The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES
| Volume 6 (1984) | edited by C. N. Smith |
CONTENTS
| page | ||
| J.P.SHORT | Conference Report | 2 |
| Obituary: R. A. Sayce | 4 | |
| Obituary: F. E. Sutcliffe | 5 | |
| PETER BAYLEY | Fixed Form and Varied Function: Reflections on the Language of French Classicism | 6 |
| H. GASTON HALL | Reflections on Seventeenth-Century French Studies | 22 |
| ELIZABETH WOODROUGH | The fidelle confidens and the grand roman | 30 |
| MARGARET M. MCGOWAN | Court Ballet: the Nature of its Fantasies | 41 |
| CHRISTOPHER ROLFE | Colbert's cheval de bataille? | 51 |
| W. H. BARBER | Machinery and the Mind's Eye: the Seventeenth Century and After | 54 |
| TESSA MURDOCH | Some Huguenot Craftsmen from Dieppe in London | 60 |
| BARRY KITE | Suréna: Corneille's most Racinian Play? | 75 |
| EDWARD FORMAN | 'Musick has Charms...': Music and Healing in Seventeenth-Century France | 81 |
| ALAN GABBEY | The Bourdelot Academy and the Mechanical Philosophy | 92 |
| CHRISTOPHER ROLFE | Saint-Amant: the Spirit of Carnival | 104 |
| JEAN-JACQUES GABAS | La Fontaine et la louange de Louis XIV | 111 |
| JOHN TRETHEWEY | Le Menteur and Self-Conscious theatre | 120 |
| JOHN CAMPBELL | Death of the Hero | 131 |
| ELIZABETH MOLES | Pascal's Faint Praise of Montaigne: Catch 22 | 136 |
| MARY HOSSAIN | Pascal and al-Ghazali | 151 |
| PATRICIA M. HARRY | Love of Language and the Language of Love in the Fiction of Cyrano de Bergerac | 164 |
| STEPHEN WARMAN | Marino, Scudéry and Corneille | 172 |
| NICHOLAS CRONK | Metaphor and Metamorphosis | 179 |