The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 15 (1993) edited by Christopher Smith

CONTENTS

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R. J. KNECHT The Reputation of Cardinal Richelieu: Classical Hero or Romantic Villain? 5
PEGGY CHAPLIN 'Choses à mettre en lumière': Tallemant des Réaux's 'Historiette' of Cardinal Richelieu 25
CLAIRE PACE 'Le Plus Illustre des amateurs': Aspects of Richelieu's Patronage of the Visual Arts 33
WILLIAM D. HOWARTH The Dramatists of the 1630s and the Fourth Unity 55
HENRY PHILLIPS Richelieu and the Edict of 1641 71
TERENCE ALLOTT The Fable Comes of Age, 1620-1650 85
THOMAS WORCESTER A Sunday Feast: Alimentary Discourse in the Preaching of Bishop Jean-Pierre Camus 99
M. M. MCGOWAN Pierre de l'Estoile: Amateur Collector of Medals and Coins 115
G. JONDORF Corneille and Racine Re-Visited -Again 129
MICHAEL HAWCROFT Homosexual Love in Corneille's Clitandre (1632) 135
JOHN CAMPBELL Bérénice: the Plotting of a Tragedy 145
H. T. BARNWELL Quinault, Racine and their Sources: an Addendum 157
DAVID SHAW Molière and the Art of Recycling 165
V. M. GRÉGOIRE Le Larmoiement: l'expression originale d'une sensibilité masculine dans la deuxième moitié du dix-septième siècle 181
ANNE SANDERSON How Far Did the Church Challenge Society? 205
E. WOODROUGH Fiction and History: an Attraction of Opposites 213
JANINE A. KREITER Fonction singulière de deux actants des récits de Madame De Lafayette 231
A. T. GABLE The Prince and the Mirror: Louis XIV, Fénelon, Royal Narcissism and the Legacy of Machiavelli 243
CHAD HELMS The Desert Altar: Eucharistic Imagery in Selected Literary Works of Fénelon 269
MARY HOSSAIN The Training of Interpreters in Arabic and Turkish under Louis XIV: the Ottoman Empire 279
C. JANE LOWE Charpentier and the Jesuits at St Louis 297