The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 19 (1997) edited by John Campbell

CONTENTS

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WENDY AYRES-BENNETT From Malherbe to the French Academy on Quinte-Curce: the role of Observations, Translations and Commentaries in French Linguistic Thought 1
ELFRIEDA DUBOIS The Value of Human Relationships: the Correspondence of Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal 11
MARK BANNISTER Vanini and the development of Seventeenth-Century Thought 25
PETER BAYLEY Accommodating Rhetoric 37
ANDREW ERSKINE 'Combien est grande la foiblesse humaine': Pierre Charron's View of the Human Condition 49
WILLIAM J. DICKSON Descartes: Language and Method 61
EDWARD JAMES La Bruyère on Values in Practice 73
COLIN KEAVENEY La Bruyère and the 'Civilising Process' 83
GUY ROWLANDS The Ethos of Blood and Changing Values? Robe, épée and the French armies, 1661 to 1715 95
H. T. BARNWELL 'Il faut que je vous conte ...': Fact into Fiction in the Letters of Madame de Sévigné 109
JOY CHARNLEY Béat-Louis de Muralt: Some Thoughts on the France of Louis XIV 125
MADELEINE BERTAUD Deux Ariane au XVIIe siècle: Alexandre Hardy et Thomas Corneille 135
CHRIS GOSSIP Cinna and the Marais Company in 1642-43 149
JEAN EMELINA La Mer dans la tragédie classique 161
MURIEL GUTLEBEN Scène, cercle et seuils: les lieux de l'effroi dans quelques pièces du Grand Siècle 175
STEPHEN JOHNSON André Mareschal's La Chrysolite: from Preface to Text 185
PEGGY CHAPLIN Changing Colours, Changing Times 199