The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 10 (1988) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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J.P. SHORT Conference Report 2
R. J. KNECHT The Court of France, 1550-1650 4
W. J. DICKSON Corneille's Use of Judicial Rhetoric: the Last Act of Horace 23
GILLIAN JONDORF 'What is a King?': the Figure of the King in Rotrou 40
ROBERT MCBRIDE From Inflation to Deflation: Molière's Changing Vision of Court Life 53
C. E. J. CALDICOTT La Cour, la ville et la province: Molière's Mixed Audiences 72
ROGER DUCHÊNE Mme de Sévigné et la cour 88
WILLIAM BROOKS Lully and Quinault at Court and on the Public Stage, 1673-86 101
JOHN DIXON HUNT Some Different 'manières de montrer les jardins': a Review Essay 122
JANET L. CLARKE Repertory and Revival at the Guénégaud Theatre, 1673-1680 136
ANTHONY GABLE Racine's Matricides 154
W. D. HOWARTH Fringe Theatre 174
EDWARD FORMAN Merlin at the Comédie-Française, 1685-1693 182
JIM EDWARDS Cartesian Dualism and Knowledge of Essences 191
JEREMY BLACK Louis XIV's Foreign Policy Reassessed 199
JEAN-PHILIPPE BEAULIEU L'Expérience de l'altérité dans Des sauvages de Champlain 213