The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 6 (1984) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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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