... on the games that two kings, hoping to secure autocratic rule but avoid open despotism, play with sovereign mercy.2 The princes are Alfonso I of Aragon (1385 – 1458), known equally for his conquest of Naples and his patronage of the arts, and François I (1494 – 1547), under whom the Valois court flourished...

..., ou l’art de bien faire et de bien tourner les vers (1672; rpt. Geneva: Slatkine, 1972), 90. Kane ❙ The Myth of the Fixed-Form Villanelle 433 Similarly, Richelet’s Dictionnaire françois (1680), the first compre- hensive French-language dictionary (commissioned by the Académie...

...François Jullien Comparison of Chinese and Western civilizations cannot proceed on the basis of influences but only of originary distinctions. Even the most general categories remain unassimilable and must be understood in terms of contrasts. An exterior, “utopic” or “atopic” perspective that takes...

...Alexander Fischler Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 THEMATIC KEYS IN FRANCOIS MAURIAC’S THERESE DESQUEYROUX AND LE NGWD DE VIPERES By ALEXANDEKFISCHLEK Though the polemic and autobiographical writings...

... phrase was sometimes understood more nationalistically, denoting the history of French learning, an enterprise that also had its late-sixteenth-century antecedents, notably in the alphabetically arranged bibliographies compiled by François Grudé de La Croix du...

... Dufresny's Le Faux Irtstinct ( 1707), apparently, that this phenomenon is even mentioned on the stage." 1 Cf. M. de Beauchamps, Recherches wr les thkitres de France (Paris, 1735), p. 324; freres Parfaict, Histoire du thkcitre francois (Paris, 1749), XV, 63; le chevalier de Mouhy, Tablettes...

... that a writer or artist might adopt for a particular purpose—classical, Gothic, Romantic—like a choice of suit for an occasion or a choice of tool for a job. This was an idea of style as a type , with recognizable and ordinary features, not far from the sort of novel represented by François le Champi...

... François Ier; il en va de même pour Ronsard, malgré sa plus grande intimité avec Charles IX” (It may be said that Du Bellay, despite his deep admiration for Francis I, establishes the analogy most frequently between Henry II and Auguste; the same is true for Ron- sard, despite his greater intimacy...

.... In this respect Goldsmith’s agitation is rather different from and more energetic than his colleague Anne-Lise François’s (2008: 3, 33) case for “reti- cent assertion” as a counterargument to the “ethical imperative to act upon knowledge.” But both may be read as an implicit response to the dreary drumbeat...

... a donné que nous voyons icy Et crains que les François ne t’en donnent aussi. Jodelle le premier d’une plainte hardie Françoisement chanta la Grecque Tragedie.7 In keeping with the humanist poetics of the Pléiade, for which French literature was to be the descendant of Greco-Roman...

... of early modern distinctions between literature and science, he is author of Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton (2005). Thanks to Mathilde Bombart and Françoise Lavocat for occasions to present earlier versions of this essay, and to Marshall Brown, François Cornilliat, and John D...

... the entire chronological structure of the novel, from the accession of Elizabeth to the English throne in 1558 to the coronation of FranCois I1 the following year at Reims4 Thus the general presence of historical material can also be justified simply in terms of the structural...

... to modify or to fight the narrative of modernist ressentiment (the quoted phrase [106] is from Anne-Lise François [ 2008 : 146] on Emily Dickinson). At the end of Pyle’s introduction, “From Which One Turns Away,” a reading of Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa (1819) introduces...

..., reciprocated by the 7  François-­Hédelin, abbé d’Aubignac, Dissertations contre Corneille (1663), ed. Nicholas Hammond and Michael Hawcroft (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1995), 82 – 83. 8  Charles Sorel, Le nouveau...

... the Holy Roman Empire of Charles V through shared metaphors of imperial conquest, looting, and war. For their insights and suggestions I wish to thank François Rigolot, Leonard Barkan, Bonnie Honig, Louisa Mackenzie, and the editor of MLQ , Marshall Brown. Cynthia Nazarian is assistant...

... in Francois I, Henry VIII, and Charles IX. The good poetry composed by Francois I surprised and pleased Bois~ard Not only was literature in general, then, useful to the state. Emblem books themselves had enhanced utility to the prince and the court. The Renaissance vogue of emblems and devices...

... his first Shake- spearean performance in 1827. The love-struck composer filtered his admiration for the English playwright through an infatuation with Ophelia, performed by Harriet Smithson. For an entire generation of Romantics, from François Guizot to George Sand to Eugène Delacroix...

... of the courtier not only as ‘orna- ment,’ but as educator of the prince.”19 Queen Marguerite de Navarre, sister to King François I, was involved in an international tug-of-war between her brother and her husband, Henri de Navarre, over the mar- riage of her daughter, Jeanne. The archives reveal her caught...

... not put it in these terms, Trewhella seems to understand that in early modern resistance theory, invocations of “the people” are performative. Sixteenth-century French resistance treatises such as Beza’s Right of Magistrates , as well as François Hotman’s Francogallia ( 1573 ) and the anonymous...

...” livre en 1535,” Revue des ftudes rabeluisiennes, VII (1909), 385-86. “Les contemporains de Rabelais ddcouvrirent-ils la ‘substantificque mouelle’ ?” in Francois Rabelais: Ouvrage publik pour le quutri2me centennuire de so wort (Geneva and Lille, 1953), p. 75. 4 Cf. Jacques...