The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 13 (1991) edited by Christopher Smith

CONTENTS

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JOAN DAVIES History, Biography, Propaganda and Patronage in Early Seventeenth-Century France 5
MARK BANNISTER 'Imagination et jugement': History and the Novel in Mid-Seventeenth-Century France 19
FRANCIS ASSAF L'Histoire vue à travers la presse, 1680-1685 33
PHILIPPE-JOSEPH SALAZAR La Mothe le Vayer ou l'impossible métier d'historien 55
TONI MARCUS 'L'Innocence persécutée' (c. 1665): One Polemicist's Perception of Contemporary Politics 71
RUTH WHELAN Huguenot Conceptions of the Past: the Case of Jacques Basnage 91
ROBIN BRIGGS The Perils of Patronage 97
EDWARD JAMES Molière Moralized: the Lettre sur la comédie de l'Imposteur 105
EDMUND J. CAMPION Representation of History and Mythology by Quinault and Racine 115
JOHN GOLDER An Unidentified Sketch in the Mahelot Mémoire, at folio 81 recto 129
GUY SNAITH Andromache, Annette and Andromaque: a Look at Two Recent Translations 139
JIM SUPPLE Pommier versus Barthes: critique et contrevérités 153
VALERIE WORTH Optimism and Misanthropy: Some Seventeenth-Century Models in a Late Eighteenth-Century Debate 163
MAYA SLATER La Fontaine's View of Animals in his Fables 179
TERENCE ALLOTT La Fontaine et la tradition européenne de la fable 195
WENDY PERKINS Louise Bourgeois's 'Recueil des secrets' 199
WENDY GIBSON Attitudes Towards Obesity in Seventeenth-Century France 215
EDWARD JAMES Pascal's Art of Polemic 231