The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

Newsletter of the Society
for Seventeenth-Century French Studies

Volume 4 (1982) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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J.P. SHORT Conference Report 3
ROBIN BRIGGS The Church and the Family in Seventeenth-Century France 5
ELFRIEDA DUBOIS 'Votre sexe n'est là que pour la dépendance': Women and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century France 14
D. J. STURDY A Note on Marriage Contracts in the Seventeenth Century 27
P. J. YARROW Some Aspects of the Family and Family Life in Some Seventeenth-Century French Comedies 32
G. J. MALLINSON Mareschal's Le Railleur: Topicality and the Search for the Comic 40
R. C. KNIGHT 'Ces funestes lieux': Prison-Scenes in the décor simultané 48
OLIVE CLASSE 'En quelle situation?': Some Notes on the End of Racine's Phèdre 53
JOHN TRETHEWEY Ambivalence or Irony?: Charles Sorel's Francion 60
MAYA SLATER Madame d'Aulnoy and the Adult Fairy-Tale 69
ELIZABETH WOODROUGH Georges and Madeleine de Scudéry: 'mer d'inimitié', 'lac d'indifférence' or 'amitié tendre'? 76
EDMUND J. CAMPION Inventio and amplificatio in Louis Bourdaloue's 'Sermon sur le jugement téméraire' 88
CLAIRE PACE The Family in the 'Tableaux de genre' of the Le Nain brothers 96
H. T. BARNWELL Poussin Shining Plain 107
JOHN KITCHEN The Harpsichord Music of Louis Couperin (1626-1661) 112
ANDREW WEAR Aspects of Seventeenth-Century French Medicine 118
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