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ALBERT GAULTIER, ALEXANDRE (Oregon). Accepted: "L'itinéraire de Dom Juan: six décors pour une pièce à machines," CdDS; "Un comédien en colère: masques et grimaces de Molière dans la querelle des femmes," CdDS; "Trois regards contemporains sur Poussin," Actes de Montréal. In Progress: Bk., Interdisciplinary relationships between writers and painting (Ekphrasis) during second half of 17th c. Arts., "Le burlesque et l'esprit: la réponse de Poussin à Scarron," Actes d'Austin; "Charles Perrault: La peinture" (analysis); "La mort du héros," U. Lyon II Conf.

ASSAF, FRANCIS (Georgia). Arts., "Lire la violence en 1715," 9th SATOR Proceedings; "L'Esprit au pied de la lettre: ce qu'en disaient les dictionnaires," Actes d'Austin; "De l'oeuvre d'art à l'art du discours dans Gil Blas, 10th SATOR Conf., Johannesburg. Bks., Topique de la fiction narrative en prose pour l'année 1715 (interim title); Crit. ed., Antoine de la Motte's transl. of The Iliad (1714); Ed., Abraham Festschrift; Bk. ch. on Mme de Villedieu.

BARCHILON, JACQUES (Colorado). Marvels & Tales (U. Colorado, Box 238, Boulder, CO 80309 0238). Crit. ed., with Philippe Hourcade, of Mme d'Aulnoy's Contes, for STFM.

BEUGNOT, BERNARD (Montréal). Bks Accepted: les Muses classiques: essai de bibliographie rhétorique et poétique, Paris, Klincksieck; Le discours de la retraite au XVIIe. "loin du monde et du bruit," Paris, PUF. Arts., "Les usages du manuscrit," DSS (B.B. Guest Ed.). Ed. crit., Les Entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène (1671) du Père Bouhours, en collab. avec Gilles Declercq (Paris IV), Paris, Champion (coll. de Philippe Sellier).

BRAIDER, CHRISTOPHER (Colorado). Art., "Cet hymen différé: The Figuration of Authority in Corneille's Le Cid," (the latent conflict between poet and his rival/ double, the king), for Representations, Winter 1996. Bk., Indiscernable Counterparts: On the Critical Exemplarity of Classical French Theater (how genre enacts major themes of our critical modernity). Art., "Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason since Molière: The Staging of the Name in L'Ecole des femmes (witnesses large scale destruction of Cartesian Ego).

BRUNEAU, MARIE FLORINE (Southern Calif.). Bk., Western Mysticism on the Wane: Female Mystical Tradition and the Modern World. Marie de l'Incarnation (1599–1672) Madame Guyon (1648–1717), for SUNY Press, 1997.

BURCHELL, EILEEN (Marymount C. Tarrytown). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

BURY, EMMANUEL (U. de Versailles). Accepted: Littérature et politesse, l'invention de l'honnête homme (1580–1750), Paris, PUF (de l'usage des belles lettres dans la formation de l'homme; rhétorique et éthique; sources antiques de la littérature morale); Ed.of les Caractères de La Bruyère, Livre de Poche Classique. Bks., L'esthétique de La Fontaine, SEDES; éd. des Oeuvres poétiques de Boileau, Classiques Garnier, 1997; L'esthétique de la phrase et la rhétorique aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

CAMPION, EDMUND J. (Tennessee). "Scholarly Editing in Early Modern French Literature" [crit. eds., 16th–18th c.], sched. for MLA volume Scholarly Editing.

CANOVA GREEN, M.C. (U. London). Benserade: un maître du ballet, annotated ed. of the libretti of B's court ballets, UP Toulouse le Mirail, 1997. The Writing of History (an extended study of 17th c. French history books of the reign of Louis XIII).

CARLIN, CLAIRE (U. Victoria, British Columbia). Bk, Corneille Revisited, TWAS. Présidente, NASSCFL 1997.

CARR, TOM (Nebraska Lincoln). Arts., "Se condouloir ou consoler? La rhétorique des condoléances dans les manuels épistolaires de l'Ancien Régime"; "Prêcher raisonnablement": Pierre Nicole et la prédication."

CARTMILL, CONSTANCE (Manitoba). "Mme de Sévigné et la théorie de la sympathie," CMR 17 Sévigné. Madame de Lafayette and feminist criticism. Inventions de l'autobiographie à l'âge classique.

CENTRE FOR SEVENTEENTH CENTURY STUDIES. 7th biennial International Conference, Durham Castle, 21 24 July, 1997. Theme: "Wars and Revolutions." Director: Dr. Richard Maber, University Library, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN, England. Phone: Durham (091) 374–2721; Fax 0191 374–2716.

CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RENCONTRES SUR LE XVIIe SIECLE (CIR 17). Wolfgang Leiner, Président:.Colloque 1998: "L'Autre au dix septième siècle," Coral Gables, FL, 22 27 April; contact Barbara Woshinsky/ Ralph Heyndels, Dept. of Foreign Langs & Litts., U. of Miami, P.O. Box 248093, Coral Gables, FL 33124 4650. Annual dues $30 to Buford Norman, Treasurer, Dept. of French & Classics, U. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

CHAPCO, ELLEN J. (U. Regina). Bk., In Search of Tranquillity: Madame de La Fayette and the Fictionalization of Honnêteté. La Princesse de Clèves: Trente ans devant la critique. Une bibliographie intertextuelle. "Le portrait et la boîte: la fonction diégétique des objets dans quelques romans français (1660–1680)," 10th Colloque SATOR, Johannesburg.

CHARBONNEAU, FREDERIC (Montréal). "Les mémoires historiques en France (1610–1715)," thèse de doctorat (étude des rapports entre Mémoires et Historiographie, centrée sur la notion de secret).

CHOLAKIAN, PATRICIA (Hamilton C.) "Claiming Identity: Women and Self Representation in 17th Century France."

CHOUINARD, DANIEL (U. Guelph). Contrib. Ed, French 17

COURSE, DIDIER (Hood C.). Art., "Portrait de Mme de *** en Marie Madeleine: parure et dévotion dans l'oeuvre du père LeMoine." Bk., D'or et de pierreries: les paradis artificiels de la Contre Réforme en France.

DANNER, RICHARD (Ohio U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

DEBAISIEUX, MARTINE (Wisconsin Madison). Bk., Les voix de la différence: tradition littéraire et identité de l'auteur de la Renaissance au Classicisme. Ed., Le Labyrinthe de Versailles: Parcours critiques de Molière à Malebranche (en hommage à Alvin Eustis), Amsterdam, Rodopi. Ed., with Gabrielle Verdier, Fiction et violence sous l'Ancien Régime [titre provisoire]: Actes du 9e Colloque SATOR, ELF, G. Narr.

DOIRON, NORMAND (McGill) Ed. crit., Diéreville, Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie, suivie de Poésies Diverses, Rouen, 1708, UP Montréal "Bibliothèque du Nouveau monde," pour 1997.

DOSTIE, PIERRE (Cégep de Sainte Foy, Québec). Arts., "'Il ne faut point qu'il sorte du talent qu'il a de conter': Mme de Sévigné, critique des Fables de La Fontaine," Romanische Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte; "Du faste au dépouillement: deux 'manières de peindre' chez Mme de Sévigné," CdDS. In progress: "Trois portraits de Madame la Dauphine dans les lettres de la Marquise de Sévigné"; recensions pour LR (Louvain la Neuve).

DOWNING, A. THOMAS (Iowa). "Opera, Dispossession, and the Sublime: The Case of Armide" (Lully's and Quinault's opera in light of theories of the sublime by Longinus and Boileau).

EMELINA, JEAN (U. de Nice). Comique et tragique. "La Catharsis," AJFS. Le Comique, essai d'interprétation générale, Nathan, Nouvelle ed.. Comment définir le burlesque?, U. Clermont Ferrand. Terminologie tragique terminologie comique, Nathan, 1997.

FINN, THOMAS P. (Angelo State U.). "Comedia Contributions to a Molière Masterpiece," part of a crit. anth. in comparative litt. (Bucknell).

FLC. 25th Annual French Literature Conference (FLC), University of South Carolina, Columbia, March 20 22, 1997; Topic "Literature and Religion." Contact Jeff Persels, Dept. of French & Classics, USC, Columbia, SC 29208. Phone: (803) 777–4881; Fax (803) 777–0454; E mail perselsj@garnet.cla.sc.edu.

FORMAN, EDWARD (U. Bristol, U.K.). Bk., Excuses, excuses: Guilt and Extenuation in Tragedy (how changes in perception and understanding of guilt have affected creation and reception of tragic drama. Focuses on Aristotle, Greek tragedies, Bible, Racine, and interaction of these); "Mme de Sévigné et la musique de son temps" (with musical illustration), CMR 17 Sévigné

GAINES, JAMES F. (Southeastern Louisiana U.). Approaches to Teaching Tartuffe and Other Plays by Molière, N.Y., MLA. "Molière and Marx: Perspectives for a New Century," ECr; "Le Malade Imaginaire et le paradoxe de la mort," Eustis Festschrift; "From 1550 to La Fontaine," PFSCL; "L'éveil des sentiments et le paradoxe de la conscience," FR; "Framing the Portrait: The French Classical Figure in Time and Space," CdDS.

GANIM, RUSSELL (Nebraska Lincoln). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

GETHNER, PERRY (Oklahoma State). Crit. eds. of plays by Françoise Pascal and Catherine Durand. Treasurer, NASSCFL [FLs, Oklahoma SU, Stillwater, OK 74078]. $10 Dues now payable.

GOODKIN, RICHARD (Wisconsin Madison). Bk., Generations of French Classicism (study of family relations in Pierre and Thomas Corneille and Racine. Approach is both socio historical and psychological, but not psychoanalytic).

GOUVERNET, GERARD (SUNY C. Geneseo). Annotated ed., Works of Madame de Saliez (Réflexions chrétiennes, La Comtesse d'Isembourg, Lettres et poésies diverses, une fable et des traductions d'Anacréon).

GRISE, CATHERINE (U. Toronto). "Horns of a Dilemma: The World of Cuckoldry in La Fontaine's Contes," PFSCL; "Les Fausses Espérances dans Britannicus de Jean Racine," CdDS; "Pouvoir et pièges: La Fontaine et 'Le pouvoir des fables,'" ELF; "Jean de La Fontaine's Contes: A Patchwork of Folklore Motifs," RomN. Cognitive Space and Structures of Deceit in the Contes of La Fontaine (Rookwood Press, 1997). In preparation: Bk., Le Jeu des cadres épistémiques dans la littérature du XVIIe siècle. Project, "Tale Type and Motif Index of La Fontaine's Contes and of the conte en vers in the 18th and 19th Centuries."

HILGAR, MARIE FRANCE (Nevada Las Vegas). International President, Phi Sigma Iota (International Foreign Language Honor Society).

HOFFMANN, KATHRYN (U. Hawaii Manoa). Arts., "Violence of Heroism, Violence of Terror: The Paradoxical Nature. The Paradoxical Nature of Violence in Western Myth and Culture," The Image of Violence, eds. W. Wright and S. Kaplan (U. Southern Colorado). "Le Phallus du Roi défaillant et dévoilé: la politique érotique de la monarchie absolue," PFSCL. "Matriarchal Desires and Labyrinths of the Marvelous: Fairy Tales by Ancien Régime Women," Women Writers in Pre Revolutionary France: Strategies in Emancipation, eds. C. Winn and D. Kuizenga (Garland Press); "Of Innocents and Hags: The Status of the Female in The Seventeenth Century Fairy Tale," CdDS. Bk., Society of Pleasures: Interdisciplinary Readings in Pleasure and Power during the Reign of Louis XIV (In submission).

ILLINOIS PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 1st Annual Conference, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, April 3 5, 1997. NBo pre set topic. Contact Bonnie Irwin, Executive Secretary, English Dept., Eastern I.U., Charleston, IL 61920; E mail cfbdi@eiu.edu

JAYMES, DAVID (Oakland U.). Pascal; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

KLEIN, NANCY (Independent Scholar). Transl., The Loves of Sundry Philosophers and Other Great Men [1673] by Marie Catherine Desjardins de Villedieu [Transcription, with commentary and information concerning reception of V's works in England in the 17th c.]. Section on Villedieu for anthology L'Autre voix: Ecrits de femmes francophones du moyen âge à nos jours. Entry on the topic of fable for A Feminist Companion to French Literature, ed. Eva Sartori, Greenwood Press.

KRONEGGER, MARLIES (Michigan State). "Les sourires de Madame de Sévigné et la Provence reflétés dans sa correspondance, CMR 17 Sévigné. Smile of the Soul, the Smile of the Mind," Analecta Husserliana.

KUIZENGA, DONNA (Vermont). To appear: "La topique du secret chez Lafayette: Histoire et histoires," Actes du 5e Colloque SATOR, Lisbon, Portugal, Institut Franco Portugais. "Fine veuve" ou "veuve d'une haute vertu"? Portraits de la veuve chez Mme de Villedieu," CdDS. "Des incidens plus propres à composer des Annales Tragiques, qu'à servir de matière aux Annales Galantes." Violences et silences dans l'oeuvre de Mme de Villedieu," Scénarios de la violence, eds. Gabrielle Verdier and Martine Debaisieux. In Progress: Bks., On Her Own: Masks and Gender in the Writings of Madame de Villedieu. Women Writers in Pre Revolutionary France: Strategies of Emancipation [coll. essays, co ed. with Colette Winn] (Garland). Arts., "Seizing the Pen: Narrative Power and gender in Mme de Villedieu's Mémoires de la vie de Henriette Sylvie de Molière and Delarivier Manley's Adventures of Rivella" (for previous bk.). Mme de Villedieu, entry for Feminist Companion to French Literature. Sens unique? Les Scudéry en Angleterre au 17e siècle.

LAGARDE, FRANÇOIS (Texas Austin). Bk., le Dix septième au vingtième, recherches sur les réceptions littéraire et culturelle de la littérature classique en France au XXe siècle. Président, NASSCFL 1996.

LEINER, WOLFGANG (U. Washington/ U. Tübingen). Editor, PFSCL/ Biblio 17; Editor, Oeuvres et Critiques; Editor, Collection Etudes littéraires françaises; Président, CIR.

LOCKWOOD, RICHARD (Rutgers New Brunswick). The Reader's Figure: Epideictic Rhetoric in Plato, Aristotle, Racine, Bossuet, and Pascal, for Droz, 1996.

MALLINSON, JONATHAN (Trinity C., Oxford). Studies in 17C French Fiction (A series of re readings of selected texts, with particular reference to the theories and practices which underlie them).

MARCEAU, WILLIAM C. (St. John Fisher C.). (l) Influence of Neoplatonism on French Spiritual Writers of the 17th Century (Early Christianity and its evolution in light of Plotinus' teachings), Angelicum University Publications, Rome. (2) Henri Bergson's Debt to St. Augustine (influential Augustinian readings of Bergson). (3) Descartes and Revealed Truths (The Christian Scripture and the Meditations).

MARGITIC, MILORAD (Wake Forest U.). "De l'humour chez Corneille," for Colloque Corneille in Rouen, 1/97. Bk., Strategies of Power in Corneille's Theatre.

MOUVEMENT-CORNEILLE. Centre International Pierre Corneille. Président, Alain Niderst. Devoted to "assurer et développer la vie parmi nous de l'auteur du Cid." Sponsors theater performances, exhibits, scholarly assistance, a collection of docs. at the Municipal Library, and a bulletin Corneille vivant. Its next biennial "journée d'étude Corneille," treating the comedies, will take place in January 1997; proceedings of the 1994 meeting will appear shortly in DSS. Dues 150 FF [Hôtel des Sociétés Savantes, 190 r. Beauvoisine, 76000 Rouen. Phone 3598.5510 (Mme Poirel)]. NASSCFL 1997: 29th Annual Conference, University of Victoria, British Columbia, April 3 5, 1997. Contact Claire Carlin, Dept. of French, P.O. Box 3045, UV, Victoria, BC, V8W 3P4, CANADA. Phone (250) 721–7368; Fax (250) 721–8724; E mail ccarlin@uvic.ca.

NIDERST, ALAIN (U. de Rouen). Ed., Oeuvres complètes de Fontenelle, Paris, Fayard. Ed., Traité de la Liberté, Des Oracles, Des Miracles, Paris, Universitas. Ed. d'une Anthologie des mémorialistes du règne de Louis XIV, Paris, Laffont. Organisation du Colloque Maintenon (Niort). Président, Mouvement Corneille.

NORMAN, BUFORD (South Carolina). Ed. crit., Philippe Quinault's Livrets d'opéra, 2 vols. (Paris, Eds. Van Dieren, 1996). Bk. on opera libretti of Quinault. History of opera performances during the reign of Louis XIV.

NORMAN, LARRY F. (U. Chicago). Bk., The Public Mirror: The Dynamics of Depiction in Molière's Comedy of Manners. Examines plays as pragmatic exercises designed to provoke a sense of self recognition in the audience, by dialoging with polemical texts of the period. Verbal portraits in M provide key to his moral of representation and identification.

PAVEL, THOMAS (Princeton). Forthcoming: Bk., L'art de l'éloignement [Essai sur l'imagination classique], Paris, Gallimard, coll. FOLIO Essais. English version, Princeton UP.

PLAZENET, LAURENCE (U. Paris IV Sorbonne). To appear: Bk., L'ébahissement et la délectation. Réception comparée et poétiques du roman grec en France et en Angleterre au XVIe et au XVIIe siècles , Paris, H. Champion. Ed. crit. et notes, J. Baudouin, L'Histoire Nègre Pontique, Paris, Champion, 1997. In progress: late XVIth and XVIIth c. novel; the nouvelle/ heroic novel; French and English translations from the Ancient Greek.

PROBES, CHRISTINE McCALL (U. South Florida). Bk. on John Calvin, accepted and in final stages. "'moi je vous dirai auff gut pfältzish': les expressions allemandes au service de Madame Palatine, épistolière française," CIR 17 "Religious Reform in France in the 16th C.," "Cultural Studies, History and Rhetoric," focusing on history of rhetoric, literary, social, ideological and rhetorical theory, multicultural and Co authored Dept. grant for teacher education in FLs, MLA/NEH 2 year grant, awarded 2/95. "Le Paysage érotique: Le Paradis perdu de Pierre Jean Jouve," for conference in France. Reviewer for Biblio 17, CdDS, PFSCL, Faith and Practice. Secretary, NASSCFL; Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RANUM, ORESTE (Johns Hopkins). A general history of France in the 1650's. Papers on clemency in Corneille, Richelieu, and attitudes toward wealth in Richelieu and Mazarin.

RECKER, JO ANN (Xavier U.). "Très affectueusement, votre Mère en Dieu": Françoise Blin French Aristocrat, Belgian Citizen, Religious Educator 1756 1838, Peter Lang, Belgian Francophone Series, 1997. (Belgian history as seen through letters of B, co foundress of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur).

REISS, TIMOTHY J. (NYU). Bks.: From Trivium to Quadrivium: Language, Mathematics, and the Fictive Imagination, Cambridge UP, in press [on the C16 17th switch from language to maths. in matters of discovery]. Mirages of the Self: Theology, Politics, and Private Imagining, Cambridge UP [on transformation of the subject, C16th 17th ]. Descartes, Philosophy, and the Public Sphere, 2 v., projected for Cornell UP. Racine Politiqué.

RICORD, MARINE (U. Grenoble 2). "L'ironie ou la 'circonlocution du sérieux' dans les Caractères de J. de La Bruyère," Colloque de la Sorbonne "Tricentenaire de La Bruyère."

ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Northwestern). "Portraits de la Princesse Palatine," for Analecta and further research. "Illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables," for American Society for Phenomenology. Parisian engravers and 17th c. châteaux in Ile de France. "North American Theses on 17th C. Contrib. Ed., French 17.

RUBIN, DAVID LEE (Virginia). Activities: "Horror Vacui: Translation Strategy and the Problem of Lafontainian Silence," 1996 Kentucky Foreign Language Confeence; "Translation and Atavism," 1996 Taft Lecture in the Humanities, University of Cincinnati; Partial reprint from CL 47.1 , "[Dis]solving Double Irony: La Fontaine, Marianne Moore, and Ulysses' Companions," Acta of the London Institute for Romance Studies (Biblio 17). In Progress: auth, Refabulation: La Fontaine in English from Mandeville to the Moderns; ed, EMF 3 (Indices of the Early Modern-Interdisciplinary Approaches 2); La Poésie française du premier 17e siècle: textes et contextes, revised and enlarged in collaboration with Robert T. Corum, Jr. Other: EMF 1 short listed for "Best New Journal Award" CELJ; Ed, EMF Monographs (distributed in France by Librairie Honoré Champion and elsewhere abroad by Editions Slatkine).

SABA, GUIDO (U. de Rome). Fortune et infortunes de Théophile de Viau. Appendice bibliographique (Ed. probable, Klincksieck, 1997). Bibliographie de et sur Théophile de Viau, Coll. Bibliographie des Ecrivains Français (B.E.F.), Paris, C.N.R.S., 1997(?).

SE17 (Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century Studies). 1997 Conference, New Bern, NC. Contact Steven V. Dock, Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858 4353. Phone (919) 328–6232; Fax (919) 328–6233; E mail fldock@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu.

SEIFERT, LEWIS (Brown). Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690 1715: Nostalgic Utopias, Cambridge UP. Bk. on masculinity and civility in early modern France.

SOARE, ANTOINE (Montréal). "Néron et Narcisse ou le mauvais mauvais conseiller," à paraître dans SCFS. Président, NASSCFL 1995.

SPIELMANN, GUY (Georgetown). A paraître: "Le mythe d'Arcadie dans le texte du pouvoir royal: sémiotique et ésotérisme," Actes de Montréal; "La 'Comédie post Moliéresque' et son double: Eléments pour une problématique," CdDS; "Herméneutique de la nature et propagande politique au Grand Siècle: La Philosophie des images du Père Ménestrier." En cours: Un Laboratoire dramaturgique: La comédie Fin de Règne (1680 1715; éd. crit., De la Génération de l'homme; ou, Tableau de l'amour conjugal de Nicolas Venette (1687). Président, SE17 1996

STEFANOVSKA, MALINA (Calif. Los Angeles). "A Well Staged Coup d'Etat: The Royal Lit de Justice in 1718," for Sub/Stance, 6/96 (the theatrical model in political action, examined after the account of an important political ceremony, reported in the Mémoires of Saint Simon); "A Monumental Triptych:(explores themes of history writing and writing about the self in this biography of Henri IV, Louis XIII, and.Louis XIV).

STEINBERGER, DEBORAH (U. Delaware). Bk., Molière and the Domestication of French Comedy (examines evolution of comic stage settings from public square to domestic interior, 1660 1740; links this transformation of scenic space to parallel changes in social space in 17th C. France). Crit. ed., Françoise Pascal's Literary Letter Collection Le Commerce du Parnasse (1669). Art., "The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Visé's L'Embarras de Godard, ou l'accouchée."

SWEETSER, MARIE ODILE (Illinois Chicago). Forthcoming: "Les esthétiques de La Fontaine," Actes du colloque du Tricentenaire, ed. Patrick Dandrey, Paris, ; "Naissance fortuite et fortunée d'un nouveau genre: Molière et la comédie ballet," Mélanges Claude Abraham, ed. Francis Assaf, U. Georgia. "Le monde comique cornélien: conventions, mentalités, mise en question," Mélanges Cecilia Rizza, ed. Rosa Galli Pellegrini et al., Schena Nizet. In Progress: Bk., Poétique de La Fontaine (Droz interested, 1997). "Images de Mme de Maintenon chez Mme Palatine et Saint Simon," Actes du Colloque Maintenon, Niort. Bk. reviews for FR, PFSCL, DSS.

SZOGYI, ALEX ((Hunter C./ CUNY). Volume of La Fontaine Studies, L'avenir de La Fontaine, to be publ. in France, 1997.

TOBIN, RONALD W. (Calif. Santa Barbara). Jean Racine Revisited, Simon and Schuster; "Civilité et convivialité dans le théâtre de Molière," Le Nouveau Moliériste; "Pascal and the Jews," Abraham Festschrift; "Taking the High Road: The Augustinian Quest in Le Discours de la méthode; "Jean Racine," entry for Encyclopaedia Britannica; Molière a tavola, Italian transl. of Tarte à la crême: Comedy and Gastronomy in Molière's Theater, Balzoni.

VAN DELFT, LOUIS (U. Paris X). In press: "La structure des recueils moralistes," in Le prisme des moralistes, Actes du Colloque La Bruyère de Rome/Viterbe; "Le fragment à l'âge classique," in Moralia, v.1, Paris Champion; "Caractère et style," RZFL/ CHLR; "Fragment et mémoire," Actes du Colloque d'Essen, 1996; "Le Fragment," in Histoire de la France Littéraire, Paris, PUF, t.2. Ed. des Caractères, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale.

VEDVIK, J.D. (Colorado State U.). Editor, French 17. Back issues available at $10 each, 1953 present. Index and on line format projected. [Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures, CSU, Fort Collins, CO 80523].

VERDIER, GABRIELLE (Wisconsin Madison). Recent: "From Reform to Revolution: The Social Theater of Olympe de Gouges," in Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789, ed. C. Montfort, Summa Publ.; "Variété et ambiguïtés du dénouement dans les contes de fées littéraires," Le Dénouement romanesque, Actes du 7e Colloque SATOR, Paris, Apte; "Miroir, Grimoire: le livre dans les contes de fées littéraires," L'épreuve du lecteur, Leuven Paris, Peeters; "Féerie et utopie dans les contes de fées féminins," Utopie et fictions narratives, ed. M. Bareau and S. Viselli, Parabasis 7. In progress: "De ma mère l'Oie à Mother Goose: La fortune des contes de fées littéraires français en Angleterre, Colloque de Fribourg, 5/96; "Memoirs, Publishing, Scandal: the case of Mme D***," in Women Writers of the Ancien Régime (provisional title), eds C. Winn and D. Kuizenga. Bks.: Ed., with M. Debaisieux, Violence et fiction, Actes du 9e Colloque SATOR, ELF, G. Narr; Crit. ed., Charles Sorel, La Question du langage, for Macula, 1997 [three satirical texts on language and the role of the French Academy].

VUILLEMAIN, JEAN CLAUDE (Penn State). Crit. ed. of Rotrou's tragi comedy L'Hypocondriaque ou Le Mort amoureux (1628), for Droz, with five other oeuvres poétiques du Sr. Rotrou (24 pp.) included as appendix. Based on 1st ed. (T. Du Bray, 1631), to remedy critical, philological and aesthetic inadequacies of later eds. Inaugural play exemplifies R's typical self reflexive performance, stresses art of the actor..

WESTERN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY. Contact Amanda Eurich, History Dept., Western Washington U., Bellingham, WA 98225 9056

WILLIAMS, CHARLES G. S. (Ohio State U.). Contrib. Ed., French 17.

WOSHINSKY, BARBARA (U. Miami). Current research on (1) representations of women's convents, 1580 1789; (2) allegories of women.

WYGANT, AMY (U. Southern Calif./ U. of Glasgow). "Boileau and the Sound of Satire," FMLS, 1995. Bk., Toward a Cultural Philology: Phèdre and the Invention of Racine. "Corneille, Rubens, and the Heroic Emblem," Emblematica 9, forthcoming.