The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

Newsletter of the Society
for Seventeenth-Century French Studies

Volume 2 (1980) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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J.P. SHORT Conference Report 3
J. C. Dr Geoffrey Brereton 4
D. J. STURDY Current Historical Thinking on the Fronde Rebellions, 1648-1653 5
RICHARD BONNEY Cardinal Mazarin and the Great Nobility during the Fronde 15
DEREK A. WATTS The Fronde as seen in the Mémoires of La Rochefoucauld and Retz 21
ELFRIEDA DUBOIS How to Face the Plague: Some Seventeenth-Century Practices 29
PETER ASTON Some Thoughts on Performing Lully's Te Deum 37
D. A. THOMSON Nationalism and French Domestic Architecture 45
W. D. HOWARTH Portrait and Self-Portrait in French Classical Drama 52
P. J. YARROW Madame and the Two Bérénices 60
TOM LAWRENSON Holsboer and After: the French Stage and Auditorium in the Seventeenth Century 65
List of New Members 72