...Kathrina A. Laporta Bruno Tribout . Les Récits de conjuration sous Louis XIV . Québec : Les Presses de l’Université Lanval , 2010 . Pp. 657 . Copyright © 2013 The Trustees of Columbia University 2013 39 2 BOOK REVIEWS To the very end, then, Before Fiction firmly inscribes its...

... un nouveau modèle pour penser le développement de l’assentiment affectif à l’absolutisme et la manière dont les sujets y participent. Copyright © 2020 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2020 The sublime absolutism affect Boileau Louis XIV Dans la version...

... continues the interest that Racine shows elsewhere in the links between absolute sovereignty and absolute submission. In Britannicus, for instance, he relies on the implied message that Louis XIV, the absolute monarch, is a good king because he liberates his population from slavery, i.e. their routine...

... Ages as a kind of utopia, a concept that, according to Ernest Bloch, is fundamentally future oriented (Seifert 16).3 Passing over 1. In paying homage to the Middle Ages, fairy tales published during the final decades of Louis XIV's reign evoked, both formally and stylistically, the heroic, pastoral...

... and Christian sentiments were elemental components of Perrault's "Griselidis."2 This perception accords well with Yvan Loskoutoff's understanding of the relationship between devotion to the Infant Jesus and the emergence of a fashion for tales of the marvellous during the reign of Louis XIV (145 ff3 In his 1695...

... into submission" (163). In Chapters 5 and 6, Duggan builds on her analysis of Boileau and Perrault by exploring the ways in which the conteuse Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy responds to criticism of mondain culture. While d'Aulnoy's use of the conte de fees to critique the absolutist dictates of Louis XIV has been...

... contribution to scholarship on the early modern novel and to studies on fictionality more generally. (KATHRINA A. LAPORTA, New York University) Bruno Tribout. Les Recits de conjuration sous Louis XIV. Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universite Lanval, 2010. Pp. 657. Les Recits de conjuration sous Louis XIV...

... les reuvres de Corneille (apres 1659), de Pascal (apres 1655) et de Racine une apologie de la souverainete absolue fondee sur I'idee d'un monarque (Louis XIV) liberateur. II per~oit par ailleurs une progression entre ces trois auteurs: Corneille represente la volonte extreme de la relation entre...

... Siecle de Louis XIV, humanity is described as having known four ages of light: the age of Alexander and Pericles, the age of Caesar and Augustus, the Italian Renaissance, and the age of Louis XIV, whose legacy Voltaire sought to preserve for the Enlightenment. Medieval darkness is, by implication...

... confisquee », art. cit. 8. C'est a ce titre qu'il a croise, a Louis-Ie-Grand, Voltaire, qui l'appreciait a en juger par la notice qu'illui consacre dans Ie Catalogue des ecrivains du Siecle de Louis XIV. 9. 11 deplore que les Registres de la premiere generation aient ete perdus lorsque a aPellisson a ete mis...

... literary classicism and, therefore, the glorious era of Louis XIV. As Amadieu explains, Andr Vincent Delacouture (1799 1868) rejected Gaume s views in a volume published in 1852. Realizing that Gaume s Gallican critique of Rome is close to the Protestant point of view, Delacouture defended the culture...

... of the French nation, from the Middle Ages through the age of Louis XIV and the Enlightenment and into the nineteenth century. The techniques for appreciating literary masterworks inculcated a sense of French ascendency, at a time, of course, when France was still reeling from the Prussian War and defining...

... to challenge the power of Louis XIV. The pagan beliefs of antiquity were the second object of censure for the Moderns; they condemned ancient mythology, with its panoply of lustful, violent gods, as irrational and shocking. Third, the Moderns attacked the moral behavior of the Greeks and Romans. Guided...

...: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2010. Dandrey, Patrick. Quand Versailles etait conte: La cour de Louis XIV par les ecrivains de son temps. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2009. Day, James, ed. FLS: Psychoanalysis in French and Francophone Literature and Film. New York: Rodopi, 2011. Delbo, Charlotte. Les Revenantes...

... century, that of Louis XIV's Versailles, which here is revealed to be just as invested in the intermingling of the two concepts. Building on the insight (after Kant) that what counts in reading Versailles is "Ie point de vue du sujet regardant" (130), Jeanneret explores the role of the grotesque in "cette...

...; and there is, "perfect parity among gentlemen." But, then, in spite of the practices of Fran~ois I, Louis XIV did make Duke the most envi- 8. Thus Richard Terdiman, writing about the Balzacian plots which depict the dilemma of characters confronted by a systematic destabilization of the sign, asserts that this kind...

... that Sablé, along with other laywomen, played an important role in the “Paix de l’Église” that put an end to the formulary crisis, when Louis XIV demanded that all members of the French clergy sign a statement condemning five heretical propositions attributed to the theologian Cornelius Jansen. 24...

..., and most specifically the opera, in well over half of d'Aulnoy's tales. As Duggan argues, operatic intertexts are reshaped in ways that recreate, and rewrite, the eclat of Louis XIV's royal spectacles and lay bare absolutist excess. In all, opera offers a place in the public sphere for "d'Aulnoy's heroines...

... Madame, belle-sreur de Louis XIV, et Ies Histoires ou contes du temps passe sont adressees a Mademoiselle, niece de Louis XIV. MME DE MURAT ET LES 'FEES MODERNES' 273 route: vous ne vous occupez que de grandes choses, dont les moin- dres sont de donner de l'esprit aceux et celles qui n'en ont point, de...

... et la critique à la fin du règne de Louis XIV », Censure et critique, op. cit., p. 45 46. Les censures des Lumières 131 paradoxalement au système de censure : certes quand cela lui parut opportun, Voltaire soumit bien tel ou tel texte à l approbation officielle13 mais ce ne fut de loin pas la règle...