The Society for Seventeenth-century French Studies

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY
FRENCH STUDIES

Volume 9 (1987) edited by C. N. Smith

CONTENTS

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J.P. SHORT Conference Report 2
ELFRIEDA DUBOIS Some Interpretations of the Notion of cœur in Seventeenth-Century France 4
ALAN HOWE Alexandre Hardy and the French Theatre in 1615: the Evidence of Two Archival Documents 26
PHILIP TOMLINSON Unkindly Leaving the Stage: Tercentenary Reflections in Jean Mairet 35
GUY SNAITH Plaisir à La Calprenède 55
NOËL A. PEACOCK Verbal Costume in Le Misanthrope 74
JOCELYN POWELL Making Faces: Character and Physiognomy in L'École des femmes and L'Avare 94
JOHN DUNKLEY Molière and the Theme of Gambling 113
P. J. YARROW M. Jourdain and Colbert 122
WILLIAM BROOKS A Note on Édouard Thierry, Molière and La Grange 131
E. D. JAMES Fontenelle - Scepticism and Enlightenment 133
DAVID PARROTT French Military Organization in the 1630s: the Failure of Richelieu's Ministry 151
ANTHONY GABLE Tragedy, Discontent and the Question of Kingship, 1685-1715 168
DAVID PARKER Class, Clientage and Personal Rule in Absolutist France 192
ROBERT ASHTON Variations on Calvinist Themes 214
R. S. WILMOTT Corneille's Horace Englished: Translations of the Heroic Dilemma 233
CHRISTOPHER SMITH Welcoming The Seventeenth Century 247