17th & 18th centuries

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  Le Temps des beaux sermons

  Librairie Droz | Cahiers du GADGES

  The year 2004 was marked by the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of the two greatest French preachers, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) and Louis Bourdaloue (1632-1704). Before them, talented orators such as Du Perron and Saint Francis de...

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  Samuel HOOGSTRATEN

  Introduction à la haute école de l’art de peinture

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  The Introduction to the school of the art of painting (1678), by Rembrandt's former pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten, is an important source on the visual culture and artistic practices of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. A French translation, notes...

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  Fabrice BRANDLI

  Une résidence en République

  Le résident de France à Genève et son rôle face aux troubles politiques de 1734 à 1768

  Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève (SHAG) | Cahiers de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Genève

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  Fernand HALLYN

  Descartes : Dissimulation et ironie

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  According to the Discourse on method, there are few people who dare to state their beliefs. This is borne out later in the same book by Descartes's own unwillingness to contradict 'people to whom I defer, and whose authority over my actions is hardly...

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  Ralph DEKONINCK

  "Ad Imaginem" : Statuts, fonctions et usages de l'image dans la littérature spirituelle jésuite du XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  The 'rhetoric of paintings' in seventeenth-century Jesuit literature is concerned with bringing pictures to life and granting them speech. Since the sixteenth century the prefaces to illustrated books had been repeating that the 'body' (or picture)...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXIII, 1788

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 23

  When Buffon died in 1788, two biographies celebrated his life. Rousseau and Voltaire, who had both disappeared ten years earlier, were still very much present in people’s memory. There were numerous French translations of English and German books...

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  La Parole masquée

  Librairie Droz | Cahiers du GADGES

  On sait ce qu'il en est de la transparence du discours, et la parole semble souvent masquer plutôt que produire ou révéler son objet. Ce volume tente d'explorer principalement l'inscription de ces pratiques retorses dans les genres littéraires aux...

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  "Tous vos gens à latin" : le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siècles)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 405

  Table of Contents: P. Bourgain, «Réflexions médiévales sur les langues de savoir»; A. Grondeux, «Le latin et les autres langues au Moyen Age: contacts avec des locuteurs étrangers, bilinguisme, interprétation et traduction (800-1200)»; P. Lardet...

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  Ludivine GOUPILLAUD

  De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles : Métamorphoses de l'épopée dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle, en France

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  All seventeenth-century creators, be they writers, artists, or architects, drew inspiration from the Aeneid, whether they acknowledge their debt to Virgil or not. ‘Heirs’ openly claim their Virgilan ancestry, ‘prodigal sons’ recognize it but seek new...

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  Jan Amos COMÉNIUS

  "Novissima Linguarum Methodus" : La toute nouvelle Méthode des langues

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  The Moravian intellectual Jan Amos Komensky better known as Comenius, published his Linguarum methodus novissima in 1648. In it he reveals his method of teaching and learning language. Astonishingly, this treatise bears all the characteristics of a...