The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 8 (1986) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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J.P. SHORT Conference Report 2
L. W. B. BROCKLISS The Lettres provinciales as a Jansenist Calumny: Pascal and Moral Theology in Mid-Seventeenth-Century France 5
RICHARD PARISH Mais qui parle?: Voice and Persona in the Pensées 23
JOHN CRUICKSHANK Priest and Parishioner in Seventeenth-Century France 41
RICHARD MABER Taste, Style and the Jesuits, 1630-1690 53
GUY SNAITH La Calprenède - Anti Cornelian? 65
C. N. SMITH The Tragedies of the Saints 75
ELIZABETH WOODROUGH Bassompierre's Mémoire artificielle 88
ANDREW CALDER Attitudes to Belief in Dorimon's Festin de Pierre and Molière's Dom Juan 101
H. PHILLIPS Religion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century France 115
RICHARD COCKE Masterpieces of Reality: French Seventeenth-Century Painting 125
ALAN HOWE Alexandre Hardy, his Printers and his Patron: on an Unknown privilège for his Théâtre 132
BARRY KITE The Poet Figure in the Plays of Jean Rotrou 143
C. J. GOSSIP Attila and tragedy 152
WILLIAM BROOKS Harangue or dialogue?: the Publicity of the Orateurs on the French Stage, 1634-1673 166
JANET L. CLARKE Molière at the Guénégaud Theatre, 1673-1680 177
H. T. BARNWELL The Vatel Letters and the Narrative Art of Mme de Sévigné 185
FRANCIS ASSAF Monuments et textes en l'année 1674: enconium et topologie du pouvoir 197
TERENCE DAWSON The Semantics of rêverie 211
WENDY PERKINS Samuel Sorbière: Writings on Medicine 217
ANDREW WEAR Popularised Ideas of Health and Illness in Seventeenth-Century France 229
ROBIN BRIGGS The Province of Royal Authority 244