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

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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
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