The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies
Newsletter of the Society
for Seventeenth-Century French Studies
| Volume 3 (1981) | edited by C. N. Smith |
CONTENTS
| page | ||
| J.P. SHORT | Conference Report | 3 |
| JOHN LOUGH | The Comédie-Française, 1680-1700 | 5 |
| E. R. B. FORMAN | Music at the Comédie-Française: the Opening Season | 14 |
| W. D. HOWARTH | Molière at the 'Maison de Molière', 1680-1715: the Taste of the honnêtes gens | 21 |
| ROBERT MCBRIDE | The Evolution of the 'querelle du théâtre' during the Seventeenth Century in France | 30 |
| H. T. BARNWELL | Tragedy and Painting in the Seventeenth-Century: Aspects of a Common Aesthetic? | 38 |
| E. M. M. WOODROUGH | Du Plaisir's Ingenious Theory of the roman nouveau | 51 |
| PHILIP J. FORD | Neo-Latin Literature in Seventeenth-Century France | 60 |
| PETER BELL | Poesy and Argument in Descartes's Méditations | 71 |
| NORA TEMPLE | The Decline of Urban Festivities in Seventeenth-Century France | 79 |
| W. GIBSON | Women and the Guilds in Seventeenth-Century France | 87 |
| List of New Members |