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 |
| List of New Members |