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H-France Reviews: Volume 10 (2010)

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January Reviews

Susan Pinkard, A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 317 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, and appendix. $32.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-82199-5

Review by Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 1

Andrew H. Clark, Diderot’s Part. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. ix + 205 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S., £ 55.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5438-4.

Review by Jay L. Caplan, Amherst College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 2

Brian E. Strayer, Suffering Saints: Jansenists and Convulsionnaires in France, 1640-1799. Brighton, Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. xii + 424. Notes. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-84519-245-7.

Review by Mita Chaudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 3

Jonathan Judaken, Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xi + 390 pp. [1] Index. $29.95 U.S. (p. cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-2612-8; $29.95 U.S. (p. pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-2489-6.

Review by Michael Scott Christofferson, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 4

Todd W. Reeser and Lewis C. Seifert, eds. Entre Hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 289 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-87413-024-9.

Review by Christopher E. Forth, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 5

Jeffrey Merrick and Suzanne Desan, eds. Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009. 272 pages. $55 (hb.) 978-0-27103-469-0.

Review by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 6

Leïla Sebbar, The Seine Was Red. Paris, October 1961: A Novel (translated by Mildred Mortimer). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. xxiv + 116pp. $17.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 10-0253-2202-38.

Review by Jim House, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 7

Alexander J. Nemeth, Voltaire’s Tormented Soul: A Psychobiographical Inquiry. Bethlehem, Penn.: Lehigh University Press, 2008. 359 pp. Appendices, bibliography, notes and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-934223-92-8.

Review by Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 8

Walter Redfern, French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. 245 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-923757-9

Compte-rendu de Philippe Barr, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 9

Renaud Morieux, Une mer pour deux royaumes: La Manche, frontière franco-anglaise (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. 384 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and indices. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0545-2.

Review by Peter Sahlins, The University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 10

Peter R. Campbell, Thomas E. Kaiser, and Marisa Linton, eds., Conspiracy in the French Revolution. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. 222 pp. Index.

$79.00 (hb). ISBN: 978-0-7190-7402-8, ISBN10: 0-7190-7402-9.

Review by Dale K. Van Kley, Ohio State University
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 11

Evelyne Bloch-Dano, Madame Proust: A Biography, trans., Alice Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $27.50. ISBN 0226056422.

Review by André Benhaïm, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 12

Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir, directed by Max Cacopardo, 1967. Director First Run/ Icarus Films, Brooklyn, NY, 1967. Video and DVD, 60 mins., b/w.

Review by Judith G. Coffin, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 13

Andreas Giger, Verdi and the French Aesthetic: Verse, Stanza, and Melody in Nineteenth-Century Opera. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. x + 294 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-87843-2

Review by Diana R. Hallman, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 14

Alec G. Hargreaves, John Kelsay, and Sumner B. Twiss, eds., Politics and Religion in France and the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. xii + 200 pp. Notes. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13:978-0-7391-1930-3; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 10:0-7391-1930-3.

Review by Joseph Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 15

Aurelian Craiutu and Jeremy Jennings, eds. Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 560 pp. $32.99 (US). ISBN 978-0521676830.

Review by Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 16

David Chandler and Christopher E. Goscha, eds, Paul Mus (1902-1969): L'espace d'un regard. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2006. 335 pp. Preface, introduction, footnotes, bibliography, chronology, appendices, index, table of contents. 34 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-84654-131-0.

Review by Bradley C. Davis, Eastern Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (January 2010), No. 17

February Reviews

Elie Haddad, Fondation et ruine d’une “maison”: Histoire sociale des comtes de Belin (1582-1706). Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2009. 560 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84287-485-8.

Review by Darryl Dee, Wilfrid Laurier University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 18

Pascal Bastien and Daniel Roche, eds., Siméon-Prosper Hardy: Mes Loisirs, ou Journal d'événemens tels qu'ils parviennent à ma connoissance (1753-1789), Vol. 1 (1753-1770). Québec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008. 852 pp. Preface, chronology, bibliography and appendices. CDN $65.00 (pb). ISBN: 978-2-7637-8543-1.

Review by Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 19

Margaret M. McGowan, Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008. xix + 330 pp. Figures, color plates, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-11557-4.

Review by Nadine D. Pederson, Central Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 20

Andrew Jainchill, Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 317 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4669-6.

Review by Stuart Jones, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 21

Marc D. Schachter, Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship: From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xiii and 227 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $99.95. (hb). ISBN 978-0-546-6459-8.

Review by Anna Klosowska, Miami University, Ohio.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 22

Laurent Turcot, Le Promeneur à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, preface by Arlette Farge. (Paris: Collection Le Promeneur, Gallimard, 2007. 427 pp. Notes, figures. 26.50 € (pb). ISBN 2070783669.

Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 23

Louis Hinckner, Citoyens-combattants à Paris, 1848-1851. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion , 2008. 350 pp. Illustrations, footnotes and “Récapitulatif des 385 dossiers individuels.” 24 €. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7574-0030-2.

Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 24

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, The Making of Saint Louis. Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvii + 331pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4550-7.

Review by Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 25

Lewis C. Seifert, Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. xi + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-472-070580-9. $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-05058-1.

Review by Louise K. Horowitz, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 26

Eugène Delacroix, Journal. Nouvelle édition intégrale établie par Michèle Hannoosh. 2 vols. Paris: José Corti, 2009. 2519 pp. Introductory essay, supplement of archival material, notes, biographical repertory, bibliography, genealogies, index of Delacroix’s works, index of names. 80€. (pb). ISBN 9782-7143-0999-0

Review by Beth S. Wright, University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 27

The Malebranche Moment: Selections from the Letters of Étienne Gilson & Henri Gouhier (1920-1936), translated and edited by Richard J. Fafara. Marquette Studies in Philosophy No. 48. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2007. 220 pp. $27 (hb). ISBN-13: 978-087462-671-1 & ISBN-10: 0-87462-671-4.

Review by Stephen Schloesser, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 28

Carl F. Barnes, Jr., The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt, A New Critical Edition and Color Facsimile. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2009. xxvi + 266 pp. 49 in-text figures, 48 black and white plates, 71 color plates, quire diagrams, glossary prepared by Stacey L. Hahn, bibliography, iconographic index of drawings, index. £75.00 U.K. $145.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5102-4.

Review by Melanie Holcomb, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 29

Jean Thenaud, Traicté de la Cabale. Textes de la Renaissance 124. Ian R. Christie-Miller and François Roudaut, eds. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2007. 482 pp. + 1 color and 28 b/w pls. index. illus. gloss. bibl. €88. ISBN: 978-2-7453-1541-0.

Review by Daniel Stein Kokin, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 30

George Sand [Aurore Dupin], The Countess of Rudolstadt, translated by Gretchen van Slyke. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xviii + 444 pp. Notes and ill. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4073-3.

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (February 2010), No. 31

March Reviews

Dominique Barthélemy, The Serf, the Knight, and the Historian, translated by Graham Robert Edwards. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. Xii + 356 pp. Notes. $ 29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7560-3.

Review by Jeffrey Bowman, Kenyon College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 32

David Potter, Renaissance France at War. Armies, Culture and Society, c. 1480-1560. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008. xviii + 405 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $115 (£60). ISBN 978-1-84383-405-2.

Review by David Parrott, New College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 33

Rebecca Dixon and Finn E. Sinclair, eds., with Adrian Armstrong, Sylvia Huot and Sarah Kay, Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France. Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2009. xiv + 250 pp. Figures (4 b&w plates, 4 tables, 4 musical examples), notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN: 9781843841777.

Review by Michel-André Bossy, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 34

La Fabrique de l’honneur. Les médailles et les décorations en France, XIXe-XXe siècle Dir. Bruno Dumons et Gilles Pollet, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009, 238 pages, Illustrations pp. I-VIII, ISBN : 978-2-7535-0821-7

Compte-rendu par Rémi Dalisson, Université de Rouen, France.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 35

Jeffrey Haus, Challenges of Equality: Judaism, State, and Education in Nineteenth-century France. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 256 pp. $49.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-8143-3380-8.

Review by Sharif Gemie, University of Glamorgan.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 36

Philip L. Reynolds and John Witte, Jr., eds., To Have and To Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 519 pp. Maps, documents, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-86736-8.

Review by Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 37

Natalie Scholtz et Christina Schroer, eds., Représentation et Pouvoir: La Politique symbolique en France (1789-1830). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007. 300 pp. Preface, introduction, and plates. 20€ (pb). ISNN 978-2-7535-0447-9.

Review by Rebecca K. McCoy, Lebanon Valley College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 38

Jef Tombeur, Femmes et métiers du livre/Women in the Printing Trades. Pays Anglophones et francophones européens. Preface, Caroline Archer. Paris : Talus d'approche, 2005. xvi + 291 pp. Bibliography, and index. 32 euros (pb). ISBN 2-87246-099-3.

Review by Janine Lanza, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 39

Bonnie Arden Robb, Félicité de Genlis: Motherhood in the Margins. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 298 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-87413-999-0.

Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 40

James Grier, The Musical World of a Medieval Monk: Adémar de Chabannes in Eleventh-Century Aquitaine. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xvi + 367 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and indices. $114.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN-13 978-0-521-85627-7 ISBN-10 0-521-85628-0.

Review by Susan Boynton, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 41

Olivier Wieviorka, Orphans of the Republic: The Nation’s Legislators in Vichy France. Trans. George Holoch. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. 436pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-674-03261-3

Review by Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, University of Denver.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 42

Juliette M. Rogers, Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development University Park, Penn.: Penn State University Press, 2007. 260 pp. $30 (cl). ISBN: 978-0-271-03269-6.

Review by Rachel Mesch, Yeshiva University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 43

Jonathan Spangler, The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. xi + 343 pp. Map, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £ 65 (cl). ISBN-978-0-7546-5860-3.

Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 44

Charles Walton, Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii + 334 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-536775-1.

Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 45

E. Jane Burns, Sea of Silk: A Textile Geography of Women’s Work in Medieval French Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. viii + 256 pp. 25 illustrations, map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4154-9.

Review by Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 46

Marguerite de Navarre, Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition, ed. and trans. Rouben Cholakian and Mary Skemp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xxviii + 412 pp. Series Editors’ Introduction, Volume Editor’s Introduction, Illustrations, Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 13. 978-0-226-14272-2.

Review by Dora E. Polachek, Binghamton University (SUNY-Binghamton).
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 47

Paul Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundation of the Modern Republic. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. xxv + 369 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-30014-125-2.

Compte-rendu par Céline Spector, Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 48

Raymonde Monnier, ed., À Paris sous la Révolution. Nouvelles approches de la ville. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008. 221 pp. Notes. €25.00 (pb) ISBN 978-2-85944-596-6.

Review by Sydney Watts, University of Richmond.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 49

Peter Cryle and Christopher Forth, eds., Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle: The Makings of a “Central Problem.” Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 201pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN: 0874130379.

Review by Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 50

David P. LaGuardia, Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Culture: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. viii + 253 pp. Acknowledgements, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6216-7.

Review by Marc Schachter, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 51

Simone de Beauvoir, Wartime Diary. Translation and Notes by Anne Deing Cordero. Edited by Margaret A. Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii + 350 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03377-3.

Review by Ursula Tidd, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 52

Sylvain Venayre, La Gloire de l’aventure. Genèse d’une mystique moderne, 1850-1940. Paris : Aubier, 2002. 350 pp. Notes, name index, table of contents. $66.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 2-70-072332-5.

Review by Laurence M. Porter, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 53
Réponse par Sylvain Venayre, Université de Paris I—Panthéon Sorbonne
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 54

Robert J. Knecht, The French Renaissance Court. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, 440 pp. $45 (hb). ISBN: 978-0300-11851-3.

Review by Michael Wintroub, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 55

Stéphane Gal, Lesdiguières. Prince des Alpes et connétable de France. Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2007. 429 pp. Notes, bibliography, map, illustrations, chronology, and index. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7061-1419-9.

Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 56

Stéphanie Loubère, L’Art d’aimer au siècle des Lumières. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2007: 11. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2007. 343 pp. Illustrations, footnotes, bibliography and index. $111 U.S./£65 U.K./€78 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7294-0917-9.

Review by Elena Russo, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 57

Michel Baridon, A History of the Gardens of Versailles. Translated by Adrienne Mason. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. vii + 296 pp. 48 illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4078-8.

Alain Renaux. Louis XIV’s Botanical Engravings. Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vt: Lund Humphries, 2008. 144 pp. 70 illustrations, bibliography. £30 UK. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84822-000-3.

Review by Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (March 2010), No. 58

April Reviews

Richard Wittman, Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth- Century France. New York and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2007. x + 290 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 154.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN10: 0-415-77463-2

Review by Jean-François Bédard, Syracuse University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 59

Daryl Dee, Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV’s France: Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xi + 244 pp. Maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-5046-303-4.

Review by Gail Bossenga, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 60

Paul R. Hanson, Contesting the French Revolution. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. xii + 229 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4051-6083-4; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4051-6084-1

Review by Ian Germani, University of Regina.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 61

Eric, Charles, Gabriel, Hervé et Jean-Francois Bazin, Etienne Bazin, Oblat de MarieImmaculée: Pionnier des Missions en Pays Inuit. Dijon: Editions Clea No. 89, 2008. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography. Foreword by Bernard Saladin d’Anglure. $60.63 (CAD), €35. ISBN 978-291-3835-825.

Review by Willem C. E. Rasing, Radboud University Nijmegen.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 62

Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott, The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. x + 247 pp. Illustrations, endnotes, index. $18.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0300164282.

Review by Charles Walton, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 63
Response by Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 64

Jean-Robert Pitte, Bordeaux/Burgundy: A Vintage Rivalry (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: The University of California Press, 2008). Originally published as Bordeaux Bourgogne: Les passions rivales (Paris: Éditions Hachette, 2005), translated by M. B. DeBevoise. xiv + 246 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography and index. $ 24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-24940-0.

Review by Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 65

Catherine M. Jones, Philippe de Vigneulles and the Art of Prose Translation. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008. viii + 151 pp. Bibliography and index. $95.00 (U.S.) hb. ISBN 978-1-84384-158-6.

Review by Valerie Worth-Stylianou, Trinity College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 66

Cedric Michon, La crosse et le sceptre: les prélats d’Etat sous François Ier et Henri VIII Paris: Tallandier, 2008. 383 pp. Endnotes, appendices, bibliography and index. 50 €. ISBN 978-2-84734-336-6.

Review by David Potter, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (April 2010), No. 67

May Reviews

Janet T. Marquardt and Alyce A. Jordan, eds., Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. ix + 389 pp. Figures and notes. $79.99 (US). ISBN (of hardcover) 978-1-4438-0057-0

Review by Mark Burde, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 68

Ségolène Le Men, Courbet, Abbeville Press: New York, 2008. 400 p., illustrations. $135 U.S. (hb). ISBN 078-92097-72.

Review by Paul Galvez, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 69

Paul Valéry, Cahiers/Notebooks, trans. Norma Rinsler, Paul Ryan, Brian Stimpson. Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 2007. Volume 3 out of 5, 621 pp. Figures, notes, and two indices. (hb). ISBN 978-3-631-36764-3.

Review by Natasha Grigorian, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 70

Dena Goodman, Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 386 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl); ISBN 978-0-8014-4761-7. $29.95 (pb); ISBN 978-0-8014-7545-0..

Review by Joan Landes, Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 71

Síofra Pierse, Voltaire historiographer: narrative paradigms. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. SVEC, 2008: 05. xiii + 283 pp. $115.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 978-0729409322.

Review by Reginald McGinnis, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 72

Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose. Trans., Keith Waldrop. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. xiii + 99 pp. $22.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8195-6909-7.

Review by William Olmsted, Valparaiso University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 73

Paul Sonnino, Mazarin’s Quest: The Congress of Westphalia and the Coming of the Fronde. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2008. iii + 307 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-03182-1.

Review by Thomas C. Sosnowski, Kent State University Stark Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 74

Kate Cambor, Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Époque. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. 323 pp. Notes. Bibliography and Index. ISBN: 978-0-374-16230-6.

Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 75

Jill Jonnes, Eiffel’s Tower, and the World’s Fair where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count. New York: Viking, Published by Penguin Group, 2009. 354 pp. Maps, figures, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-670-02060-7.

Review by Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 76

Jane E. Goodman and Paul A. Silverstein, eds., Bourdieu In Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 282 pp. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-1362-3.

Review by Gretchen Purser, University of California-Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (May 2010), No. 77

June Reviews

Andrew Sobanet, Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 254 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-1379-1.

Review by Elissa Gelfand, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 78

Donald A. Bailey, transcriber and editor of Nicolas Lefèvre, sieur de Lezeau, La vie de Michel de Marillac (1560-1632), Garde des Sceaux de France sous Louis XIII. Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2007. 724 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 CAN. ISBN 978-2-7637-8313-0.

Review by Sharon Kettering, Montgomery College in Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 79

Annie Jourdan, La Révolution batave entre la France et l’Amérique (1795-1806). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008. 483 pp. Foreward, figures, and bibliography. € 22 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0702-9.

Review by Janet Polasky, University of New Hampshire.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 80

Alison T. Holland. Excess and Transgression in Simone de Beauvoir’s Fiction: The Discourse of Madness. Farnham, UK and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. viii + 222 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5152-9.

Review by Laura Hengehold, Case Western Reserve University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 81

Michael Dorland, Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival (The Limits of Medical Knowledge & Historical Memory). Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University Press, 2009. xi + 208 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58465-784-2.

Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 82

Caroline Schulenburg, Renault und Daimler-Benz in der Zwischenkriegzeit (1919-1939): Eine vergleichende Unternehmensgeschichte zweier europäischer Automobilhersteller. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. 296 pp. Tables, bibliography. 47€(pb). ISBN 978-3-515-09200-5.

Review by Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 83

Dominique Kalifa, Biribi: les bagnes coloniaux de l’armée française. Paris: Perrin, 2009. 344 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. €21 (pb). ISBN 978-2-262-02384-3.

Review by Richard S. Fogarty, University at Albany, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 84

Roxanne Panchasi, Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 203 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4670-2.

Review by Michael Miller, University of Miami.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 85

Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1951-1959, trans. and introduction and afterword by Ryan Bloom. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. xix + 264 pp. $27.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-56663-775-6.

Review by Mark Orme, University of Central Lancashire.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 86

Pascal Cauchy, Yvan Combeau, and Jean-François Sirinelli, eds. La quatrième république et l’outre-mer français: Actes du colloque tentu au Centre d’histoire de Science Po, les 29 et 30 novembre 2007. Paris: Société Française d’Histoire d’Outre-mer, 2009. 157 pp. ISBN 9782859700454.

Review by Jeremy Rich, Middle Tennessee State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 87

Rosemary Wakeman, The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 401 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-87023-6.

Review by W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 88

Gillian Opstad, Debussy’s Mélisande: The Lives of Georgette Leblanc, Mary Garden and Maggie Teyte. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2009. xii + 348 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84383-459-5.

Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 89

Christopher E. Forth and Bertrand Taithe, eds., French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xi + 249 pp. Figures, notes. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-00661-4.

Review by Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (June 2010), No. 90

July Reviews

Jonathan A. Reid, King's Sister - Queen of Dissent: Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network. 2 vols, Leiden and New York: Brill, 2009. (volume 1) xxii + 377 pp. Tables and notes. (volume 2) viii + 379-800pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $281.00 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-17497-9.

Review by Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 91

Natalie Adamson, Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944-1964. Farnham, England and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2009. xii + 318 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $124.95 U.S. (cl.), ISBN 978-0-7546-5928-0.

Review by Thomas F McDonough, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 92

Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Postcolonial Eyes: Intercontinental Travel in Francophone African Literature. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009. x + 216 pp. notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84631-049-2.

Review by Mildred Mortimer, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 93

Bernadette Höfer, Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity). Burlington, Vt., and Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. xiii + 245 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. £55.00 UK (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6621-9 (hb), 978-0-7546-9697-1 (eb).

Review by Amy Wygant, University of Glasgow
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 94

Scott Carpenter, Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France: Frauds, Hoaxes and Counterfeits. Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. xiii + 190 pp. $99.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-7546-6807-7.

Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 95

Richard Vernier, Lord of the Pyrenees: Gaston Fébus, count of Foix (1331-1391). Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008. x + 222 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84383-356-7.

Review by Craig Taylor, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 96

Luc Foisneau, general editor, The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century Philosophers. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 2008. 2 volumes, xxvi + 1313 pp., index. $795 (cl.). ISBN: 978-0-82641-861-6.

Review by April Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 97

Jennifer Popiel, Rousseau's Daughters: Domesticity, Education, and Autonomy in Modern France, Durham, University of New Hampshire Press, 2008. 284 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $50 U.S. (cl.), ISBN 978-1-58465-723-3.

Review by Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris Descartes, UMR Cerlis.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 98

Nicholas Dew, Orientalism in Louis XIV’s France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 301 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $110.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-923484-4.

Review by Julia Landweber, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 99

Michèle Goyens and Werner Verbeke, eds., “Lors est ce jour grant joie nee”: Essais de langue et de littérature françaises du moyen âge. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 41. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2009. xv + 198 pp. Figures and indices. $55.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-90-5867-740-2.

Review by Tara Foster, Northern Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 100

Geoffrey Grossus, The Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron. Translated with an introduction and notes by Ruth Harwood Cline. Medieval Texts in Translation Series. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. xxxiv + 177 pp. Maps, bibliography and index. $24.95 (p) ISBN 978-0-8132-1681-2.

Review by Scott G. Bruce, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 101

William Beik, A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii + 401 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl) and $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN978-0-521-70956-9.

Review by Michael Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 102

Zina Weygand, The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille. Translated by Emily-Jane Cohen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. $60 (cl.). ISBN 978-0-8047-5768-3.

François Buton, L’administration des faveurs: L’État, les sourds et les aveugles (1789-1885). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009. 30€. ISBN-13: 978-2753508514

Review by Anne Quartararo, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (July 2010), No. 103

August Reviews

Jean-Marc Regnault and Viviane Fayaud, eds., La Nouvelle-Calédonie: Vingt années de concorde, 1988-2008. Paris: Société Française d’Histoire d’Outre Mer, 2009. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. €32 (pb). ISBN: 978-2-85-970043-0.

Review by Alice Bullard, Ph.D., Independent Scholar and Consultant, Washington, D.C.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 104

Corry Cropper, Playing at Monarchy: Sport as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century France. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxiv + 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-1773-7.

Review by Bradford Brown, Bradley University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 105

Susan L. Einbinder, No Place of Rest: Jewish Literature, Expulsion, and the Memory of Medieval France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00. U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4115-0.

Review by Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 106

Sharon Kettering, Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII: The Career of Charles d’Albert, duc de Luynes (1578-1621). Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008. ix + 265pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $71.22 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7190-7786-9.

Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 107

Julian Jackson, Living in Arcadia: Homosexuality, Politics, and Morality in France from the Liberation to AIDS. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiii + 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-38925-7.

Review by David Caron, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 108

John J. Conley, Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. xiv + 303 pp. Appendices, notes, works cited, and index. $50.00 (US) ISBN (cl). 978-0-268-02296-9.

Review by Thomas M. Carr, Jr., University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 109

Mathieu Guérin, Paysans de la forêt à l’époque coloniale: La pacification des aborigènes des hautes terres du Cambodge (1863-1940). Series “Bibliothèque d’Histoire Rurale” vol. 10. Caen: Association d’Histoire des Sociétés Rurales/Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. IV + 362 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 29.00€ (cl). ISBN 979-2-911-369-09-4.

Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 110

Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War, Vol. III: Divided Houses. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 1024 pp. Maps, plans, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl) £29.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-4223-2

Review by Deborah Fraioli, Simmons College, Boston.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 111

Harvey Hill, Louis-Pierre Sardella, and C. J. T. Talar, By Those Who Knew Them: French Modernists Left, Right, and Center. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. 198 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8132-1537-2.

Review by Darrell Jodock, Gustavus Adolphus College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 112

Hubert Bonin, Catherine Hodeir, and Jean-François Klein, eds., L’Esprit Economique Impérial (1830 – 1970): Groupes de pression & réseaux du patronat colonial en France & dans l’empire (Paris: Publications de la SFHOM, 2008), 844+ii pp., 70€.
ISBN: 2-85970-037-4.

Review by Alexander Keese, Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 113

Benjamin Claude Brower, A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Xv + 417 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. Cloth $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-231-15492-5.

Review by Clifford Rosenberg, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 114

Edgar Morin, Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris, The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century, Deborah Cowell, trans, Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2009. xiv+330 pp. $37.50 US (cl). Chronology, notes, and index. (pb).ISBN 978-1-84519-274-7.

Review by Laura S. Schor, Hunter College.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 115

Pascale Goetschel and Jean-Claude Yon, eds. Directeurs de théâtre XIXe-XXe siècles, Histoire d’une profession. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, Collection «Histoire de la France aux XIXe et XXe siècles», 2008. 253 p. B/W illustrations. 25 €. ISBN 978-2-85944-600-0 (pb.).

Review by Guy Spielmann, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 10 (August 2010), No. 116

Chris Darke, Alphaville. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. xii + 114 pp. Notes, appendices, filmography, bibliography. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03088-8. $15.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07329-8.