...R. W. Baldner THE iVOUVELLES FRANCAISES OF SEGRAIS By R. W. BALDNER The Nouvelles francaises, ou les Divertissement$ de la Princesse Aurilie, published by Jean Regnault de Segrais in 1656, are gener- ally considered a landmark in the development...

... of the nineteenth century. Brbdif alone, in his early study of Segrais, presents an ap- proach to the most accurate definition when he quotes from the NouveZZes frangaises to the effect that the nouvelle should adhere to authentic historical incidents and relate the ordinary events of every- day 1ife.l...

... situations sont frkquemment comparCes par les critiques soucieux de montrer la maitrise croissante de Racine, proc6dent peut-etre en fin de compte d’une mime lCgende antique. Cependant, la source immediate couramment allCguCe de Bujazet est la nouvelle de Segrais de 1656, Floridon ou...

... formula occurs in a work by Segrais, Les Nouvelles frangaises ou les Diver- tissements de la princesse Aurklie. This collection was published in 1657, at a time when the long heroic romances were beginning to lose favor and were giving way to the short psychological novel, or nouvelle...

... their moment of creation. Hence, when the devisant genre was revisited in the seventeenth century, signs of stress were immediately discernible in Marguerite de Navarre’s coterie. Jean Regnault de Segrais’s Les nou- velles françaises, ou Les divertissements de la princesse Aurélie (1656) features six...

... of the world, who speaks agreeably, and who writes as he speaks” (Oeuvres complètes, ed. Alain Niderst, 9 vols. [Paris: Fayard, 1989 – 2001], 1:265). Denis cites Jean Segrais’s recollection from his Mémoires, written decades after the fact, that only thirty copies of the Divers portraits, recording...

... among authors and outright apocryphal publication were common: let us but remember, for the sake of illustration, how Madame de Lafayette joined with Huet and Segrais in publishing Zuyde and how blandly she denied responsibility for her Princesse de Clkves. As a result...