The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 11 (1989) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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Odette de Mourgues 3
CLAIRE PACE 'Le Véritable tempérament des hommes': Some Discussions of Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century France 5
WENDY PERKINS The Relationship Between Midwife and Client in the Works of Louise Bourgeois 28
JOHN TRETHEWEY Structures of L'Illusion comique 46
CLAUDE ABRAHAM 'From Page to Stage': More Than an Illusion 55
C. J. GOSSIP Agreeable Suspension, or What to Think of La Calprenède 62
GLANVILLE PRICE Vaugelas: a Reassessment Long Overdue 72
VALERIE WORTH 'Je te vais retracer le tableau de sa gloire': the Evocative Power of Language in Cyrano de Bergerac's La Mort d'Agrippine 80
NOËL A. PEACOCK Opening Lines in Molière 94
DAVID SHAW Innovation and Orthodoxy: Molière as Theorist 106
DAVID CLARKE L'École des femmes: Plotting and Significance in a 'machine à rire' 117
MAYA SLATER La Fontaine's Christian Fables 136
WILLIAM BROOKS Further Remarks on Lully and Quinault at Court 147
JAMES J. SUPPLE The Role of Antiochus in Bérénice 151
ROBERT ASHTON Displaced Protestants 163
ROBIN BRIGGS Indoctrinating the Elite 169
SUSAN MENDUS Toleration, Truth and Reciprocity: in Defence of the Closed Mind 182
En marge du classicisme 189
Société des amis de Bussy-Rabutin 190