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‘Tout frémit au seul nom de cette maladie’: on strategies for (not) naming the plague, Marseille 1720 Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-22 David McCallam
The last major plague epidemic in France hit Marseille in 1720 and ultimately took the lives of over 120,000 people across the city and Provence. Yet to what degree did the act of naming the plague...
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Amphibious Author: Abel Boyer, Iphigénie, and Huguenot Migration Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Suzanne Jones
This article centres on the idea of an ‘amphibious author’, an epithet applied to the London-based Huguenot writer, lexicographer, and translator Abel Boyer (1667?–1729). Cross-channel migration of...
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Diaphanous bodies: projections of ecstasy, insolence, and yearning in Les États et Empires du Soleil by Cyrano de Bergerac Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Daniel J. Worden, Caitlin Facello, Gracey Greco, Scarlett Holton
In Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac’s (1619–55) tale of a voyage to the sun, Les États et Empires du Soleil, a cosmic traveller’s physical body, as well as his light-propelled spacecraft, undergo eerie ...
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Addicted to Love: Royal Relapses in Racine’s Andromaque Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Polly T. Mangerson
The present analysis proposes a reading of Racine's Greek tragedy Andromaque (1667) through the guiding metaphor of addictive patterns. The author juxtaposes the behaviours of the two primary male characters, Oreste and Pyrrhus, in order to demonstrate how their resistance to their respective passions for Hermione and Andromaque can be compared to the process of recovery from substance abuse. At specific
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Editor’s Note Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Nicholas Hammond
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2023)
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‘I have become all things to all men [and women] that I might by all means save some’ (I Corinthians 9:22, KJV). Theatricality and conversion in the poetry of Pierre Le Moyne Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Richard Maber
The exceptionally diverse and extensive literary output of the Jesuit poet Pierre Le Moyne is full of apparent paradoxes and ambiguities which have always proved a challenge to commentators, from his own contemporaries to the present day. This article takes as its starting point the recent recovery of a detailed account of Le Moyne’s first known creation, a spectacular dramatic production put on by
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Introduction Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Nicholas Hammond, John Leigh
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2023)
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Thought about action: ergon in Gargantua Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Neil Kenny
Rabelais’s fictional chronicles communicate thought about action, including about the relationship of action to social status. They explore and test the view, which was widespread in the period, that the actions you undertake in life should be determined by your social status. The notion that certain actions properly characterise different social groups because those groups have distinct functions
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Calvin the mimic: Contre la secte phantastique et furieuse des libertins, qui se nomment spirituelz (1545) Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Timothy Chesters
This essay examines some instances of mimicry in Jean Calvin’s Contre la secte phantastique et furieuse des libertins, qui se nomment spirituelz (1545). Calvin’s denunciation of the spiritual libertines, an obscure antinomian sect which had recently spread from the Low Countries to northern France, is made all the more vehement by a fear that others might confuse some aspects of their theology with
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La Boétie Absolutist? An episode in the history of political thought Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 John O'Brien
First published in 1652–1654 and then in a new edition in 1666, the Discours politiques of the académicien Daniel de Priézac (1590–1662) have been characterized as a statement of Aristotelian politics in the service of absolutism. The aspect of interest in this article is Priézac’s hitherto unnoticed practice of quoting from La Boétie’s La Servitude volontaire. It may seem strange that a treatise so
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‘L’Action héroïque de Monsieur Arnauld’: A Dramatic Episode at the Sorbonne, 1641 Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Emma Gilby
This chapter deals with a university viva that took place in Paris on 25 July 1641. The thesis that was being examined hinged on a particular theological point: the question of whether the verb ‘to be’ may apply univocally to God and to humans. Antoine Arnauld had argued that it could indeed, and his student Charles Wallon de Beaupuis was now following his example. However, events soon took an unexpected
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François de Sales and the paradoxes of abjection Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 John D. Lyons
François de Sales is, next to Pascal, the early modern French religious author whose work has for centuries reached the widest audience. Whereas Pascal conceived many of his reflections and arguments in the Pensées for persons uncommitted to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church, de Sales aimed at a wide audience of faithful Roman Catholics. This difference of intended public (or interlocutor)
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Contre Vaugelas: Antoine Arnauld on good usage, reason and the perfection of French Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Elizaveta Al-Faradzh
Antoine Arnauld was a polymath: a major theologian and leader of the seventeenth-century French Jansenists, he also contributed to linguistic theory as a co-author of the ‘Grammaire générale et raisonnée' (1660). Less is known about his role as a lexicographer and observer of linguistic usage. In the ‘Réflexions sur cette maxime Que l'usage est la Règle et le tyran des langues vivantes' (1707), Arnauld
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Dare to wear: performing the prohibition of indiennes on the streets of Paris Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Melissa Percival
This chapter analyses a set of Paris police documents from 1727–1738 that record infractions of the protectionist ban on wearing indiennes. These were popular colourful fabrics imported from the East, which were also imitated by European manufacturers. Enforcement of the multiple legislations passed in France during the long period of prohibition (1686–1759) was draconian and inequitable. Women, predominantly
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Music and the shape of the dialectic: what Hegel’s discussion of Diderot’s Le Neveu de Rameau shows Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Marian Hobson
This paper discusses the prominence given by Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit, to Diderot’s Neveu de Rameau. It locates its cause in the dialogue’s account of the quarrel in contemporary French music, between Italian opéra comique and French opera seria, in particular, Rameau. Hegel makes his account of this section of Diderot’s dialogue his first clearly explicit account of a dialectic operating
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Afterword. Translating Roland Barthes: A Fragment Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Timothy Mathews
In honouring Michael Moriarty's thought on Roland Barthes, a further honouring is offered of Roland Barthes through re-translation of an excerpt of Fragments d'un discours amoureux.
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s assessments of François de La Rochefoucauld’s maxims through the Academic Sceptic argumentative method of pro and con and syntactic analysis Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Jiani Fan
Focusing on section I, 35 and I, 36 of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human, as well as other related works, this paper examines Nietzsche’s evaluation of François de La Rochefoucauld’s psychological observation in the latter’s maxims. It argues that, in Nietzsche’s view, La Rochefoucauld’s perspicacity in detecting moral psychology is crystallized both in the form of maxim and the messages derived
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Sodomy, Subculture, and Surveillance in Paris, 1739–47 Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Jeffrey Merrick
Recently digested evidence from the 1740s confirms both patterns and variety in the sodomitical subculture of Paris in the 1720s and 1730s that historians have already analyzed. Men who desired men understood the methods and hazards of solicitation in the Luxembourg and Tuileries gardens, where the police deployed decoys to entrap them. Records of arrest demonstrate continuity over three decades as
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Voyage en terre colonisatrice : Relation du Voyage d’Espagne de Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Valentine Balguerie
Entre 1679 et 1680, Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, entreprend un séjour en Espagne dont elle tire sa Relation du Voyage d'Espagne (1691). La réalité de ce voyage et les anecdotes relatées semblent souvent s'apparenter aux contes de fées pour lesquels d'Aulnoy est restée célèbre. Cependant, le public dévore cet aperçu dépaysant de la culture espagnole qui donne fréquemment l'occasion à des comparaisons favorables
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Being ‘time-bound’: Montaigne on Touch, Contagion, and the Contemporary Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Caroline Godard
This paper examines how touch and temporal closeness illuminate the intersubjective nature of Montaigne's Essais. Working against the assumptions towards individuality that often emerge in readings of Montaigne, it asks how the confluences of contemporaneity, contagion, compassion, and community offer alternative ways of understanding the relations between self and other. It considers Erich Auerbach's
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Revisiting Places: Can We Still Be Early Modern? Keynote Address, Early Modern French Conference of the Society for Early Modern French Studies, 5–7 July 2022, St Andrews Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Louisa Mackenzie
This article articulates the places of early modern poetry with contemporary eco-theories. Mobilising the connectivities of οικος rather than the separations of environment, the author traces ecological senses of place in the poetry of Du Bellay, Jacques Peletier, and Ronsard, and reclaims Renaissance humanism from posthumanist detractors. Humanist pastoral poetry manifests the sense of connection
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OBITUARY: Richard Parish (1948-2022) Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-05 John O’Brien
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2022)
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Editor’s Note Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Nicholas Hammond
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2022)
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Perrault immoral : le sens caché du conte Le Chat Botté Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-11 Guillaume de Broux
Le Maître Chat ou Le Chat Botté met en scène une ascension sociale étonnante : sur une idée de son chat, un pauvre fils de meunier se fait passer pour marquis auprès du roi, qui, dupe des ruses de l’animal, le reconnaît comme tel et lui offre la main de sa fille. Souvent présenté comme un texte explicitement moqueur voire dénonciateur des valeurs de la société d’Ancien Régime, Le Chat Botté est pourtant
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The Morality of Self-Acceptance: La Rochefoucauld and the Augustinian Challenge Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-11 Andreas Blank
This article argues that the reception of Augustinian ideas in Pascal and Nicole can be used to clarify what is distinctive in La Rochefoucauld's treatment of self-relations. La Rochefoucauld does not share the Augustinian dichotomy between self-love at the price of forgetting God and love of God at the price of self-contempt that is prominent in both Pascal and Nicole. Rather, La Rochefoucauld develops
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Editor’s Note Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Nicholas Hammond
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2022)
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Introduction: O hommes disposez & prompts à la servitude Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-25 John O’Brien
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2022)
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Sujétion et subjectivation dans la Servitude volontaire de La Boétie Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Laurent Gerbier
Quelle place La Boétie occupe-t-il dans la genèse du concept moderne de sujet? Cet article entreprend de répondre à cette question en la replaçant dans le contexte des études françaises récentes sur l'histoire philosophique du sujet moderne. L'étude lexicale des occurrences du sujet et de la sujétion dans la Servitude volontaire montre que La Boétie semble réserver le terme de sujet à la désignation
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Power, Consent, and the Role of the Multitude in Étienne de La Boétie’s De la servitude volontaire Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Sophie Nicholls
La Boétie’s De la servitude volontaire has traditionally been read as an archetypal piece of French humanist writing. In contrast, this article argues that medieval, scholastic ideas underpin De la servitude volontaire. There are two components to this argument: the first is the influence of La Boétie’s training in civil law at the Université d’Orléans on his political ideas, where there is clear evidence
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‘Est-ce vivre?’ The Politics of Living in La Boétie and Montaigne Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Emma Claussen
This article explores Étienne La Boétie's discussion of the unfree life, with and against Montaigne's accounts of life in the Essais. In De la servitude volontaire, La Boétie responds to writing on life in his source texts, such as Seneca's ‘On the Brevity of Life’: the life of servitude is almost antithetical to any ‘good life’, and indeed is scarcely life at all. Giorgio Agamben's concept of ‘bare
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‘Quel monstre de vice […] que la langue refuse de nommer ?’: Monsters and the Politics of Naming in La Servitude volontaire (and beyond) Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Wes Williams
This discussion conjugates La Boétie’s exploration of the negative valency of ‘la servitude volontaire’ with a set of ancient, early modern, and contemporary images and texts – from Homer and Cicero, through Montaigne and Hobbes, to Racine and Kadir Nelson. The force of ancient example is registered in the repeated haunting of the body politic by the ghost of tyranny: across genres, locations, and
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Verba Ligant Homines, Taurorum Cornua Funes Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Olivier Guerrier
Le brocard juridique qui sert de titre à cet article est d’abord examiné selon les glissements de sens qu’il a connus, de Justinien à Loisel en passant par les glossateurs médiévaux, du formalisme au consensualisme, et selon ses croisements avec la littérature populaire et morale. Le ‘lien’ humain auquel il fait référence est la plupart du temps astreinte, erreur, voire folie. Sa plasticité est comme
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Slavery and Freedom in a Time of Civil War: La Boétie, L’Hospital, and Montaigne Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-02 John O’Brien
The modern ‘neo-Roman' or ‘republican' concept of freedom as liberty from the arbitrary will of another is the starting point for a discussion of three French Renaissance magistrates for whom freedom is paramount political question: La Boétie, L'Hospital, and Montaigne. The first of these sees freedom in ontological terms, the foundation of being as well as of any political system in the form of freedom
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Undead Dindenault: economics, theatre, and economic theatre in Rabelais’s Quart livre and beyond Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Zak Eastop
This article is primarily concerned with the Dindenault episode (chapters V-VIII) of François Rabelais’s Quart livre, which deals with economic and theatrical themes simultaneously. While previous studies have tackled these themes separately, I outline how they ought to be considered in tandem and, indeed, rely on one another for significance. I argue that in the Dindenault episode, Rabelais’s use
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Civic Pride and Royal Incorporation: Henri IV in Limoges Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Anna Rosensweig
This article examines an account of Henri IV’s entry ceremony into Limoges in 1605 that was written by Simon Descoustures, a local official and avocat du roi. I argue that this account opens up theoretical terrain on which to rethink narratives of royal power in early modern France. Henri IV’s royal entries have previously been understood as part of a broader effort to shore up his authority in the
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The Work of Fans: A Fête galante at Anet Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Chloé Hogg
Published in Early Modern French Studies (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2022)
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Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Frank Ejby Poulsen
Published in 1770, Le cosmopolisme by Joseph Honoré Rémy is the first pamphlet in French to elaborate upon a political philosophy of cosmopolitanism. I first present a biography of Rémy with original elements concerning his membership of the Freemasonic Lodge of the Nine Sisters. This article analyses his pamphlet and argues that his cosmopolitanism is a way of transcending the public and the private
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Theatrical Competition, Age, and the Career Race: ‘Old Corneille’ Rivals Racine Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Hélène Bilis
In 1670, Corneille and Racine duelled on the Parisian stage by presenting, within a week of each other, their particular version of the emperor Titus’s farewell to his beloved Bérénice. While this episode of the playwrights’ careers is well known, scholars have tended to minimize the importance of the head-to-head showdown in the overall arc of Corneille and Racine’s relationship. This essay argues
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Gambling by the Numbers: Frain du Tremblay and Barbeyrac on the Moral Uses of Probability Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Michael Call
The invention of probability mathematics in the seventeenth century added a novel element to the long European cultural discussion surrounding gambling. While the mathematicians regularly used gambling games in setting up and solving problems, they were often reluctant to make broader moral claims regarding the practice beyond establishing if a game was fair. Two French-language moralists, however
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Editor’s Note Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Nicholas Hammond
(2021). Editor’s Note. Early Modern French Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 123-123.
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Alain Viala, 20th November 1947 – 30th June 2021 Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Katherine Ibbett
(2021). Alain Viala, 20th November 1947 – 30th June 2021. Early Modern French Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 124-127.
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Henri de Mesmes (1532–1596) et ses ‘petits mémoires’ Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-13 Nicolae Virastau
Grand protecteur des arts du XVIe siècle, conseiller d’Henri III et chancelier de son épouse, Henri de Mesmes est souvent cité pour ses liens supposés avec Michel de Montaigne et Étienne de la Boétie. C’est à son récit de soi que cette étude s’intéresse, selon une approche littéraire et sociocritique. Connu seulement par une édition fautive du XIXe siècle, cet écrit qui ne fut à l’origine qu’un brouillon
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Consoling les vrais athées: Diderot and the Problem of the Afterlife Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-08-27 Phoebus Cotsapas
This essay is an exploration of Denis Diderot’s attitude towards mortality. Diderot’s work displays significant unease regarding the prospect of dying in a godless universe, and features various strategies for helping the existentially worried atheist cope with eventual annihilation. Most notably, throughout the course of his literary career Diderot developed two distinct schemes that might allow for
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Editor’s Note Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
(2021). Editor’s Note. Early Modern French Studies: Vol. 43, Women Philosophers in Early Modern France, edited by Derval Conroy, pp. 1-1.
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Introduction: Women and the History of Philosophy Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
This introduction aims to briefly outline some of the ways in which women have been historically excluded from the history of philosophy, and the ways in which recent developments are addressing that neglect and exclusion. It also outlines ways in which women were in fact included in the historiography of philosophy in the 17th century itself, the period in question.
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‘Le bien sur le bord du mal’: la philosophie morale de Marie de Gournay Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
Toute la philosophie de Gournay est morale. Elle recherche le critère de l'excellence quel que soit le thème dont elle traite. Si l'idéal aristotélicien de mesure semble servir de modèle à sa morale des vertus, il est en réalité inopérant. Il ne tient pas compte de la vertu de certains excès d'une part. Il n'est pas capable d'expliquer la proximité extrême entre le bien et le mal d'autre part. Il faut
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Against Uniformity: Gournay’s Philosophy of Language and Literature Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
Marie de Gournay’s defense of figurative language and her attack on the purified language championed by the neoclassical Parisian establishment is a political as well as aesthetic polemic. The neoclassical ideal of clear, concise speech not only impoverishes language through its animus toward the use of metaphor; it assaults human subjectivity by suppressing the expression of rare emotional states
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Suzanne de Nervèze polygraphe: les modulations du discours moral dans les Pensées chrestiennes et morales (1662) Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
Très diversifiés sur le plan générique, les quelque 36 imprimés que signe Suzanne de Nervèze entre 1636 et 1662 forment une production unifiée par une posture auctoriale de moraliste qui embrasse la spiritualité et la philosophie. Cette posture est particulièrement perceptible dans le tout dernier livre de Nervèze, Les Pensées chrestiennes et morales (1662), qui réunit une vingtaine de textes déclinant
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Society and Sociability in Gabrielle Suchon: Towards a Politics of Friendship Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
This article aims to examine the treatment of friendship in Gabrielle Suchon's Traité de la morale et la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire (1700). In the Traité, friendship is cast in political terms and is represented as the key foundational element of a healthy society. Specifically, a feminization of friendship and a politicization of sociability and conversation allow Suchon to carve out
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The Paradoxes of Religion in Gabrielle Suchon Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
Gabrielle Suchon’s reliance on religious texts and authorities to support and legitimise the arguments she makes in her two texts Traité de la morale et de la politique (1693) and Du célibat volontaire (1700) has sometimes been perceived as running contrary to its defence of female freedom. Suchon’s use of religious texts will be examined here as a corner stone of her attack on male hegemony and crucial
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‘Réformez vos contrats!’: From the Marriage Contract to the Social Contract in Louise Dupin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
I trace key arguments of Jean–Jacques Rousseau's political philosophy to Louise Dupin's Ouvrage sur les femmes to reveal that early modern feminist thought contributed directly to social contract theory. Rousseau applied Dupin's mockery of the marriage contract to dismiss as fraudulent the political contract that previous natural law philosophers had imagined between subjects and sovereign. He then
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Louise Keralio-Robert: Feminism, Virtue, and the Problem of Fanaticism Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-19
Louise Keralio-Robert began publishing translations, novels, history, and a collection of women’s works in the decade prior to the French Revolution. She was a republican journalist during its initial stages and then, after a period of obscurity, returned to publishing translations and novels at the end of the first decade of the nineteenth century. This article offers an overview of the works produced
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Le Théâtre Français au Septentrion (1669–1728): Diplomatie, Échanges Culturels et Migration entre Paris et Copenhague Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Christine Jeanneret
This article examines diplomacy, cultural exchanges, and theatre performance between France and Denmark. Based on new archival documents that, for the first time, take into account both French and Danish sources, we shed new light on the transnational history of French theatre in the Northern periphery of Europe. On one hand, the roles of cultural mediators are examined, such as Henning Meyercrone
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The Influence of Isaac de Lapeyrère upon Jacques Joseph Duguet, the Father of Figurisme, with Respect to the Reconversion of Israel in ‘Romans’ 9–11 Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Anna M. Vileno, Robert J. Wilkinson
The following essay seeks to contribute to the appreciation of the reception of Isaac de Lapeyrère's views, specifically concerning the conversion and future territorial prospects of the Jews. Drawing attention to the period when Lapeyrère lived together with Joseph-Jacques Duguet in the Oratory at Aubervilliers, we show his influence upon the father of figurisme and his later disciples. Lapeyrère
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Voltaire’s Incomplete Works (and Why They Will Stay that Way) Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Nicholas Cronk
The Complete works of Voltaire published by the Voltaire Foundation were begun in 1968 and will be completed in 203 volumes in 2021. In so far as discoveries of manuscripts and editions will continue to be made, this monumental edition is necessarily incomplete. But it is also incomplete in another more profound sense. Eighteenth-century editions of Voltaire present an often unstable version of the
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Marie Mancini Writing for Her Life Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Sarah Nelson
If Marie Mancini, niece of Louis XIV's chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, has come down through the ages, it has been because of her youthful love affair with the king and the scandal she caused later. She and her sister Hortense fled their marriages and travelled together and separately – but unaccompanied by the train their station demanded and unauthorised by their husbands – across western Europe
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Tyrants and Victims or Game Players? A Transactional Analysis Perspective on Barthes’s ‘Rapport de Force’ in Racine’s Phèdre Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Dana Lungu
This article will reveal that the tragic characters’ unconscious wants, beliefs and desires have a direct influence on their behaviour and their interactions and contribute to the unfolding of the tragic plot in Racine’s Phèdre. This work uses Eric Berne’s transactional analysis to explore the psychoanalytical dimension of Phèdre’s behaviour towards Hippolyte in order to go beyond Roland Barthes’s
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Political Resonances in the Motets for Saint Louis Under Louis XIV Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Sean Heath
This article examines several motets composed to celebrate Saint Louis (Louis IX) in late seventeenth-century France. As praise of Saint Louis overlapped with that of Louis XIV, these pieces offer insights into the interplay between the French baroque sacred repertoire and royal encomium. In their texts and music, the motets reflect shifts linked not just to the ceremonial contexts for which they were
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Editors’ Note Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Nicholas Hammond, Timothy Chesters
(2020). Editors’ Note. Early Modern French Studies: Vol. 42, ’Staging Justice in Early Modern France’, guest edited by Michael Meere and Valérie Dionne, pp. 105-105.
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IN MEMORIAM – Christian Biet (1952–2020) Early Modern French Studies Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Michael Meere
(2020). IN MEMORIAM – Christian Biet (1952–2020) Early Modern French Studies: Vol. 42, ’Staging Justice in Early Modern France’, guest edited by Michael Meere and Valérie Dionne, pp. 106-107.