17th & 18th centuries

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  Alain RIFFAUD

  La Ponctuation du théâtre imprimé au XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Should critical editions of old texts modernize punctuation? It used to be thought that original punctuation was too erratic to be maintained, but the rediscovery of oratorical practices reopened the debate. Were typesetters to be blamed for every...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXV, 1789, ouvrages anonymes: M-Z

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 25

  There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

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  Frédéric BARBIER, Sabine JURATIC, Annick MELLERIO

  Dictionnaire des imprimeurs, libraires et gens du livre à Paris (1701-1789): A-C

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  Whereas the principle of state control over printed matter was constantly reaffirmed during the Enlightenment, the broadening of the readership, the demand for new texts, and the increase in French-language books published abroad made it all but all...

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  Jean GUARDIA

  Poétique de Molière : comédie et répétition

  Librairie Droz | Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire

  In the midst of classicism, Molière invented a way of structuring his plays that fundamentally breached Aristotelian poetics. His guiding principle was not to create difference (so that the spectator is always expecting something new) by a necessary...

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  Jean CHAPELAIN

  Opuscules critiques

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  A poet with no major work to his name until the publication of his «Pucell»e in 1656, Jean Chapelain (1595-1673) was also the most important critic and literary theoretician of the seventeenth century – and yet never wrote a poetic treatise. The...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXIV, 1789, ouvrages anonymes: A-L

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 24

  There was a marked deterioration in living conditions during the final years of Louis XVI’s reign, compounded by a poor harvest in 1788 and a worrying unemployment rate. Representatives of the third estate clearly manifested their independence from...

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  La Mémoire des guerres de religion : La concurrence des genres historiques XVIe-XVIIIe siècles

  Actes du Colloque international de Paris (15-16 novembre 2002)

  Librairie Droz | Etudes de Philologie et d'Histoire

  The trauma of the Wars of Religion was still affecting political and religious thought at the time of the Enlightenment. A large body of literature – including official histories, pamphlets, scholarly research, memoirs, novels, and epic poetry – grew...

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  Catherine MARCHAL-WEYL

  Le Tailleur et le fripier : Transformations des personnages de la "comedia" sur la scène française (1630-1660)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  French plays of the mid-seventeenth century were much influenced by the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age: imitations and adaptations by playwrights such as Rotrou, Boisrobert and Scarron proliferated between 1630 and 1660. Yet although both...

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  Estelle BOEUF

  La Bibliothèque parisienne de Gabriel Naudé en 1630

  Les lectures d'un "libertin érudit"

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Gabriel Naudé, author of the Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque and future librarian to Cardinal Mazarin, owned a remarkable library himself by 1631: 2500 volumes – on medicine, philosophy, and politics – catalogued in BnF ms fr...

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  FÉNELON

  Correspondance

  Tome XVIII, suppléments et corrections

  Librairie Droz | Correspondance de Fénelon

  The final volume of Fénelon’s correspondence includes rediscovered letters; undated letters or letters to unknown recipients, and a list of errata correcting details in the letters and notes of the first seventeen volumes. This is now the complete...