Litterature

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  Laurence MOULINIER-BROGI

  Guillaume l'Anglais le frondeur de l'uroscopie médiévale (XIIIe s.)

  Édition commentée et traduction du De urina non visa

  Librairie Droz | Hautes Etudes médiévales et modernes

  In 1220, when the majority of Western physicians had come to rely on the examination of their patients' urine to make a diagnosis and give a prognosis, a practitioner named Guillaume, an Englishman settled in Marseille...

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  Gustave FLAUBERT

  Madame Bovary

  Reproduction au trait de l'édition originale de 1857, annotée par Gustave Flaubert (BHVP, Rés. ms. 95)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  In the autumn of 1856, the Revue de Paris printed in six consecutive issues a previously unpublished novel, Madame Bovary. Laurent Pichat, editor of the Revue, had demanded cuts from his author which the latter had refused...

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  Victor HUGO

  Les Contemplations

  Reproduction au trait de l'original de 1856, offert à Auguste Vacquerie

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Victor Hugo's 1856 Les Contemplations was an immense success, selling out its first edition within days. The present work is a facsimile edition of the copy offered by Hugo to his lost daughter’s brother-in-law, Auguste Vacquerie...

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  Les Fables avant La Fontaine

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises n° 253

  La Fontaine's shadow obscures the genre of fable before his advent, something which this collection of articles seeks to correct. The different studies present the growth of fable collections before the seventeenth century, preparing La Fontaine’s ...

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  Yearbook of Comparative and General literature, vol. 55, 2009

  The End of a World

  Librairie Droz | Yearbook of Comparative and General literature

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  Pierre de L'ESTOILE

  Journal du règne de Henri IV. T. I (1589-1591)

  Librairie Droz | Textes Littéraires Français

  Pierre de L'Estoile, Grand audiencier of the Parisian parliament, was as fascinated by the current affairs and curiosities of Paris's political life as he was by the sensational gossip spread by the political satires that he collected...

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  Mabrian. Roman de chevalerie en prose. Tome II

  Edition de Paris, Jacques Nyverd, 1530 (BnF, Rés. Y2.75)

  Université de Gand | Romanica Gandensia

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  Christine FERLAMPIN-ACHER

  Perceforest et Zéphir 

  Propositions autour d'un récit arthurien bourguignon

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  Perceforest tells the prehistory of the Grail through the exploits of Alexander and Arthur in a universe where paganism and Christianity are connected by enchantment...

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  Barbara WAHLEN

  L'Écriture à rebours

  Le Roman de Meliadus du XIIe au XVIIIe siècle

  Librairie Droz | Publications Romanes et Françaises

  An ellipitic continuation of the Prose Tristan, which inscribes itself in the space separating the birth of Tristan from Meliadus' new marriage with king Hoël’s daughter, the Meliadus’ romance (1235-1240) is essentially an open text...

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  Jean Salmon MACRIN

  Hymnes (1537)

  Librairie Droz | Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance n° 481

  Jean Salmon Macrin (1490-1557), famous neo-latin poet, native from Loudun, in France's Touraine region, held the position of official valet and poet for king Francis the First, like his colleague Clément Marot...