... and Works of Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme de Ville- dieu) , 1632-1683. By BRUCEARCHER MORRISSETTE. Saint Louis : Washington University Studies, New Series, Language and Litera- ture, No. 17, 1947. Pp. xi + 210. $3.00. This is a sober, careful, scholarly account of a not uninteresting...

...Alan J. Singerman Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 HISTORY AS METAPHOR IN MME DE LAFAYETTE’S LA PRINCESSE DE CLEVES By ALANJ. SINGERMAN In the first published study of Mme de Lafayette’s La Princesse de...

.... C. Knoepflmacher, “‘0rare for Strether Antony and Cleopatru and The Ambassadors,” NCF, XIX (1965), 333-44, sees Strether’s imagination converting Mme de Vionnet into Cleopatra. Julian B. Kaye, “The Awkward Age, The Smed Fount, and The Ambassadors: Another Figure in the Carpet,” NCF...

... of an ability to give fresh rendering to visual impressions, and de- scribes her as foreshadowing in writing some of the discoveries that Elstir (Monet) makes in painting. Virginia Woolf contends that Mme de Sevigne displays such extraordinary openness to experience and such ripe narrative gifts...

... enjoys, and yet, through his association with Chad and Mme de Vionnet, he comes to feel that he possesses the youth he has never known; in James’s words, he knows “a little supersensual hour in the vicarious freedom of an- other.”l Inseparable from Strether’s longing for the “queer concrete...

... of Baudelaire: “Les po4mes du cycle de Mme Sabatier doivent sans doute A Poe quelque chose de leur ton d’admiration spiritualiste . . . les poitmes composCs pour Mme Sabatier doivent quelque chose h la mysticit6 amoureuse de Poe.”6 These comments by Henri Peyre typify the general attitude. Even LKon...

... than mere physical pleasure. Thus Valmont, speaking of Cede Volanges, the fifteen-year-old convent girl whom Mme de Merteuil wishes to degrade in order to take revenge on a former lover, says: Que me proposez-vous? de seduire une jeune fille qui n’a rien vu, ne connait rien; qui...

.... $5.00. ‘I‘his short but compact and perceptive analysis of La Princesse de Cl2ves starts from the premise that Mme cle La Fayette “intentionally or uninten- tionally.. . has created a work of art which poses moral questions” (p. xiii). Not until the twentieth century did literary criticism...

... rejected the story.2 Pellisson, it must be added, is not impartial-he is eulogizing Malesherbes and attempting to prove him a faithful officer of the king. We cannot give much weight to his argument that one of the witnesses, Mme de Vandeul, writing thirty years after the event, is unworthy...

... rejected the story.2 Pellisson, it must be added, is not impartial-he is eulogizing Malesherbes and attempting to prove him a faithful officer of the king. We cannot give much weight to his argument that one of the witnesses, Mme de Vandeul, writing thirty years after the event, is unworthy...

...Harriet Ray Allentuch Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 PAULINE AND THE PRINCESSE DE CLEVES By HARRIETRAY ALLENTUCH Since their creation in the seventeenth century, Corneille’s Pauline and Mme...

... pp. $15.00. The last years of the seventies were good ones for the study of Mme de Stael with the publication of Lucia Omacini’s critical edition of Des circonstances ac- tuelles qui peuvent terminer la rkvolution, Simone Balaye’s Madame de Stael: Lu- mitres et liberti, a general...

... a cast of only three major characters, Phil, Vinca, and Mme Dalleray, and assigns to the others the role of shades or voices; she unifies time by reducing it to approximately six weeks extending from August into September; and, not content with such classical...

... to Julien, who seems to intuit the impending danger when he comments, “Serais-je un liiche!” (p. 240). The passage also prefigures Julien’s fate for the reader. Toward the end of the novel, Julien shoots Mme de Renal on this same spot, the act for which he is condemned to death. The second...

... treatment of the Lyonnais book publisher, is especially well summarized. Bal- lanche’s close connection with Mme RCcamier for thirty-five years was probably the most important influence in his life. Not only was he a devoted companion throughout this time, but Mme RCcamier left her mark...

... de cette portde?2 The cultural mood of the country, dominated by Italian or Italianate music (a rubric which included Mozart and Haydn), tended to oppose the incursion of the German school. Mme de Stael herself, in her Teutonic-minded De I‘AZZemagne, had not mentioned Beethoven...

... 151 Then, after having persuaded Nicaise of his wizardry, Arlequin in- duces Mme Brindavoine to acknowledge his extraordinary powers by revealing her love for the bailiff (Scene 17). This skeptical and scheming official remains unconvinced, however, until Arlequin makes good his threat...

... touched directly or indirectly on the subject of amorous passion. She devotes separate chapters to Mitrk, La Rochefoucauld, Mme de Lafayette, Saint-Evre- mond, Mme de Sitvignit, Jacques Esprit, Guilleragues, and La Bruykre. Ambi- tious in its conception, her study does not lead to any general...

... of Mme cle La Fayette, “experiences the satisfaction of witnessing the her- oine’s achievement of what lie has come to view as the only true fulfillment of her personality, a personality seeking total integrity and the magnanimity of spirit which it requires” (p. 87). The thesis...

... Roy de Prusse, GM, August, 1740 Nouvelles Com‘dkrations sur PHistoire, GM, August, 1744 Stances d M. Vun Harm, GM, January, 1745 (another trans. GM, February, 1747) A Mme de Pompadour dessinant une t&e, GM, April, 1746 Discours de rkception, LM, June, 1746 Epitre ci Mme du...