumatisant, parfois occulté, délicat à appréhender et toujours soumis au risque d'une vision partiale ou parcellaire, mais dont le souvenir, retravaillé par les formes qui le diffusent, demeure essentiel pour la réflexion politique et religieuse, et ce jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle."

BLIN, ARNAUD. 1648, la paix de Westphalie ou la naissance de l'Europe politique moderne. Brussels: Complexe, 2006.

Review: CHOICE. Mentioned in Choice 45 (2007) as a Significant European Scholarly Title for 2006.

BLOCKER, DEBORAH & ELIE HADDAD. "Protections et statut d'auteur à l'époque moderne: Formes et enjeux des pratiques de patronage dans la querelle du Cid (1637)". FHS 31.3 (2008), 381–416.

Les auteurs analysent "le rôle des écrits dans les échanges sociaux et sur la manière dont les compétences de certains scripteurs sont mobilisées dans l'espace social". En prenant comme exemple Le Cid de Corneille, les auteurs expliquent que "l'interrogation sur le patronage des gens de lettres invite en réalité à repenser l'ensemble de nos conceptions du fait "littéraire" à l'époque moderne."

BRITNELL, JENNIFER & ANN MOSS, eds. Female Saints and Sinners-Saintes et Mondaines (France 1450–1650). Durham: U of Durham, 2002.

Review: C. Magnien-Simonin in BHR 69.3 (2007), 798–99: "Actes d'un colloque qui a eu lieu à l'Université de Durham en septembre 2000, ce volume soigné, de fort bonne tenue, regroupe quinze articles in utraque lingua, sept en anglais et huit en français de chercheurs américains, britanniques et français." Voir, entre autres, la contribution de Séverine Génieys qui "définit l'héroïne de Madeleine de Scudéry par sa générosite."

BROOKS, JEANICE. "Music as Erotic Magic in a Renaissance Romance." Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1207–1256.

Highly informative study focuses on the musical writings of alchemist/philosopher Jacques Gohory who adapted several volumes of Amadis de Gaule. Although the focus of the article is the Renaissance (Gohory died in 1575), the pages on "romance reading" and musical adaptations include considerations on the practice of Henri IV and his rejected wife in using romance and music therapeutically. Brooks' analysis of a letter of Malherbe reveals a certain "urgency" and possible "belief in song [on the part of Henri IV] as both erotic cure and potential charm" (1249). Excellent and lengthy bibliography.

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

Review: P. Ronzeaud in DSS 240 (2008), 559–562: In this product of extraordinary research, the author "a voulu emblématiser la complexité de l'espace politique et l'opacité des cheminements de carrière ou de pensée contemporains, mais il a, ainsi, presque décrit par antiphrase son propre ouvrage, d'une composition et d'une méthode lumineusement claires, et qui réussit le tour de force de rendre, pour le lecteur, quasiment simples les éléments, les enjeux et les issues des débats politiques, théoriques et pratiques, inscrits dans l'immense corpus des Mazarinades."

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

Review: P. Solon in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 570–71: Judged "a book that must be read" though some readers may not be persuaded that "such an elusive concept as vindicatory violence is a satisfactory diagnostic device" (571). Both specific incidents and collective examples of violence are analyzed across four centuries. As Carroll examines this "vindicatory violence," he documents it by exploiting "trial records, pardon papers, and family records as well as traditional narrative sources. . . [and assembling] the materials into databases allowing reconstruction of narratives of dispute" (S. 571). Helpful illustrations, tables, maps, index and bibliography.

CHORPENNING, JOSEPH F., ed. Emblemata Sacra: Emblem Books from the Maurits Sabbe Library, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Philadelphia: St. Joseph's UP, 2006.

Review: D. Russell in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 252–254: Praiseworthy both for its high quality reproduction and clear and knowledgeable commentary, Chorpenning's edited volume is "the catalogue of the exhibition of Catholic emblem books originally mounted in conjunction with the Emblemata Sacra conference in Leuven in January 2005" and "developed and published in conjunction with the exhibition's venue at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia" (2006). Catalogue commentary on some 70 emblem books and manuscripts (from the U of Leuven's library) is provided by Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslé, Ralph Dekoninck and Mark van Vaeck. Thematically arranged, the exhibit and catalogue demonstrate numerous and fascinating insights into meditation and the use of motifs, the execution of emblems, especially in Jesuit colleges and printing practices.

CLARK, HENRY C. Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Review: L. Rollo in Choice 45 (2007), 695: A history of the concept of commerce. Organized in three sections: the seventeenth century, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. Clark's "description of old regime France as a "low trust" society fractured by modernizing forces (absolutism and capitalism) is persuasive" (695). Highly recommended by reviewer.

CONSTANT, JEAN-MARIE. "Le rôle pionnier de Marc Fumaroli dans l'histoire du XVIIe siècle." OeC 32.1 (2007), 73–84.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "J'ai choisi, de façon très subjective, des publications, qui ont eu une très grande influence sur les travaux que j'ai pu mener. Le premier ouvrage, que j'ai rencontré, est la publication des Mémoires d'Henri Campion, qui sont suivis par les Entretiens d'histoire, de politique et de morale. Je vais m'attarder à montrer l'importance de ce livre, pour la connaissance de cette première moitié du XVIIe siècle, que j'oserai qualifier de baroque, par rapport à la deuxième période qui a suivi, à qui toutes les qualités du classicisme du règne de Louis XIV sont attribuées. . . je me pencherai ensuite sur le séminaire du Collège de France, qui a été consacré à Marie de Médicis. Cette reine est pousuivie par une légende noire, qu'elle est loin de mériter. Ce beau livre consacré à une Reine qui a été une mécène et a joué un rôle important, me paraît être aussi une oeuvre entièrement pionnière."

DAGEN, JEAN & PHILIPPE ROGER, eds. Un siècle de deux cents ans? Les XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles: continuités et disconuités. Paris: Desjonquières, 2004.

Review: E. Koch in FS 61.4 (2007), 509–10. This, in the reviewer's words, is an "important volume that will... open important lines of interrogation in scholarship on the relations of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries." Notably, this collection of essays about literature, history and the arts succeeds in overcoming the teleological historicism that has defined so much literature about this period.

DARMON, JEAN-CHARLES and GEORGES MOLINIÉ, eds. Libertinage et politique au temps de la monarchie absolue. Littératures classiques 55 (été 2005).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 596: This number of LC explores connections between "libertinage" and "politique" and is arranged in sections as follows: "Thématiques et enjeux spécifiques de la critique libertine: entre conformisme apparent et subversion radicale," and "Modalités et effets de l'art d'écrire libertin: d'un genre à l'autre, d'un siècle à l'autre." Also includes introductions by Darmon and Molinié and an Annexe with a text of Gassendi.

DEKONINCK, RALPH. Ad imaginem. Status, fonctions et usages de l'image dans la littérature spirituelle jésuite du XVIIe siècle. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: G.A. Bailey in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 254–256: Highly praiseworthy and erudite, Dekonnick's new study provides "the most thorough survey of seventeenth-century Jesuit print culture in existence" and includes "illustrated gospels, meditative images, emblem books, spiritual exercises and virtual pilgrimages." Particularly instructive for its demonstration of the "complicated mechanics of [Jesuit] spiritual and meditative processes,. . . education and missionary work." Divided into two sections, an exploration of theory ("the theology of the visible," "the principle of logos made image," "the world [as] a book,. . . as a mirror,. . . [and] as a work of art or theater with God as the artist-choreographer") and a demonstration of practice ("how images in Antwerp between 1585 and 1640 were used to inspire and guide meditation"). Found impressive as it "rallies together the forces of theology, anthropology and image theory," Dekonnick's volume is essential to future studies of the genre.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 151 (2007), 170: Praised as a "splendido libro," Dekoninck's masterful volume is organized in two parts as a "défense" and an "illustration" of the image. The "défense" is an ample "philosophie des images" and the work as a whole the result of a vast and erudite inquiry which establishes the unifying thread of a Jesuit theory "qui au lieu de penser l'image comme une réalité en soi l'envisage du point de vue des différentes formes de relation que l'on peut entretenir avec elle."

FAVREAU, MARC. "Entre croyance et art d'une élite: la religion chrétienne et sa pratique à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture au XVIIe siècle (1648–1715)." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, Biblio 17 175 (2008), 319–336.

Looks at religious practices among members of the Royal Academy, through a number of archival documents. He remarks the absence of religious items within the academy's walls, as well as tolerance and unity among artists from different religions. He concludes by noting a banalization of religion in the eighteenth century.

FRANGENBERG, THOMAS & ROBERT WILLIAMS, eds. The Beholder: The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe. Histories of Vision 4. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: M. B. Hall in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1387–89: "Beholder" is the key term in these ten essays' theoretical underpinnings as their authors "provide insight into the way a piece would have been viewed by its own culture" (1388). Wide-ranging as it treats artistic expressions from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, along with letters exchanged with patrons, drawings, pamphlets by painters, etc. Reviewer is surprised by "the absence [here]. . . of a study of artist's technique and working practice" (1389), while appreciating studies of portraiture, still-life and a "daring" and "productive" application of psychoanalysis to Botticelli's nudes (1389).

GAMBELLI, DELIA & LETIZIA NORCI CAGIONO, eds. Le Théâtre en musique et son double (1600–1762). Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 81 (2008), 581–82: Assembles the proceedings of a conference in 2000 on Lully, opera parodies, and the French Academy of Music. The work includes treatment of the origins of opera in Italy, its arrival and development in France, and its gradual adaptation to a French public. Several papers which address parodies of opera and of Lully chart a means by which opera moved toward heightened naturalness and realism.

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, Nantes, 18–20 mars, 2004. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 153 (2007), 647–648: These acts present the scholarship of twenty specialists and define a rich, multifaceted picture of war, not limited to literature, but including perspectives from all forms of the beaux arts. Presented in homage to Wolfgang Leiner, honorary president of CIR 17 (see Cecilia Rizza's "In memoriam"), the volume is organized in six sections as follows: "Guerres et sociétés," "Visions chrétiennes," "La guerre dans la fiction," "Guerre et existence," "La guerre et le théâtre musicale," "La glorification de la guerre."

GORRIS, ROSANNA,dir. Les Montagnes de l'esprit. Imaginaire et histoire de la montagne à la Renaissance. Actes du Colloque International, Saint-Vincent, 22–23 november 2002. Aosta: Musumeci Editore, 2005.

Review: S. Arena in BHR 68.3 (2006), 620–22: Volume pluridisciplinaire en quatre parties: la première partie "est consacrée à la métaphore de la montée comme élévation intérieure, élan de l'âme vers Dieu et parcours personnel vers la connaissance et la purification"; la deuxième section est consacrée "à la représentation des montagnes dans les oeuvres artistiques et littéraires"; dans la troisième partie, "les montagnes de la Renaissance sont explorées sur la base des oeuvres des cosmographes et des progrès de la cartographie"; le volume "s'achève sur une quatrième partie de nature historique."

GRAFTON, ANTHONY. What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP, 2007.

Review: M. L. Colish in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1293–95: Praiseworthy both for "illuminating the rise, development, and supersession of ars historica" and for calling for more breadth as well as nuance in our understanding of Renaissance humanism (1294–95). Time period covered is from 1550–1700. Grafton traces, explores, and illustrates "successive stages" of debates on reading history while offering helpful analyses of both well-known figures such as Jean Bodin (1530–96) and numerous lesser known ones which merit appreciation. Found "erudite and engagingly written" (1294). Illustrations and bibliography.

GUERCI, LUCIANO, "Barruel, Bossuet e la democrazia nel 1789." S Fr 149 (2006), 319–332.

Impressively detailed and argued exposition of Jesuit Augustin Barruel's thought. Guerci develops the relationship between the latter's arguments (for example, the "thèse royale") and Bossuet's writings, notably his Politique tirée des propres paroles de l'Écriture sainte. If Barruel does not always acknowledge Bossuet (in the former's development of the concept of the king as a "père commun", for example), Guerci carefully demonstrates the clear reliance even in implicit references. Valuable article for several disciplines, especially religion, political science and government, for the reception of Bossuet and the proper understanding of Barruel.

HAAR, JAMES, ed. European Music 1520–1640. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music 5. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2006.

Review: B. J. Blackburn in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1391–92: Addressing both scholars and students, this volume contains "conceptual essays" (such as "Renaissance Humanism and Music" and "The Concept of the Baroque") as well as "narrative chapters" with genres subsumed under countries (France is included, but the reviewer gives no details). Index is judged "disappointing" with important omissions; the lack of illustrations is found "surprising" (1392).

HARRIS, JOSEPH. Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France. Tubingen: Narr, 2005.

Review: J. Prest in MLR 103.3 (2008), 853: "Therein lies one of the many asymmetries that abound in Harris's fascinating study: if cross-dressing can be neatly defined as a form of inversion—that is, the adoption by an individual of clothing generally thought to belong to the opposite biological sex—then this must immediately be qualified by the crucial fact that male-to-female and female-to-male cross-dressing are perceived to work very differently, in life as in literature. A second asymmetry is to be found in the fact that the frequency with which cross-dressing features in seventeenth-century French literature far outweighs its occurrence in real life. This disparity indicates, among other things, that the phenomenon was a source of considerable interest for the contemporary reading public."

HEYWOOD, COLIN. Growing up in France: from the ancien régime to the Third Republic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Review: R. Spickermann in Choice 45 (2008), 1406: A history of changing notions of childhood which avoids over-reliance on top-down source materials and which turns instead to diaries and autobiographies. Describes a gradual shift in perceptions of children—a construction of them as inherently sinful is shown to give way to views which posit children's need for love and guidance. A useful contribution to the field; recommended by the reviewer.

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

Review: B. Hamon-Porter in FR 81 (2008), 1283–84: Tracing the representation and cultural meaning of flowers from their association with women and "nature unchecked and uncivilized" to their association with men, civilization, and culture, Hyde underscores the significance of this shift by documenting Louis XIV's interest in flowers and their use in his self-glorification. Considering issues such as how much space in the Versailles gardens was actually devoted to flowers, whether flowers were concentrated in the primarily public or more private areas of the estate, and how the cultivation of flowers fit into a Colbertian economy of homegrown (rather than imported) luxuries, Hyde lends considerable scope to her project. Her study "joins a growing number of works exposing the intricate way in which power used nature to further its reach" (1283).

KAPP, VOLKER. "Paris et Rome, capitales de la République européenne des Lettres dans l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli." OeC 32.1 (2007), 9–24.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré "à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "On pourrait ériger la problématique qui nous occupe ici en fil d'Ariane de l'oeuvre de Fumaroli puisque ce brillant professeur d'université dresse dans sa thèse L'âge de l'éloquence. Rhétorique et 'res literaria' de la Renaissance au seuil de l'époque classique (1980) un panorama de l'art oratoire pour mettre en évidence que ses métamorphoses depuis l'Antiquité greco-romaine jusqu'au seuil du Grand Siècle français sont liées à l'émergence de la République des Lettres et au déplacement de sa capitale de Rome à Paris, déplacement qui correspond à un glissement de la sphère cléricale vers les cercles laïcs et mondains." Kapp se propose d'étudier "quatre facettes de ce concept: 1. son impact sur la vision du classicisme français; 2. son importance pour caractériser l'identité française; 3. les liens entre la République des Lettres et l'histoire de la rhétorique; 4. le statut du concept de la République des Lettres.

KAVANAGH, THOMAS. Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Review: J. Hayes in MLQ 68 (2007), 575–78: Gambling, a subject addressed in some of Kavanagh's earlier work on the Enlightenment, is examined here through analysis of literary and filmic representations extending from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Kavanagh approaches games of chance as sources of insight into French society's understanding of itself, its tensions, and its preoccupations. A chapter on Pascal may be of particular interest for dix-septièmistes, though the reviewer notes that "the chapter. . . leaves something to be desired because of its very abstraction. Indeed, in Kavanagh's reading, Pascal's gambler is a historical anomaly. . . he remains worlds away from the carnality of medieval dicing bodies, yet Pascal's skepticism of our capacity to understand the world rendered him unacceptable to the heralds of the philosophical Enlightenment" (576).

KERN, THOMAS, ed. French Illuminated Manuscripts (Ninth to Eighteenth century). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007.

Review: L. R. N. Ashley in BHR 70.1 (2008), 177: Paperback illustrated in color and presented by the museum's curator of manuscripts. "Most are religious pictures from psalters, bibles, sacramentaries. . ."

LANINI, KARINE. Dire la vanité à l'âge classique: paradoxes d'un discours. Paris, Champion, 2006.

Review: O. Ranum, PFSCL XXXV (69), 768–772: Very favorable review. "Lanini's book reaches far deeper than [a defense of modernity], by exploring fundamentally new, more intense notions of vanitas that she characterises as 'laïque' because the human condition that is elucidated is trans-historical and beyond the boundary of religions." Author is "not only a formidable close reader of many different genres [. . .], she is illuminating in her prose analysis of still-life and vanité paintings. Her command of the literature on Western attitudes toward death is very strong, and her writing about Pascal, Bossuet, Lenclos, Sévigné, Claesz, Champaigne and Stoskopff inspires awe."

LANOE, CATHERINE. La Poudre et le fard. Une histoire des cosmétiques de la Renaissance aux Lumières. Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 2008.

Review: V. Milliot in QL 975 (du 1er au 15 Septembre 2008), 21: 《  Le livre de Catherine Lanoé montre comment le visage constitue à la fois un outil symbolique qui permet l'agrégation à un groupe (...) comme la construction d'identités individuelles de plus en plus diversifiées, lorsque les soins du corps et les plaisirs de l'intimité deviennent choses mieux partagées dans la société des Lumières. Le grand intérêt de ce nouveau volet de l'histoire des apparences et des sensibilités est son croisement avec une histoire de l'innovation et des façons de produire ce que l'on consomme, comme avec une histoire de la diffusion sociale des biens de consommation.  》

LECOQ, ANNE-MARIE. "'Séduisant, passionnant, agaçant'. Marc Fumaroli chez les historiens de l'art (surtout français)." OeC 32.1 (2007), 91–98.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "C'est sous l'égide d'André Chastel qu'eut lieu, en 1986, la première intrusion publique de Marc Fumaroli dans le domaine de l'histoire de l'art: il le fit inviter à Rome pour le colloque international sur Les Carrache et les décors profanes, et c'est là sans doute que beaucoup d'historiens de l'art non Italiens apprirent l'existence d'un poète nommé [Giambattista] Marino, grâce à une communication sur 'La Galeria de Marino et la galerie Farnèse'. . ." En 1988, "la copieuse 'introduction' au catalogue de l'exposition de La peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines au Grand Palais à Paris fit l'effet d'un coup de canon par la nouveauté du point de vue et la force entraînante de l'expression. L'audace des Musées nationaux, qui avaient mis en vedette un étranger au sérail, se révélait payante et en 1989, Pierre Rosenberg et Jean-Pierre Cuzin confièrent à Marc Fumaroli le 36e 'Dossier du Département des peintures' du Louvre, autour de L'inspiration du poète de Poussin."

MAUND, KARI and PHIL NANSON. The Four Musketeers: The True Story of d'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Stroud: Tempus, 2005.

Review: R. Petit-Rasselle in FR 81 (2008), 601: While the reviewer regrets the work's tendency to conjecture and its lack focus on the subject announced in the title—namely, historical treatment of the figures behind Dumas' characters—she praises its pedagogic usefulness as a work that brings d'Artagnan and his friends to life. The reviewer also praises the chapters which address d'Artagnan and the background surrounding the early modern musketeer corps.

MCKENNA, Antony. "Yearning for the Homeland: Pierre Bayle and the Huguenot Refugees." AJFS 44.3: 207–220.

Examines the plight of Huguenot refugees in the United Provinces after the Revolation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, whose situation serves as a test case for the sense of national identity—both of belonging and betrayal—of those expelled from their homeland. This context brings new light to the battle between Bayle and Jurieu and helps clarify apparent contradictions in Bayle's religious philosophy.

MILLER, NAOMI & NAOMI YAVNEH, eds. Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: G. Benadusi in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1402–1404: Judged "interesting" and "stimulating," the volume draws on specialists from a wide variety of disciplines as it examines the neglected "bonds between brothers and sisters" and demonstrates "that [those relationships] shaped family life, gender relations, women's roles, literary narrative, theater, and the dynastic strategies of European rulers, ultimately defining Renaissance society and culture" (1403). France is included in the wide geographical range of the 17 essays which are organized in the following sections: "Divine Devotion," "Ties That Bind," and "Drawing the Line" (competition and collaboration). Gender, royal politics and religion come to the fore in essays that focus on Henri IV and his sister Catherine.

MOLLENAUER, LYNN WOOD. Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007.

Review: M. Kashuba in FR 81 (2008), 797–98: A clever, readable, and yet erudite work on the famed "Affaire des Poisons," an episode in which women and priests were accused of disseminating poison. Mollenauer contextualizes the episode by discussing "why magic and poison became so important at this time" (798). She also considers cultural representations, such as figurations of Medea, which depicted poison-bearing women like those evoked in the Affaire. Despite the sensational aspect of her material, Mollenauer shows herself a scrupulous and reliable researcher. The book is highly praised by the reviewer.

Review: C. Weiss in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1344–46: This well-researched and "wickedly fascinating study" of the Affair of the Poisons is recommended for both students and general readers (1345) and is a praiseworthy addition to Penn State's series "Magic in History." Mollenauer has documented her study from archives, police and court records, letters (notably, Mme de Sévigné's), memoirs and more. Chapters are organized as follows: "Investigating the Affair of the Poisons," "Medea and the Marquise [Brinvilliers], "The Criminal Magical Underworld of Paris," "The Renegade Priests of Paris and the Amatory Mass," and "The Magic of Mistresses at the Court of Louis XIV."

MONTER, WILLIAM. A Bewitched Duchy. Lorraine and its dukes, 1477–1736. Genève: Droz, 2007.

Review: A. Cullière in BHR 70.2 (2008), 532–36: ". . .vouloir mêler les faits politiques et le phénomène de sorcelleire [sic], c'est inévitablement créer des liens de cause à effet. On ne saurait nier que des circonstances ou des événements se précisent parfois à la lumière d'un certain environnement socioculturel, mais comment comprendre deux cent cinquante ans de politique lorraine à partir d'un phénomène qui fut plutôt limité dans le temps mais non dans l'espace ?"

MOREAU, ISABELLE & GREGOIRE HOLTZ. 'Parler librement': la liberté de la parole au tournant du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2005.

Review: H. Roberts in FS 61.4 (2007), 508–9. This positive review notes that while this edition is not a comprehensive review of freedom of speech at the turn of the 17th century, it nonetheless offers some intriguing analyses that leave the door open for future research. Those researching La Mothe Le Vayer, Théophile Viau, Guiaume Reboul, Antoine Fuzy and Vincent Leblanc will find some interesing approaches here.

MORGAN, LUKE. Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006.

Review: T. L. Ehrlich in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 961–62: Judged "lucid and convincing," Morgan's examination demonstrates the centrality of de Caus's designs and treatises "to the dissemination throughout Europe of late sixteenth-century Italian garden motifs" (961). Includes chapters on 1) the historiography of De Caus scholarship, 2) his biography, 3) and 4) "the major contributions of De Caus as an hydraulic engineer and landscape designer in the courtly circles of Brussels, London and Paris," and 5) "the relationship between what De Caus read, what he wrote and what he built" (962). Morgan argues that theory and practice are strongly intertwined in De Caus and "debunks enticing myths. . . promulgated by such writers as Francis Yates, Umberto Eco and Simon Schama" (962). Recommended both to specialists in the history of landscapes and to cultural historians. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

NEWMAN, KAREN. Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Review: T. Hill in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1435–37: Praiseworthy as a "handsomely produced volume [and]. . . a true work of cultural history" wide-ranging and purposefully interdisciplinary" (1436). Benefitting from theoretical insights of Lefebvre, Foucault, de Certeau and others, Newman focuses on "everyday urban life" in this "cornucopia" (1436). Index, illustrations, maps.

Review: R. Rosbottom in FR 81 (2008), 602–03: Attempting to show how certain characteristics of modern cities were anticipated in early modern ones, Newman "compellingly. . . leads us through a catalog of the daily lives of urban residents between 1550–1600" (602). She argues that obstacles of urban planning confronted during the Industrial Revolution had in fact already been addressed by previous generations. Newman also examines the figurative and actual use of urban space in these two cities. Praising the work as both witty and scholarly, the reviewer expresses a wish for more discussion of how/whether modern urban planners were aware of early modern ones.

O'MALLEY, JOHN W., S.J. & GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY, eds. The Jesuits and the Arts (1540–1773). Philadelphia: St. Joseph's UP, 2005.

Review: J. G. Harper in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 622–24: Welcome translation and expansion of the 2003 Ignazio et l'Arte dei Gesuiti and includes numerous illustrations, an index, and a bibliography. Illuminates the Jesuit education mission and its relation to the arts and is a valuable resource, recommended for students, teachers and scholars. The reader will be impressed with the analyses of a "rich variety of Jesuit styles" (18), the evolution from "austerity" to "increasing embellishment," the "patron-architect triangle" (623) and consideration of "the religious dramas of the Jesuits [which] moved in tandem with the tragedies staged in the secular theater" (231). The second half of the volume concerns the Jesuit arts beyond Europe, notably in Latin America, Asia and North America.

O'MALLEY, JOHN W., S.J., GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY, STEVEN J. HARRIS, & T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J., eds. The Jesuits II: Culture, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773. With CD-ROM. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006.

Review: T. Worcester, S.J. in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 621–22: Welcome second volume on the subject is the fruit of a 2002 conference at Boston College (the first volume was published at Toronto in 2000, the proceedings of a 1997 conference). Thirty-seven essays follow O'Malley's excellent introduction and "illuminate the complexity of successes and failures of the Society of Jesus" (621). Kennedy's presentation of a Jesuit opera on the passion of Christ complete with DVD of a 2002 performance rounds out the volume which includes topics as diverse as Jesuit schools, their funding and upward social mobility, translations, the roles of art and music and much more. Worcester calls for nineteenth- and twentieth-century specialists to be inspired by these studies and to devote their attention to "the relatively neglected field of the history of the post-1814 restored Society of Jesus" (622). Index, illustrations, tables.

PALISCA, CLAUDE V. Music and Ideas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Ed. Thomas E. Mathiesen. Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature 1. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006.

Review: J. Haar in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 973–74: This posthumously published book, edited by Mathiesen, focuses on the broad period of the early modern as it evaluates the preservation of tradition and novelty. Includes chapters on musical change and intellectual history, cosmology, rhetorical language, scientific discovery, ancient and modern styles and genres. Appendices, illustrations, tables, bibliography. Recommended as a "sumula" of Palisca's remarkable scholarly oeuvre and as a possible textbook for a seminar (974).

PEREZ, STANIS. "Regards endeuillés: la mort et le corps d'Anne d'Autriche en perspective." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 643–656.

Examines two distinct re-constructions of the queen regent's final illness and suffering, firstly in the discourse of the oraisons funèbres and secondly in Madame de Motteville's memoirs. Demonstrates how "les clercs lui ont attribué un corps glorieux car souffrant, [tandis que] Motteville a opté pour un corps meurtri car vaniteux."

PETTO, CHRISTINE MARIE. When France was King of Cartography: The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

Review: J. Lauersdorf in FR 81 (2008), 1281–82: The first in an announced series of books entitled Toposophia, Petto's work addresses the socio-political situations which brought early modern French maps into being, considering the particular stakes involved in their creation. Petto discusses how maps were used to glorify the king, how changing social conditions influenced the science and exactitude of maps, and how maps were published, commercialized, and handled in terms of intellectual property rights. Praised by the reviewer.

PINKARD, SUSAN. A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Review: C. Weber in NYT Book Review (Nov 30, 2008), 14(L). This book "explores the striking technical, material and philosophical shifts that profoundly altered French cooking between the second half of the seventeenth century and the revolution of 1789," according to this very positive review. Pinkard's argument is "lucidly argued and carefully researched."

POIRSON, MARTIAL. "Une modernité inachevée: quand l'intérêt entre en scène." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 723–745.

Analysis of how comedy "s'affranchissant de la morale, se situe à l'avant-garde du discours économique." Focuses on twenty-seven plays, mainly from the last decades of the seventeenth century and early decades of the eighteenth century.

POTTER, MARK. Coalitions and Local Politics in Seventeenth-Century France. FHS 31.1 (Winter 2008), 29–49.

The author takes examples from Provence and Burgundy to show how coalitions can be used to better understand the history of provincial estates in the seventeenth century. By "coalitions" the author means "networks of individuals, usually from across different corporate, privileged, or professional standings, who shared common political objectives."

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

Review: M. Greenberg in FS 62.3 (2008), 336. The reviewer praises Prest's knowledge of music and musicology and the richness this brings to her work and a "good chapter on 'gender ambiguity.'" The reviewer seems disappointed and perhaps a little chastising, though, that Prest did not explore the gender-bending terrain à la Judith Butler, noting that Prest seems "unimpressed" by this line of thinking. "Perhaps this was not her intention," he writes, praising her all the same for a "well-informed but traditional discussion."

Review: CHOICE. Highlighted by Choice 45 (2008) as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.

RABB, THEODORE K. The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity. New York: The Perseus Book Group, 2006.

Review: D. Rutherford in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 503–504: Rabb's effort to identify distinctive unities and to analyze these coherences focuses on the end of the Renaissance when it "dissolved into the Age of Revolution" (xxii). His objectives include the book serving "not as a summary for [his] contemporaries, but as a template of European history for a new generation" (xvi) and attracting a general readership as well as a scholarly one. Instructive study includes the following among numerous "unities" or "coherences": "the appearance and growth of gunpowder warfare, the increasing centralization of power, the expansion of bureaucracies, the domestication of the aristocracy, overseas conquests and immigration, and the rise of capitalism, all coinciding with the cultural and intellectual admiration for antiquity."

RECHNIEWSKI, ELIZABETH. "Imagining the Nation in Early Modern France." AJFS 44.3: 185–194.

Introduction to this volume devoted to the question, one product of an Australian Research Council project entitled "Communications and National Identity in Early Modern France" begun in 2002, filling a gap in scholarship. Provides an overview of the project's and volume's diverse approaches, underlining historical shifts taking place in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and the importance of looking at these questions across genres.

RIZZA, CECILIA. "Marc Fumaroli et l'Italie: un rapport de culture, de collaboration et d'amitié." OeC 32.1 (2007), 25–37.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. Rizza met en perspective le rôle que "l'Italie, sa culture, ses écrivains, ses artistes occupent dans l'élaboration de la pensée de Marc Fumaroli."

ROSENBERG, PIERRE & KEITH CHRISTIANSEN, eds. Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

Review: F. Robinson in Choice 45 (2008), 2142: A catalogue for an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, the volume provides an excellent introduction to Poussin via discussion of his landscapes. Particular attention is given to Poussin's use of source material and his ties with other artists. Praised for its lack of jargon. Recommended by the reviewer.

SALMON, XAVIER. Pomp and Power: French Drawings from Versailles. London: The Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2007.

Review: W. Wallace in Choice 45 (2007), 622: A volume which accompanied a British exhibition of drawings from Versailles. The exhibit was grouped into "Portraits," "Versailles and Its Environs," and "History." Although perhaps most relevant for drawing connoisseurs, this work is elegant and contains excellent reproductions.

SANKEY, Margaret. "Nationalism and Identity in Seventeenth-Century France: the Abbé Paulmier and the Terres australes. AJFS 44.3: 195–206.

Identifies proto-nationalistic discourse and the breaking down of the alliance between Church and State much earlier than Anderson's hypothesis of the late eighteenth century through an analysis of Abbé Paulmier's writings. Explores how Paulmier "interweaves his vision of the French nation, seen as a land of destiny . . . with his self-representation as an individual, simultaneously French and Other, at odds with both Chruch and State."

SARMANT, THIERRY, sous la dir. de, avec la collab. deGuillaume Lasconjarias,Benjamin Mercier,Emmanuel Pénicaut. . . [et al.]. Les Ministères de la guerre 1570–1792: histoire et dictionnaire biographique. Paris: Belin, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 697 (2007), 96–97: "Cet ouvrage, qui inclut de nombreuses références à des documents ainsi qu'à une très riche bibliographie, rendra d'éminents services, non seulement aux historiens, mais à tous les curieux d'histoire militaire. Il constitue une importante contribution à l'histoire de la croissance de l'Etat."

SHENNAN, J.H. The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.

Review: D. Baxter in Choice 45 (2008), 1229: A succinct yet erudite overview of the Bourbon dynasty. Shennan unites his analysis by examining the conflict the Bourbons faced between proprietorial and custodial notions of kingship. Suggests the Bourbons ultimately floundered because they failed to adapt to the latter model. Also examines the influence of royal personalities. Recommended.

SIMON, ROBIN. Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in 18th-Century Britain. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2007.

Review: D. Bindman in Burlington 1261 (2008), 262–63. More on the eighteenth century, but does go back to the seventeenth century to trace French influences on works by Hogarth, which is notable because Hogarth was known for his "anti-Gallicism." While Bindman finds some claims of influence "a little unpersuasive," the volume is overall "a wealth of surprising and fascinating information."

SMITH, KENNETH OWEN. "Sébastien de Brossard, the Galant Air, and French Hegemony in Strasbourg during the Nine Years War." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 92–105.

Argues that "Brossard's songs contributed to the goal of establishing and maintaining galant civility and good taste as legitimate criteria for membership in France's emerging aristocratic class [. . .] Regardless of his conscious intentions, by promoting the air and other forms of galant culture in Strasbourg, Brossard directly supported the crown's concurrent attempts to subjugate the city to French cultural domination."

SOLL, JACOB. The Antiquary and the Information State: Colbert's Archives, Secret Histories, and the Affair of the Régale, 1663–1682. FHS 31.1 (Winter 2008), 3–28.

The author shows how Colbert and his ecclesiastical antiquarian archivists built a state administrative apparatus. Their "mixture of administrative, financial, and ecclesiastical learned culture developed into a state science of information-handling techniques necessary for collecting, filing, and retrieving up-to-date information in a massive state-policy archive to be used for rapid political response."

TONOLO, SOPHIE. Diverstissement et profondeur-L'épître en vers et la société mondaine en France de Tristan à Boileau. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005.

Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 282.4 (2006), 203–204: Important contribution to understanding an often neglected genre, "l'épitre," associated most prominently with Boileau. Examining both published and unpublished epistles, Tonolo extends the corpus, providing copious bibliography. The author first examines the literary difficulties of the epistle and the institutional and social roles it played. Next she performs an archeology of the genre, highlighting sources and influences, and then studies problems of composition and meter, a "poétique du déplacement." The reviewer praises a section devoted to Madame Deshoulières in particular. The second part examines the genre as "une poésie de l'action et de la vie," emphasizing its political, social, edificatory qualities. It is also a method of sociability, recounting travels, meals and walks. It is a poetic form where the sensual, the visual, the spontaneous have their place. It is also a poetry of exposition, manipulation and camouflage, of self-knowledge and contruction of self. This study richly illustrates that the mondain genres need to be taken seriously, and help us tounderstand seventeenth-century poetry and society better.

VAN ORDEN, KATE. Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 68.3 (2006), 692: The author "takes a highly original tack as she examines the musical education of the elite and the way that it connects to sociodynamics in France that are usually explained in terms of economics and politics, not the arts."

VERDI, PAUL. "Poussin and Nature." Burlington 1261 (2008), 284–45.

A review of the exhibition "Poussin and Nature," which is apparently one of the few to focus on Poussin's landscapes, though the reviewer laments that this was not made the sole focus. Instead, nature is explored as a theme across all Poussin's works, which "is likely to bewilder the general public" even as it interests scholars. Catalog by Pierre Rosenberg et al. available through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

VERMEERSCH, GRIET. Oorlog, steden en staatsvorming. De grenssteden Gorinchem en Doesburg tijdens de geboorte-eeuw van de Republiek (1570–1680). Amsterdam: Amsterdam UP, 2006.

Review: W. Steurs in RBPH 85.3–4 (2007), 970–71: "Fruit d'une dissertation doctorale, le livre de Griet Vermeersch apporte un éclairage fin et précis sur la naissance d'une nation." Selon l'auteur, "la Hollande échappa à l'invasion [de Louis XIV en 1672] et reprit le dessus. Elle se fit la banquière de toutes les coalitions contre le roi de France, de la guerre de Hollande à celle de la Succession d'Espagne. Par son action financière et diplomatique, elle contribua à briser, après celles de l'Espagne, les prétentions françaises à l'hégémonie européenne."

WINN, COLETTE H., ed. Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Ancien régime. Actes du colloque de Poitiers (11–12 juin 1998). Paris: Champion, 2003.

Review: I. Brouard-Arends in IL 59.4 (2007), 57–58. The title is somehow misleading, as most of the contributions concentrate on the female figure, e.g., the widow, while only one article, by F. Villemur, addresses the widower [ i.e., whether music may be able to sooth the widower]. The Acts are comprised of four parts: "La loi et ses pratiques," "Tableaux de groupes," "Portraits de veuves," and "L'expression du deuil." Questions in the foreground of individual essays are those of the emancipation of the widow, life in the convent, remarriage, as well as political, artistic, and familial roles.

WRIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. Poussin: paintings: a catalogue raisonné. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2007.

Review: F. Robinson in CHOICE 45 (2008), 1150: A second edition of Wright's original (1985) volume. Wright now takes stock of newly discovered Poussins, and revisions in the dating of his works. The volume is praised for its 200+ color reproductions. The text focuses on establishing the chronology of Poussin's work. Not recommended as an introduction to Poussin.

WYGANT, AMY. "Introduction: The Witching Hour." FMLS 43.4 (2007), 329–336.

Wygant's introductory essay to this issue (which she edited) both asks and answers numerous important questions and makes abundantly clear that witchcraft is "multi-factorial, with roots plunging deep into the mental structures of early modern people [and. . .] provides a particularly sensitive touchstone for historical understanding" (335).

YIM, Denise. "'Le gout de la nation': the Influence of Women in Forming French and Foreign Taste." AJFS 44.3: 221–237.

Traces the importance of the salons and the women who held them in defining manners and taste on a European level, serving as "the public face of France." Emphasis on this phenomenon in the eighteenth century.

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. "A Modest Proposal for Queering the Past: A Queer Princess with a Space of Her Own." FLS 34 (2007), 35–49.

Author explores "the possibility that queer may not refer exclusively, or even primarily, to sexuality (at least homosexuality), but rather, to the calling into question of traditional, heteronormative definitions of gender roles in various historical contexts." In the first part, he focuses on the figure of Monsieur, Louis XIV's brother who can be called "gay" but not "queer" in that he did not threaten the (heteronormative) order. He then turns to La Princesse de Clèves to reveal in the ending a queer dénouement.

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. "Représentation de l'écrivain et identités sexuelles." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 77–91.

"[Une] mise en évidence des enjeux et mécanismes idéologiques de la construction du Grand Siècle par une révision (normative) des rôles sociaux et culturels des hommes et des femmes."

ZUFFI, STEFANO. European Art of the Seventeenth Century. Trans. byAnthony Shugar. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.

Review: L. R. N. Ashley in BHR 69.3 (2007), 732: Highly recommended paperback, "an Italian production from Mondadoro, this time from Stefano Zuffi (a noted art historian from Milan), translated by Anthony Shugar, in the Art through the Centuries series" covers sixty artists and "gives us information on major cities' holdings, tapestries, statuary, architecture, gardens and fountains, art theory, etc."

ARNOLD, MATTHIEU, éd. Annoncer l'Evangile (XV–XVIIe siècles). Permanence et mutations de la prédication. Actes du colloque international de Strasbourg (20–22 novembre 2003). Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2006.

Review: M. Engammare in BHR 69.3. (2007), 763–70: "Si, entre le moyen âge et le XVIe siècle, la prédication a connu une 'mutation décisive', ce ne fut pas une 'révolution copernicienne'. Le colloque et ce livre visaient donc 'à explorer, principalement dans l'espace germanique, la permanence et les mutations de la prédication dans les quatre principaux domaines du champ d'étude de l'homilétique: 1) les sources, 2) les formes, 3) les thèmes et les lieux théologiques, et 4) la réception. Chacun de ces quatre domaines d'études est lui-même exploré de façon chronologique, du XV au XVIIe siècle' (p. 9)." Voir la contribution qui traite de l'influcence d'Augustin sur Bossuet.

AUCANTE, VINCENT. La philosophie médicale de Descartes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006.

Review: J. E. H. Smith in Isis 98 (September 2007), 623–625. Makes a powerful case for the importance of medicine in Descartes's work (the author estimates that approximately 20% of the work deals with medicine). Fascinating and authoritative, Aucante's work makes the case that "Descartes's medicine is both incomplete and exemplary."

BATES, A.W. Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.

Review: S. Brown Clark in Isis 98 (December 2007), 830–831. Expands and challenges the claims of Park and Daston, with particular attention to the overlap of popular and scientific writing. Pays special attention to monsters in emblems, showing their influence throughout the seventeenth century. The book includes a helpful catalog of recorded European monsters of the period.

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES & MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, éds. La Mémoire des guerres de religion. La concurrence des genres historiques (XVI–XVIIIe siècles). Genève: Droz, 2007.

Review: E. Herdman in MLR 103.2 (2008), 533–34: "The fifteen articles in this volume explore the historiographical genres employed to evoke the wars between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; a further volume studying the nineteenth century is envisaged. Marie-Madeleine Fragonard's excellent methodological introduction raises historiographical questions such as the blurring of traditionally literary and historical genres, the quest for authenticity and the position of the historian, and the challenges to historiography in different historical contexts. The chronologically arranged articles combine explorations of individual genres and specific case studies: contextual readings are often employed and elisions with each historian's contemporary political concerns frequently emerge."

Review: A. Mellet in BHR 69.3 (2007), 828–31: "Cet ouvrage réunit les actes du premier colloque de l'équipe Formes et idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières (Université de Paris III). Il est constitué de quinze articles consacrés à la représentation des guerres de religion françaises dans différents genres littéraires entre 1560 et 1780. Comme l'indique M.-M. Fragonard dans un beau texte introductif, trois problématiques majeures se croisent dans ces études: celle de la nature de l'actualisation d'un passé conflictuel, celle de la constitution d'une méthode historique et de l'utilisation de textes anciens, enfin celle de la circulation des références au passé à travers plusieurs genres historiographiques."

Review: N. Salliot in DSS 238 (2008), 178–180: "Les quinze contributions et leur présentation (par M.-M. Fragonard) s'attachent à l'écriture de l'histoire des guerres de Religion du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Classées par ordre chronologique, elles posent le problème de la relation mémorielle à un passé plus ou moins proche, traumatisant, parfois occulté, délicat à appréhender et toujours soumis au risque d'une vision partiale ou parcellaire, mais dont le souvenir, retravaillé par les formes qui le diffusent, demeure essentiel pour la réflexion politique et religieuse, et ce jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle."

BERGIN, JOSEPH. "L'essor du confesseur du roi au XVIIe siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 111–125.

Commenting on Saint-Simon's fascination with the power of the king's confessor under the reign of Louis XIV, Bergin notes that this power was relatively new, and he analyzes how the confessor's in old régime France evolved over time. Henri IV selected a Jesuit confessor at the same time the Jesuits themselves were trying to figure out rules for how best to manage this challenging role. Under Louis XIII, there was much uncertainty surrounding the confessor's role, given Richelieu's tight hold over who would receive what major ecclesiastical positions, as well as the creation of a "conseil du conscience" for the king, of which he would be the sole member. When Père Annat became Louis XIV's confessor, the situation stabilized and the confessor's role better defined. Bergin ends by noting that at first confessors were chosen for their preaching skills, but that under Louis XIV, confessors were chosen for their theology and bureaucratic ability, leaving their preaching for the king's ear alone.

BINET, ANA MARIA. " 'Rhétorique de cour' et sermons d'église: quelques exemples dans l'œuvre du P. Antonio Vieira, jésuite portugais (1608–1697)." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 155–164.

Binet discusses the Jesuit Antonio Vieira, who served as royal preacher to King Jean IV of Portugal; his intellectually rigorous sermons attracted a large Court following, despite his criticisms of the loose morals of the Court. Binet asks if Vieira can be considered a courtier as well; after all, he preached on politics as well as on morals and religion. The answer seems to be no, for Binet analyzes a sermon in which Vieira suggests that only the Jesuit order can truly perform the evangelistic mission—a public appeal to the King to let him leave Court and return to Brazil to sow God's word. Once in Brazil, Vieira exchanged the theater of Baroque churches and correspondingly rich oratory for the popular theater of preaching the colonists, whom he criticized for their violence towards the indigenous peoples—violence that would turn against him, causing him to flee back to Portugal.

BLANCHARD, J.-V. L'Optique du discours au XVIIe sièvle: De la rhétorique des jésuites au style de la raison moderne. Québec: Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2005.

Review H. Phillips in FS 62.3: 335. Overall this work receives a warm reception from the reviewer who notes its erudition and dense argument. "This book is not for the faint-hearted," he states. While at times fascinating, the study spends much energy in explanations, meaning that "the end [Descartes, Pascal] is rather rushed." Those interested in Descartes, Pascal, and Jesuit rhetoric will find compelling material here.

BOURGEOIS, CHRISTOPHE. Théologies poétiques de l'âge baroque: La Muse chrétienne (1570–1630). Lumière classique 69. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: D. Clifford in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1350–52: Judged "a book for scholars written by a scholar," Bourgeois' 852-page tome, originally a thesis, is highly informative and thorough as it examines "poetic theologies," and demonstrates and analyzes "the interpenetration of the poetic and the theological." Reexamines "the coming together of interior asceticism and spectacular language as it reconsiders the very meaning of "baroque" and the multiple expressions of "la muse chrétienne": "sermon, poem, personal meditation, dogmatic discourse, sacred hermeneutics and moral exhortation" (1351–52).

Review: L. Marsh in SCN (2007), 239–242: "Bourgeois has set an enormous agenda in a volume that is more important as a resource for French devotional poetry of the period than as a work that answers convincingly the question of how the baroque aesthetic is expressed in that literature, if indeed it is."

Review: V. Kapp, PFSCL XXXV (69), 755–760. "[Ce livre] explore un domaine peu connu avec une érudition admirable and une grande sensibilité littéraire dont la finesse de ses analyses témoigne abondamment."

BROOKE, JOHN & IAN MACLEAN, eds. Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.

Review: I. A. Kelter in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1411–1412: Well-known scholars in the history of science, MacLean and Brooke have edited a volume containing "a series of thoughtful and insightful studies" demonstrating the complexity of relationships between religion and science. Helpful examination of terms by MacLean precedes the chronological arrangement of essays the focus of which is the seventeenth-century Includes the iconoclastic demonstration by Margaret Osler that Gassendi "was not an early modern free-thinking libertine;" she "argues that this. . . legend begins with. . . René Pintard" (1412).

BRUCKER, NICOLAS, éd. La Conversion. Expérience spirituelle, expression littéraire. Berne: Peter Lang, 2005.

Review: G. Banderier in RBPH 85.3–4 (2007), 939–40: ". . .un récit de conversion est une mise en mots d'une expérience singulière, donnée à lire à travers l'opacité du langage. . . et l'on devine que, bien souvent, les mots sont restés en deçà de ce que le converti a vraiment éprouvé. Sur ces questions, les actes du colloque organisé à Metz en juin 2003 sont d'une grande richesse. Des contributions reviennent sur les 'figures imposées' que sont les conversions de saint Paul et de Constantin; d'autres portent sur les Temps Modernes et des grandes lignes de faille que furent les guerres de religion (dont on peut considérer qu'elles trouvèrent leur prolongement avec la Révocation de l'Edit de Nantes) et la Révolution française."

BURNETT, AMY N. Teaching the Reformation: Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529–1629. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.

Review: J. Mallinson in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 938–40: Admirable for its attention to detail, yet "broad enough to be relevant to diverse scholars" (938). Burnett's work makes "three significant contributions toward a scholarly understanding of this process of transmitting the Reformation": 1) on the transformation of traditions rather than their eradication, 2) on the geographical region itself and its confessional transition and 3) on Ramism, its influence on education as well as on homiletics (939). Praiseworthy for its "copious research into neglected documents," Burnett's work includes tables, graphs, illustrations, an appendix, a map and a bibliography.

CLARKE, DESMOND M. Descartes: A Biography. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Review: G. Hatfield in Isis 99.1 (2008), 177–178. Well-researched and balanced, with attention paid to Descartes' philosophy and Descartes the man. Casts doubt on the view of Descartes as a conservative Catholic.

COOPER, ALIX. Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Review: A. Wakefield in Isis 98 (December 2007) 833–834. While the book concentrates mainly on Germany and England, it makes the fascinating case that the Columbian encounter led Europeans to classify and describe local flora, "thereby reflecting on what it meant to be local and what it meant to be foreign, simultaneously representing themselves and their fears about strange new worlds."

DARMON, JEAN-CHARLES and GEORGES MOLINIÉ, eds. Libertinage et politique au temps de la monarchie absolue. Littératures classiques 55 (été 2005).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 596: This number of LC explores connections between "libertinage" and "politique" and is arranged in sections as follows: "Thématiques et enjeux spécifiques de la critique libertine: entre conformisme apparent et subversion radicale," and "Modalités et effets de l'art d'écrire libertin: d'un genre à l'autre, d'un siècle à l'autre." Also includes introductions by Darmon and Molinié and an Annexe with a text of Gassendi.

DEKONINCK, RALPH. Ad imaginem. Status, fonctions et usages de l'image dans la littérature spirituelle jésuite du XVIIe siècle. Geneva: Droz, 2005.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 151 (2007), 170: Praised as a "splendido libro," Dekoninck's masterful volume is organized in two parts as a "défense" and an "illustration" of the image. The "défense" is an ample "philosophie des images" and the work as a whole the result of a vast and erudite inquiry which establishes the unifying thread of a Jesuit theory "qui au lieu de penser l'image comme une réalité en soi l'envisage du point de vue des différentes formes de relation que l'on peut entretenir avec elle."

DINET, DOMINIQUE. "La religion des gens de justice en Bourgogne et en Champagne au XVIIe siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 275–288.

By cross-reading a number of various sources, the author is able to present the state of religion of the parliamentary elite of Burgundy and Champagne. These dévots are attaining a state of heaven on earth by sending 20 to 25% of their children to religious institutions, by contributing monetarily, and by establishing new buildings for various religious institutions.

DUFOURCET-HAKIM, MARIE-BERNADETTE. "Musique sacrée pour le roi en France et en Espagne au XVIIe siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. 165–181.

The author provides a detailed comparative analysis of sacred music at the 17th-century Spanish and French courts. She discusses the royal chapels, the categories of liturgical music played there, how the chapel musicians were selected and organized, their social status and pay, the musical repertoire (plainchant, polyphonic music, instruments, etc.), the role of instrumental ensembles, and the vernacular repertoire. The resulting picture, she concludes, shows more complexity and less binary opposition between the two royal houses than one might think.

EICHEL-LOJKINE, PATRICIA & CLAUDIE MARTIN-ULRICH, eds. De bonne vie s'ensuit bonne mort: Récits de mort, récits de vie en Europe (XVe–XVIIe siècle). Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne, 53. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: B. Renner in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1431–32: Organized in three sections: "Narration, argumentation et organisation de la matière historique," "La 'thanatographie,' récit et interprétation de la mort," and "Présence de la mort dans l'autobiographie," the volume brings together successfully 18 essays reflecting a remarkable interdisciplinarity and focuses on the "dialogical relationship" (9) between life and death. Funeral orations, verse epistles, popular biographies of Protestant ministers (by Julien Goeury), press reports, autobiographical texts as exempla, as well as other genres are skillfully examined in this diverse and rich collection.

FAVREAU, MARC. "Entre croyance et art d'une élite: la religion chrétienne et sa pratique à l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture au XVIIe siècle (1648–1715)." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 319–336.

Looks at religious practices among members of the Royal Academy, through a number of archival documents. He remarks the absence of religious items within the academy's walls, as well as tolerance and unity among artists from different religions. He concludes by noting a banalisation of religion in the eighteenth century.

FERREIRO, LARRIE D. Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1800. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007.

Review: D. McGee in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 991–92: McGee finds Ferreiro's study both misleading and disappointing as it focuses more on naval science than on "naval architecture" and treats 1670–1800, not the early -mid-seventeenth-century According to McGee, the term "naval architecture" existed much earlier than Ferreiro claims and "before European savants begin to develop scientific theories concerning the behavior of ships" (991). McGee also would have preferred a chronological organization of the treatment of naval science and its development (rather than a topical one) since the scientists "were working on all three branches of theory at the same time" (991).

FLORE AU PARADIS. EMBLEMATIQUE ET VIE RELIGIEUSE AUX XVIe ET XVIIe SIECLES. Glasgow: U of Glasgow, Glasgow Emblem Studies, vol. 9, 2004.

Review: A. Gendre in BHR 68.3 (2006), 618–20: ". . .ce nouveau volume sur les emblèmes nous offre des études sur différents aspects du langage des fleurs et des plantes à la Renaissance et au temps de la Contre-Réforme. C'est un ouvrage de qualité."

FRIEDMAN, RUSSELL L. & LAUGE O. NIELSEN, eds. The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700. The New Synthese Historical Library 53. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

Review: L. Nauta in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 942–43: Praiseworthy for its "focus on modalities and modal logic" and its collection of several fine studies on the scholastic legacy and the "notion of possibility and impossibility, contingency and necessity" (942). Argues convincingly that "we should treat the period 1400–1700 as a whole without a sharp break between the later Middle Ages. . . and the Renaissance and early modern period" (942). Index, bibliography.

GELDHOF, JORIS. "Pascal's Double Mistake or, the Desirability of Sound Metaphysics." DownR 445 (2008), 235–246.

The author explores why Pascal apparently escapes anti-ontotheologian criticism — "in this paper, I want to argue that Pascal indeed made mistakes, and that, in doing so, he did not escape from the processes that modern thought initiated and still pursues. Therefore, the reasons why Pascal is spared the criticism of the anti-ontotheologians are as telling as undeserved. All the more so are the reasons why Pascal is wholeheartedly welcomed by those who attempt to reconsider and revalue relgion in our age." The author concludes that, "what we need is not more of Pascal, but sound metaphysics."

GOUVERNEUR, SOPHIE. Prudence et subversion libertines. La critique de la raison d'État chez François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Gabriel Naudé et Samuel Sorbière. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 282.4 (2006), 204–206: Gouverneur's introduction retraces the notion of libertin, proposing a clear and stable definition that 1. libertine thought must have a subversive goal in relationship to dominiant norms and that 2. this goal is achieved by subverting the discourse of the other in a non confrontational way. Focusing on prudence, then, proves to be a fruitful approach to analyzing libertine discourse, and this highly analytical and rigorous study debunks the argument that libertine thinkers were subservient to the state, examining "une politique prudentielle, une éthique prudentielle" and "une esthétique prudentielle." The author shows how libertine authors turn "prudence politique" against the political power itself and analyzes "l'esthétique prudentielle," examining hidden narrative strategies and modes of publication. Gouverneur makes careful distinctions and draws compelling parallels between her chosen authors. Excellent bibliography.

Review: G. Lana in S Fr 151 (2007), 172–173: Gouverneur proposes to relate general philosophical research on the notion of "prudence" with research in the history of philosophy and particularly French "libertinage" of the seventeenth-century Gouverneur's philosophical reevaluation of the libertine writers demonstrates that their thought, though not systematic, is coherent, and that the dissimulation rather than operating like a simple hypocrisy, is instead philosophically essential to their theory and practice. Prudence is examined in three aspects: political, ethical and aesthetic and the volume is organized in two sections: "Des philosophes au service du pouvoir?" and "Dénouer la servitude." Biographical and rich bibliographical sections, an index of names and a detailed table des matières completes this useful study.

GRABILL, STEPHEN J. Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006.

Review: D. B. Gallagher in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 940–41: Wide-ranging analysis is already considered by many scholars to be "a turning point in the history of Renaissance philosophical and theological ideas on the natural law tradition and its contemporary relevance" (940). Organized into three sections, Grabill's work focuses first on Karl Barth, then on "the complex story of how rationalism and the Enlightenment remolded Protestant theology into natural theology and the subsequent effects such a theology had on natural law theory," and finally "a synthetic narrative that summarizes the author's more detailed study of [essential early modern] primary sources" (941).

GRÉGOIRE, VINCENT. "L'interprétation du tremblement de terre de 1663 en Nouvelle-France d'après les écrits des missionnaires." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 64–76.

Aims to examine "pourquoi ce séisme est essentiellement représenté comme une punition divine (et une manifestation du Diable) frappant les trafiquants d'eau-de-vie et les Amérindiens qui en sont devenus dépendants [. . .]. Enfin, cette 'divine surprise' (d'un point de vue religieux) aura-t-elle des effets durables, ou ne coïncide-t-elle pas paradoxalement avec la fin de 'l'Église de la mission' et l'influence prépondérante des religieux sur la petite colonie — une colonie prise directement en charge, à partir de 1663, par l'autorité royale?"

GUERCI, LUCIANO, "Barruel, Bossuet e la democrazia nel 1789." S Fr 149 (2006), 319–332.

Impressively detailed and argued exposition of Jesuit Augustin Barruel's thought. Guerci develops the relationship between the latter's arguments (for example, the "thèse royale") and Bossuet's writings, notably his Politique tirée des propres paroles de l'Écriture sainte. If Barruel does not always acknowledge Bossuet (in the former's development of the concept of the king as a "père commun", for example), Guerci carefully demonstrates the clear reliance even in implicit references. Valuable article for several disciplines, especially religion, political science and government, for the reception of Bossuet and the proper understanding of Barruel.

JACOVIDES, MICHAEL. "How is Descartes' Argument Against Scepticism Better Than Putnam's?" PhQ 57 (September 2007), 593–612.

Jacovides argues that Descartes' arguments for the existence of God in the Third Meditation are better than their reputation suggests, and that they resemble (more than has previously been noted, including by Putnam himself) Putnam's arguments that since thought has a causal condition, we are not brains in vats, and the external world exists.

JANSE, WIM and BARBARA PITKIN, eds. The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe. Dutch Review of Church History 85. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Review: M. Laven in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 937–38: Twenty-four essays demonstrate the diversity of early modern reform "so shifting that no confessional map of Europe could ever accurately represent them" (937). Rich case-studies, some based convincingly on material culture address numerous aspects of identities, but Laven would have appreciated more attention to the reception of ideas and impact.

JONES, MATTHEW L. The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Review: J. Cottingham in Isis 98 (September 2007), 632–633. Cottingham characterizes the book's scholarship as "formidable," saying that Jones successfully (especially in the cases of Pascal and Leibniz) demonstrates that these thinkers' philosophies were not isolated academic exercises, but rather aimed at pointing out the link between science and ethics.

Review: K. Smith in Ren Q 60.2 (2007),643–44: Principally negative review disagrees with the positive assessments on the book's back cover by Daston and Gaukroger who term the work, respectively, as a "tour de force, offering a fundamental reassessment of what drives early modern philosophical thought" (644). Instead, Smith claims that Jones argues for the obvious and fails to connect his interesting and clear discussions (for example of the quadrature of the circle) to the cultivation of virtue.

JULLIEN, VINCENT. Philosophie naturelle et géométrie au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: C. Lüthy in Isis 99 (March 2008), 183–184. A fascinating book that centers on the debates and intellectual differences between Descartes and Roberval, vindicating, in part, the latter. Includes a chapter that analyzes in great and persuasive detail Newton and Leibniz's theories of light, showing how such debates shaped science and metaphysics. The reviewer is puzzled by the author's decision to attack Kuhn (and defend Dhombres) in the introduction and first chapter, and advises readers to begin reading at Chapter 2.

KAHN, DIDIER. Alchimie et paracelcisme en France (1567–1625). Genève: Droz, 2007.

Review: F. Fassina in S Fr 153 (2007), 646–647: Wide-ranging thèse breaks frontiers as it embraces the history of alchemy, literary history and general history. Seventeenth-century scholars will be particularly interested in parts three and four, which focus developments in the latter sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Important for cultural history as it traces and analyzes the diffusion of alchemy and paracelsism through France and Europe.

Review: P. Zambelli in BHR 70.2 (2008), 486–90: First of three volumes based on the author's 1998 thesis directed by Marc Fumaroli at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne: 《 la période qui va de 1567 à 1625 possède une forte cohésion. En 1567, cinq ouvrages publiés simultanément diffusent en français aussi bien qu'en latin, de Paris, de Lyon, de Strasbourg et d'Anvers, de grand [sic] textes alchimiques et, pour la première fois, en France, les doctrines de Paracelse. C'est l'illustration même du 《  renouveau paracelsien  》 à l'échelle de la France. 》

Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 37: ". . .le premier volet d'une vaste trilogie s'attachant à présenter un peu plus d'un demi-siècle d'histoire culturelle et des idées à travers la réception française de ces deux courants, du milieu du XVIe siècle au début du XVIIe siècle. . ."

KAPP, VOLKER. "L'archéologie biblique et l'instruction des élites: Les Mœurs des Israélites et des chrétiens de Claude Fleury." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 83–92.

Kapp argues that modern-day theologians have misunderstood the literary importance of Claude Fleury, a major figure in the religious instruction of seventeenth-century elites. He focuses on Fleury's Mœurs des Israélites et des chrétiens, examining how the work favorably compares ancient Hebrew society to the society of ancient Greece and Egypt, which can be seen as provocative to both the Ancients and the Moderns. Ultimately, Fleury's project consists of retelling the story of ancient Israel and the early Christian era in such a way that he captures elite readers' imagination and instructs them at the same time.

KOPPISCH, MICHAEL S.. "In God's Kitchen: Food and Devotion in François de Sales's Introduction à la vie dévote." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 529–541.

Examines the role of culinary and gastronomic imagery in de Sales' devotional work.

LANDRY, JEAN-PIERRE, ED. Le Temps des beaux sermons. Genève: Droz, 2006.

Review: P. Chaduc in DSS 238 (2008), 167–168: Acts of a colloquium at Lyon "sur l'éloquence religieuse au XVIIe siècle nourrissent un projet ambitieux et permettent de nuancer bien des idées reçues. Outre la variété des genres convoqués (oraisons funèbres, sermons, panégyriques) et des auteurs abordés (Bossuet, saint François de Sales, Fénelon mais aussi Bourdaloue, Mascaron, Du Perron, Le Faucheur), ce recueil confronte des approches critiques différentes contribuant à dresser un panorama complet et riche des débats et des différentes pratiques de la prédication au lendemain de la Réforme."

LAURENTI, JEAN-NOEL. Valeurs morales et religieuses sur la scène musique (1663–1737). Geneva: Droz, 2002.

Review: D.A. Thomas in SCN (2007), 47–50: Although the reviewer disagrees with some of the limitations imposed on this study, he nevertheless reviews it favourably accepting his "focus not on the aesthetic qualities of the tragédie en musique or its political or social functions during the Ancien Régime, but rather on the moral, philosophical, even theological meanings explored on the lyric stage."

LE GALL, JEAN-MARIE. Le Mythe de Saint Denis entre Renaissance et Révolution. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2007.

Review: B. Petey-Girard in BHR 69.3 (2007), 750–54: "Cette étude ne se réduit pas à l'examen de la tradition d'éditions, de traductions et de lectures interprétatives du corpus dionysien, mais prend en compte 'l'omniprésence fugace' de Denis au cours de trois siècles d'histoire française, interroge les causes de la réquisition de sa figure au gré de l'évolution des mentalités et en fonction des différents milieux qui en usent, sans oublier de parcourir les lieux de mémoire parisiens qui s'y ratttachent."

LEINKAUF, THOMAS & KARIN HARTBECKE, eds. Der Naturbegriff in der Frühen Neuzeit: Semantische Perspektiven zwischen 1500 und 1700. Frühe Neuzeit, 110. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005.

Review: F. Krämer in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 989–91: Leinkauf's introduction reminds us that in the early modern period "no clear dividing line had yet been drawn between the natural sciences and the humanities" (989). It is in keeping with this multi-dimensional character that "the volume includes essays on the meanings of nature not only in the more obvious areas of the history of science and philosophy, but also in religious-theological, magical-alchemical, and literary contexts, and in the context of music theory" (990). French seventeenth-century specialists will appreciate Gábor Boros's essays "Dieu ou la nature: Die Umkehrung des cartesischen Naturbegriffs im Spätwerk Descartes." Broad in scope, the volume's essays are insightful as they analyze published and unpublished texts. Krämer would have preferred some attempt at "synthesizing" and/or "cross-referencing" of the essays (990).

LE MAO, CAROLINE. "Entre vocation et devoir social: l'appel de Dieu dans le milieu parlementaire bordelais au temps de Louis XIV." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 289–301.

Studies the parliamentary milieu of Bordeaux in order to understand the motivations of their children to enter religious institutions. She finds that it is seldom motivated by parents' desire to get rid of them, but rather due to the way of life offered in convents, the family reunions it implies, the lack of societal intrusion and the perspective of important clerical positions, along with true vocation.

LEWIS, JOHN. Galileo in France. Berne: Peter Lang, 2006.

Review: L.R.N. Ashley in BHR 69.3 (2007), 741: ". . .Descartes and lesser lights, some of them remaining devout sons of the Roman Catholic Church, discussed the impact of the trial of Galileo on faith and science, and, for a long, time, as John Lewis (Queen's, Belfast) shows, the effect of Copernican and Galilean ideas on French philosophy and scientific research was profound."

LOPEZ, DENIS & ERIC SUIRE. "Conclusions." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 409–418.

After presenting up-to-date research about religious questions, the authors point out the new interest in research about the religion of the elites, and the interdisciplinary approaches taken in the domain and presented at the conference. The authors conclude by coming back to the seventeenth century and stating the Grand Siècle closes with less of a need to dramatize the expression of faith.

LOPEZ, DENIS. "L'éducation religieuse des princes au XVIIe siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 15–35.

Lopez analyzes, from a literary perspective, the religious education of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and the Grand Dauphin as attested by catechisms and other pedagogical materials. With Louis XIII, Héroard stresses the need to adapt religious education to the child's needs, with the ultimate (unrealized) goal of making the prince a theologian. Louis XIV's religious education was similar to that of his father's, with the notable exception of his mother Anne d'Autriche's personal role in her young son's religious instruction. The author examines how, unlike his father and grandfather, the Grand Dauphin's religious education focused primarily on reading the Bible itself.

LORIMER, EMMA. "Huguenot General Assemblies in France, 1579–1622: 'Public Opinion', Pamphlets and Political Memory." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 52–63.

Concludes: "Pamphlets written against Huguenot general assemblies were able to have an effect on a broad public by using the burlesque, by adopting a populist tone, and later by employing biblical and theological references. Ultimately, they gained credibility by reference to and sometimes direct quotation of the assembly records."

MARSHALL, PETER & ALEXANDRA M. WALSHAM, eds. Angels in the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Review: L. Smoller in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1409–1411: Remarkable for its cohesive quality, this volume of essays should also stimulate future studies on the subject. Including the continent as well as England, Ireland and the New World, the essays demonstrate the great diversity of thought on angels, both between Catholics and Protestants, as well as within each communion. Several essays affirm that "the new mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century. . . did not cause a disenchantment of the angelic world" (1410). Index and illustrations.

MELLINGHOFF-BOURGERIE, VIVIANE. "L'Écrivain au service des âmes: tradition et avatars de l'épistolarité spirituelle." TL 21 (2008), 117–130.

Marked by careful attention to appropriate terminology ("épître spirituelle" ou "lettre spirituelle" or as André Ravier has suggested "lettres d'amitié spirituelle"—these terms are preferable to the anachronistic "lettres de direction" which became prevalent in the second half of the 19th c.) and by sensitivity to different communions, Mellinghoff-Bourgerie's article refers to a significant corpus in the early modern, including Calvin, Briçonnet, Fénelon and François de Sales. Mellinghoff-Bourgerie demonstrates that to establish confidence, the "pastors" reiterate the sincerity of their friendship with their correspondents, balance authority and friendship and "sans avoir en commun le même credo, [adoptent] la même attitude envers le destinataire qu'ils [désirent] mener à Dieu" (130).

MINVIELLE, STÉPHANE. "Familles et religion: la place des clercs dans les élites bordelaises de la fin du XVIIe siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 303–318.

Studies the marginal status of ecclesiastics among their families, looking at sources such as baptism and marriage certificates, and wills. He realizes that members of a family that have chosen the clerical path end up having very few links with their family, in terms of their participation in religious celebrations (baptism, marriage), and of their share in filial inheritance. The author concludes that they become outcasts once they enter the orders.

MORAN, BRUCE T. Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Reviewed by N. Clulee in Isis 98 (September 2007), 634–635. "A thorough and judicious guide to the rethinking of the venerable Scientific Revolution." Among other things, the book links the experimentalism, supposedly new, of the Scientific Revolution, to long-standing practices in alchemy.

MORGAIN, STEPHANE-MARIE & FRANÇOISE HILDESHEIMER, eds. Armand Jean Du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu. Œuvres théologiques: Tome 1: Traité de la perfection du chrétien. Paris: Champion, 2002.

Review: H. Michon in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 963–964. Richelieu's theological work, although not very well known, was intended for publication. The two authors hereby render this neglected aspect of his career accessible to the general public and allow us to understand this great political figure. The Traité de la perfection du Chrétien is preceded by L'Instruction du chrétien.

NEWMAN, WILLIAM R. Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry [sic] and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Review: N. H. Clulee in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 997–98: Praiseworthy as "the latest and most decisive contribution to establish the critical role that early modern alchemy-chemistry, or chymistry, played in the transformation of natural philosophy" (997). Newman's study may also be considered a "methodological manifesto" as it asserts and demonstrates "the value of the close reading of original primary texts, the need to attend to the philosophy part of natural philosophy, and the existence of important continuities between medieval and early modern natural philosophy" (998).

O'MALLEY, JOHN W., S.J. & GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY, eds. The Jesuits and the Arts (1540–1773). Philadelphia: St. Joseph's UP, 2005.

Review: J. G. Harper in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 622–24: Welcome translation and expansion of the 2003 Ignazio et l'Arte dei Gesuiti and includes numerous illustrations, an index, and a bibliography. Illuminates the Jesuit education mission and its relation to the arts and is a valuable resource, recommended for students, teachers and scholars. The reader will be impressed with the analyses of a "rich variety of Jesuit styles" (18), the evolution from "austerity" to "increasing embellishment," the "patron-architect triangle" (623) and consideration of "the religious dramas of the Jesuits [which] moved in tandem with the tragedies staged in the secular theater" (231). The second half of the volume concerns the Jesuit arts beyond Europe, notably in Latin America, Asia and North America.

O'MALLEY, JOHN W., S.J., GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY, STEVEN J. HARRIS, & T. FRANK KENNEDY, S.J., eds. The Jesuits II: Culture, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540–1773. With CD-ROM. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006.

Review: T. Worcester, S.J. in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 621–22: Welcome second volume on the subject is the fruit of a 2002 conference at Boston College (the first volume was published at Toronto in 2000, the proceedings of a 1997 conference). Thirty-seven essays follow O'Malley's excellent introduction and "illuminate the complexity of successes and failures of the Society of Jesus" (621). Kennedy's presentation of a Jesuit opera on the passion of Christ complete with DVD of a 2002 performance rounds out the volume which includes topics as diverse as Jesuit schools, their funding and upward social mobility, translations, the roles of art and music and much more. Worcester calls for 19th and 20th c. specialists to be inspired by these studies and to devote their attention to "the relatively neglected field of the history of the post-1814 restored Society of Jesus" (622). Index, illustrations, tables.

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. "L'ange illettré et la 《  science des saints  》." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 212–222.

Explains how the elites find the sublime through random encounters with illiterate simple people. Offers three examples: Surin and a mystic young man during a trip, Abbé de Rance and an illiterate poor shepherd, and Mme Guyon and a crazy Parisian wanderer. Their simplicity is considered as a form of elevation of thoughts.

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. "Entre méditation et contemplation: la voix dans l'écriture spirituelle au XVIIe siècle" TL 21 (2008), 147–158.

Papasogli responds in this pertinent and multi-faceted article to the question: "Qu'est-ce. . . que la voix dans l'écriture spirituelle si ce n'est le secret de l'écrivain et la trace vivante d'une spiritualité personnelle?" (147). Papasogli demonstrates that in the seventeenth-century, "la thématique de la voix a contribué à enrichir et à nuancer la représentation des deux modes ou des deux tempi de la vie intérieur, méditation et contemplation" (148). Papasogli gives particular attention to the metaphor and to the emblematic or the "symbolisme de la voix" (153), but also to dialogue and other linguistic and literary forms as she interrogates key texts of major authors such as Pascal and François de Sales but also those of François Malaval and le Père Crasset.

PARK, KATHARINE & LORRAINE DASTON, eds. The Cambridge History of Science. Vol. 3, Early Modern Science. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Review: J. Shackelford in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 986–89: Focusing on Europe from 1490 to 1730, this volume contains a "mosaic of overlapping studies [and. . . provides] a rich critical apparatus of expansive, meticulous footnotes that document recent scholarship" (987). Organized into sections of "philosophical histories, studies of the people and sites producing new knowledge, disciplinary histories, and essays on how changes in natural knowledge were contextualized in other aspects of culture [such as. . .] art, religion and literature," the volume includes as well an "excellent introduction"(987). Seventeenth-century scholars will particularly appreciate the essays on Cartesian thought and Gassendian atomism.

PICCO, DOMINIQUE. " 《  Tourner doucement le premier usage de leur raison à connaître Dieu  》, ou l'instruction religieuse des filles de bonnes maisons dans la France du XVIIe siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 37–52.

Picco, a historian, analyzes Fénelon's Traité de l'éducation des filles (1687), in order to answer the question of which predominates: the elite nature of the work's destined public, or its gendered aspect. The author points out that Fénelon often speaks from practical experience, and, like Madame de Maintenon, thinks that the amount of instruction given should be proportional to the girl's social rank or situation in life. The conclusion is that Fénelon talks more about children in general than he does about girls in particular; moreover, particular emphasis is placed on the mother's role and duties in a child's religious education.

PIERRE, BENOIST. La Bure et le sceptre: la congrégation des Feuillants dans l'affirmation des Etats et des pouvoirs princiers (vers 1560-vers 1660). Paris: Sorbonne, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 684 (2006), 104–05: "La monographie de B. Pierre étudie cette congrégation dans ses rapports avec l'évolution politique du royaume de France."

PIERRE, BENOIST. "L'Éminence grise et l'Éminence rouge. La religion du Père Joseph et le service d'État." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 95–110.

Benoist Pierre discusses Père Joseph's social status as "un noble déclassé" and its role in his choosing the religious life; his mystical, Christ-centered spirituality; and how his spirituality influenced the role he played in Court politics, such as a possible crusade against the Ottoman empire. The failure of this last to come to fruition did not prevent Père Joseph from close to Richelieu, and using his diplomatic talents in the cardinal's service and the king's. What set Père Joseph apart was his desire to use his political role in order to fulfill God's plans for the king as the eldest son of the Church.

RABB, THEODORE K. The Last Days of the Renaissance and the March to Modernity. New York: The Perseus Book Group, 2006.

Review: D. Rutherford in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 503–504: Rabb's effort to identify distinctive unities and to analyze these coherences focuses on the end of the Renaissance when it "dissolved into the Age of Revolution" (xxii). His objectives include the book serving "not as a summary for [his] contemporaries, but as a template of European history for a new generation" (xvi) and attracting a general readership as well as a scholarly one. Instructive study includes the following among numerous "unities" or "coherences": "the appearance and growth of gunpowder warfare, the increasing centralization of power, the expansion of bureaucracies, the domestication of the aristocracy, overseas conquests and immigration, and the rise of capitalism, all coinciding with the cultural and intellectual admiration for antiquity" (reviewer 530).

RUTHERFORD, DONALD, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Review: L. Nauta in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1422–24: Praiseworthy for its embracing of diverse perspectives and encouragement of argument and discussion, Rutherford's edited volume includes authoritative studies on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with emphasis on the seventeenth. Valuable both for the demonstration of the "immense vitality and innovation of early modern philosophy" and for "a state-of-the-art picture of current scholarship" (1423). Index, illustrations, short biographies and bibliography.

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

Review: D. M. Posner in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 192–194: Found both "cheerful" and "exhaustive," Scholar's work focusing on French sources, "embrac[es the term's] inarticulability even while exploring nearly every corner of its territory." The word history extends from Cicero's nescio quid through the seventeenth-century "where the term and its entourage really live." Certain theoretical underpinnings and interpretations are judged less persuasive than others, but Posner generally applauds both cultural contexts and analyses of lesser-known authors and texts as well as figures such as Corneille, Descartes and Pascal.

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. Examines the migration of the infinite from God to the universe, with special attention to Giordano Bruno. Descartes, Gassendi, Arnauld, Nicole, Pascal, Spinoza, and Leibniz are also discussed. Immensely readable; the author also shows sensitivity to the powerful emotions evoked by the infinite.

SHAPIRO, LISA, ed. & trans. The correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007.

Review: R. Lee in CHOICE 45 (2007), 483–84: Shapiro helps make apparent Elisabeth's status as "an accomplished and honest philosopher" in her own right (484), discouraging those who would use her correspondence solely as a source of further insight into Descartes. The volume contains an extensive bibliography; useful for scholars as for undergraduates.

SZULAKOWSKA, URSZULA. The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom: Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Review: T. Nummedal in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 998–1000: Important for its attention to and analysis of a body of early modern literature which "constructed a complicated rhetoric out of a blend of alchemy, Paracelsian theosophy, Hermeticism and Christian Kabbalah" (999). Arguing as her title suggests, that the images and texts are best understood "in the context of a radical apocalyptic Reformation theology," Szulakowska goes on to identify clusters of themes and connections, providing over 50 images for which she gives rich and detailed analyses (999). Nummedal would have preferred less detail and fewer generalizations but recognizes the importance of the images and arguments presented.

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

Review: M. Adam in RPFE 198.2 (2008), 260–261: L'auteur examine le mystère de foi eucharistique au centre de la réflexion théologique dans ce livre basé sur un cours de théologie des années 1980 à l'Université grégorienne de Rome et à l'Institut catholique de Paris. Il commence par Descartes, évoque Desgabets, Bossuet et Malebranche. " L'auteur rappelle la spiritualité pascalienne puis, à travers Bayle et Jurieu, les remous concernant l'eucharistie dans les milieux protestant... " L'auteur apporte ensuite des approches mal connues de la métaphysique allemande et finit avec des auteurs plus récents comme Maurice Blondel.

TOLLET, DANIEL. "Les autorités religieuses et la conversion au XVIIe siècle dans la République polono-lituanienne." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer & Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700) en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 395–408.

Looks at the religious history of the Polish-Lithuanian republic and shows that the conversion from Lutheran to Catholic faith in Poland was the result of Jesuit schools for the elite, but ultimately the conversion was the result of a political obligation within the creation of a nation-state endangered by surrounding nations of other religions.

VUILLEMIN, JEAN-CLAUDE. "Baroque: le mot et la chose." OeC 32.2 (2007), 13–21.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Le 'baroque' est la forme visible des interrogations de cette époque en proie à une extraordinaire mutation du savoir, prise entre des certitudes passées qui se délitent et un avenir imprévisible ouvert sur tous les possibles. Marqueur épistémologique, le 'baroque' — mon baroque — relève de la sorte beaucoup moins de l'esthétique que de la philosophie. Ainsi, si l'on est en droit d'affirmer le baroquisme du théâtre de Rotrou, et de l'ensemble de l'époque de Louis XIII, c'est beaucoup moins du fait de sa stylistique, de sa thématique, ou encore de son ambiguïté, qu'à cause des profondes affinités que cette dramaturgie entretient avec l'une des prémisses essentielles de la science moderne pour laquelle voir ne rime plus avec savoir."

WIEL, VÉRONIQUE. "Condition chrétienne, condition mondaine: les Conversations chrétiennes de Nicolas Malebranche." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 71–82.

Wiel tackles the apparent discord between the "condition chrétienne" and the "condition mondaine" that is the subject of Malebranche's Conversations chrétiennes from three standpoints: how the two intersect, oppose each other, and finally, how they co-exist. She analyzes the importance of the genre of conversation and how Malebranche is able to manipulate it in order to transmit Christian philosophy to an elite reading public not prepared or willing to digest theological treatistes.

WITTHAUS, JAN-HENRIK. Fernrohr und Rhetorik. Strategien des Evidenz von Fontenelle bis La Bruyère. (Neues Forum für allegemeine und vergleichenede Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 28). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005.

Review: H. Merkl in Archiv 244 (2007), 447–449: New, however eclectic perspectives, prevail in this interesting dissertation. Methodological influences from Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Luhmann, among others. Focusing on astronomy and optics, but also examining theological, philosophical and anthropological points, the first part treats Galileo and Descartes, the second Borel, Fontenelle, Huygens, Pascal and La Bruyère.

ZAISER, RAINER. "Le pli: Deleuze et le baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 155–70.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Le pli est donc un concept transhistorique du baroque, concept disposé à élargir son répertoire de traits pertinents à condition que l'on puisse attribuer ces derniers au paradigme spécifique des divergences, des dissonances et des polyvalences. . . Cette élasticité du concept de baroque n'est pas seulement utile à l'analyse des manifestations du néobaroque, mais elle l'est aussi à l'étude du baroque du XVIIe siècle dont l'abondance des formes risque toujours de dépasser le cadre de quelques caractéristiques bien définies. Il ne reste qu'à préciser où sont les plis baroques dans les oeuvres littéraires. La théorie de Deleuze, si souvent citée qu'elle soit, attend encore son application dans ce domaine."

AGAPIOU, NATALIA. Endymion au carrefour: La fortune littéraire et artistique du mythe d'Endymion à l'aube de l'ère moderne, Ikonographische Repertorien zur Rezeption des antiken Mythos in Europa 4. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2005.

Review: P. Hunt in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 983–85: Highly recommended as "an insightful new study by a gifted linguist and sensitive literary imagist" who is also praised for her "sleuthing" efforts through an extensive corpus, both artistic and literary (984). A useful guide for future studies. seventeenth-century specialists will appreciate the inclusion of Poussin and Galileo. Index, illustrations, bibliography.

AMATUZZI, ANTONELLA & PAOLA CIFARELLI, presentazione di LIONELLO SOZZI, eds. Favola, mito ed altri saggi di letteratura e filologia in onore di Gianni Mombello. Franco-Italica, 23–24, 2003.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 171–172: This volume of the journal, in honor of Mombello, contains some thirty essays, organized in three sections: "Entre fable et mythe," "l'Art d'écrire au Moyen Age et au XVIe siècle" and "Portraits réels et imaginaires" (171). Seventeenth-century scholars will find at least eleven of the essays of significant interest including Cecilia Rizza's "Entre mythe et fable. Petite histoire des deux mots au XVIIe siècle" (111–123). Rich and varied, the volume includes linguistic, narrative, poetic, biographical and cultural studies.

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Ecriture de la violence dans les histoires comiques." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 565–571.

"La violence définit pour une grande part l'épistémè baroque dans les histoires comiques. Elle illustre de façon catégorique le schème disséminatoire, montrant qu'alors même qu'elle est douce et charmante, l'existence est fragmentaire, contradictoire, absurde, odieuse même. Faite de mots sur le papier, la violence dans les histoires comiques n'en prétend pas moins à une réalité que n'hésite pas à condamner le texte lors même qu'il la conforte."

ASSAF, FRANCIS. "Francion: écriture moderne, écriture baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 81–107.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. L'auteur se propose d'examiner le Francion, la structure et l'imaginaire du récit, et "constate une 'dynamique disséminatoire' qui synthétise les contraires et qui détermine la polysémie du texte."

BALLARD, MICHEL. De Cicéron à Benjamin: traducteurs, traductions, réflexions. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 35–36: "Au XVIIe siècle, on invente la traductologie, ainsi que l'expression 'belles infidèles' (qu'on doit à Gilles Ménage) qualifiant les traductions qui prennent toute leur liberté face à l'original pour se conformer au goût de la société qui les reçoit." On trouve cet essai "très utile par son approche chronologique et sa volonté de passer au crible tous les grands textes écrits sur la traduction. Il ne faut pas y chercher cependant d'apport théorique nouveau, ni de perspectives soutenues vers des horizons extra-européens."

BARBAFIERI, CARINE. Astrée et Céladon. La galanterie dans le théâtre tragique de la France classique (1634–1702), Rennes: PUR, 2006.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 434–435: Barbafieri's very interesting and suggestive study is organized in three parts, the first focusing on "la constitution d'un mythe critique," the second analyzing "la tentation galante" —in particular "les charmes de la douceur," the third treating "le dilemme de la tragédie" as it examines in confrontation "l'idéale galante" and "l'idéale tragique" (434). Barbafieri analyzes both critical and dramatic texts as well as identifies a tragic model which is "adeguatamente definito e precisato" (435). Rich bibliography.

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

Review: S. O'Hara in SCN (2007), 19–22: "In this thought-provoking study, noted feminist critic Faith Beasley argues that literary history has misread and suppressed the major role women writers and thinkers played in seventeenth-century French salon culture. Indeed, this willful misreading and suppression became the foundation upon which to build the officially accepted view of French literary history — and consequently, French cultural identity."

BELIN, CHRISTIAN. "Enquête sur le plaisir spirituel au XVIIe siècle." TL 21 (2008), 131–145.

Wide-ranging investigation convincingly demonstrates the very real and extensive quality of spiritual pleasure. From Pascal who had used Tertullian's formula in one of his letters to Charlotte de Roannez, "on ne quitte les plaisirs [de ce monde] que pour d'autres plus grands" (132) to others who like le P. Le Moyne noted the dangers of excessive severity as well as the "dimension ludique ou divertissante" of devotion (139), Belin traces both in conceptualization and practice the essential nature of "plaisir" and underscores its Augustinian quality ("grâce" is described "sous les traits d'une 'delectatis victrix,'" for example, and "l'amour de Dieu se communique [in Augustinian theology] sous la forme d'un plaisir inédit et inouï" (144).

BERCHTOLD, JACQUES & MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, éds. La Mémoire des guerres de religion. La concurrence des genres historiques (XVI–XVIIIe siècles). Genève: Droz, 2007.

Review: E. Herdman in MLR 103.2 (2008), 533–34: "The fifteen articles in this volume explore the historiographical genres employed to evoke the wars between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; a further volume studying the nineteenth century is envisaged. Marie-Madeleine Fragonard's excellent methodological introduction raises historiographical questions such as the blurring of traditionally literary and historical genres, the quest for authenticity and the position of the historian, and the challenges to historiography in different historical contexts. The chronologically arranged articles combine explorations of individual genres and specific case studies: contextual readings are often employed and elisions with each historian's contemporary political concerns frequently emerge."

Review: A. Mellet in BHR 69.3 (2007), 828–31: "Cet ouvrage réunit les actes du premier colloque de l'équipe Formes et idées de la Renaissance aux Lumières (Université de Paris III). Il est constitué de quinze articles consacrés à la représentation des guerres de religion françaises dans différents genres littéraires entre 1560 et 1780. Comme l'indique M.-M. Fragonard dans un beau texte introductif, trois problématiques majeures se croisent dans ces études: celle de la nature de l'actualisation d'un passé conflictuel, celle de la constitution d'une méthode historique et de l'utilisation de textes anciens, enfin celle de la circulation des références au passé à travers plusieurs genres historiographiques."

Review: N. Salliot in DSS 238 (2008), 178–180: "Les quinze contributions et leur présentation (par M.-M. Fragonard) s'attachent à l'écriture de l'histoire des guerres de Religion du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle. Classées par ordre chronologique, elles posent le problème de la relation mémorielle à un passé plus ou moins proche, traumatisant, parfois occulté, délicat à appréhender et toujours soumis au risque d'une vision partiale ou parcellaire, mais dont le souvenir, retravaillé par les formes qui le diffusent, demeure essentiel pour la réflexion politique et religieuse, et ce jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle."

BERREGARD, SANDRINE. "La Comédie en France dans les années 1630: des auteurs en quête de légitimité." S Fr 151 (2007), 107–116.

Berregard closely examines paratexts or "péritextes" of authors, focusing not only on contributions to theory but also on tensions between theory and practice. The heterogeneity of these texts is made evident here as is the desire on the part of authors to rehabilitate a devalorized genre and demonstrate its independence. The corpus considered here includes texts by Pierre Corneille, Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Mairet and Rotrou but Berregard makes reference as well to late 1sixteenth-century texts such as those of Nicot and Laudun d'Aigaliers. Precepts dictated "par les Anciens" are not blindly applied and authors wish to establish comedy as a respectable genre. Views on rules may vary but all concede that the supreme rule is that of pleasing the public. Berregard demonstrates that the theory found in these "péritextes" does not always reflect the reality of the plays themselves (Corneille's use of Matamore in l'Illusion comique despite his claim in l'examen of Mélite to renounce the characters of the commedia dell'arte). Even at the end of the century the tensions and diversity remain apparent; Furetière's dictionary defines the genre generally by its form, its agreeable events represented and characters "de médiocre consition," but also includes the link to the farce or to the facétie.

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

Review: BCLF 684 (2007), 51–52: ". . .dans une étude extrêmement intéressante de L'Illusion comique de Corneille, les auteurs montrent comment le dramaturge lui-même prenait acte de l'illusion née de la perspective et jouait 'des points de vue multiples' qui en naissaient. 'Point de vue' est ici un terme essentiel. Christian Biet et Christophe Triau ont en effet choisi d'étudier le théâtre sous un angle bien particulier: celui de la réception."

BLANCHARD, JEAN-VINCENT & HELENE VISENTIN. L'Invraisemblance du pouvoir: mises en scène de la souveraineté au XVIIe siècle. Brindisi: Schena, 2005.

Review: H. Phillips in FS 61.4 (2007), 511–12. The review of this collection of essays is mixed. While some of the authors (Biet, Lyons, Louvat-Molozay) live up to the promise of the title, others fail completely. The best essays recognize that the real discussion is not vraisemblable vs. invraisemblable, but the intersection of language and power.

BODE, CHRISTOPH. Der Roman. Eine Einführung. Tübingen: Francke, 2005.

Review: M. Löschnigg in Archiv 244 (2007), 340–341: Bode's investigation does not present the novel in its totality but rather focuses on theoretical aspects of the genre and narrative categories. Includes discussion of differences between "histoire" and "discours" and wide-ranging examples from European and American literature. Reviewer appreciates Bode's work here and his earlier (2001) study of the lyric and hopes that he will do a similar work on drama.

BONTEA, ADRIANA. "George Dandin ou les Plaisirs du désenchantement." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 1–26.

This article studies spectacles in the seventeenth century as meaningful intrinsic parts of the plays. The author looks at the description of place, décor, architecture, music, and dance, and the festivities of the Fête de Versailles on July 18, 1668. She then turns to George Dandin as the pinnacle of these festivities. Art rivaled with nature and became the object of historical knowledge.

BOURGEOIS, CHRISTOPHE. "Figures du sens: pour une poésie et spiritualité." TL 21 (2008), 81–95.

Compelling interrogation of the spiritual dimension of "l'art poétique" explores the rapport between "le sens figuré" of poets and "le sens spirituel" of interpreters of the bible. Examples drawn from poets from 1550–1630 (Hopil, Favre, La Ceppède, among others) illustrate Bourgeois' examination of poetic exegesis ("corps et esprit, lettre et esprit") while pertinent references to Church Fathers and theologians (Origen, Aquinas, and notably St. Augustine) guide his investigation into "Théologies de la figure: res, verba, signa (89)."

BOURGEOIS, CHRISTOPHE. Théologies poétiques de l'âge baroque: La Muse chrétienne (1570–1630). Lumière classique 69. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: D. Clifford in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1350–52: Judged "a book for scholars written by a scholar," Bourgeois' 852-page tome, originally a thesis, is highly informative and thorough as it examines "poetic theologies," and demonstrates and analyzes "the interpenetration of the poetic and the theological." Reexamines "the coming together of interior asceticism and spectacular language as it reconsiders the very meaning of "baroque" and the multiple expressions of "la muse chrétienne": "sermon, poem, personal meditation, dogmatic discourse, sacred hermeneutics and moral exhortation" (1351–52).

Review: L. Marsh in SCN (2007), 239–242: "Bourgeois has set an enormous agenda in a volume that is more important as a resource for French devotional poetry of the period than as a work that answers convincingly the question of how the baroque aesthetic is expressed in that literature, if indeed it is."

Review: V. Kapp, PFSCL XXXV (69), 755–760. "[Ce livre] explore un domaine peu connu avec une érudition admirable and une grande sensibilité littéraire dont la finesse de ses analyses témoigne abondamment."

BOURQUI, CLAUDE. "La fable du fabuliste: Ésope, du Grand Cyrus à La Fontaine." TL 20 (2007), 303–319.

This contribution to TL's section "Du choix d'un genre: A la Reconnaissance de l'écrivain," provides a close analysis of Ésope as a "personnage" who has, in Le Grand Cyrus, not only a decisive role in the intrigue but also an elaborate development as character. Ésope along with other authors such as Sapho, Anacréon, etc. are shown to incarnate "les valeurs scudériennes dans le domaine de la création littéraire" (305). Further affinities are noted between Ésope and Sarasin, especially for example in "dialogues de raillerie" (311). Bourqui also tackles the thorny point concerning La Fontaine's choice of Planude's "Vie" as he responds to the question: "Pourquoi ne pas se fonder sur des sources plus crédibles, que procuraient les progrès de la philologie et de la science historique?" (317).

BRAY, BERNARD. Epistoliers de l'âge classique. L'art de la correspondance chez Mme de Sévigné et quelques prédécesseurs, contemporains et héritiers. Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007.

Review: C. Lignereux in DSS 238 (2008), 180–181: "En choisissant de rassembler une quarantaine d'articles parus entre 1959 et 2003, Bernard Bray facilite grandement l'accès à des travaux qui, pour les plus anciens, furent pionniers, à une époque où l'épistolaire — son histoire, sa théorie, sa génétique — était loin de constituer un objet d'étude autonome."

BREDNICH, ROLF WILHELM et al. Enzyklopädie des Märchens. Handwörterbuch zur historischen und vergleichenden Erzählforschung. Vol. 11. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003–2004.

Review: A. Gier in Archiv 244 (2007), 150–155: Welcome continuation of this major project, volume eleven includes articles on types of narratives, various narrative traditions of particular countries, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Gier's review includes comments on numerous entries. seventeenth-century scholars will appreciate in particular the section on discourses or récits de voyage.

BRUNEL, MAGALI. "L'évolution de la pratique des stances théâtrales: un chemin de traverse du baroque vers le classicisme." OeC 32.2 (2007), 121–34.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Nous nous appuierons. . . sur la production cornélienne, particulièrement représentative de cette pratique, puisque Corneille reste de loin le dramaturge qui a le plus inséré de stances, et ce, dans tous les genres théâtraux. Pous envisager l'évolution de leur intégration, nous proposons d'élargir notre corpus aux quatre seuls textes qui utilisent celles-ci après 1660, c'est-à-dire d'une part deux pièces de Corneille, La Toison d'Or et Psyché, et d'autre part, la première tragédie racinienne, La Thébaïde ou les frères ennemis, ainsi qu'une comédie de Montfleury, La femme juge et partie."

CAMPBELL, JULIE D. Literary Circles and Gender in Early Modern Europe: A Cross-Cultural Approach. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.

Review: P. Phillippy in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 633–34: Valuable for several disciplines, especially for gender and cross-cultural studies as well as intertextual criticism, Campbell's work explores "the relationships between literary circles in early modern Italy, France, and England, and texts by the men and women who frequented them" (633). Treating the early modern querelle des femmes as both a literary and social phenomenon, she "reenergizes this familiar touchstone" (633). French scholars will be interested in her exploration of Claude-Catherine du Cleremont, Duchesse de Retz and the testimony of her contemporaries as to her writing.

CERRETINI, ANNE-MARIE &VERONIQUE ZAERCHER,sous la dir. de. Dialogue et Intertextualité, Europe XVI–XVII. Sarreguemines: U de Nancy II, 2005.

Review: E. Kushner in BHR 70.2 (2008), 490–93: 《  Pourquoi associer dialogue et intertextualité? D'emblée on songe à l'extraordinaire essor du genre dialogique au XVIe siècle et à ses modèles platoniciens, cicéroniens, lucianiques. . .. Le rapport des textes nouveaux à ces modèles anciens est caractérisé par la double volonté de les imiter mais aussi de se distancier par rapport à eux. Il en résulte une tension créatrice qui à elle seule suffirait largement à justifier un travail soutenu d'observation du comportement intertextuel et dialogique.  》 Voir l'article de Claire Cazanave qui 《  montre comment, le dialogue ayant perdu sa popularité au début du XVIIe siècle, Pellisson remet à l'honneur les dialogues de Sarrasin, mais pour leur utilité mondaine plutôt que philosophique.  》

CHARTIER, ROGER. Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Trans. ByArthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 2007.

Review: A. Lloret in MLN 122.4 (2007), 928–32: "Inscription and Erasure dispute the long-standing division between the interpretation of texts and the description of the material supports and social-historical environments in which texts appeared and circulated. Throughout the eight chapters that constitute this book—some of them had already been published—Chartier examines from a middle-ground between a socio-historical study of graphic culture and the hermeneutics of the poetical text 'the manifold relationship between inscription and erasure between the durable record and the ephemeral text, by studying the way in which writing was made literature by certain works belonging to various genres and composed in various times and places' (vi)." Chapter 5 treats Cyrano de Bergerac's States and Empires of the Moon (1657) and States and Empires of the Sun (1662).

CHOISY, FRANÇOIS-TIMOLÉON DE et al. The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. Trans.Steven Rendall.Intro.Joan DeJean. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004.

Review: Caroline Jumel in Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 160–62. Jumel praises this edition as useful to students of French literature, gender studies and fairy tale studies. Jumel takes some issue with the translation in spots, but finds DeJean's introduction strong, and the tale's treatment of cross-dressing and "so-called unconventional marriages" still relevant today. Also notes that this is the first edition to address the question of the tale's authorship and genealogy by attributing it to three separate authors: de Choisy, L'Héritier and Perrault.

CHOMETY, PHILIPPE. 《 Philosopher en langage des dieux. 》 La Poésie d'idées en France au siècle de Louis XIV. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2006.

Review: W. Gershuny in SCN (2007), 250–252: In looking at didactic and scientific poetry, the author successfully broaches a scarcely studied topic. "Examining the works of poets ranging from the great to the forgotten, from La Fontaine to Magnon, Chevalier, and Vion Dalibray, Chométy displays both vast erudition and scrupulous methodological rigor in calling attention to a rich and fascinating literary corpus, the understanding of which is revealed in the multiple tensions and paradoxes embodied therein."

CHRISTOUT, MARIE-FRANÇOIS. Le ballet de cour de Louis XIV. 1643–1672. Mises en scène Paris: Picard, 2005. "La vie musicale en France sous les rois Bourbons", n. 34.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 151 (2007), 173: Useful analysis of the ballet de cour from a period in which the précieux and the fantastic were prevalent to the triumph of ostentation in the ballet of 1660–1672. Theory (Michel de Pure, C.-F. Ménestrier, d'Aubignac) and diverse components of the ballet (music, dance, costume, mise en scène) are investigated in Christout's study which includes interesting annexes, a rich bibliography and illustrations.

CIVARDI, JEAN-MARC. "Du secret tragique au silence harpocratique: Polymestor et Sigalion." DSS 238 (2008), 19–26.

Described by Anne Piéjus as "une réflexion liminaire sur l'allégorie jésuite et sur les origines de ce Sigalion," Civardi provides crucial background for a selection of related articles while allowing us to understand "comment, selon les voeux de l'auteur de la tragédie, la figure du secret reliait indirectement le ballet à l'épisode tragique de Polymestor sacrifiant son fils Déiphile[.]"

CIVARDI, JEAN-MARC. La Querelle du Cid (1637–1638). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004.

Review: M. Bombart in DSS 240 (2008), 562–563: A particularly strong study "qui rassemble le corpus des pièces polémiques publiées autour du Cid et en propose une étude d'ensemble. La première partie du livre, après un état de la question et un bilan critique des travaux consacrés à la Querelle, constitue une étude générale de la polémique en trois temps." The first presents all the relevant context, the second, "une série d'études transversales isolant les 《 enjeux 》 de la Querelle," and the third, a modern analysis of its critical consequences over time.

CONESA, GABRIEL & VERONIQUE STERNBERG, eds. Le salon et la scène: comédie et mondanité au XVIIe siècle. Littératures classiques, no. 58 (printemps 2006).

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 436–437: These essays are the fruit of the Colloque de Valenciennes, May 15–16, 2002, organized by the Centre d'Analyse du Message Littéraire et Artistique de l'Université de Valenciennes and le Centre de Recherches sur la Transmission des Modèles Littéraires et Esthétiques de l'Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne. The volume is organized in the following sections: "Le salon à l'épreuve de la scène", "La scène à l'école des salons?" "Oui, toujours des marquis"; les mondains ou l'invention des types modernes" and "Jeux et enjeux de la représentation comique." Musio's review offers concise remarks on each contribution.

CONROY, DERVAL. "Des noeuds que l'amour ne rompt point'? Sisters and Friendship in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy and Tragi-comedy." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 603–624.

"Leaving the more common representation of sisters as jealous rivals aside — the 'simplified, conventionalised' representations of female relationships which Woolf bemoaned — the aim of this article is to examine a number of other models of sisterhood and of female friendship with which the dramatists provide us, and hence to analyse how [blood] sisterhood is configured [in early modern tragedy and tragi-comedy]." Focus is on four plays which feature sisters: Thomas Corneille's Ariane (1672), Rotrou's Antigone (1639), Du Ryer's Berenice (1645) and Boyer's La Sœur généreuse (1647).

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

Review: A. Roullet in DSS 239 (2008), 370: In looking at the first half of the century, the author asserts that the political history "se confond avec l'histoire culturelle, en faisant le choix de lier dès qu'il le peut aux grandes oeuvres littéraires ou artistiques le déroulement des événements marquants de l'époque baroque."

COROPCEANU, LILIA. "Faber suae fortunae: Subject's Self-Constitution in French Novelistic Narrative (Lafayette, Marivaux, Stendhal)." DAI 68/08 (2008),

Starting point is Michel Foucault's definition of ethics in order to study the shifts regarding modes of subjectivation that occur between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. The chapter on Lafayette examines the paradoxical self that emerges in the novel as "the result of a unique process of self-creation, based on a code of values that are radically different from the ones accepted in the courtly milieu."

COUTON, MARIE, ISABELLE FRENANDES, CHRISTIAN JEREMIE, & MONIQUE VENAUT, éds. Emprunt, plagiat, réécriture aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Actes des journées d'étude organisées par le Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Réforme et le Contre-Réforme les 15 novembre 2003, 12 juin 2004, 5 et 6 novembre 2004. Clermont-Ferrand: PU Blaise Pascal, 2006.

Review: C. Skenazi in BHR 69.3 (2007), 776–78: "Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité, un projet de ce type entend avant tout stimuler le dialogue entre spécialistes de la période abordée. On regrettera à cet effet l'absence de toute réflexion théorique sur des phénomènes qui ont pourtant suscité de nombreux travaux critiques. A l'absence de toute discussion sur le concept d'imitation et sur les façons dont les auteurs du XVe au XVIIe siècles envisageaient les procédés rhétoriques qui lui sont apparentés, s'ajoute le manque de précision: des termes tels qu''emprunt' et 'réécriture' qui se trouvent au centre de tous les articles rassemblés dans ce volume, ne font l'objet ni de définitions ni d'analyses dans une perspective historique."

DALLA VALLE, DANIELA & MONICA PAVESIO, eds. Due storie inglesi, due miti europei: Maria Stuarda e il conte di Essex sulle scene teatrali. Atti del Convegno di studi comparati, Università degli Studi di Torino, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, 19–20 maggio 2005. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2007.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 153 (2007), 646–647: These proceedings focus on the myth of two historical persons, the count of Essex and Marie Stuart, as well as on analogies and the circulation of European theatre. The volume is wide-ranging, the time period stretching from the first tragedies relating to the two myths and concluding with 20th c. texts and the literature examined coming from diverse countries (England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Russia). Musio's review focuses on the essays dealing with French authors and their plays (Antoine de Montchrestien, Charles Regnauld, Thomas Corneille and Claude Boyer.

DARMON, JEAN-CHARLES and GEORGES MOLINIÉ, eds. Libertinage et politique au temps de la monarchie absolue. Littératures classiques 55 (été 2005).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 596: This number of LC explores connections between "libertinage" and "politique" and is arranged in sections as follows: "Thématiques et enjeux spécifiques de la critique libertine: entre conformisme apparent et subversion radicale," and "Modalités et effets de l'art d'écrire libertin: d'un genre à l'autre, d'un siècle à l'autre." Also includes introductions by Darmon and Molinié and an Annexe with a text of Gassendi.

DAUVOIS, NATHALIE & JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSPEVRIN. Songes et songeurs (XIIIe–XVIIIe siècle). Saint-Nicolas, Québec: Les Presses de l'Université de Laval, 2003.

Review: P.J. Carvalho Da Silva in DSS 239 (2008), 363–364: The culmination of a seminar at Toulouse from 1998 to 2000 on 《 Idées, thèmes et formes, 1550–1789 》. "Le but commun [...] est de montrer la richesse et la complexité des conceptions tout ensemble esthétiques, morales, politiques, philosophiques qui se dégagent de l'analyse des formes poétiques du songe du Moyen Âge aux Lumières." This volume is deemed a little too short to cover such a large period.

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. Kramer in BHR 68.3, 634–36: Voir les trois parties du volume qui "s'occupent des trois facettes de la commedia erudita: comédie romanesque, comédie d'intrigue, comédie sérieuse et sentimentale, avec des juxtapositions de textes français et italiens. . . Ici, on trouve à la fois une véritable mine d'information concrète, factuelle, concernant la création de certaines comédies françaises de Bourgeois, La Taille, Larivey, Rotrou et d'autres auteurs français, et une analyse attentive de tous les aspects possibles des ouvrages examinés."

DERAMAIX, MARC & GINETTE VAGENHEIM, eds. L'Italie et la France dans l'Europe latine du XIVe au XVIIe siècle: Influence, émulation, traduction. Rouen: U de Rouen, 2006.

Review: D. Gilman in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1434–35: Despite reservations concerning thematic focus and some features of its critical apparatus, Gilman finds that the volume's essays "draw important attention to neglected texts and propose exciting possibilities for research in the défense of Latin and Neo-Latin texts and the illustration of their Renaissance representations" (1435). Included are treatments of Nicolas Caussin's homilies (Sophie Conte) and of Gabriel Naudé and libertinage (Laurence Boulègue).

DICKSON, JESSE. "L'après-midi théâtral sous Louis XIV: effacement et retour du corps." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 625–642.

Analyzes the representation of the corporeal, in the double-billing of tragedy and farce, "[qui] mettait en scène la relation pour ainsi dire schizophrène qu'a le théâtre classique avec le corps."

XVIIe siècle (226) January 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: Wide-ranging, this issue includes analyses of two "journées d'études" ("Chasse et foret au XVIIe siècle," Château de Compiègne, April 26, 2003 and another at the département de philosophie de l'U de Nancy 2 in 2003) and focuses on romance, poetry and philosophy. A study in the varia section analyzes an aspect of superstition and magic in the late seventeenth-century

XVIIe siècle (227) May 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: Issue includes analyses of theatre (including one on Molière as personnage-seventeenth-century through 20th c.), culture oratoire, Télémaque, epistolary discoveries, Louis XIV's power, Retz and P. de la Chaise.

XVIIe siècle (228) June 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: After a "ricordo" of Wolfgang Leiner, this number includes articles on the actuality of the "classics," dialogue as a genre, the Pensées, the "champ de bataille des belles lettres," as well as several historical analyses.

XVIIe siècle (229) October 2005.

Review: D. Dalle Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 388: Includes the proceedings of the "Journée d'étude" dedicated to the study of "Réalités et représentation des batailles dans les guerres du sud-est de l'Europe au XVIIe siècle" held at Vincennes on February 18, 2005 as well as analyses focusing on theatre, politics and philosophy.

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

Review: L. C. Seifert in E Cr 47 (2007), 107–108: Judged "a major contribution to work on seventeenth-century French women writers, the salon, the novel, and fairy tales" Duggan's work analyzes "how early modern writers interpreted and reacted to historical change" (108). The choice of focus (Scudéry in chapters 2 and 3 and d'Aulnoy in chapters 5 and 6) permits considerable discovery of contrasting socio- political perspectives. Another chapter examines the seeming anatagonism between Boileau and Perrault regarding their delegitimzation of 'mondain' women, concluding that, "contrary to many recent critics there is a fundamental agreement between the two antagonists." Although Seifert is not totally convinced, he believes that Duggan's discussion of oppositions between Perrault and d'Aulnoy is "a productive starting point for future exploration" (107).

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

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 597: Focus is on French culture although the expressed intent is to demonstrate tensions between two maxims: a European one, "la vita è sogno" and a French [Cartesian] one "penso, dunque sono." The volume is organized in two sections: 1) "Discours sur le songe. Le sens, l'expérience, l'image" and 2) "Récits de songes." Texts of authors examined are highly diverse, from those of Sorel to Bossuet among some six others. Copious notes and a rich bibliography.

Review: E. Keller-Rahbé in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 967–968. So far the most stimulating and the most coherent study dealing with the dream motif in the seventeenth century, according to the reviewer. Dumora shows that dreams were present throughout the century while her inquiry adopts a variety of perspectives (stylistic, topical, etc). The structure is twofold: "discours sur le songe" and the "récit de songes," both of which are equally dense and complex. The "dream" motif has been seized in its multiple appearances, as "songe-fable, songe éveillé, songe de vocation ou de conversion, songe-anamorphose, songe amoureux, songe-éloge funèbre, songe parnassien. . .."

EICHEL-LOJKINE, PATRICIA & CLAUDIE MARTIN-ULRICH, eds. De bonne vie s'ensuit bonne mort: Récits de mort, récits de vie en Europe (XVe–XVIIe siècle). Colloques, congrès et conférences sur la Renaissance européenne, 53. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: B. Renner in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1431–32: Organized in three sections: "Narration, argumentation et organisation de la matière historique," "La 'thanatographie,' récit et interprétation de la mort," and "Présence de la mort dans l'autobiographie," the volume brings together successfully 18 essays reflecting a remarkable interdisciplinarity and focuses on the "dialogical relationship" (9) between life and death. Funeral orations, verse epistles, popular biographies of Protestant ministers (by Julien Goeury), press reports, autobiographical texts as exemplums, as well as other genres are skillfully examined in this diverse and rich collection.

FERRAND, NATAHLIE, ed. Locus in fabula—La topique de l'espace dans les fictions française d'Ancien Régime. Éditions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, 2004.

Review: Frédéric Briot in RSH 282.4 (2006), 201–202: Actes of the XVe colloque de la Société Internationale de la Topique Romanesque, held in Paris in 2001, consisting of 44 conference papers on seven major themes: ouvertures; des lieux et des genres; dépaysements (espaces d'Europe et d'ailleurs); mobilités (lieux de passage, lieux en mouvement); espaces naturels, espaces urbains, espaces d'artifice; quand les lieux parlent; sociologie et techniques. Rich collection with multiple responses and original contributions to the questions posed for the period of the Ancien Régime.

FERRER, VERONIQUE & ANNE MANTERO, eds., introduction byMICHEL JEANNERET. Les Paraphrases bibliques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, 《 Actes du Colloque de Bordeaux des 22, 23 et 24 septembre 2004 》. Geneva: Droz (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, no. CDXV), 2006.

Review: P. Baillargeon in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 945–46: Praiseworthy for its coherence and its important contribution to the field of the history of the book as well as to the understanding and expression of the genre [see in particular, Jean-Michel de Noailly's presentation of the Bibliographie des psaumes imprimés en vers français, which includes over 3000 editions and nearly 1700 Psalters published between 1525 and 1900]. Arranged in four sections, the essays focus on 1) paraphrase and biblical exegesis, 2) various forms of paraphrase (poetry, prose, tragedy), 3) paraphrases of the Psalms, evolution of the genre and 4) the musical paraphrase (including both seventeenth-century Catholic ones as well as Protestant compositions). Should definitely encourage future studies. Index, illustrations, tables, bibliography.

Review: D. Cecchetti in S Fr 151 (2007), 432–433: Two of the greatest specialists of intertextuality regarding the Bible and literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth century present these essays of rich and varied perspectives (religious and literary, historical, musical, etc.), treating several genres (translations, exegesis, sermons, poetry) and techniques. This collection "di straordinara ricchezza e profondità" is indispensable for its contribution to numerous and important aspects of the culture of the early modern and is organized in the following sections: "Paraphrase et exégèse", "Paraphrase et littérature", "La paraphrase de psaume", "Paraphrase et musique"(432).

FERREYROLLES, GERARD, ed. La Polémique au XVIIe siècle. Littératures classiques, no. 59 (été 2006).

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 433–434: Focused on a key theme for the study of the seventeenth-century, this issue of LC is organized in three sections: "Les formes de la polémique", "Les normes de la polémique", and "Les champs de la polémique". Ferreyrolles also furnishes, as introduction, an essay defining polemic discourse and delineating its principal functions and characteristics; he also supplies "un'ultissima bibliografia" (434).

Review: C. Barbafieri, PFSCL XXXV (69), 762–766: "Un recueil d'articles de grande qualité' which proposes 'une réflexion véritablement stimulante."

FORD, PHILIP & PAUL WHITE, eds. Masculinities in Sixteenth-Century France. Proceedings of the Eighth French Renaissance Colloquium 5–7 July 2003. Cambridge: Cambridge French Colloquia, 2006.

Review: A. Klosowska in Ren Q 60.2 (2007), 573–74: Praised for both its erudition and elegant writing, this edited collection demonstrates that "'the ambient [normative, heterosexual] masculinity' against which these different gender performances emerge, is often a matter of nostalgia (among others, for the chivalric knight)" (573). Focus is on authors who, for political, pedagogical or hermeneutical goals, "create or manipulate masculinity for a reason specific to their text" (573). Although as the title indicates, the study concentrates on the 16th c., studies do address some key seventeenth-century authors and figures: Cyrano, Théophile, and Tristan.

FURNO, MARTINE, ed. La collection Ad usum Delphini, vol. II. Grenoble: ELLUG, Université Stendhal, 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 598–599: This second and last volume (the first was edited by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger in 2000) is welcome as it treats some 39 authors in notices, which include biographical material as well as analyses. Praiseworthy for the "interessante prospettiva" it opens on the early modern.

GAMBELLI, DELIA & LETIZIA NORCI CAGIONO, eds. Le Théâtre en musique et son double (1600–1762). Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: J. Gilroy in FR 81 (2008), 581–82: Assembles the proceedings of a conference in 2000 on Lully, opera parodies, and the French Academy of Music. The work includes treatment of the origins of opera in Italy, its arrival and development in France, and its gradual adaptation to a French public. Several papers which address parodies of opera and of Lully chart a means by which opera moved toward heightened naturalness and realism.

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, Nantes, 18–20 mars, 2004. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 153 (2007), 647–648: These acts present the scholarship of twenty specialists and define a rich, multifaceted picture of war, not limited to literature, but including perspectives from all forms of the beaux arts. Presented in homage to Wolfgang Leiner, honorary president of CIR 17 (see Cecilia Rizza's "In memoriam"), the volume is organized in six sections as follows: "Guerres et sociétés," "Visions chrétiennes," "La guerre dans la fiction," "Guerre et existence," "La guerre et le théâtre musicale," "La glorification de la guerre."

GARCIA-HERNANDEZ, BENJAMIN. Gemelos y sosias. La comedia de doble en Plato, Shakespeare y Molière. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 2001.

Review: A. Teulade in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 663–665. This study's nature is typological: "elle dégage les éléments topiques des comédies dans lesquelles la question du double est centrale. Une première partie, introductive, est consacrée à l'évocation des structures linguistiques et littéraires du double, en distinguant le cas des jumeaux, doubles naturels et authentiques, de celui des sosies, doubles artificiels. Ces deux cas sont opposés à celui du double fonctionnel, personnage jouant le même rôle qu'un autre, mais ne présentant pas de similitude physique avec lui." The author provides us with ample examples: starting with Plato, she later turns to Shakespeare and discusses Molière, as well. A synthesis concludes this study.

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

Review: P. White in FS 62.1 (2008), 78–9. This dithyrambic review praises Gély for a readable, erudite and thorough survey of the figure of Psyché from the Greeks to La Fontaine. Gély is "a sharp reader," who provides lucid translations from Spanish, Latin, and Greek. Beyond being a systematic survey, this work contains an "extremely thought-provoking analysis" of a variety of texts. Gély's book is "essential reading" for "anyone interested in the 'invention' of myth."

GETHNER, PERRY. "Divine Right versus Divine Judgement in Two Early French Biblical Tragedies." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 469–476.

Examines the strategies by which Montchrestien's David (1601) and Du Ryer's Saül (1642) "managed to strike a sufficient balance between orthodoxy and subversion to have made them palatable to troupes and audiences."

GETHNER, PERRY. "The Endymion Myth in Early French Opera." CdDS 11.2 (2007), 71–82.

An in-depth analysis of the Endymion myth within the operatic genre during the second half of the seventeenth century in order to show why this story was so popular, the individual adaptations of the myth, and how these works contributed to the development of early French opera. Gethner also attaches himself to the question why, within the dramatic genres of pastoral and tragedy, all adaptations were part of the rubric of pastorales héroïques rather than tragedy. He argues that an idealized fantasy of love without the identification of class difference lent itself to happy court celebrations.

GHEERAERT, TONY, ed. Perrault, Fénelon, Mailly, Préchac, Choisy et anonymes. Contes merveilleux. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: A. Génetiot in DSS 238 (2008), 176–178: "Dans ce quatrième volume de la 《 Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées 》, Tony Gheeraert réunit uniquement des conteurs masculins qui écrivent pour les dames sur des thèmes galants, dans une sorte de 《 seconde préciosité 》.[...] Les conteurs masculins rassemblés ici explorent ainsi les caractéristiques et les frontières du genre dans des oeuvres-laboratoires, au carrefour d'esthétiques multiples qui témoignent des contradictions de la féerie 《 fin de siècle 》 entre jeu galant et pédagogie morale, panégyrique et pastiche, folklore populaire et exotisme."

Review: E. Keller-Rahbé in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 968–969. This is the fourth volume of the "Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées" and privileges anonymous and lesser-known storytellers. It is richly annotated and documented.

GIMARET, ANTOINETTE. "Poésie et militantisme: la poésie de la Passion et les élites au début du 17e siècle." In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 185–197.

Gimaret analyzes and compares the religious poetry and politics of two members of the southern noblesse de robe, Gabrielle de Coignard in Toulouse and the magistrate Jean de la Ceppède from Aix-en-Provence. Both poets reject the pagan Muse in favor of establishing their identity as Christian poets, a move linked to the historical context of the Counter-Reformation, especially in the South of France. Their status as members of the noblesse de robe provided both with the education and spiritual formation necessary to their poetry, which they both saw in turn as participating in the larger sphere of the Counter Reformation. Gimaret concludes by discussing the potential conflicts between both poets' religious ideals and their civic duties.

GIORGI, GIORGETTI. "Les théoriciens italiens et les remarques de Corneille sur le roman et sur les différences entre le théâtre et le roman." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 73–83.

Examination of Corneille's remarks concerning the novel in his second Discours and examination of possible reasons (primarily his rhetorical education) as to why he preferred the dramatic medium.

GIORGI, GIORGETTO. Romanzo e poetiche del romanzo nel Seicento francese. Roma: Bulzoni, 2005.

Review: L. Rescia in S Fr 153 (2007), 650–651: This volume gathers a series of Giorgi's previously published studies, updates, and provides us with "un panorama esteso e dettagliato delle poetiche romanzesche del Seicento francese" (650). Wide-ranging, with perspectives and analyses relating to theory and practice, Giorgi reminds the reader of classical sources, Italian writers, French theorists such as Huet and Chapelain, as well as writers (who are often theorists as well) such as Sorel, Madeleine de Scudéry, Madame de Lafayette and Fénelon.

GIPPER, ANDREAS. Wundebare Wissenschaft. Literarische Strategien naturwissenschaftlicher Vulgarisierung in Frankreich. München: Wilhelm Fink, 2002.

Review: A. Keilhauer in Archiv 244 (2007), 222–224: Praiseworthy exploration of the vulgarization of scholarly knowledge in France in the early modern. Wide-ranging and well-documented examination fills an important lacuna. Seventeenth-century scholars will appreciate in particular sections on Cyrano, the vraisemblable, the bienséances, honnêteté, etc.

GOMEZ-GERAUD, MARIE-CHRISTINE. Le crépuscule du Grand Voyage. Les récits des pélerins à Jérusalem (1458–1612). Paris: Champion, 1999.

Review: B. Méniel in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 207–209. Gomez-Geraud's study deals with 58 written accounts and 92 manuscripts that describe the spatial and spiritual dimensions of pilgrimage in the Renaissance. The author divides her book into four parts: part one focuses on the history of religion and the spiritual value attributed to pilgrimage. The second part examines the history of published editions during the sixteenth century up to 1610. The last two parts are more literary in nature. For they discuss topics, themes, and recurrent structures within those narratives, as well as the diverse nature of those books.

GORRIS, ROSANNA,dir. Les Montagnes de l'esprit. Imaginaire et histoire de la montagne à la Renaissance. Actes du Colloque International, Saint-Vincent, 22–23 november 2002. Aosta: Musumeci Editore, 2005.

Review: S. Arena in BHR 68.3 (2006), 620–22: Volume pluridisciplinaire en quatre parties: la première partie "est consacrée à la métaphore de la montée comme élévation intérieure, élan de l'âme vers Dieu et parcours personnel vers la connaissance et la purification"; la deuxième section est consacrée "à la représentation des montagnes dans les oeuvres artistiques et littéraires"; dans la troisième partie, "les montagnes de la Renaissance sont explorées sur la base des oeuvres des cosmographes et des progrès de la cartographie"; le volume "s'achève sur une quatrième partie de nature historique."

GOUJON, JEAN-PAUL. Anthologie de la poésie érotique. Paris: Fayard, 2004.

Review: M. Delon in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 632–633. The most monumental and original study so far devoted to erotic poetry in verse-form, but that also pays tribute to other forms (refrains, drinking songs, etc.). The sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century are identified as key periods that deserve our attention, for erotic poetry was flourishing. Preceding the anthology is a substantial essay, entitled: "Une histoire de la poésie érotique française." The reviewer points out that the author's choice of poems is predominantly masculine and deliberately misogynist and that not all readers will be inclined to share his point of view.

GOULET, ANNE-MADELEINE. Poésie, musique et sociabilité au XVIIè siècle. Les Livres d'airs de différents auteurs publiés chez Ballard de 1658–1694. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: L. Naudex in RHLF 108.2 (2008), 451–452. This study, an outgrowth of a dissertation, is divided into three excellent parts: a history of editions, a study on the rhetorical and poetical nature of the texts, as well as a historical, social, and literary analysis. "Le processus méthodologique est celui de l'enquête: animée par le scrupule et une exigence de précision scientifique, l'auteur multiplie les pièces à conviction avant de proposer des conclusions." Goulet provides us with "masses" of documentation. Her study is sometimes difficult to access; but overall, it is an indispensable study.

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

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006) 389: Judged rich and fascinating, Goupillaud's welcome treatment of the epic includes sections on 1) "Les héritiers [of Virgil], 2) "Les fils prodigues," focusing on the French epic and 3) "Les affranchis" or the shipwreck of the epic [the epic in crisis].

Review: V. Schröder in MLR 103.2 (2008), 535–36: 《  What this book provides, then, is not a systematic account of seventeenth-century readings and rewritings of the Aeneid (Scarron's Virgile travesti, for example, although listed in the bibliography, is never discussed), but rather a rich and stimulating mosaic of case studies illustrating various ways in which the omnipresent Virgilian model informs French classical literature and culture."

Review: J.-C. Ternaux in IL 59.2 (2007), 57–59: The author looks at the importance of Virgil's Aeneid in the seventeenth century and its role for the intellectual and moral formation of the subject. She moreover studies generic transformations of the Aeneid, linking them to linguistic, historical, social, and political factors. Reviewer approves of this study, which offers a great synthesis and combines thorough research with convincing arguments.

GRAFTON, ANTHONY. What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge UP, 2007.

Review: M. L. Colish in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1293–95: Praiseworthy both for "illuminating the rise, development, and supersession of ars historica" and for calling for more breadth as well as nuance in our understanding of Renaissance humanism (1294–95). Time period covered is from 1550–1700. Grafton traces, explores, and illustrates "successive stages" of debates on reading history while offering helpful analyses of both well-known figures such as Jean Bodin (1530–96) and numerous lesser known ones which merit appreciation. Found "erudite and engagingly written" (1294). Illustrations and bibliography.

GREINER, FRANK. "La confrontation de l'histoire et du roman: Fancan, Sorel, Lenglet-Dufresnoy." DSS 239 (2008), 311–338.

Where seventeenth-century theatre was the battle ground for the great "querelles" of the day, Greiner suggests that the novel was not without controversy and he demonstrates that "le roman fut longtemps critiqué et évalué sur la base de sa controntation avec l'histoire," constituting a long standing "querelle" which he discusses with reference to Fancan, Sorel and Lenglet-Dufresnoy.

GRÉLÉ, DENIS D. "Relations économiques et rapports sociaux: établir une cohérence nationale au pays d'utopie." Neophil 91 (2007), 19–32.

Focusing on economy and politics, Grélé identifies and analyzes four archetypes at the base of many utopias of the Early Modern, in particular those of the seventeenth-century Grélé illustrates each archetype with an example: "société à esclaves" (Veiras), "société esclavagiste" (Fontenelle), "société républicaine" (Campanella) and "société monarchique" (Lesconvel).

GRIMM, JÜRGEN. Französische Klassik. Stuttgart, Weimer, Metzler, 2005.

Review: M. Chihaia, PFSCL XXXV (69), 766–768. '[Ouvrage] qui se situe au-delà de l'histoire de la littérature, dans une histoire des idées et des mœurs'. 'Une introduction stimulante qui propose aux étudiants assez de détails, de citations et de points de vue différents pour leur donner un accès privilégié à ce phénomène culturel unique qu'est le siècle 《  classique  》'.

GUILIANI, PIERRE. "Le sang classique entre histoire et littérature: hypothèses et propositions." DSS 239 (2008), 223–242.

"Au point de rencontre de la réalité historique — pour autant que celle-ci soit objectivement saisissable — et de la littérature, c'est à une représentation du sang que les classiques français nous introduisent, c'est-à-dire tout à la fois à une transformation et à une interprétation de ce que montrent la nature, les hommes et les événements."

HACHE, SOPHIE. La Langue du ciel. Le sublime en France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2000.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 670–672. This study is divided into three parts: the first one deals with Guez de Balzac and looks at classicism under Louis XIII; the second one focuses on the relation between the sublime and the sacred, and the third one turns to Boileau and the era of Louis XIV. The author mentions a great number of artists and provides us with a very dense anthology. According to the reviewer there are, however, certain flaws despite the study's merit: "tous les écrivains mentionnés. . . sont mis dans le même sac et bénéficient tous d'un égal crédit. . . Certains, même, iront jusqu'à trouver répétitif à l'excès le recours aux trois registres d'écriture aristotéliciens."

HAQUETTE, JEAN-LOUIS & EMMANUELLE HENIN. La scène comme tableau. Poitiers: La Licorne, 2004.

Review: T. Karsenti in DSS 240 (2008), 563–565: A series of articles drawn from a colloquium at Paris VII dealing with "la profonde mutation qui, à partir du XVIe siècle, affecte progressivement le modèle scénographique européen avec la mise en place de la scène à l'italienne."

HERZEL, ROGER. "Theatre History and Seventeenth-Century France." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 3–16.

Very useful review of research carried out to date on C17 theatre history, the difficulties it has encountered as a discipline and the current trends being investigated.

HOWE, ALAIN. Écrivains de théâtre, 1600–1649. Documents du Minutier Central des notaires de Paris. Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2005.

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 151 (2007), 172: This volume is a complement to Howe's 2000 Le Théâtre professionnel à Paris and gathers documents "grazie all'inventario realizzato da MADELAINE JURGENS, archivista che ha dedicato la propria vita all'archivio parigino" (172). The present volume focuses on acts relating to dramatists working in Paris from 1600–1649; Howe analyzes the acts and their larger meaning for the genre and for cultural history. Organized in two sections: "Notices et analyses" (173 acts such as marriage contracts, inventories of wealth, etc.) and "Documents transcrits" (the integral transcriptions of 24 particularly interesting documents). Includes introduction by Jean Mesnard, an analytical table, bibliography and index of names. Important for the educated public as well as for specialists.

ISSLER, ROLAND ALEXANDER. Metamorphosen des 'Raubs der Europa.' Der Mythos in der französischen Lyrik vom frühen 14. bis zum späten 19. Jahrhundert. Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 2006.

Review: F. Nies in RHLF 107.4 (959–960). Issler debunks Rémy Poignault's thesis: "l'histoire d'Europe ne constituerait pas 'un grand mythe littéraire' mais 'tout au plus un motif.'" To show us the opposite, he chooses about ten different examples (two from each century) that range from the 14th to the 19th centuries. In his study of myth in the seventeenth century, he turns to Tristan l'Hermite and Isaac de Benserade. Among the flaws of this study are certain errors in reading, as well as a disappointing conclusion. But the bibliography is of great value.

JEANNERET, JEAN. La Muse lascive: anthologie de la poésie érotique et pornographique française (1560–1660). Paris: José Corti, 2007.

Review: G. Peureux in MLR 103.2 (2008), 534–35: 《 . . .the volume includes a short but inspiring essay on early modern erotic and pornographic poetry in France (1560 to 1660). Michel Jeanneret sheds light on the origins of more than 1500 saucy poems, 'des proportions industrielles', he says (p. 19), taking up ideas from his latest book, Eros rebelle: littérature et dissidence à l'âge classique." Reviewer would have liked to see "an enquiry into the identity of the authors and publishers in question" that might have shed more light on "the social reality of this obscene phenomenon."

Review: n.a. in BCLF 695 (2007), 68–69: Ouvrage qui "forme le second volet d'un diptyque, l'autre étant La Muse sacrée: anthologie de la poésie française (1570–1630), et ainsi s'explique (à défaut de se justifier) l'opération qui consiste, avec cette Muse sacrée, à rééditer sans le dire un titre publié pour la première fois en 1972, Métamorphoses spirituelles: anthologie de la poésie religieuse française (1570–1630). Après l'appel à Dieu et l'élan mystique, Michel Jeanneret emmène son lecteur sur un autre versant des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, celui de la poésie dite 'satirique'. . . Les textes qu'il propose sont d'authentiques curiosités, au sens premier du mot, mais également sans l'acception que le terme reçoit en bibliophilie. Ils n'avaient plus été réimprimés depuis des décénnies."

JEANNERET, JEAN & JEAN STAROBINSKI, éds. L'Aventure baroque. Carouge-Genève: Suisse, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 684 (2006), 55–56: Présenté par Jeanneret et Starobinski, cet ouvrage en hommage à Jean Rousset comprend quatre études parues pour la première fois dans les années '40, '50, et '80, ainsi que des traductions en version bilingue longtemps inaccessibles. "C'est tout d'abord un choix de textes de Andreas Gryphius, poète protestant, humaniste et militant du XVIIe siècle, puis quelques extraits magnifiques du Voyageur chérubinique (1656) et de La Sainte Joie de l'âme (1657) d'Angelus Silesius."

JOURDE, MICHEL & JEAN-CHARLES MONFERRAN, éds. Le Lexique métalittéraire français (XVIe–XVIIe siècles). Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance 77. Genève: Droz, 2006.

Review: M. Clément in BHR 69.3 (2007), 820–21: "De l'importance de repérer ce que nommer veut dire, tel est le sujet de ce recueil. Il ne s'agit pas ici d'un lexique comme le titre pourrait le laisser penser (pauvre lexique de douze entrées!) mais d'une réflexion à partir de douze cas précis sur ce que suppose une élaboration lexicale à un moment donnée." Les analyses du volume "s'emploient tantôt à montrer à l'oeuvre un 'processus de constitution du genre'. . .; tantôt à débusquer les raisons d'un échec de dénomination: 'translations' pour qualifier la métaphore ou 'diastole' pour qualifier la diérèse; tantôt à redéfinir ce que nous croyons connu, comme 'composition' chez Peletier, 'éloquence' chez Guez de Balzac, 'comique chez Des Autels, 'essai' chez certains poètes comme Mage de Fiefmélin ou "Vie" chez Colletet, mots tellement évidents qu'on les lit sans en comprendre les enjeux."

Review: M. Keller in Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 923–24: Perspectives differ (from the synchronic to the diachronic) in these essays which "focus on 12 particular terminological issues" (924) and respond to questions such as the following: "What was the meaning of composition as a metapoetic term. . .? How did authors of early modern French travel narratives conceive of style nu and how did they practice it? Which conceptual changes did éloquence undergo during the seventeenth-century debate on rhetoric?" (923). Judged "an important contribution to the study of metaliterary discourse in early modern France [which also affords] precious insights into the animated debate about the delineation of literature as an object of critical inquiry" (924). seventeenth-century scholars will particularly appreciate essays on the semantics and evolution of terms such as personnage, acteur, essai, prosopopée, oraison directe, and éloquence. Bibliography, tables and a list of helpful online resources.

KAEMPFER, JEAN,SONYA FLOREY, &JEROME MEIZOZ,sous la dir. de. Formes de l'engagement littéraire (XVe–XXe siècles). Lausanne: Antipodes, 2006.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 696 (2007), 62–63: Recueil de dix-huit contributions d'un colloque organisé à l'université de Lausanne en 2005 à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Sartre. Le volume est organisé en quatre parties: "L'archéologie de l'engagement"; "Les engagements paradoxaux"; "Politiques littéraires"; "L'engagement aujourd'hui." La première partie montre "comment, sous l'Ancien Régime, 'la responsabilité politique, la fonction de dévoilement, l'incitation à agir' sont déjà présentes chez les écrivains. . ."

KAPP, VOLKER. "Le concept de baroque face aux doctrines oratoires du XVIIe siècle en Europe." OeC 32.2 (2007), 23–35.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Pour conclure, il faut constater que l'univers de la rhétorique regroupe largement le champ du concept de baroque qu'il permet de préciser. Le terme de rhétorique baroque se révèle peu pertinent pour décrire véritablement les doctrines oratoires. Il devrait donc être explusé du domaine des études rhétoriques voire même de celui de la critique littéraire. La prise en considération de l'histoire de la rhétorique a toutefois modifié le concept de baroque sans le rendre superfu."

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

Review: L. L. Carroll in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 180–181: Judged a "milestone in commedia dell'arte scholarship," Katritzky's extensive work (of over 600 pages) offers not only an important history of the commedia dell'arte but also "hundreds of visual images (many first identified by the author)." Although Carroll indicates a few "missed" opportunities, she praises Katritzky's work as "very important" as it uncovers a broader, richer and more innovative presence of the commedianti.

KRIEF, H. La Sapho des Lumières. Anthologie établie et présentée par H. Krief. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006.

Review: I. Brouard-Arends in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 970. A chronological anthology that starts with Madeleine de Scudéry and concludes with Mme de Staël-Holstein. Diverse genres are included and historical information completes the literary texts. Recurrent topics are discussed.

LA CHARITE, CLAUDE. L'âge de l'éloquence et l'angle mort de l'histoire littéraire de la Renaissance." OeC 32.1 (2007), 57–71.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et critiques présenté par Roxanne Roy et consacré à l'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli. "C'est d'ailleurs à la lumière de ce paradigme rhétorique que je voudrais tenter d'esquisser ici la filiation intellectuelle entre Fumaroli et la recherche sur la littérature de la Renaissance depuis 1980. L'on s'interrogera d'abord sur les raisons qui ont fait qu'avant L'âge de l'éloquence l'histoire littéraire et la rhétorique étaient mutuellement exclusives, même lorqu'il était question de l'Ancien Régime. Il s'agira ensuite de voir en quoi L'âge de l'éloquence constitue une sorte de discours de la méthode, ce qui explique en partie la richesse et l'ampleur de sa postérité. Enfin, je voudrais suggérer que l'un des points nodaux des travaux sur la littérature de la Renaissance depuis L'âge de l'éloquence est l''art Rhetoricale', sorte de de fil d'Ariane dans l'histoire des litterae humaniores."

LAROQUE, FRANÇOIS. "Le Misanthrope au théâtre (Ménandre, Shakespeare, Molière, Hofmannsthal)." IL 59.4 (2007), 34–47.

This study envisages a comparison between misanthropic characters on stage throughout history. In part one, the author engages in detailed readings, starting with Aristophanes, and the reappearance of this "type" in Molière, Rousseau, Fabre d'Eglantine, Courteline, Eugène Labiche, Ferdinand Raimund, Alexander Griboïévov, and Anouilh, among others. Part two is comprised of a detailed bibliography on studies and anthologies dealing with particular aspects of misanthropy in theater, as well as the historical, social, and political contexts of the plays discussed. A detailed bibliography on Molière's misanthrope is included, as well.

LECOMTE, NATHALIE. "Messieurs les 《 Acteurs dansans 》: essai pour percer les secrets d'une distribution." DSS 238 (2008), 77–83.

A brief study of the dancers who appeared in Sigalion, drawing on various sources including handbills and reviews.

LEIBACHER-OUVRARD, LISE. "Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d'Iphis en garçon." FLS 34 (2007), 13–33.

Through a genealogical approach applied to fictional and theatrical adaptations of the fable of Iphis and Ianthe from the twelfth through the eighteenth century, the author examines the important role played by heteronormativity. The quiet homoeroticism of Ovid is replaced especially in the sixteenth century by a movement of heteronormative fixation.

LENTRICCHIA, FRANK & ANDREW DUBOIS, eds. Close Reading: The Reader. Durham & London: Duke UP, 2003.

Review: Anon. in FMLS 43 (2007), 96–97: Includes both a useful 40-page introduction (by Dubois) and 17 essays in two sections: "Formalism (Plus)" and "After Formalism." Continuity rather than the clash of critical schools is emphasized. Illustrative examples of critics include: John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brookes, Stanley Fish, Paul de Man, Frederic Jameson, Roland Barthes, Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt, Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick and Homi Bhabha.

LIMA, ROBERT. Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 2005.

Review: n.a. in FMLS 43 (2007), 103: Judged highly useful and suggestive both for the synthesis it offers and its bibliography (of European and American Drama). Includes sections on the underworld, metamorphoses of gods, possession and exorcism, cauldron and cave. Found "both scholarly and highly readable."

LORIMER, EMMA. "Huguenot General Assemblies in France, 1579–1622: 'Public Opinion', Pamphlets and Political Memory." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 52–63.

Concludes: "Pamphlets written against Huguenot general assemblies were able to have an effect on a broad public by using the burlesque, by adopting a populist tone, and later by employing biblical and theological references. Ultimately, they gained credibility by reference to and sometimes direct quotation of the assembly records."

LUCCIONI, CARINE. "Les accents d'une nymphe plaintive: Echo, miroir du dire mélancolique dans la poésie de l'âge baroque (1580–1630)." DSS 239 (2008), 285–309.

Tracing the image of Echo throughout French baroque poetry, the author concludes that "la fable d'Écho définit le lyrisme baroque comme la plainte monotone, la monodie atone d'un poète réduit au vain ressassement du discours élégiaque, et traduit une profonde nostalgie du carmen poétique, qui allie chant et charme à travers les accents nombreux d'une voix forte et harmonieuse."

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

Review: S.W. Farquhar in Ren Q 60.4 (2007), 1353–55: Wide-ranging and priaseworthy, Lyons' "brilliant study fills a lacuna in our knowledge of early modern views of the imagination" (1353). After an introduction which focuses on "classical theories of the imagination, emphasizing Stoic self-cultivation," Lyons presents analyses of the inner life in chapters on 1) Montaigne and the 16th c. Stoic revival, 2) François de Sales, 3) Pascal's skepticism as regards "will-directed imagination" (1354), 4) Mme de Sévigné and the philosophical dimension of the letters, 5) the novel, Mme de Scudéry's which developed imagination and Mme de Lafayette's which is found "anti-imaginative" (F. 1354), 6) Boileau and Fénélon and "an emphasis on negative and passive attributes" (F. 1355), and 7) Rousseau's Emile where sensibility is valued over the imagination.

MANTERO, ANNE. "'Le commencement d'une Rose'. Les objets de ce monde dans la poésie spirituelle française de la fin du XVIe siècle et du XVIIe." TL 21 (2008), 97–115.

Detailed and masterful investigation of "une sorte de noeud d'interactions par lequel les choix poétiques renvoient à des postulats religieux" (98). Mantero's "cartographie" is sketched out, demonstrating oppositions or "pôles" such as "la dénonciation des vanités" and "[des] suites assertives d'une célébration, ou des existences singulières, suspendues au vouloir providentiel, ou de l'ordre universel méthodiquement déduit" (98). The quotation in Mantero's title is from Jean de Bussières' ode "La Rose" and appropriately illustrates the mystery of "l'accroissement de la vie. . . propre à nourrir une 'description poëtique'" (98). The rich corpus explored here, including, among others, works by Zacharie de Vitré, Claude Hopil, Gabrielle de Cognard, Louis de Grenade, Laurent Drelincourt, Jean Auvray, Jean-Baptiste Chassignet and Martial de Brive, demonstrates that although God is both "omninominable" and "innominable," life's totality even in seemingly "menus événements" is perceived "dans la gravité d'une lumière spirituelle" (99, 115)."

MARCHAL-WEYL, CATHERINE. Le Tailleur et le fripier. Transformations des personnages de la comedia sur la scène française (1630–1660). Geneva: Droz, 2007.

Review: R. Racevskis in SCN (2007), 235–239: "Catherine Marchal-Weyl is right to say that studies of seventeenth-century French theater have underestimated the significance of the Spanish comedia for early modern æsthetics. Le Tailleur et le fripier accomplishes the significant scholarly task of correcting this tendency while providing a wealth of information,both about the comedias themselves [...] and about their adaptations by French playwrights."

MAZOUER, CHARLES. Le Théâtre français de l'Age classique. 1. Le premier XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 211–212. This is a prolongation of two previous studies on theatre: the first one dealing with the Middle Ages, the second one with the Renaissance. In this volume, Mazouer describes the first part of the transitions within the seventeenth century. He plans to publish a second part on the latter seventeenth century. "Mazouer se refuse à 'problématiser la période qui va de 1610 à 1650 sous le signe unique du baroque.' Il sait combien l'évolution du théâtre à cette date se révèle infiniment plus complexe, mais aussi beaucoup plus riche." Reviewer acclaims this varied and complete study that discusses the various genres within early seventeenth-century theatre.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 649: This exceptional publication is by one of the greatest specialists of the French theatre who continues here his remarkable publications in that area. Dalla Valle reminds us of his 2002 volume Le théâtre français de la Renaissance. The present study, judged "estremamente utile, ricco documentato" (649), is organized in two sections, the first on the period of Alexandre Hardy (1610–1628) (with six chapters on theatrical life, farce, tragicomedy, pastoral, new tragedy and a study on Hardy) and the second on the "premier classicisme" (including sections on Richelieu, Mairet, Scudéry, La Calprenède, Du Ryer, Tristan, Thomas Corneille, Claude Boyer and Rotrou). Rich bibliography and index of theatrical works cited.

Review: J.-Cl. Vuillemin, PFSCL XXXV (69), 772–778: Favorable review of this 'magistrale étude'. Provides an overview of its findings, particularly with regard to Hardy and Rotrou. Suggests a number of small corrections.

Review: S. Berrégard, Cahiers Tristan l'Hermite (2008), 79–85:

MELLINGHOFF-BOURGERIE, VIVIANE. "L'Écrivain au service des âmes: tradition et avatars de l'épistolarité spirituelle." TL 21 (2008), 117–130.

Marked by careful attention to appropriate terminology ("épître spirituelle" ou "lettre spirituelle" or as André Ravier has suggested "lettres d'amitié spirituelle"—these terms are preferable to the anachronistic "lettres de direction" which became prevalent in the second half of the 19th c.) and by sensitivity to different communions, Mellinghoff-Bourgerie's article refers to a significant corpus in the early modern, including Calvin, Briçonnet, Fénelon and François de Sales. Mellinghoff-Bourgerie demonstrates that to establish confidence, the "pastors" reiterate the sincerity of their friendship with their correspondents, balance authority and friendship and "sans avoir en commun le même credo, [adoptent] la même attitude envers le destinataire qu'ils [désirent] mener à Dieu" (130).

MERCIER, ALAIN. Le Tombeau de la mélancolie. Littérature et facétie sous Louis XIII. Avec une bibliographie des éditions facétieuses parues de 1610 à 1643. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 149 (2006), 392: Truly impressive treatment of the topic, along with "un'enorme quantità di testi identificati e analizzati." Volume I includes a study of the facétie in the medieval and Renaissance eras as well as the early seventeenth-century, analyses of specific aspects of the genre, authors, actors and history. Volume II contains "una straordinaria bibliografia critica" of all the texts that Mercier has recorded from 1610–1643 (over 1500 texts!) and a short conclusion. Of great importance in itself as well as rich and suggestive for future studies.

Review: Ch. Mazouer in RHLF 107.4 (962–963). This study can be seen as a monumental critical bibliography of the facetious editions that appeared between 1610–1643 in which Mercier also turns into a "historien des mœurs, des mentalités et de la littérature." Parts III and IV are more literary in nature. They present a typology of "litterérature facétieuse" and discuss particular authors.

Review: C. Nédélec in DSS 238 (2008), 165–167: In an augmented version of his earlier work, "cette bibliographie occupe tout le tome II, tandis que le tome I offre une analyse de ce vaste corpus de 《 monologues, dialogues, énumérations, nouvelles, anecdotes, parodies, allégories ou pastiches destinés à faire rire ou sourire. 》"

MISTACCO, VICKI. Les Femmes et la tradition littéraire. Anthologie du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Première partie: XIIe–XVIIIe siècles. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006.

Review: F. Orwat in DFS 83 (2008), 143–145: 《  Le premier tome [de cette anthologie], fort de 571 pages et étoffé de quatre chapitres en annexe conçus comme des lectures complémentaires sur la situation de la femme écrivain à un moment stratégique de l'histoire et comme un portrait de ses espoirs au moment de la Révolution, court du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle.  》 Selon la critique, 《  V. Mistacco propose aux spécialistes comme aux non-spécialistes un instrument de travail qui ne manque pas d'atouts: ampleur des textes retenus, bibliographie sélective..., copieuses notices biographiques, introduction stimulante qui autorise la mise en perspective ou la relecture de maints textes connus, saisis à la lumière d'une problématique resserrée et féconde.  》

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

Review: M.-O. Sweetser in FR 81 (2008), 996–97: A useful, competent, and interesting introduction to seventeenth-century French literature and civilization. Contains a section on "literature and society" which addresses the Renaissance background to the era and its writings, the status of the French language in the era, and a certain amount of religious background. The second section, "univers littéraire," discusses particular writers and their contributions. A third section addresses literature and the arts. Recommended for university libraries and for those seeking an up-to-date understanding of the seventeenth century and its writings.

MORGAIN, STÉPHANE-MARIE. "Richelieu, un controversiste en quête d'unité: la rhétorique de la persuasion est-elle toujours efficace ?" In Lopez, Denis, Charles Mazouer, and Eric Suire, eds. La Religion des élites au XVIIe siècle. Actes du colloque du Centre de recherches sur le XVIIe siècle européen (1600–1700), en partenariat avec le Centre Aquitain d'Histoire Moderne et contemporaine, Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3, 30 novembre-2 décembre 2006. Biblio 17, Volume 175. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008, 53–70.

From the standpoint of rhetoric, Morgain examines three key moments in Richelieu's career as a Catholic apologist: his speech to the close of the estates general of 1615; a 1617 treatise on the principles of the Catholic faith; and a posthumous work (1651) destined towards converting Huguenots. The author concludes that the relationship between reason and vraisemblance in this last work is of a pair with the rebirth of theater from 1630–1640, and that Richelieu wrote with this new cultural sensibility in mind.

MORIARTY, MICHAEL. Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Review: T. Janke in SCN (2007), 242–246: In a sequel to Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion, "Moriarty aims to demonstrate that in the early modern period, French thinkers, including philosophers, theologians, poets, and playwrights, were developing what might be called a kind of proto-psychology — a study of human behavioral motivation with a pronounced focus on subjective interiority. He traces his theme from its roots in neo-Augustinian conceptions of original sin to the problematic nature of self-knowledge as explicated in the works of thinkers from Pascal to La Rochefoucauld."

MORTGAT-LONGUET, EMMANUELLE. Clio au Parnasse. Naissance de l'histoire littéraire française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 153 (2007), 646: Guillaume Colletet is the focus of this study, especially part one, which places the birth of literary history in the sixteenth century. The second section examines the institution of French literary history in the seventeenth-century Important for understanding of the French "mythe classique." Rich bibliography.

MUNARI, SIMONA. "Teatro gesuita e tradizione pagana: due scenari di argomento polacco nella Francia di Mazarino." S Fr 150 (2006), 524–533.

Important article for its analysis of two plays, "La piété polonaise" ou "Venda Reine de Pologne" (1639) and "Vende, ou le Triomfe et le sacrifice de la chasteté"(1644). M. also considers the pedagogical activity of the Jesuits in France and in Poland, particularly as concerns languages, rhetoric, vraisemblance, moral edification, and the heroic dimension.

NAUDEIX, LAURA. "Le ballet de Sigalion: la tradition au service de la jeunesse." DSS 238 (2008), 41–55.

The author studies the choreographed sequences that took the stage between acts of Polymestor and she contends that "ce ballet n'est pourtant pas relié à la tragédie par un lien dramatique mais thématique, et constitue bien une oeuvre autonome, répondant à des critères de genre et d'esthétique spécifiques."

NEPOTE-DESMARRES, F, ed. Mythe et Histoire dans le théâtre classique. Hommage à Christian Delmas. Toulouse: Littératures classiques, 2002.

Review: G. Peureux in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 209–211. This book is comprised of fourteen contributions that offer new perspectives on Christian Delmas's study on the relation between theater, history, and myth. The contributions provide us both with a general discussion (dealing with the historical and social dimensions of theatre, its relation to myth); as well as a discussion of individual authors, among them Molière, d'Aubignac, du Ryer, Tristan l'Hermite, and Racine. According to the reviewer, this volume is indispensable to the scholar who studies seventeenth-century theatre and wants to keep up with recent research by French critics.

NIDERST, ALAIN. "Sur la circulation des livres et des spectacles en Europe." PFSCL XXXV, 68 (2008), 17–27.

Sets out to answer the question: "comment se faisait au XVIIe siècle la circulation des livres et des spectacles d'un pays à l'autre? Comment le poète rouennais a-t-il pu connaître ce qui se jouait et s'imprimait à Rome ou à Madrid, et comment ses tragédies ont-elles pu inspirer les poètes d'Amsterdam ou de Vienne?"

NOILLE-CLAUZADE, CHRISTINE. L'Éloquence du Sage. Platonisme et rhétorique dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: S. Lardon in S Fr 151 (2007), 436: Praiseworthy for its "développement rigoureux," its "cohérence" and "clarté," Noille-Clauzade's study contributes to the understanding of Plato's reception, influence and evolution during three stages of the second half of the seventeenth-century Thorough examination from the Renaissance renewal (including Europe as well as France) to the "recul doctrinal" and the influence of Saint Augustine, Noille-Clauzade's impressive volume also includes chapters on particular writers such as La Fontaine, La Bruyère and Fénelon (Télémaque). Bibliography and index of names.

NORMAN, BUFORD, ed. Formes et formations au dix-septième siècle. Actes du 37e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature. University of South Carolina, Columbia, 14–16 April, 2005. Biblio 17, vol. 168 (2006). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 435–436: These selected essays focus on characteristic artistic and literary forms and formations (influence of authors and education of their public). After introductory essays by Norman and Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (the latter on women's voyages and letters), the volume is organized in seven sections: "Madame de Villedieu," "Héros face à eux-mêmes," "La tragédie en musique," "Stratégies narratives et poétiques," "Lyrisme et rhétorique," "Molière," "Sciènce et vérité" (435–436).

O'BRIEN. JOHN. "To the Ends of the Earth: Renaissance Journeys and Imagination's Sight." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 17–31.

Examination of the significance of the word échappée in a number of sixteenth-century texts. "From the fantastic, mythological journeys described by Ronsard and Aneau via the domestic settings of Marguerite de Navarre to the encounters of Léry and Montaigne with New World natives, the article analyzes the transformation of the space of exploration into the space of imaginative speculation, of risky engagement with the Other. Using the work of Quentin Skinner and Michel de Certeau, it proposes that we see échappée as providing an incremental narrative of a multi-layered phenomenon, a Skinnerian paradiastole opening out a series of re-descriptions of its own analytical endeavours."

Oeuvres et Critiques 32.1 (2007).

Ce numéro, L'oeuvre de Marc Fumaroli, est présenté par Roxanne Roy et contient neuf contributions qui "s'articulent autour de quatre principaux volets" 1) l'influence italienne sur la France; 2) les études cornéliennes; 3) l'histoire, l'histoire littéraire et l'histoire de la rhétorique; 4) Chateaubriand mémorialiste et ami des arts." Voir les articles de M. Desrosiers/R. Roy (I); de J.-M Constant, A.-M. Lecoq, V. Kapp, et C. Rizza (II); de C. La Charité (IV); et de M.-O. Sweetser et C. Carlin (V- Corneille, Pierre).

Oeuvres et Critiques 32.2 (2007).

Ce numéro, La Question du baroque, est présenté par Dorothea Scholl et contient onze contributions organisées en trois parties: Concepts et significations; Ecriture et représentation; Entre modernité et postmodernité. Voir les articles de J.-C. Vuillemin et R. Zaiser (III); de F. Assaf, M. Brunel, V. Kapp, C. Rizza, D. Scholl, et A. Surgers (IV).

ORWAT, FLORENCE. L'Invention de la rêverie. Une conquête pacifique du Grand Siècle. Paris: Champion, 2006.

Review: J.-P. Collinet in RHLF 107.4 (2007), 960–961: Basing her observations on the etymology of the word "rêve" and, especially, "rêverie," the author makes the case that, starting from 1600, there has been a "revolution" in its significance. "La songerie, gagnant du terrain sur l'onirisme proprement dit, s'apprivoise, se civilise et conquiert progressivement ses lettres de noblesse." While the author makes use of a variety of examples, she sometimes leaves out the more universally well-known ones, which surprises the reviewer. Yet despite these lacunae, it is an intelligent, well-written, and meticulous that is also a pleasurable read.

PAIGE, NICHOLAS. "Proto-Aesthetics and the Theatrical Image." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 517–525.

Examination of seventeenth-century antitheatrical discourse in a wider context. Considers "its relation to earlier debates on idolatry and iconoclasm," and aims to "understand the place of the theater 'quarrel' in the history of Enlightenment aesthetic speculation."

PAPASOGLI, BENEDETTA. "Entre méditation et contemplation: la voix dans l'écriture spirituelle au XVIIe siècle" TL 21 (2008), 147–158.

Papasogli responds in this pertinent and multi-faceted article to the question: "Qu'est-ce. . . que la voix dans l'écriture spirituelle si ce n'est le secret de l'écrivain et la trace vivante d'une spiritualité personnelle?" (147). Papasogli demonstrates that in the seventeenth-century, "la thématique de la voix a contribué à enrichir et à nuancer la représentation des deux modes ou des deux tempi de la vie intérieur, méditation et contemplation" (148). Papasogli gives particular attention to the metaphor and to the emblematic or the "symbolisme de la voix" (153), but also to dialogue and other linguistic and literary forms as she interrogates key texts of major authors such as Pascal and François de Sales but also those of François Malaval and le Père Crasset.

PARSONS, JOTHAM. "Money and Merit in French Renaissance Comedy." Ren Q 60.3 (2007), 852–82.

"Renaissance" here includes the seventeenth-century, in particular Corneille's Mélite as well as other writings of his, notably his "Excuse à Ariste" which Parsons contends is "a self-promotional assessment of the author's own career" rather than "an apology for failing to produce other lyric poetry" (878). Other playwrights discussed are from the sixteenth century. Rich documentation and a three-page bibliography which includes works by numerous seventeenth-century scholars.

PAVIS, PATRICE. Vers une théorie de la pratique théâtrale: voix et images de la scène. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 2007.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 696 (2007), 60–61: 4e réedition augmentée d'un ouvrage publié en 1982. "Divisé en quatre parties, sur le geste, l'espace, la production et la réception, puis sur la théorie et la pratique des études théâtrales. . ."

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER R. "Ana and Commemorative 'Truth'." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 707–721.

Analytical comparison of two ana published in 1666 and 1667 with two published later in 1693 and 1697. Comparison "reveals the development of a more crafted and literate form suggesting that compilers eventually reevaluated the markers of orality that had defined the genre."

PERLMUTTER, JENNIFER, ed. Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Actes du 36e congrès annuel de la North American Society for Seventeenth Century French Literature. Portland State U, 6–8 mai 2004. Biblio 17, 166. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006.

Review: C. Musio in S Fr 151 (2007), 170: These selected proceedings underscore the diversity of seventeenth-century relations and relationships. After a tribute to Wolfgang Leiner by Buford Norman, the contributions focus on the relation between man and God, the relation of voyage as a forgotten genre, the playwright and the director, authority, Catholics and Protestants, books and illustrations, literary genres, travel relations, aesthetics and ethics, family matters and family messes.

PERRIN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & PHILIP STEWART, eds. Du genre libertin au XVIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international "La Littérature libertine au XVIIIe siècle: existe-t- il un genre libertin? Définition, typologie, limites chronologiques, corpus" (Université Stendhal, Grenoble 3, 26–28 septembre 2002). Paris: Desjonquères, 2004.

Review: V. Ponzetto in S Fr 150 (2006), 601–603: Highly useful for seventeenth-century scholars as well as eighteenth-century specialists, in particular for specialists of libertinage, as it treats the evolution of the genre and indeed responds to the question of the colloque: "Existe-t-il un genre libertin." After some elaboration of the term itself in the first section ("Définir"), two other sections treat "le genre libertin" and various models ("Modéliser), and the genre in relation to other genres such as the roman moral or parody. Includes an examination by Jean-Christophe Abramovici that focuses on an analysis of Pierre Bayle's "Éclaircissement sur les obscénités" (1701).

PIEJUS, ANNE. "Un spectacle collectif." DSS 238 (2008), 9–17.

Seeing Polymestor et Sigalion as a unified production, the author explores how, "[n]ourri d'une pédagogie éprouvée, fort d'une réflexion aboutie sur sa dramaturgie composite, les auteurs devaient aussi proposer un spectacle qui tînt compte des contraintes et des limites de leurs jeunes interprètes, satisfaisant ainsi aux exigences d'un projet pédagogique et d'une célébration scolaire."

PIEJUS, ANNE & CHRISTINE BAYLE. "Le ballet de Sigalion, des sources à la création." DSS 238 (2008), 85–93.

As part of a colloquium on Sigalion et le secret, the authors discuss the problem of choreography drawing on various sources to try and determine what the progression of dance moves may have been. This is made all the more important for the wider study of the ballets of this time given that Sigalion "demeure l'un des rares ballets du collège dont on ait conservé une partition, certes lacunaire, mais néanmoins utilisable."

PIGEAUD, JACKIE, ed. Les grâces. Littératures classiques, no. 60 (2006).

Review: E. Hénin, PFSCL XXXV (69), 781–784. Favorable review which provides a brief overview of each of the articles in this collective volume. Laments the lack of "une cohérence globale" but acknowledges this is "preuve, s'il en est, du caractère insaississable de la grâce."

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE. "Voyages au royaume des lettres: Vers la cartographie d'un lieu commun." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 106–121.

Examines "les mutations de l'Empire des Lettres depuis Furetière jusqu'à Fontenelle en passant par les œuvres satiriques de Charles Sorel et de Gabriel Guéret" focusing on "les visées satiriques de la métaphore du Parnasse et de ses avatars" which are thrown into relief.

POIRSON, MARTIAL. "Une modernité inachevée: quand l'intérêt entre en scène." PFSCL XXXV, 69 (2008), 723–745.

Analysis of how comedy "s'affranchissant de la morale, se situe à l'avant-garde du discours économique." Focuses on twenty-seven plays, mainly from the last decades of the seventeenth century and early decades of the eighteenth century.

PREDA, ALESSANDRA. Ilarità e tristezza. Percorsi francesi del Candelaio di Giordano Bruno (1582–1665). Milano: Università degli studi. Pubbliczaioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia CCL, 2007.

Review: A. Tripet in BHR 70.2 (2008), 504–06: 《  On voit qu'à partir de la comédie atypique du Candelaio, les thèmes et les formes de la liberté trouvèrent en France de 1582 à 1665, une sorte de caisse de résonance, des appuis, des stimulations, des échos. Alessandra Preda le montre avec précision et avec une connaissance approfondie et transfrontalière de ce qu'il faut bien appeler une des formes innombrables qu'a pu prendre le rayonnement européen de Giordano Bruno.  》

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

Review: M. Greenberg in FS 62.3 (2008), 336. The reviewer praises Prest's knowledge of music and musicology and the richness this brings to her work and a "good chapter on 'gender ambiguity.'" The reviewer seems disappointed and perhaps a little chastising, though, that Prest did not explore the gender-bending terrain à la Judith Butler, noting that Prest seems "unimpressed" by this line of thinking. "Perhaps this was not her intention," he writes, praising her all the same for a "well-informed but traditional discussion."

Review: CHOICE. Highlighted by Choice 45 (2008) as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2007.

PREVOT, JACQUES, éd. avec la collaboration deLAURE JESTAZ etHELENE OSTROWIECKI-BAH. Les libertins au XVIIe siècle, II. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2004.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 149 (2006), 392: Welcome second volume is of great interest and includes not only authors such as La Mothe le Vayer, Saint-Evremond, Bayle, and Fontenelle, but also Bussy-Rabutin and others. The ambiguity (or evolution during the century) of the notion of libertinage is clear, centering on the refusal of tradition in a variety of contexts (from love to the religious or political). The notices are particularly useful and the edition is remarkable for its methodological rigor and critical documentation—yet it is highly accessible to the non-specialist as it presents perspectives of seventeenth-century French culture.

PRIGENT, MICHEL,dir. Histoire de la France littéraire. Tome I: Naissances, renaissances (Moyen-Âge-XVIe siècle), dir. Frank Lestringant and Michel Zink. Tome II: Classicismes (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle), dir. Jean-Charles Darmont and Michel Delon. Tome III: Modernités (XIXe–XXe siècle), dir. Patrick Berthier and Michel Jarrety. Paris: PUF, Quadrige, 2006.

Review: P. France in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 629–632. Volume one is probably the most novel one, as it incorporates new knowledge into the analysis of the relation between continuity and rupture from Antiquity to "modern" culture. Volume two, rather short, insists on the unity of the period discussed, and most of the authors are merely alluded to, if at all. The third volume, however, places the writers in the foreground while the cultural history only adopts a secondary place. Author points to the disparity of the three volumes, which share very little resemblance, and to the larger problem of structure, which reveals omission, lack of coordination, disproportions, and ruptures. Yet the reader can still profit from this study.

RACAULT, MICHEL, éd., avec la collab. deThéodore E. D. Braun,Pierre Purger, etErik Leborgne. Voyages badins, burlesques et parodiques du XVIIIe siècle. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2005.

Review: n.a. in BCLF 684 (2006), 67–68: "La plupart des textes réunis en ce volume appartiennent à une catégorie intermédiaire entre les récits (certes plus ou moins arrangés) de voyages authentiques et les constructions utopiques, nombreuses aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Campanella, Cyrano de Bergerac, Swift, Tiphaigne de La Roche, Foigny . . .). Cet ouvrage offre au lecteur de découvrir plusieurs textes rares et injustement méconnus, faisant pour la plupart alterner les vers et la prose."

RAYNARD, SOPHIE. "New Poetics versus Old Print: Fairy Tales, Animal Fables, and the Gaulois Past." Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 93–106.

(Abstract:) "Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier's dedications and frame-tale discussions show her carefully crafting moral fairy tale texts as part of the Moderns' cultural agenda. Despite the degree to which her thinking, and to a certain extent, that of Mme d'Aulnoy, overlapped with that of the Abbé de Villiers, he excoriated all fairy tales except those of Charles Perrault. Underlying all three authors' arguments is a sense of fairy tales as literary texts rather than as cultural patrimony."

REGUIG-NAYA, DELPHINE. Le Corps des idées. Pensées et poétiques du langage dans l'augustinisme de Port-Royal. Arnauld, Nicole, Pascal, Mme de La Fayette, Racine. Paris: Champion, 2007. Lumières classiques.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 153 (2007), 651: Judged a volume "di dimensioni importanti e che fa il giro di una problematica davvero complessa" (651). Focus is on the second generation of Port-Royal and its productive influence on culture as Reguig-Naya takes generally accepted lieux communs relating to Port-Royal and amplifies, deepens and at times overturns them. The reviewer singles out for special praise the chapters on Pascal and La Fayette.

RIZZA, CECILIA. "Les études sur le baroque dans la revue Studi francesi." OeC 32.2 (2007), 37–44.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. L'auteur se propose d'explorer "la place que les études sur le Baroque littéraire français occupent dans Studi francesi et parcourir le chemin suivi par la critique au cours des cinquante dernières années."

ROBERT, RAYMONDE, ed. Contes: Mademoiselle L'Héritier, Mademoiselle Bernard, Mademoiselle de La Force, Madame Durand, and Madame d'Auneuil. Vol. 2. Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: T. A. Jordan in Marvels & Tales 21.1 (2007), 154–57. As part of a series, La Bibliothèque des Génies et des Fées, Raymonde Robert presents extensive background to the period and context for each text presented that is invaluable to the new student of seventeenth-century French fairy tales. Jordan praises equally volumes 1 and 2 of this new series. Volume contains biographies of the conteuses, literary and social background, and newly edited tales.

ROBERTS, HUGH. " La tête de Bruscambille et les métaphores mentales au début du dix-septième siècle." RHLF 107.3 (2007), 541–557.

Bruscambille's "Prologue de la teste," spoken at L'Hôtel de Bourgogne, is the focus of this study, as the author intends to show us 1) the relation between scientific and bawdy language; 2) the attempt to ascribe a mental experience to a physical reality. He describes the anatomical language of the prologue, its place in the history of anatomy, and its mental metaphors. As an annex, the author attaches the full "Prologue de la teste."

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

Review: M. Pavesio in S Fr 150 (2006), 598: Rohou's republished work (the first appeared with Hachette in 1996) proposes a global vision rather than describing authors and works. Includes helpful definition of the term "classicisme" and examines models, genesis and evolution of the concept during Louis XIV's reign. The application of classical principles to key genres is made and an analysis is brought to the "visione pessimista di un uomo egocentrico" (598). Useful, selective bibliography.

ROLLA, CHIARA, ed. L'Apologie du Roman. A la recherche d'un statut du roman dans la France de la première moitié du XVIIe siècle. Rome: Aracne, 2006.

Review: C. Rizza in S Fr 151 (2007), 434: This anthology includes some sixty paratexts arranged chronologically from those of d'Urfé's Astrée to Sorel's Polyandre. Each text is accompanied by a brief biography of the author and an indication of his/her principal narrative works. Rolla furnishes an impressive critical introduction with theoretical documentation from Aristotle's Poetics to recent exegetes and tackles important problems such as vraisemblance and the balance between divertissement and moral necessity. Ample bibliography.

ROUKHOMOVSKY, BERNARD, ed. L'Optique des moralistes. Actes du colloque international de Grenoble, Université Stendhal, 27–29 mars 2003. Paris: Champion, 2005.

Review: B. Teyssandier in DSS 239 (2008), 377–380: The agenda of this colloquium was to elucidate the unique relationship "que la science optique et le discours moral ont entretenu durant plus de deux siècles." The editor ably weaves together 25 articles from this rich and diverse meeting of scholars.

Review: Z. Zalloua in FR 81 (2008), 773–74: "Roukhomovsky conceives of optics as structuring the moralist's inquiry" (774); in this sense, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, Pascal, Scudéry, Bossuet, and others can be thought to "educate or reform the perspective of the reader—that is, to transform the reader into an observer/judge of human behavior and merit" (774).

RUBELLIN, FRANCOISE, ed. Théâtre de la Foire, anthologie de pièces inédites (1712–1736). Montpellier: Espaces 34, 2005.

Review: A. Sakhnovskaia in RHLF 108.1 (2008), 214–215. This study, dedicated to David Trott, attempts to shed new light on the théâtre de la foire through a discussion of a variety of authors, genres, structures, and forms. The preface briefly turns to the history of the théâtre de la foire and provides us with new information, based on the prologues and manuscripts. The well-documented notes and information on the authors are also useful, as is the index on vaudevilles.

SAUNDERS, ALISON & PETER DAVIDSON, éds. Visual Words and Verbal Pictures. Essays in Honour of Michael Bath. Glasgow: Glasgow Emblem Studies, 2005.

Review: R. Stawarz-Luginbuhl in BHR 68.3 (2006), 612–17: "Ce volume de mélanges offerts à Michael Bath, professeur honoraire de l'Université de Strathclyde (Glasgow, Ecosse), réunit les contributions de onze spécialistes issus d'horizons divers ainsi qu'une mise au point bio-bibliographique de la carrière du dédicataire." Voir l'article d'Alison Adams, "une relecture des travaux de Josèph Jacquiot consacrés à la seconde édition de l'Histoire du Roi Louis le Grand de Claude-François Ménestrier. Partant d'une analyse minitieuse du texte, elle parvient à démontrer sans difficulté que cette édition émane d'un milieu proche de Guillaume III. C'est l'huguenot Nicolas Chevalier, contraint à l'exil 1n 1685, auteur d'une Histoire de Guillaume III (1692) et par ailleurs contrefacteur notoire, qui porrait être à l'origine de ce faux."

SCHOLL, DOROTHEA. "Introduction: Repenser le baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 3–9.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. Dans la première partie, "le baroque est repensé sous l'aspect de ses conceptualisations"; dans la deuxième partie, "le baroque est repensé à la lumière des écritures et modes de représentation caractéristiques du XVIIe siècle baroque en France"; dans la troisième partie, "le baroque est repensé à la lumière de sa réception dans la modernité et la postmodernité."

SCHOLL, DOROTHEA. "Baroque, arabesque, grotesque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 45–77.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. L'auteur se propose "de réviser le baroque à la lumière du grotesque et de l'arabesque pour examiner ces trois concepts en général dans leur valeur heuristique. Je voudrais le faire en tenant compte des oeuvres autant que des critiques. D'abord j'essayerai d'éclaircir ces trois notions à partir de la réception romantique du baroque, pour ensuite me tourner vers l'époque dite baroque elle-même afin de voir le rôle que les catégories de grotesque et d'arabesque jouent dans la création et la réception d'une esthétique baroque."

SERMAIN, JEAN-PAUL. Le conte de fées. Du classicisme aux Lumières. Paris: Desjonquères, 2005.

Review: P. Perazzolo in S Fr 150 (2006), 600–601: Impressive examination of the genre, Sermain's critical work takes into account several authors as well as any declarations they may have made, their choices (thematic, stylistic, etc.). The transformation of the genre is evident as the interested reader follows Sermain's investigation which is organized in three parts: 1) "Les ambitions des conteurs", 2) "Le conteur et son public" and 3) "Poétique de l'imaginaire."

SPICA, ANNE-ELISABETH, éd. Discours et enjeux de la Vanité. Littératures classiques 56 (automne 2005).

Review: D. Dalla Valle in S Fr 150 (2006), 596–596: This issue includes contributions from the colloque "Discours et enjeux de la Vanité en Europe, de la Contre-Réforme à l'aube des Lumières" (Metz, 1999) and is organized in four sections: "Définir une absence", "Vanité et Société", "spectacles de la Vanité" and "Rhétorique et poétique." The volume also includes a rich essay by Spica: "La Vanité dans tous ses états."

STIKER-METRAL, CHARLES-OLIVIER. Narcisse contrarié. L'amour-propre dans le discours moral en France (1650–1715). Lumière classiques. Paris: Champion, 2007.

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 153 (2007), 652: Stiker-Metral understands and explores "l'amour-propre" as a theme and a form, an object of reflection contributing to a vision of the world. This rich and interesting study includes sections on the "archeology" of "l'amour-propre", its systems, its valorization (for example chez Malebranche), its hermeneutics, its rhetoric and its reception.

SURGERS, ANNE. "Du théâtre au Théâtre du Monde: fragmentation et bigarrure. Contribution à une définition de l'espace de la représentation baroque." OeC 32.2 (2007), 109–120.

Contribution au numéro d'Oeuvres et Critiques présenté par Dorothea Scholl et consacré à "la valeur exploratrice de la notion" du baroque. "Nous nous appuierons ici sur une analyse des outils, du vocabulaire et de la grammaire mis en oeuvre pour construire le décor et l'espace de la représentation. Après avoir donné quelques précisions sémantiques préliminaires, nous partirons, dans un premier temps, d'un cas particulier: le décor et le lieu de la représentation théâtrale en France dans la première partie du XVIIe siècle. Dans un deuxième temps, nous verrons que les composants du décor et du lieu théâtral baroques se retrouvent dans d'autres spectacles, au-delà des apparentes disparités. Enfin nous proposerons quelques pistes d'interprétation, qui contribueront à éclairer le rôle et la fonction de la scénographie et du visible baroques."

TATEO, FRANCESCO. "Le forme del 'comico' nella letteratura umanistica." Archiv 244 (2007), 287–296.

Tateo helpfully reminds us of classical origins and understandings of the term "comique" before tracing its evolution in the early modern. Although the focus is on Italian authors such as Giovanni Pontano and Castiglione, Tateo's study offers useful perspectives for French aesthetics and oratory.

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

Review: A. Dufour in BHR 68.3 (2006), 639–40: "C'est plutôt une oeuvre littéraire, méditation d'un Romain d'adoption, qui va d'un texte à l'autre en nous livrant ses impressions d'historien éclairé, en même temps que d'un enthousiaste de la Ville éternelle. Tous les textes sont cités dans les meilleures éditions, éclairés par ce qu'en ont dit les meilleurs critiques. . ." La partie consacrée à Sponde ouvre "une nouvelle présence de Rome chez les poètes français, qui atteindra ses sommets chez Corneille et Racine: les 'ressources d'héroïsme'."

Review: W. J. Kennedy in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 160–161: Praised for its "fresh insights, arresting comparisons,. . . illuminating close readings [and] sometimes provocative view," Tripet's wide-ranging study of literary representations of Rome from antiquity to the present includes analyses of Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte, Britannicus and Bérénice.

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

Review: B. Papasogli in S Fr 151 (2007), 169–170: Praiseworthy addition to his numerous investigations on the moralists and generally to serious scholarship on the genre," Van Delft here "studia la visione dei moralisti in rapporto con l'ottica del loro tempo" (169). Themes, style and form are examined in Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyère as Van Delft focuses on "teatro e ottica, economia e anatomia, memoria e fragmmento" (170). Papasogli singles out for special praise the chapter on La Rochefoucauld which she says "ha valore di un manifesto" (170).

VAN DELFT, LOUIS. Les Moralistes: une apologie. Paris: Gallimard, 2008.

Review: R. Tobin in L'Esprit Créateur 48.3 (2008), 130–131: "While the first four chapters cover familiar ground. . .they have been enriched. . .[by] contributions from different fields of inquiry and from different countries," thereby making them "models of interdisciplinarity." The conclusion offers "a plea for the modernity of the 200 years of the moraliste tradition" where Van Delft "notes the trace of the moralists in neuroscience, anthropology, the social sciences, phenomenology, and rhetoric." This book offers "the sum and the synthesis of his (Van Delft's) reflections on the moralists"and represents a capstone in the distinguished critic's career.

VERNET, THOMAS. "《  Le divertissement ne sçauroit manquer de plaire 》. Conditions d'exécution et réception de Sigalion ou le secret." DSS 238 (2008), 95–105.

While others have studied the specifics of the music and dance of Sigalion, Vernet places it in a wider context and studies its performance and reception within and beyond the Jesuit lycée Louis-le-Grand.

VERVACKE, SABRINA, ERIC VAN DER SCHUEREN e& THIERRY BELLEGUIC. Les songes de Clio. Fiction et Histoire sous l'Ancien Régime. Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2006.

Review: M.-C. Pioffet in UTQ 77.1 (Winter 2008), 615–617: Trente et une contributions forment les Actes du colloque de Québec tenu en octobre 2003. 《  On aura compris que ces enquêtes et les autres qu'on trouvera dans ce recueil nous ont captivée. Traiter de la poétique de l'Histoire et de ses multiples ramifications génériques sur une période aussi diversifée était en soi une gageure. Sabrina Vervacke, Éric Van der Schueren et Thierry Belleguic l'ont relevée en nous proposant cette savoureuse lecture plurielle. Ce voyage onirique, à travers l'imaginaire historique de l'Ancien Régime, nous rappelle à quel point les frontières entre réalité et Histoire sont ténues. Sur les pistes de ces 'archivistes' de la littérature, le passé devient un songe délectable qu'on prend plaisir à voir renaître.  》

VIALLETON, JEAN-YVES. Poésie dramatique et prose du monde. Le comportement des personnages dans la tragédie en France au XVIIe siècle. Lumière classique 52. Paris: Champion, 2004.

Review: M.-F. Hilgar in FR 81 (2008), 579–80: A detailed reference work which repertories how characters in classical French tragedy behave. Vialleton provides meticulous categories and subcategories; as an example, the reviewer discusses the volume's treatment of "agenouillement," which considers and categorizes everything from Chimène's prosternation before the king to Andromaque's kneeling before Pyrrhus to George Dandin's submission to the wife who cuckolds him. The volume draws on some 225 plays as well as other period writings.

Review: Ch. Mazouer in RHLF 107.3 (2007), 665–667. "L'objet de cet important travail devrait s'imposer au jour: analyser les mœurs des personnages de la tragédie, c'est-à-dire leur comportement, leur savoir-vivre, leur conduite dans le rapport social, leur manière de se conduire dans leur commerce avec autrui. . . J.-Y. Vialleton s'appuie sur les manuels de civilité et autres textes qui touchent aux comportements des hommes dans le monde." The study is divided into three parts, each of which reveals great erudition and only contains minor flaws, according to the reviewer.

ZAISER, RAINER, ed. Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, vol. XXXII, n. 63, 2005.

Review: C. Rolla in S Fr 149 (2006), 388–389: This first issue of PFSCL to be directed by Rainer Zaiser opens with an affectionate and nostalgic two-page "In memoriam Wolfgang Leiner" and is wide-ranging, with articles on topics as diverse as the following: influences of antiquity, medicine and literature, l'honnêteté, theatre, opera and ballet. The issue also includes the rich proceedings of the Salford Conference of 2003 on "Seventeenth Century Drama: Texts, Pre-text, Para-Text, Intertext, Hypertext."

ZIMMERMANN, MARGARETE. Salon der Autorinnen: Französische 'dames de lettres' vom Mittelalter bis zum 17. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2005.

Review: E. J. Benkov in Ren Q 60.1 (2007), 194–196: Appreciated as "an invaluable tool to access French women writers from the medieval and early modern periods." Provides a "contextualization" of some 30 women, some familiar and others less so, "within a history of women and writing" as well as feminist criticism. Judged a "sophisticated assessment" which "debunks myths and revalorizes writers unjustly overlooked," Zimmermann's astute and highly useful volume includes numerous images, an appendix with quotations in the original languages and an extensive bibliography.

ZOBERMAN, PIERRE. "Représentation de l'écrivain et identités sexuelles." SCFS, 30.1 (2008), 77–91.

"[Une] mise en évidence des enjeux et mécanismes idéologiques de la construction du Grand Siècle par une révision (normative) des rôles sociaux et culturels des hommes et des femmes."

AGUESSEAU

BRILLAUD, JEROME. "La Jouissance de le vérité ou le plaisir tragique selon le Chancelier d'Aguesseau." FS 62.2 (2008), 150–61.

Brillaud's article carefully explores the context in which the Chancellier d'Aguesseau's Remarques on tragedy appear. He begins his article by noting that tragique was not, during the seventeenth century, a noun, but rather only an adjectif. This serves as a reminder that our ancestors thought quite differently and that we should still look for what tragic theater "cherche à nous dire" (151). Offering a discussion of d'Aguesseau's contemporaries such as Fontenelle and Dubos, Brillaud rightfully spends a good deal of time contextualizing words and ideas necessary to understanding the discussion of truth, illusion, pleasure and tragedy at the time. D'Aguesseau, interestingly, is fascinated by theater and yet "peu enclin à croire en [sa] fonction morale" (155). In opposing Aristotle, the playwright follows directly in the footsteps of Descartes all the while calling on Saint Augustine's concept of distanciation to explain his theories. In so doing, d'Aguesseau finds himself between the "mathematical" Fontenelle and the more Aristotelian Dubos. Brillaud navigates the subtleties inherent in any such discussion and avoids over-generalization with aplomb.

AATF. Future conventions: 2009 (San Jose, CA, July 2–5); 2010 (Philadelphia, PA); 2011 (Montréal, Québec). Contact Jayne Abrate, Executive Director (Southern Illinois U.) Tel. (618) 453–5731.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Bk., Literary biography of Antoine Houdar de La Motte (1672–1731). Champion has expressed interest. Crit. eds., Joint critical edition of Antoine's Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIII and of the Antoine brothers' (sons of the precedent) Journal de la maladie et de la mort de Louis XIV. Publisher to be determined later. Art., "La violence dans les histoires comiques." Forthcoming in PFSCL. Research papers: "Lexicographie de la cuisine et de l'alimentation," and "Digérer au Grand siècle: Anciens vs. Modernes," read at the 37th annual conference, NASSCFL, April 24–26, at Lafayette College.. "Amadis de Grèce ou la mise en fiction du pouvoir royal," read at the 2008 Annual conference of SCFS, Dublin, Ireland. Other items submitted or accepted: "Première journée: voir, dire et savoir." Forthcoming in the Festschrift for Jean Serroy (Univ. Stendhal-Grenoble III). "Le corps souffrant: la maladie au Grand siècle;" submitted for the 2008 SE17 conference in Saskatoon, Canada.

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

BOLDUC, BENOIT (NYU). Co-Organizer NASSCFL 09.

BURCHELL, EILEEN (Fordham). 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 SE17 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 SE17 includes individual subscription, institutional subscription.

CARR, THOMAS M, Jr. (Nebraska-Lincoln). 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

CENTRE FOR 17TH CENTURY STUDIES. See: DURHAM.

CIR 17. CENTRE INTRNATIONAL DE RENCONTRES. President: Cecilia Rizza. [via Lagustena 16/10, 16131 Genova, ITALY. Tel. 010 5221076]. (Xe) biennial Colloque, "L'Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire," was held at Ajaccio and Corte, CORSICA, April 3–5. 2008. 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.

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.

DAUGE-ROTH, KATHERINE (Bowdoin C.). Secretary, SE 17. 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

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

DUBLIN CONFERENCE. See SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES (SSCFS).

DUCHENE, JACQUELINE (MME. ROGER) (Académie des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Marseille). Discours de Réception: "Jeanne de Chantal." Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et Lettres. (1) Bk., François de Grignan. Marseille, Eds. Jeanne Laffitte, 2008, 175 pp., huit illustrations. <jeanne-laffitte.com> (2) Earlier bks, chez Fayard: Francois de Grignan, ou le mal d'amour, couronné par l'Académie Française 1985, 332 pp. ISBN 2–213–015289–5. Bussy-Rabutin. Prix de culture bourguignonne, réédit, 2008, 437 pp. ISBN 978–2–213–02845–3. Henriette d'Angleterre, duchesse d'Orléans, prix de l'O.C.B., 1996, 464 pp. ISBN 2–213–59413–9. (3) Earlier bks., chez Lattès: La Dame de Vaugirard. 1997, 240 pp. ISBN 2–7096–1813–3. Mademoiselle, duchesse de Montpensier. 1999, 239 pp. ISBN 2–7096–1963–6. Madame l'étrangère, la princesse Palatine. 2001, 285 pp. ISBN 2–7096–2202–5. Place Royale, couronné par l'Académie française. 2003, 221 pp. ISBN 2–213–59413–9. La Femme du Roi-Soleil. 2005, 300 pp. Tous coûtent entre 18 et 22 euros.

DUGGAN, ANNE E. (Wayne State U.). Arts., (1) "Women Subdued: the Abjectification and Purification of Female Characters in Perrault's Tales," Romanic Review (May 2008). Forthcoming. (2) [Catholic Reformation discourse in Perrault; connections with Jean-Pierre Camus; fairy tales]. (3) Translation of "The Jealous Princess" by Jean- Pierre Camus for Marvels & Tales 22.2 (anticipated Fall 2008). [Relation of Camus's tragic story to Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant"]. (4) "Adults at Play." Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity. Ed. Mary Garrett, Heidi Gottfried, and Sandra VanBurkleo. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2008. 202–18. [On Madeleine de Scudéry's Samedis; salon as game space; development of skills relevant to system of patronage]. (5) In Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Ed. Donald Haase. 3 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007. ["Aulnoy, Marie-Catherine d'" 1:79–81, "Bachelier, Anne" 1:94–95, "Contes de fées" 1:233, "Edmund Dulac" 1:280–81, "French Tales" (with Patricia Hannon; Medieval, 19th and 20th Century) 1:379–88, "Galland, Antoine" 2:397–98, "Gautier, Théophile" 2:400, "Hamilton, Anthony" 2:436–37, "Khemir, Nacer" 2:533, "Maeterlinck, Maurice" 2:595–96, "Mardrus, Joseph Charles" 2:604–05, "Méliès, Georges" 2:614–15, "Peau d'âne" 2:733–34, "Perrault, Charles" 2:738–40, "Popeye the Sailor" 2:757–58, "Pourrat, Henri" 2:767. (6) "Le Temps de l'Hérésie: l'ancienneté du protestantisme chez Jean-Pierre Camus," Tempus in fabula. Topoï de la temporalité narrative dans la fiction d'Ancien Régime. PU Laval Laval, 2006, 175–83. (7) "The Virgin and the Whore: Images of the Catholic Church and Protestant Heresy in Camus," Relations and Relationships in Seventeenth-Century Literature, Actes du 36e congrès de la NASSCFL. Ed. Jennifer Perlmutter. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 133–141. Associate Ed., Marvels & Tales, Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.

DURHAM CENTRE FOR FRENCH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES. 11th Annual Conference, Theme: "Public Spheres and Private Spaces," Durham Castle, UK, July 16–17, 2008. Director, Richard Maber. Interdisciplinary program.

DUTTON, DIANE (Brock U., CA). Scheduled to chair the SE17 section "Stereotypes and Misconceptions," Oct. 23–28 at the Saskatchewan Meeting, she died on Oct. 31. After taking a law degree, she had completed her dissertation "Rhétorique et politique du plaidoyer de l'âge classiue: Olivier Patru, Antoine Le Maistre, Claude Gaultier," in 2003. Her Directors were Max Vernet (Queen's U.) and Christian Biet (Paris X). "Ceux qui l'ont connue ont sûrement apprécié comme moi ses qualities intellectuelles, sa chaleur humaine et son charme. Nous la regretterons très longtemps" (Francis Assaf).

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 Stephen Shapiro, College of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Box 67A, Worcester, MA. 01610 sshapiro@holycross.edu

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 (Oklahoma State). Arts., "Didactic Strategies in French Comedy." in "The Art of Instruction: Education, Pedagogy, and Literature in 17th-Century France", ed. Anne Birberick. Amsterdam: Rodopi. "Stratégies de publication et notions de carrière chez les femmes dramaturges sous le règne du Roi Soleil." In "Le Parnasse du théâtre: Les recueils d'oeuvres complètes de théâtre au XVIIe siècle", ed. Georges Forestier, EdricCaldicott and Claude Bourqui. Paris: Presses de l'U. de Paris Sorbonne. Editions include plays by Mairet, Françoise Pascal and Deshoulières to appear in 2008; plays by Rotrou, Sainctonge and Durand, forthcoming; a novel by Murat (in collaboration with Allison Stedman) in progress. I am a co-editor of a 5-volume anthology of French women playwrights to be published by Presses de l'U. de Saint-Etienne, of which the first volume has already appeared. See NASSCFL DUES.

GOLDSTEIN, CLAIRE (Miami U. of Ohio). The Sun King's Comets (1664 and 1680), Vision and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. I consider two closely watched comet sightings at the end of the seventeenth century in France as a locus to study new kinds of gazes, gazes rapidly transforming with the popular accessibility of telescopes and optical treatises, rationalist philosophy and new prose genres. Comets provided an opportunity for individuals to articulate their understanding of "the order of things" — what may be observed and interpreted and thus assimilated into a coherent vision of the universe, and what remains extraordinary and mystified. Comets also enact a variety of theories regarding the circulation of bodies in space. These theories reveal shifting conceptions of the body politic, class and gender relations, and divine and monarchical power. I study the many different kinds of discourses (treatises, plays, court ballets, journalistic nouvelles, poetry, and sermons) occasioned by the two comets that coincided with decisive moments of the Sun King's reign. The matrix of ideas these readings reveal illuminates changing mentalités and provides a new way of contextualizing the emergence of new prose genres in this period, including Lafayette's psychological novel, that are structured by new modes of visuality.

GOLDWYN, HENRIETTE (NYU). Co-Organizer, NASSCFL 09.

GOODMAN, ELISE. (U. Cincinnati). Bk., The Cultivated Woman. Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century France. Biblio 17, No. 176 . Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. ISBN 978–3–8233–6374–3. "Treats the neglected portraiture in its wider cultural, intellectual, literary and social contexts."

GREGOIRE, VINCENT (Berry C.). My research has been focusing, the last few years, on missionaries (Jesuits and Ursulines) within the context of the colonization of New France (between 1610 and 1680). Sources have been the Relations published in France by the Jesuits, as well and the correspondances (particularly the one written by Marie [Guyart] de l'Incarnation).

GRIMAS (Groupe de Recherche Interdiscipilinaire sur la Musique et les Arts du Spectacle). Seminars for 2007–2008 were held on 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 (The Ohio State University). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

ISPAFA. See PHENOMENOLOGY.

KENNEDY, THERESA VARNEY (Mary Washington). Annotated crit. ed., François Pascal's Agathophile martyr, tragi-comédie (1655). Tübingen, Gunter Narr/ Bibio 17, 177. ISBN 978 3 8233–6416–0.

KOCH, EREC RUSSELL (Tennessee-Knoxville). Bk., The Aesthetic Body: Sensibility, Passion, and Corporality in Seventeenth-Century France . U. of Delaware Press, 2008. $75. ISBN 978–0–87413–010–2. Interdisciplinary study traces the radical changes that occurred in the understanding of the biological body and of human incarnation beginning in the first third of the seventeenth century. It is the first to examine the importance of that new corporeality in the determination of sensibility and passion in French culture of the seventeenth century. This study analyzes the development and deployment of the aesthetic body—that is, in its full etymological sense, a body whose principal function is the generation of affectivity—through an opening chapter on physiology to chapters on four major senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch). The study traces the intervention of the aesthetic body in representative cultural discourses: ethics, theatrical spectacle, rhetoric, artistic and moral judgment of "taste," and sociopolitical anthropology. Arts.: "Rhetorical perfection: Sound, Aurality, and Rhetoric from Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle to Bernard Lamy's"La Rhétorique, ou l'Art de parler. EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 12 [forthcoming]. "Corps et (esth)étique cartésiens." Actes du colloque "Dialogue avec la critique dix-septiémiste américaine." Presses universitaires de la Sorbonne Nouvelle [forthcoming]. Dissertation Director: See: Adrien, H.M.

LALANDE, ROXANNE (Lafayette C.) See NASSCFL 08.

LEIDEN CONFERENCE. "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

LONGINO, MICHELE (Duke). Paper: "Jean Thévenot: ethnographe des îles du Levant." "L'Ile au XVIIe siècle: réalités et imaginaire." Colloque du Centre International de Rencontres sur le 17e siècle. Ajaccio: University of Corsica, April 2008.

MABER, RICHARD G. (Durham). Bk., Through All the Compass of the Notes: Essays in Early Modern Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Honour of Richard G. Maber. Festschrift, ed. with introduction by Paul Scott. For 2008. Secretary. SSCFS.

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

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

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. Inter-disciplinary survey of the four periods Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XV.

NASSCFL 08. 40th Annual Conference, Lafayette College was held on 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. For further information, contact RL, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, Pardee Hall 409, Lafayette C., Easton, PA 18042. lalander@lafayette.edu

NASSCFL 09. 41st Annual Conference, 21–23 May 2009, New York University. New York. Co-organized by Henriette Goldwyn and Benoît Bolduc. Theme: "Concordia Discors," (the idea that converging conflicts may paradoxically result in an overall harmony). email: NASSCFL09@nyu.edu. phone: (212) 998–7625 fax: (212) 995–4667.

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

O'HARA, STEPHANIE (U. Massachusetts-Dartmouth). (1) Translation of Louise Bourgeois: Various Observations Concerning Sterility, Miscarriages, Fertility, Birthing, and Diseases of Women and Newborn Children (1626 edi.). To be published by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the U. of Toronto, in The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. (2) Book MS., Poison Onstage and Offstage in Early Modern France. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

OSLO CONFERENCE. 《  Corps souffrants, sanglants et macabres. Représentations de la violence faite aux corps dans les lettres et les arts visuels en Europe, XVIe–XVIIe siècles  》. Oslo, June 12–14, 2008.website: http://colloquecorpssanglants.wordpress.com

PEACOCK, NOEL. See SSCFS (DUBLIN CONFERENCE).

PIOFFET, MARIE-CHRISTINE (York U., Canada). See SATOR.

PREYAT, FABRICE. Bk., Le Petit Concile de Bossuet et la christianisation de moeurs et des pratiques littéraires sous Louis XIV. Ars Rhetorica 17 (series on rhetorical themes, ed. by Volker Kapp and others). ISBN 978–38258 8716–2. www.lit-verlag.de.

PROBES, CHRISTINE (U. of 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, pending. Presentations: "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. "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. "Devotional Poetry as a 'miroir du prince,'" at the annual MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 27–30, 2006. 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." "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. 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. "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: Contributing Editor. Bibliography of French Seventeenth Century Studies. No. 54, 2006 and No. 55, 2007. (Rohnert Park, CA: Sonoma State University). Edited Section of Refereed Journal

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. Articles and Chapters in Books "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. "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. "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. "La Mémoire et l'identité transmises par la femme antillaise: stratégies littéraires et cinématographiques" accepted for refereed volume edited by Kanaté Dahouda, in press for 2007. "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. "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. "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. "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.

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. (with possibility of print version). (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 2007," French 17, vol. 55 (2007), Part VI, pp. 169–186. (4) "Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585–1672," Analecta Husserliana, ed. A.T. Tymieniecka, vol. XCVI, pp. 291–304, 2008. (5) "Pierre Mignard. Madame Palatine and her Children," for publication in the Acts of Nebraska, 4 pp./ single space, 2008(?). Officier des Palmes Académiques; Bibliographer, NASSCFL; Directeur, CM; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

ROYE, JOCELYN. La Figure du Pédant. Droz. ISBN 978–2–600–01147–1.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE (Virginia, Emeritus). Publisher, Rookwood Press (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, EMF Critiques, Rookwood Texts, Rookwood Reprints. Busy teaching (Argumentation, Great Books), editing (poetry at The Virginia Quarterly Review), mentoring fellowship applicants (at the Center for Undergraduate Excellence), and working with Ann and Russ on fthe Press.

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. Contact: Marie-Christine PIOFFET.

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

SCOTT, PAUL (Kansas). "French Studies: The Seventeenth Century." In Years Work in Modern Language Studies, vol. 68 "2006," pp.158–212. See also MABER, RICHARD.

SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies). 27th annual Conference, U. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (Canada), took place on 23–25 October, 2008. Sessions on: Les hommes et les machines, L'erreur, Les stéréotypes et les méprises, La création du siècle classique, Le corps et ses formes, L'humour, Enseigner le XVIIe siècle. Activités en marge du colloque; Conférence de Daniel Mesguich sur la mise en scène des pièces du XVIIe siècle; Mise en scène du Favory, de Madame de Villedieu; Concert de musique du XVIIe siècle.

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

SHAPIRO, STEPHEN A. (Holy Cross). Editor, French 17. [Dept. of Modern Languages, C. of the Holy Cross, 1 College Street, Box 67A, Worcester, MA 01610. Phone (508) 797–5867. sshapiro@holycross.edu ].

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES (SFS). 49th Annual Conference was held at U. of Liverpool, June 30-July 2, 2008. 50TH Annual Conference to be at U. of Oxford, June 29-July 1, 2009. Society's journal: French Studies. SEE home page: http://www.sfs.ac.uk/index.html

SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES. Secretary: Richard Maber (Durham). r.g.maber@durham.ac.uk . Society's journal: Seventeenth-Century French Studies (SCFS). 2009 Conference not yet posted. Consult home page http://www.c17.org.uk. See SSCFS.

SPAGNOLO SADR, TABITHA (University of Lethbridge) Contrib. Ed., French 17.

SSCFS. 14th Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, September 11–13, 2008. Interdisci-pinary theme: "Power and Perspective." Organizer, Professor Noel Peacock, Marshall Chair of French, University of Glasgow, GLASGOW, U.K. G12 8QL. Tel. 0141 330 4589 (Direct) Fax: 0131 330 4234. Mail to sscfs@hotmail.co.uk

SWEETSER.MARIE-ODILE (Illinois-Chicago, Emerita). Art., "'Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon': un conte subversif?," to appear in PFSCL, no.69, vol. XXXV (Summer 2008), with other papers of the MLA session presented at the Philadelphia Meeting, 2006. Recently published: "Marc Fumaroli, interprète de Corneille, dramaturge et poète de l'humanisme chrétien," Oeuvres et Critiques, XXXII, 1, 2007, Marc Fumaroli, Rayonnement d'une oeuvre. Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag, 43–47.

TOBIN, RONALD W. (California-Santa Barbara). Review of Van Delft's Les Moralistes. Dissertation Director: see Mathieu, Francis.

TOCZYSKI. SUZANNE C., (Sonoma State U.). Arts.: (1) "Navigating the Seas of Alterity: Jean-Baptiste Labat's Voyage aux Iles," in PFSCL; (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. (4) For NASSCFL 2008: "《 Voilà bien des documents de cuisine pour un missionnaire apostolique 》: Jean-Baptiste Labat and the Buccaneer Barbecue." Former Editor, French 17. Contact: suzanne.toczyski@sonoma.edu

TORRES, JORGE (Lafayette C.). Co-Organizer, NASSCFL 08.

TRINQUET, CHARLOTTE (U of Central Florida). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

VAN DELFT, LOUIS (U. Paris X-Nanterre)). Bk., Les Moralistes. Une apologie. Folio Essais inédit, 2008. ISBN 978–2–07–030958–0. Sees related manifestations in France, England, Spain, and Germany. Interview by Jean Birnbaum in Le Monde, August 1, 2008. Review by R.W. Tobin in l'Esprit Créáteur, vol. 48, no. 3, pp.130–31. For further recent publications, please consult author's website: www.louisvandelft.com lvandelftfr@hotmail.com

VEDVIK, JERRY D. (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 M. (Pacific Lutheran U.) Bk., Women, Imagination, and the Search for Truth in Modern French. Ashgate, 2008. ISBN 978–0–7546–6138–2.

WOSHINSKY, BARBARA (U. Miami). (1) Bk., Representations of Convent Spaces in Early Modern France. MS. under review; publication tentatively 2009. (2) Research on "Dissonant Denouements" in Classical Literature: works (mostly dramatic) where ending jars with preceding action and audience expectations. (3) Dissertation Adviser: see Buliguina, M.

ZAISER, RAINER (U. Kiel). Arts: "Corneille héritier de Trissino: Sophonisbe et la naissance de la tragédie moderne", in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XXXV, No. 68 (2008), pp. 89–102; "Le pli: Deleuze et le baroque", in Œuvres et Critiques, XXXII, 2 (2007), La question du baroque. Coordonnatrice Dorothea Scholl; In Press: "La modernité de Saint-Amant: Une lecture métapoétique de l'ode La solitude", in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, XXXV, No. 69 (2008), pp. Ed. Bks: Theatre, fiction, and Poetry in the French Long Seventeenth Century/Le théâtre, le roman et la poésie à l'âge classique. Edited by 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. Edited 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); Recent paper: "La pointe au coeur de l'esthétique baroque", Journée d'étude sur "La pointe à l'épreuve des genres. Une pratique d'écriture et de pensée dans l'Europe de la Renaissance et de l'âge classique", sous la direction de Michèle Rosellini, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, vendredi 21 mars 2008; Editor: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Biblio 17, Œuvres et Critiques, Etudes littéraires françaises. Dissertation Director: SEE Jakobs, Béatrice; Krüger, Annika. DISSERTATIONS 2008 Adrien, H. Maxford. Les Fables de La Fontaine et la pédagogie. (E.R. Koch, Tulane, 2007) [completed]. Bulyguina, Marina. Irony and thought (Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal). (B. Woshinsky, U. Miami, completion projected for 2010). Davis, Jenny L. The Bible at Port Royal before Lemaître de Sacy. (D. Judovitz, Emory, 07). Krüger, Annika. Anthropologie négative et vision tragique: Constantes de la pensée dans le théâtre de Racine et de Sartre (R. Zaiser, U. Kiel). Jakobs, Béatrice. Poétique et rhétorique de la conversion au XVIIe siècle (thèse d'habilitation, R. Zaiser, U. Kiel). Mathieu, Francis. Alchimie rhétorique et morale: l'exemplarité dans le roman classique et des Lumières. (R.W. Tobin , U. California-Santa Barbara, Spring 2007). Welch, Ellen. INA (J. De Jean, Pennslyvania).