The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 12 (1990) edited by Christopher Smith

CONTENTS

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WENDY AYRES-BENNETT Women and Grammar in Seventeenth-Century France 5
D. A. GODWIN The Presentation of Illness in the Memoirs of Mme de Motteville and of Bussy-Rabutin 26
BARRY KITE Rotrou and Italian Comedy, 1641-1645 53
ANDREW CALDER Molière's Aristotelian Pedants 65
MARY HOSSAIN The Chevalier d'Arvieux and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme 76
JANET CLARKE Music at the Guénégaud Theatre, 1673-1680 89
JEAN EMELINA La Géographie tragique: espace et monde extérieur 111
EDWARD FORMAN Esther 139
JOHN CAMPBELL The Exposition of Athalie 149
ROBIN BRIGGS Noble Conspiracy and Revolt in France, 1610-60 158
DAVID S. LUX Colbert's Plan for the Grande Académie: Royal Policy Toward Science, 1663-67 177
C. JANE LOWE Large-Scale Structural Procedures in the Psalm Settings of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) 189
DAVID J. STURDY Social Tension and Social Control in Seventeenth-Century France 206
JOAN DAVIES Seeking Answers: Questioning the Fronde 217
ANDREW WEAR The Foundations of Cartesian Natural Philosophy 224
H. A. MOORE On the Text of Bossuet's 'Exposition de la doctrine de l'Église Catholique' 231