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

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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