The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies
Newsletter of the Society
for Seventeenth-Century French Studies
| Volume 5 (1983) | edited by C. N. Smith |
CONTENTS
| page | ||
| J.P. SHORT | Conference Report | 3 |
| A. H. T. LEVI | Obituary: T. E. Lawrenson | 5 |
| JEAN DUBU | Louis XIV et le goût de son époque | 18 |
| BRUNO NEVEU | Pour un 'Louis-quatorziana' | 23 |
| ROGER METTAM | Louis XIV and the Illusion of 'Absolutism' | 27 |
| MICHAEL TURNBULL | Louis XIV and Lully: the Early Years | 35 |
| RAGNILD HATTON | The Prehistory of Voltaire's Siècle de Louis XIV | 45 |
| MARGARET M. MCGOWAN | Literary Riches from Normandy in the Seventeenth Century | 52 |
| H. PHILLIPS | Culture and Control: Censorship under Louis XIV | 61 |
| R. J. HOWELLS | The Uses of Versailles in the Parallèle des anciens et des modernes | 70 |
| N. A. PEACOCK | Family Relationships in Dom Juan: a Coherent Comic Perspective | 78 |
| JOAN CROW | Samuel Chappuzeau, Reporter: his Observations on the English Restoration Theatre | 89 |
| PAUL GINESTIER | La Problématique d'Athalie | 96 |
| R. S. WILMOTT | Modes and Motives in Some Recent Versions of Racine | 106 |
| ANTHONY GABLE | Campistron and the 'Dead' Racine | 111 |
| WENDY PERKINS | Mme Deshoulières: One of the 'derniers libertins'? | 125 |
| D. C. POTTS | The Concept of Right Reason in Seventeenth-Century French Thought | 134 |
| List of New Members |