The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 14 (1992) edited by Christopher Smith

CONTENTS

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ROBIN HOWELLS The 1690s and the Rococo: Some signs of the Times 5
RICHARD MABER The Creation of the Grand Siècle 15
JEAN PERROT Dialogisme baroque 27
SEAN O'CATHASAIGH Authority and Pseudonimility: Pierre Bayle's Janua Cœlorum reserata (1691) 43
PETER BURKE Louis XIV, For and Against: the Propaganda War of the 1690s 53
TERENCE ALLOTT Serious Games: Panegyrics of Louis XIV, 1686 65
EDWARD JAMES La Bruyère: a Traditionalist in an Age of Change 69
FELIZITAS RINGHAM Authority and the Novel at the End of the Reign of Louis XIV 81
JAN CLARKE The Expulsion of the Italians from the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1697 97
DAVID MASKELL The Hand of God in French Religious Drama: Racine, Boyer and Campistron 119
H. T. BARNWELL La Gloire dans le théâtre de Racine 133
STEPHEN H. FLECK Barthes on Racine: a Different Speech Act Theory 143
C. J. GOSSIP Performance and Publication in Seventeenth-Century France 157
HENRY PHILLIPS Desmarets: the Biography of History 169
NOËL PEACOCK Tartuffe: Another Look 177
TERENCE DAWSON Catherine de Médicis and La Princesse de Clèves 191
W. H. BARBER Martha versus Mary: Two Ways of Holy Living in Seventeenth-Century French Catholicism 211
ELFRIEDA DUBOIS The Benedictine Congregation of Maurists in Seventeenth-Century France and their Scholarly Activities 219
MARY HOSSAIN The Employment and Training of Interpreters in Arabic and Turkish under Louis XIV: France 235
CHRISTOPHER SMITH A Reading of Translations 247