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Articles on Seventeenth-Century Topics in
FRENCH STUDIES

A.  GENRES AND THEMES

Miscellaneous
Poetry
Prose Fiction
Religious Matters
Theatre

B.  AUTHORS

d'Aubigné
d'Auvray
Bayle
Bensserade
Beys
Boileau
Chevreau
Corneille, Pierre
Corneille, Thomas
Cyrano de Bergerac
Descartes
Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
Desportes
Duval		 Fénelon
Fontenelle
Gillet de la Tessonerie
Godeau
Gournay, Mlle de
La Fayette, Mme de
La Fontaine
La Mesnardière
La Rochefoucauld
Malherbe
Ménage
Molière
Nicole
Pascal		 Perrault
Quinault
Racine
Régnier
Retz
Saint-Amant
Saint-Évremond
Saint-Réal
Saint-Simon
Sales, François de
Scudéry, Georges de
Sévigné, Mme de
Sorel
Théophile de Viau
Vaugelas

A.  GENRES AND THEMES

Miscellaneous

Ayres-Bennett, Wendy Negative Evidence: Or Another Look at the Non-Use of Negative ne in Seventeenth-Century French. XLVIII/1 (1994), 63
Bannister, Mark The Crisis of Literary Patronage in France, 1643-1655. XXXIX/1 (1985), 18
Barber, W.H. A seventeenth-century view of French literature. II/2 (1948), 140
Barbier, A. L'Ecole de 1660, à propos de quelques ouvrages récents. I/1 (1947), 27
Dubois, Elfrieda T. The Education of Women in seventeenth-century France. XXXII/1 (1978), 1
Howells, Robin The Secret Life: Marana's Espion du Grand-Seigneur (1684-86). LIII/2 (1999), 153
Levi, A.H.T. The Reception of Greek Sources in Late Seventeenth-Century France. XLII/4 (1988), 408
Lough, John Locke's list of books banned in France in 1679 V/3 (1951), 217
Palmer, J.N.J. The function of 'le vraisemblable' in French classical aesthetic theory. XXIX/1 (1975), 15

Poetry
(see also: d'Aubigné; d'Auvray; Boileau; Desportes; Gournay, Mlle de; La Fontaine; Malherbe; Régnier; Saint-Amant; Scudéry, Georges de)

Bannister, Mark The Montmaur Affair: Poetry versus Pedantry in the Seventeenth Century. XXXIII/4 (1979), 397
Cronk, Nicholas The Enigma of French Classicism: a Platonic Current in Seventeenth-Century Poetic Thought. XL/3 (1986), 269
Ratermanis, J.B. L'inversion et la structure de l'alexandrin. VI/1 (1952), 58
Trethewey, John The Manuscript Source of the Introduction à la Poésie (1620). XXXV/1 (1981), 19

Prose Fiction
(see also: La Fayette; Saint-Réal; Scudéry, Georges de; Sorel; Théophile de Viau)

Godenne, R. Supplément au Répertoire par année des titres des nouvelles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. XXVIII/2 (1974), 146
Godenne, René Nouveau Supplément au répertoire par année des titres des nouvelles aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. XXXVIII/1 (1984), 6
Ringham, Felizitas Riquet à la Houppe: Conteur, Conteuse. LII/3 (1998), 291

Religious matters
(see also: d'Auvray; Bayle; Nicole; Pascal; Racine; Sales, François de)

Abercrombie, Nigel Gui Patin and the Jansenist controversy. I/2 (1947), 129
Barnes, Annie Littérature et liturgie au dix-septième siècle. XX/1 (1966), 15
Gunny, Ahmad Protestant Reactions to Islam in Late Seventeenth-Century French Thought. XL/2 (1986), 129
Spink, J.S. Libertinage et 'Spinozisme': la théorie de l'âme ignée. I/3 (1947), 218

Theatre
(see also: Beys; Corneille, Pierre; Corneille, Thomas; Gillet de la Tessonerie; La Mesnardière; Molière; Quinault; Racine)

Brooks, W.S. The Théâtre du Marais, Quinault's Comédie sans comédie, and Thomas Corneille's Illustres ennemis. XXVII/3 (1973), 271
Clarke, Jan The Function of the Décorateur and the Association of the Crosnier Family with Molière's Troupe and the Guénégaud Theatre. XLVIII/1 (1994), 1
Clarke, Jan Illuminating the Guénégaud Stage: Some Seventeenth-Century Lighting Effects. LIII/1 (1999), 1
Garapon, Robert Les Dramaturges français, les acteurs et le public au XVIIe siècle. XXVII/1 (1973), 1
Hall, Kathleen M. How to get the corpse off the stage. XXVIII/3 (1974), 282
Knight, R.C. A minimal definition of seventeenth-century tragedy. X/4 (1956), 297
Lawrenson, T.E. The théâtre étagé in the seventeenth century. IV/1 (1950), 55
Lough, John The size of the theatre public in seventeenth-century Paris. I/2 (1947), 143
Lough, John French actors in Paris from 1612 to 1614. IX/3 (1955), 218
Perman, R.C.D. The influence of the Commedia dell'arte on the French theatre before 1640. IX/4 (1955), 293
Scott, Virginia The Fall of Phaeton: The Son of the Sun God in the Theatre of the Sun King. XLVIII/2 (1994), 143
Titmus, C.J. The influence of Montchrétien's Ecossoise upon French classical tragedies with subjects from English history. X/3 (1956), 224

B.  AUTHORS

d'Aubigné

Conacher, Agnès Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigné: les qualités d'un témoignage ou écho d'une histoire qui est arrivée et d'une histoire qui aurait pu être LVII/1 (2003), 11

d'Auvray

Donaldson-Evans, L.K. D'Auvray's seven sonnets on the Passion of the Saviour: a meditative sonnet sequence. XXV/4 (1971), 385

Bayle

Broome, J.H. Bayle's Biographer: Pierre des Maizeaux. IX/1 (1955), 1
James, E.D. Scepticism and fideism in Bayle's Dictionnaire. XVI/4 (1962), 307
James, E.D. Pierre Bayle on belief and 'évidence'. XXVII/4 (1973), 395
Mason, H.T. Pierre Bayle's religious views. XVII/3 (1963), 205
Whitmore, P.J.S. English thought and learning in the works of Pierre Bayle. VIII/2 (1954), 141

Bensserade

Finch, Robert 'Je suis dehors': Bensserade's Declaration of Independence. XXXIII/2 (1979), 137

Beys

Mallinson, G.J. L'Hospital des fous of Charles Beys: The Madman and the Actor. XXXVI/1 (1982), 12

Boileau

Moore, W.G. Boileau and Longinus. XIV/1 (1960), 52
Potts, D.C. 'Une carrière épineuse': Neoplatonism and the Poet's Vocation in Boileau's 'Art poétique'. XLVII/1 (1993), 20
Sayce, R.A. Boileau and the French baroque. II/2 (1948), 148

Chevreau

Hall, H.G. Molière, Chevreau's École du sage, and Joseph Hall's Characters. XXIX/4 (1975), 398

Corneille, Pierre

Alcover, Madeleine Les Lieux et les temps dans L'Illusion comique. XXX/4 (1976), 393
Charlton, D.G. Corneille's Dramatic Theories and the 'Didacticism' of Horace. VI/1 (1952), 1
Chauvire, Roger Doutes à l'égard de Polyeucte. II/1 (1948), 1
Clarke, David Pierre Corneille's Occasional and Circumstantial Writings Relating to Cardinal Richelieu (1631-1643). XLI/1 (1987), 20
Hawcroft, Michael Corneille's Clitandre and the Theatrical Illusion. XLVII/2 (1993), 142
Howe, A. and J. Trethewey Pierre Corneille's Le Véritable and some problems of literary history. XXVI/3 (1972), 266
Kirkness, W. John The Language of Racine's Alexandre and its Lexical Links with Cinna and Attila. XLII/1 (1988), 33
Lapp, John C. Corneille's Psyché and the metamorphoses of love. XXVI/4 (1972), 395
Lebègue, Raymond Remarques sur Polyeucte. III/3 (1949), 212
Nelson, Robert J. The dénouement of Le Cid. XIV/2 (1960), 141
Newmark, Peter A new view of Horace. X/1 (1956), 1
Scott, J.W. The 'irony' of Horace. XIII/1 (1959), 11
Voisine, Jacques Corneille vu par les Anglais de 1800 à nos jours. III/3 (1949), 219
Yarrow, P.J. A further comment on Polyeucte. IV/2 (1950), 151

Corneille, Thomas

Brooks, W.S. The Théâtre du Marais, Quinault's Comédie sans comédie, and Thomas Corneille's Illustres ennemis. XXVII/3 (1973), 271

Cyrano de Bergerac

Marsak, Ann Cyrano de Bergerac and the Fronde: a question of date. XXVIII/1 (1974), 12

Descartes

Gadoffre, Gilbert Le Discours de la méthode et l'histoire littéraire. II/4 (1948), 301
Keefe, T. Descartes's 'morale provisoire': a reconsideration. XXVI/2 (1972), 129
McCallam, David Encountering and Countering the 'Uncanny' in Descartes's Méditations. LVII/2 (2003), 135
Phillips, Henry Descartes and the Dramatic Experience. XXXIX/4 (1985), 408
Wilson, Nelly Discourses on Method and Professions of Faith: Rousseau's Debt to Descartes. XXXVII/2 (1983), 157

Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin

Hall, H.G. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin's ennoblement and conversion reconsidered. XXVII/2 (1973), 151

Desportes

Graham, Victor E. Some undiscovered sources of Desportes. X/2 (1956), 123

Duval

Harris, Joseph 'La force du tact': Representing the Taboo Body in Jacques Duval's Traité des hermaphrodits (1612) LVII/3 (2003), 311

Fénelon

Garagnon, Jean Voltaire et Fénelon: Sur une source de la Lettre philosophique No. 8, 'Sur le Parlement'. XLIII/2 (1989), 140

Fontenelle

Fraser, C. Anne The first editions of the two parts of Fontenelle's Dialogues des morts XXVII/4 (1973), 405
Howells, Robin The Principle of Mobility in Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. XLVI/2 (1992), 129

Gillet de la Tessonerie

Dawson, F.K. Gillet de la Tessonerie and the 'éthique de la gloire'. X/1 (1956), 11

Godeau

Treloar, Bronnie Two poems by Antoine Godeau. I/3 (1947), 232

Gournay, Mademoiselle de

Holmes, Peggy P. Mademoiselle de Gournay's defence of baroque imagery. VIII/2 (1954), 122

La Fayette, Madame de

Campbell, John The Cloud of Unknowing: Self-Discovery in La Princesse de Clèves. XLVIII/4 (1994), 402
Haig, Stirling La Princesse de Clèves and Saint-Réal's Dom Carlos. XXII/3 (1968), 201
Maber, R.G. An unpublished letter from Gilles Ménage to Madame de La Fayette? XXXII/2 (1978), 147
Scott, J.W. The 'digressions' of the Princesse de Clèves. XI/4 (1957), 315

La Fontaine

Hytier, Jean La Vocation lyrique de La Fontaine. XXV/2 (1971), 136
Hytier, Jean La Poésie de La Fontaine: légitime défense. XXVI/1 (1972), 27
Mallinson, G.J. The Mirror of Revelation: La Fontaine's Psyché and the Truths of Fiction. XLVIII/3 (1994), 274
McGowan, Margaret M. La Fontaine's technique of withdrawal in Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon. XVIII/4 (1964), 322
Mourgues, Odette de La Poésie de La Fontaine: réponse à M. Jean Hytier. XXV/4 (1971), 409
Slater, Maya La Fontaine and Brevity. XLIV/2 (1990), 143

La Mesnardière

Dawson, F.K. La Mesnardière's theory of tragedy. VIII/2 (1954), 132

La Rochefoucauld

James, E.D. Scepticism and positive values in La Rochefoucauld. XXIII/4 (1969), 349
Moore, W.G. The world of La Rochefoucauld's Maximes. VII/4 (1953), 335

Malherbe

Mouret, F.J.-L. André Chénier commente Malherbe. XXVIII/1 (1974), 21
Winegarten, Renée A neglected critic of Malherbe: Jacques Favereau. VI/1 (1952), 29

Ménage

Maber, R.G. An unpublished letter from Gilles Ménage to Madame de La Fayette? XXXII/2 (1978), 147

Molière

Calder, Ruth Molière, Misanthropy and Forbearance: Eliante's 'Lucretian' Diatribe. L/2 (1996), 138
Clarke, Jan The Function of the Décorateur and the Association of the Crosnier Family with Molière's Troupe and the Guénégaud Theatre. XLVIII/1 (1994), 1
Cronk, Nicholas The Play of Words and Music in Molière-Charpentier's 'Le Malade imaginaire'. XLVII/1 (1993), 7
Gill, A. 'The doctor in the farce' and Molière. II/2 (1948), 101
Gossip, C.J. The Initial Success of Le Misanthrope. XXXIX/2 (1985), 143
Hall, H.G. Molière, Chevreau's École du sage, and Joseph Hall's Characters. XXIX/4 (1975), 398
Hawcroft, Michael French Classical Drama and the Tension of Utterance: Racine, Molière, and Madame de Saint-Balmon. LI/4 (1997), 395
Hope, Quentin M. Molière's curtain lines. XXVI/2 (1972), 143
Howarth, W.D. The theme of Tartuffe in eighteenth-century comedy. IV/2 (1950), 113
Howarth, W.D. Dom Garcie de Navarre or Le Prince jaloux? V/2 (1951), 140
Howarth, W.D. Dom Juan reconsidered: a defence of the Amsterdam edition. XII/3 (1958), 222
Hunt, H.J. Célimène, coquette or coquine? III/4 (1949), 324
Maskell, David Molière's L'Etourdi: Signs of Things to Come. XLVI/1 (1992), 12
Maskell, David Corneille's Examens Examined: The Case of Horace. LI/3 (1997), 267
Maskell, David Terence, Tabarin and Molière's Fourberies de Scapin. LVI/3 (2002), 303
Moore, W.G. Molière studies: the present position. I/4 (1947), 291
Moore, W.G. A new edition of Molière. XXVII/2 (1973), 165
Nelson, Robert J. L'Impromptu de Versailles reconsidered. XI/4 (1957), 305
Parish, Richard Le Misanthrope: Des raisonneurs aux rieurs. XLV/1 (1991), 17
Peacock, N.A. The Comic Ending of George Dandin. XXXVI/2 (1982), 144
Potts, D.C. Molière's Dom Juan and the Trickster: A Coherent Theatrical Reading. XLIX/2 (1995), 142
Shaw, David Molière's Temporary Happy Endings. XLV/2 (1991), 129
Yarrow, P.J. A reconsideration of Alceste. XIII/4 (1959), 314

Nicole

James, E.D. The political and social theory of Pierre Nicole. XIV/2 (1960), 117
Knee, Philip Pascal, Nicole et la morale des Lumières. LII/1 (1998), 17

Pascal

Askew, D.A. Pascal and Saint-Ange: problems of the Récit de deux conférences. XXIV/1 (1970), 5
Barnes, Annie La Table des titres de la copie des Pensées est-elle de Pascal? VII/2 (1953), 140
Barnes, Annie La Conférence à Port-Royal et les liasses de Pascal. X/3 (1956), 231
Boyle, Nicholas A Problem in the Interpretation of Pascal's Wager. XXXIV/1 (1980), 20
Cole, John R. Pascal's Plans for the Apology: Two Successive Conceptions in the Two-Column Table. L/1 (1996), 15
Foster, Brian Pascal's use of abêtir. XVII/1 (1963), 1
Foster, Brian Pascal's abêtir: a postscript. XVIII/3 (1964), 244
Gilby, Emma Reflexivity in the Pensées: Pascal's Discourse on Discourse. LV/3 (2001), 315
Haig, Stirling A further note on Pascal's abêtir. XVIII/1 (1964), 29
Hammond, Nicholas 'Levez le rideau': Images of the Theatre in Pascal's Pensées. XLVII/3 (1993), 276
James, E.D. The Problem of sufficient grace and the Lettres provinciales. XXI/3 (1967), 205
Knee, Philip Pascal, Nicole et la morale des Lumières. LII/1 (1998), 17
Ladborough, R.W. Pepys and Pascal. X/2 (1956), 133
Mayer, J.-P. Pascal relu: un nouvel arrangement de la Pensée sur la 'Disproportion de l'homme'. XXIX/3 (1975), 257
Mayer, J.-P. 'La Disproportion de l'homme': A Reply. XXXII/2 (1978), 145
Moles, Elizabeth Pascal's use of abêtir. XIX/4 (1965), 379
Moles, Elizabeth Pascal's political views. XXI/4 (1967), 302
Moles, Elizabeth Logic and Singularity in Pascal's Wager. XXXVI/4 (1982), 397
Pugh, Anthony R. 'La Disproportion de l'homme': Pascal's editors defended. XXXI/3 (1977), 277
Pugh, Anthony R. 'La Disproportion de l'homme': A rejoinder. XXXII/3 (1978), 275
Vamos, Mara A note on Petty, Pepys and Pascal. XXII/4 (1968), 302
Wetsel, David Pascal and Mitton: Theological Objections to 'l'honnêteté' in the Pensées. XLVII/4 (1993), 404

Perrault, Charles

Culpin, D.J. Perrault as Moralist: Les Hommes illustres. LII/2 (1998), 142

Quinault

Aspin, Geoffrey The unrecorded original edition of Quinault's first play. XXV/1 (1971), 10
Brooks, W.S. The Théâtre du Marais, Quinault's Comédie sans comédie, and Thomas Corneille's Illustres ennemis. XXVII/3 (1973), 271

Racine

Barnwell, H.T. From La Thébaïde to Andromaque. V/1 (1951), 30
Barnwell, H.T. The simplicity of Racine-yet again. XXXI/4 (1977), 394
Biard, J.D. Le Ton élégiaque dans Bérénice. XIX/1 (1965), 1
Brody, J. Racine's Thébaïde: an analysis. XIII/3 (1959), 199
Butler, Philip La Tragédie de Bérénice. III/3 (1949), 201
Campbell, John The Tragedy of Britannicus. XXXVII/4 (1983), 391
Campbell, John The God of Athalie. XLIII/4 (1989), 385
Campbell, John Racine and the Augustinian Inheritance: The Case of Andromaque. LIII/3 (1999), 279
Chapman, J.Anne The Effacement of the Racinian Image. XV/2 (1961), 122
Chicoteau, Marcel Racine's mystic vocabulary in an early poem. II/3 (1948), 253
Delbouille, Paul Les tragédies de Racine, reflets de l'inconscient ou chronique du siècle? XV/2 (1961), 103
France, Peter Oreste and Orestes. XXIII/2 (1969), 131
Hawcroft, Michael French Classical Drama and the Tension of Utterance: Racine, Molière, and Madame de Saint-Balmon. LI/4 (1997), 395
Hubert, J.D. The timeless temple in Athalie. X/2 (1956), 140
Kirkness, W.John The Language of Racine's Alexandre and its Lexical Links with Cinna and Attila. XLII/1 (1988), 33
Knight, R.C. Sophocle et Euripide ont-ils "formé" Racine? V/2 (1951), 126
Knight, R.C. A further note on Racine's Thébaïde. X/3 (1956), 254
Knight, R.C. Racine family papers. XIV/3 (1960), 235
May, Georges Comment Racine distribuait ses rôles. IV/4 (1950), 306
Mourgues, O. de Tragedy and moral order in Racine. XX/2 (1966), 123
O'Regan, M.J. Genealogical periphrasis in Racine. XVI/1 (1962), 14
Parish, Richard 'Un Calme si funeste': Some Types of Silence in Racine. XXXIV/4 (1980), 385
Pommier, Jean Sur la langue de Racine. V/4 (1951), 335
Scholar, Richard Je ne sais quelle grâce: Esther before Assuerus. LVI/3 (2002), 317
Seznec, Alain Notes on a Concordance of Racine. XXVI/1 (1972), 9
Ullmann, Stephen The vitality of the past definite in Racine. II/1 (1948), 35
Worth, Valerie The Shape of Things to Come: Racine's Revisions of Alexandre (1666-1697). XLIV/4 (1990), 385
Yarrow, P.J. A note on Racine's Thébaïde. X/1 (1956), 20
Zimmermann, Eléonore M. 'Théramène, fuyons ...'. XXV/4 (1971), 401

Régnier

Le Hir, Yves Aspects de la fantaisie verbale dans les Satires de Mathurin Régnier. IX/4 (1955), 304

Retz

Watts, D.A. The enigma of Retz. XII/3 (1958), 203

Saint-Amant

Roberts, William Classical sources of Saint-Amant's L'Arion. XVII/4 (1963), 341
Sayce, R.A. Saint-Amant and Poussin. I/3 (1947), 241

Saint-Évremond

Hope, Quentin M. The Scandalous Journey of Monsieur J: Saint-Evremond's 'Lettre à M.J.G.E.C.D.P.'. XLVI/1 (1992), 1
Potts, D.C. Desmaizeaux and Saint-Evremond's text. XIX/3 (1965), 239
Potts, D.C. Saint-Évremond's exile and the first edition of his Œuvres meslées. XXI/4 (1967), 312

Saint-Réal

Bremner, Geoffrey The Lesson of Saint-Réal. XXIV/4 (1970), 356
Haig, Stirling La Princesse de Clèves and Saint-Réal's Dom Carlos. XXII/3 (1968), 201

Saint-Simon

Stefanovska, Malina 'Une manière singulière, aisée, agréable et utile d'instruction pour le roi': L'historiographie de Saint-Simon. XLVI/4 (1992), 395

Sales, François de

Stopp, Elizabeth François de Sales and Jeanne de Chantal: two unpublished letters. XVIII/1 (1964), 17

Scudéry, Georges de

Jeanneret, M. Un poète et ses tableaux: Le Cabinet de M. de Scudéry. XXVIII/4 (1974), 385
Roberts, William New light on the authorship of Almahide. XXV/3 (1971), 271

Sévigné, Madame de

Montfort, Catherine R. Mme de Sévigné: Seventeenth-Century Feminist? L/2 (1996), 144
Weed, Patricia Madame de Sévigné: Les Espaces de la Solitude. XXXVIII/3 (1984), 268

Sorel

Lough, John Another copy of the first edition of Sorel's Francion. XX/2 (1966), 121

Théophile de Viau

Ching, Barbara Première Journée: Théophile de Viau and the Dawn of Burlesque Narrative. XLV/4 (1991), 403

Vaugelas

Ayres, Wendy A Study in the Genesis of Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue françoise: the Arsenal Manuscript. XXXVII/1 (1983), 17

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