17th & 18th centuries

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  Mémoires de Benjamin Aubery du Maurier, ambassadeur protestant de Louis XIII (1566-1636)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Benjamin Aubery served Louis XIII, first in financial administration, then as diplomat, notably as ambassador to the United Netherlands from 1613 to 1624. Aubery's memoirs demonstrate a slow secularization of international relations, ...

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  Corona Regia

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  Corona Regia (1615), published under false author's and printer's names, has been infamously known as a porno-political tract, a scandalous satire written against King James I, and the most scathing satire ever written against princes...

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  A la baïonnette ou au scalpel

  Comment l'horreur s'écrit

  Université de Gand | Romanica Gandensia

  Horror has long fascinated readers and spectators, from visions of hell in Middle Ages to apocalyptic reflections on modern times. This collection of articles sheds light on the representation of horror, and the pleasure it can provide readers.

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  Philippe NÉRICAULT DESTOUCHES

  Le Philosophe marié ou le Mari honteux de l'être

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Staged for the first time on the 15th of February, 1727, by the Comédie Française, Philippe Néricault Destouches' comedy, Le Philosophe marié, ou Le Mari honteux de l’être, became one of the greatest successes of the first half of the 18th century...

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  Michel ANTOINE

  Le Conseil du roi sous le règne de Louis XV

  Librairie Droz | Titre courant

  The royal councils were an essential part of the King's government, an extension of his political being. Michel Antoine examines the complex institutions that composed the different royal councils under the Ancien Régime, studying the reach ...

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  Emmanuelle CHAPRON

  "Ad utilità pubblica"

  Politique des bibliothèques et pratiques du livre à Florence au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Histoire et civilisation du livre

  The landscape of Florentine libraries changed profoundly between the reign of the Medicis and the archdukes of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The opening of two public libraries, creation of specialized collections, dispersion of ecclesiastical collections and...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXVII, Deuxième supplément : 1716-1789

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 27

  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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  Mickaël SZANTO

  Le Dessin ou la couleur ? Une exposition de peinture sous le règne de Louis XIV

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  A booklet itemising 171 paintings and several sculptures serves as a reminder of a forgotten but important artistic event under Louis XIV: the sumptuous public exhibition organized in Paris in the autumn of 1683. The very first exhibition of its kind...

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  Patricia GILLET

  Etienne Baluze et l’histoire du Limousin : desseins et pratiques d’un érudit du XVIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  Étienne Baluze is known to posterity as Colbert’s librarian, as a professor of canon law, and as an editor of ecclesiastical authors. Less well-known is his contribution to the history of the Limousin. This local deep-rootedness is visible between the...

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  Autour des collections d'art en Chine au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes Orientales - Extrême Orient n° 44/8

  In this volume, art historians and sinologists discuss the question of art collecting in eighteenth-century China. Art collecting is an ancient practice in China, with specific means for acquiring, appreciating and exhibiting objects. Under the Qing...

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  Pierre M. CONLON

  Le Siècle des Lumières : Bibliographie chronologique

  T. XXVI, 1789, auteurs

  Librairie Droz | Bibliographie de P. M. Conlon n° 26

  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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  L'Invention de la catastrophe au XVIIIe siècle: du châtiment divin au désastre naturel

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  While Jean Starobinski showed that the eighteenth century « invented » liberty, it also invented catastrophe. Linguistically, the word appears for the first time in its modern, non-theatrical, sense. Scientifically and philosophically, scholars and...

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  David MCCALLAM

  L'Art de l'équivoque chez Laclos

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  David McCallam reveals the brilliant modernity of Liaisons dangereuses and of the Laclosian universe, rereading Laclos’ masterpiece based on heretofore ignored notions and patterns such as the secret or the promise. The literary study is completed by...

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  Diderot Studies

  tome 30

  Librairie Droz | Diderot Studies

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  BOMBELLES

  Journal

  T. VII, 1808-1815

  Librairie Droz | Journal du Marquis de Bombelles

  The years 1808 to 1815 were eventful ones for the marquis de Bombelles: the king of Prussia named him to the head of a deanery in Silesia and Napoleon’s defeat would finally allow him to return to France. But he also had his share of disillusionments...

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  Jocelyn ROYÉ

  La Figure du pédant de Montaigne à Molière

  Librairie Droz | Travaux du Grand Siècle

  While the sixteenth-century pedant was in charge of educating young people, at the end of the next century, the word refers to those who abuse their knowledge in their relations with others. At the same time, comic literature made popular the...

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  Jean DU BELLAY

  Correspondance. Tome III, 1537-1547

  Société de l'Histoire de France | Annuaire-Bulletin

  The Cardinal Jean du Bellay’s correspondence is an essential historical tool thanks to his role as prelate under the kings Francis I and Henry III, in France and abroad. The publication of the numerous and diverse extant letters was undertaken in...

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  Christian MICHEL

  Le «célèbre Watteau»

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  Working outside court circles and away from the usual patrons, Watteau achieved fame in a short period of time before his premature death. His contemporaries described his paintings as ‘innovative’ and ‘charming’. It is interesting to compare the...

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  Alexandre WENGER

  La Fibre littéraire : Le discours médical sur la lecture au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Bibliothèque des Lumières

  Reading becomes a medical condition in the eighteenth century. Physiologists attribute to the nerve fibre the physical and psychological problems that befall those who read too much or read badly. But do the effects of reading depend on the...

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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...