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20 January 2006
BOOKS IN ENGLISH
Burke, Peter. Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Harper Torch, 1978. 365 pp. W/extensive notes & bibliography. Trade paperback, near mint. OP; $12.00Cronin, Vincent. Louis XIV. London; Book Club Press, 1964. 384 pp. With bibliography. Hardcover, very good w/good dj. OP; $12.00
Elliott, Charles. Princesse of Versailles: The Life of Marie Adelaide of Savoy. NY; Ticknor & Fields, 1992. 497 pp. With bibliography, illustrations. Hardcover, near mint w/vg dj. OP; $20.00
Gager, Kristin E. Blood Ties and Fictive Ties: Adoption and Family Life in Early Modern France. Princeton UP, 1996. 197 pp. "Gager brings to light evidence showing how married couples and single men and women from the artisan neighborhoods in 16th- and 17th-century Paris managed to adopt children as their legal heirs. In so doing, she offers a new, richly detailed portrait of family life, civil law, and public assistance in Paris." Extensive bibliography. hardcover, new. In print at $47.50; $7.00
Greenshields, Malcolm. An Economy of Violence in Early Modern France: Crime & Justice in the Haute Auvergne, 1587-1664. Penn State UP, 1994. 262 pp. "Takes the reader to a relatively little known area of early modern France to examine the behavior, attitudes, and environment of its inhabitants. It examines the uses and characteristics of violence and discusses what violence can tell us about the mentality of the people of the region. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the people of the Haute Auvergne kept their troubles to themselves. In this remote mountain region, the offical forces of law and order were small in number and the mounted police could seldom penetrate very deep into the life of rural communities. When they did intervene, they left a trail of evidence that enables us to catch a glimpse of a private world characterized by the use of violence. . . . Greenshields argues that violence was often a form of private justice or vengeance that affected all levels of society. . . . In response, the criminal courts relied on rituals of humiliation and public displays of power to establish order, although official justice was often ineffective." Extensive notes & bibliography Hardcover, new w/dj. In print at $55.00; $12.00
Holt, Mack P., ed. Society & Institutions in Early Modern France. Georgia, 1991. 242 pp. "This collection of 11 essays brings together some of the most recent scholarship on what has become a growing concern among historians of early modern France--the interconnections between political and social history. All the essays deal in some way with the relationship between the state and the society on which that state rested in 16th- and 17th-century France. A common focus of the essays is a reevaluation of absolutism--the emergence in the 17th century of a royal French government more centralized and more powerful than that of the 1500s." Extensive footnotes. Trade paperback, new. In print at $20.00; $3.00
Melzer, Sara E., & Kathryn Norberg. From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France. U of California Press, 1998. 267 pp. "Leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of signification for political power in 17th- and 18th-century France. . . . The monarchy enlisted its subjects' minds through the body: through dance, music, drama, art, and social rituals. The final essays show how the royal body politic came undone in the late 18th century and was replaced by a new republican body." 10 essays. Illustrations, extensive notes. Trade paperback, new. In print at $18.00; $3.00
Orléans, Elisabeth-Charlotte, duchesse d' ["Liselotte" von der Pfalz]. A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King: Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orleans, 1652-1722. Johns Hopkins, 1984. 287 pp. Translated & introduced by Elborg Forster. Many explanatory notes. Large trade paperback, new. In print at $19.95; $8.00
Saint-Simon, duc de. Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon on the Times of Louis XIV and the Regency. ODD VOLUMES. Boston: Hardy, Pratt, & Co., 1902. Volumes 3 & 4 of 4. Approx. 350 pp per volume. "Translated and abridged by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, from the edition collated with the original manuscript by M. Chéruel." These two volumes cover the last three years of Louis XIV's reign, and the Regency. Includes a few editor's footnotes, and those small boldface marginal squibs that remind the reader of the date and/or what is happening. Each volume has its own index. Hardcover, maroon cloth, some light edge & corner wear, soiling & fading to spines, scuffing to cloth; a little interior foxing; otherwise very good tight condition. OP; $18.00
Wolf, John B. Louis XIV. NY; Norton, 1968. 678 pp. Extensive notes. Hardcover, very good w/dj in protective cover. OP; $15.00
Wolf, John B., ed. Louis XIV: A Profile. NY; Hill & Wang, 1972. 263 pp. 12 selections from both contemporaries of Louis XVI and modern authors, including Saint-Simon, Voltaire, Goubert, Gaxotte, etc. Hardcover, inked inscription on flyleaf, torn dj, else very good, clean. $15.00
BOOKS IN FRENCH
Barrière, Pierre. La Vie Intellectuelle en France: Du XVIe Siècle à l'Epoque Contemporaine. Paris; Albin Michel, 1961. 635 pp. Bibliography, general index. broché, two small tears to wraps, else very good. $10.00 ...NOW $2.00
Boche, Renée, & Jacques Gautreau, eds. XVIIe Siècle: Documents. Paris; Bordas, 1969. 447 pp. NOT a collection of documents, but rather a large selection of scholarly commentary on many representative short 17th-century French literary texts & documents, intended as a teaching aid. Paperback, light wear & soiling to wraps, else good. $17.00
Chassang, A., & C. Senniger, eds. Recueil de Textes Littéraires Français: XVIIe Siècle. Paris; Hachette, 1967. 448 pp. Extracts from 50+ 17th-century French authors. Many illustrations, notes. Hardcover, light wear to boards, else very good/no dj. $12.00
Feillet, Alphonse. La Misère au Temps de la Fronde et St. Vincent de Paul. Paris; Librairie Ac. Didier/Perrin, 1886. 572 pp. Extensive notes. Broché, wear consistent with age, else very good, clean. $17.00
Huguet, Edmond. Petit Glossaire des Classiques Français du Dix Septième Siècle: Contenant les mots et locutions qui ont vieilli ou dont le sens s'est modifié. Geneva & Paris; Slatkine Reprints, 1989, reprint of 1919 edition. 409 pp. Trade paperback, mint. $20.00
May, Georges. Tragédie Cornélienne, Tragédie Racinienne: Etude sur les Sources de l'Intérêt Dramatique. Illinois, 1948. 255 pp. Illinois Studies in Language & Literature, Vol. XXXII, No. 4. Notes, extensive bibliography. Hardcover in sturdy library cloth, near mint/no dj. OP; $15.00
Robert, Raymonde. Le Conte de Fées Littéraire en France, de la fin du XVIIe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. P.U. de Nancy, 1981. 509 pp. Extensive notes & bibliography. Paperback, light wear to wraps, else very good. $17.00
Tableau] Tableau de la Littérature Française. 2 volumes. Paris; Gallimard, 1939 (vol 2) & 1962 (vol 1). 653 + 489 pp. Volume I: De Rutebeuf à Descartes; Volume II: De Corneille à Chénier. Over 100 articles, by leading scholars, on French literary figures and styles from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Both hardcover but bound in different styles: volume I is bound in publisher's cloth binding, while volume II is bound in a heavier library cloth binding. Both in excellent condition aside from a little browning to pages of vol. II. $45.00
Abbreviations & glossary
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