H-France Reviews: Volume 15

January Reviews

Andy Stafford, translator and editor, and Michael Carter, editor, Roland Barthes: The Language of Fashion. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, Revelations series, 2013. xv + 173 pp. Notes, preface and afterword, bibliography and glossary of names. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-4725-0542-5.

Review by Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 1

David Caron, The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 352 pp. Notes and bibliography. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-9179-1; $69.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8166-9175-3.

Review by William J. Poulin-Deltour, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 2

Louis Barthas, Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918. Trans. Edward M. Strauss. Introduction and Afterword by Rémy Cazals. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. xxvii + 426 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-19159-2.

Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 3

Michaël Bourlet, Yann Lagadec, et Erwan Le Gall, Petites patries dans la Grande Guerre. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013, 250 pp. 18.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-2759-1.

Review by Alexandre Lafon, Université de Toulouse 2 - Jean-Jaurès.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 4

Catherine Dubeau, La Lettre et la mère : Roman familial et écriture de la passion chez Suzanne Necker et Germaine de Staël. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2013, 468 pp. Appendices, chronology, bibliography, index. $82.46 U.S., ISBN 978-2-7056-8748-9.

Review by Nanette Le Coat, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 5

Faith Beasley, ed., Teaching Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, Options for Teaching 33, 2011. xii + 379 pp. Works Cited and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-60329-095-1; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60329-8.

Review by Anne R. Larsen, Hope College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 6

Chris Sparks, Heresy, Inquisition and Life Cycle in Medieval Languedoc. York: York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press, 2014. xii + 170 pp. Notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1-903153-52-9.

Review by Megan Cassidy-Welch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 7

Marie-Claude Felton, Maîtres de leurs ouvrages: l'édition à compte d'auteur à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014. xxii + 306 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $115 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7294-1081-6.

Review by Oded Rabinovitch, Tel Aviv University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 8

Vincent Debaene, Far Afield: French Anthropology between Science and Literature, trans. Justin Izzo. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2014. i-ix + 398 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $115.00  U.S. (cl); ISBN 978-0-2261-0690-8; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-2261-0706-6.

Review by Alice L. Conklin, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 9

Patrick Coleman, Anger, Gratitude and the Enlightenment Writer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. vii + 249pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 9-780199-589340.

Review by Jay Caplan, Amherst College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 10

Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn, eds., Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 320 pp. Index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0-19-976924-7.

Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 11

Alicia C. Montoya, Medievalist Enlightenment: From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Series in Medievalism Volume II. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013. viii + 248 pp. Bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-342-9.

Review by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University.
Response by Alicia C. Montoya, Radboud University (The Netherlands)
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), Nos. 12 and 13

Matthew D. Zarzeczny, Meteors that Enlighten the Earth: Napoleon and the Cult of Great Men. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013 pages, vi-241. $75.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1443842075.

Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 14

G. Matthew Adkins, The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment: A Reinterpretation. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 174 pp. $70.00 (cl), ISBN 978-1-61149-474-7.

Review by Margaret Carlyle, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (January 2015), No. 15

February Reviews

Andrew Deruchie, The French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle: Style, Culture, and the Symphonic Tradition. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013. viii + 294 pp. Figures, notes, musical examples, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58046-382-9.

Review by Keith E. Clifton, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 16

Catharine Randall, The Wisdom of Animals: Creatureliness in Early Modern French Spirituality. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. 192 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-04035-2; $19.60 U.S. (eb). EISBN 978-0-268-09180-4.

Review by Jolanta N. Komornicka, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 17

Tim Gale, The French Army’s Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War: The Artillerie Spéciale. Farnham UK, Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2013. xvi + 263 pp. Maps, tables, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $124.95 (cl). ISBN 1409466612.

Review by Robert J. Young, Emeritus, University of Winnipeg.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 18

Jean Guéhenno, Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944: Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris. Trans. David Ball. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 (French edition, Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1947 and 2002). xxxii + 304 pp. Photographs, biographical dictionary, appendix, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-997086-5.

Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 19

Edward Welch and Joseph McGonagle, Contesting Views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013. 224 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1846318849.

Review by Fiona Barclay, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 20

Frank Riess, Narbonne and Its Territory in Late Antiquity: From the Visigoths to the Arabs. Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. x + 288 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $134.95 U.S. (hbk). ISBN 978-1-4094-5534-9. (eb Kindle). 978-1-4094-5535-6.

Review by M. Shane Bjornlie, Claremont McKenna College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 21

Ruth Kitchen, A Legacy of Shame: French Narratives of War and Occupation. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013. vii + 191 pp. Bibliography and index. $81.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0856-4.

Review by Angela Kimyongür, University of Hull.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 22

Michael A. H. Newth, trans., Heroines of the French Epic: A Second Selection of Chansons de Geste. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2014. xi + 422 pp. Glossary and bibliography. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-361-0.

Review by Jason Jacobs, Roger Williams University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 23

François Rousset, Jean Liebault, Jacques Guillemeau, Jacques Duval, and Louis de Serres, Pregnancy and Childbirth in Early Modern France: Treatises by Caring Physicians and Surgeons (1581-1625). Edited and translated by Valerie Worth-Stylianou. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 23. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2013. xxix + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, glossaries, bibliography, and index. $45.95 CAN (pb). ISBN 978-0-7727-2138-9. E-book: Iter Inc./Scholars Portal Books, ISBN 978-0-7727-2139-6.

Review by Claire Carlin, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 24

Pierre Serna, Antonio De Francesco, and Judith A. Miller, eds., Republics at War, 1776-1840: Revolutions, Conflicts, and Geopolitics in Europe and the Atlantic World. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 312 pp. $92.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-137-32881-6.

Review by Edward Kolla, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 25

Olivier Coquard, Une histoire personelle de la France: Lumierès et révolutions 1715-1815. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014. 232 pp. 14€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-062015-0.

Review by Henry Heller, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 26

Christopher Fynsk, Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot’s Exilic Writing. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.  viii + 297 pp. Notes and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780823251025; $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780823251032.

Review by Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 27

Eleonora Barria-Poncet, L’Italie de Montesquieu. Entre lectures et voyage. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2013. 683 pages. 49€ (hb). EAN 9782812413896.

Review by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 28

Rudy Le Menthéour, La Manufacture de maladies. La dissidence hygiénique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2011. 371 pages. 38€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-0358-3.

Review by François Pépin, CERPHI-UMR 5037 ENS de Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 29

Phyllis Gaffney, Constructions of Childhood and Youth in Old French Narrative. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2011. viii + 236 pp. Bibliography and index. £55; $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6920-3.

Review by Juanita Feros Ruys, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (February 2015), No. 30

March Reviews

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal; Transcontinental Ambition in France and the United States during the Long Nineteenth Century. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Periscope Publishing, Ltd., 2012. 200 pp. $65.00 US (cl.). ISBN978-1-934772-76-8.

Review by Sheila Crane, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 31

Gareth Healey, Messiaen’s Musical Techniques : The Composer’s View and Beyond. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2013. xvii + 205 pp. Appendix, bibliography, index. £60.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1409448259.

Review by Yves Balmer, École normale supérieure de Lyon, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 32

Margaret Atack and Christopher Lloyd, eds., Framing narratives of the Second World War and occupation in France, 1939-2009. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xii + 251 pp. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7190-8755-4.

Review by Hugo Frey, University of Chichester.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 33

Yolanda Plumley, The Art of Grafted Song. Citation and Allusion in the Age of Machaut. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxvi + 496 pp. 15 figures, 26 tables, 38 music examples, 62 poetry examples; notes, bibliography and indexes. $74.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN: 9780199915088.

Review by Maureen Boulton, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 34

Jill Maciak Walshaw, A Show of Hands for the Republic: Opinion, Information and Repression in Eighteenth Century Rural France. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. xiv + 308 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $99/£65 (cl). ISBN 978-1-58046-479-6.

Review by Noelle Plack, Newman University, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 35

Mario Richter, Apollinaire: Le renouvellement de l’écriture poétique du XXe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 362 pp. 64€ (cl). ISBN:  978-2-8124-2046-7; 39€ (pb)  ISBN: 978-2-8124-2045-0 (cl).

Review by Jennifer Pap, University of Denver.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 36

Judith A. Kidd, Behind the Image: Understanding the Old Testament in Medieval Art. Bern and New York:  Peter Lang, 2014.  xvi + 257 pp.  Figures, bibliography, and index.  $67.95 (pb). ISBN 3034309937.

Review by Gerald B. Guest, John Carroll University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 37

Laurent Bourguin, Philippe Hamon, Alain Hugon, and Yann Lagadec, eds., La Politique par les armes: Conflits internationaux et politisation (XVe-XIXe siècle). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2014. 326pp. Notes. 20 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-7535-2877-2.

Review by Linda Frey, University of Montana, and Marsha Frey, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 38

Debra Kelly and Martyn Cornick, eds., A history of the French in London: liberty, equality, opportunity. London: University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Historical Research, 2013. xxvi + 488 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-905165-86-5.

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (March 2015), No. 39

April Reviews

Anne Simon-Carrère, Chanter la Grande Guerre: Les « Poilus » et les femmes (1914-1919). Seyssel, France : Champ Vallon, 2014. 288 pp. Préface, illustrations, notes, et bibliographie. 25.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-928-4.

Review by Emmanuelle Loubat, Cardiff University.
Response by Anne Simon-Carrère, independent scholar
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), Nos. 40 and 41

Jean-Louis Cornille, Chamoiseau... fils. Paris: Hermann Editeurs, 2014. 148 pp. 21.00€. ISBN 978-2-7056-8806-6.

Review by Lydie Moudileno, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 42

Michael R. Osborne, The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.  312 pages. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-11452-1.

Review by Eric Jennings, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 43

Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, ed., La Communication en Europe de l’âge classique au siècle des Lumières (Paris: Éditions Belin, 2014). 356 pp. 33€ (cl). ISBN-10: 2701182522.

Review byJill Walshaw, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 44

Anna Boschetti, Ismes: Du réalisme au postmodernisme. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2014. 352 pp. 25.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-07438-6.

Review by Bishupal Limbu, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 45

Rémi Dalisson, Les guerres et la mémoire: Enjeux identitaires et célébrations de guerre en France de 1870 à nos jours. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2013. 345 pp. Notes, appendices, figures, bibliography, and index. 25.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-271-07236-8.

Review by Martin Hurcombe, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 46

Françoise F. Laot, Un film comme source pour l’histoire de la formation des adultes hommes… et femmes, Retour à l’école? (Nancy, 1966). Collection “Histoires des institutions scientifiques.” Laurent Rollet and Marie-Jeanne Choffel-Mailfert, eds. vol. 9. Lorraine: Presses Universitaires de Nancy-Éditions Universitaires de Lorraine, 2014. 209 pp. Illustrations, tables, documents, and bibliography. 15.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8143-0183-2.

Review by Cynthia Sharrer Kreisel, Thiel College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 47

Gilles Candar and Vincent Duclert, Jean Jaurès. Paris: Fayard, 2014. 686 pp. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 27.00€. (pb). ISBN 2-213-63336-7.

Review by Geoffrey Kurtz, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 48

Carole Sweeney, Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Xx + 215 pp. $27.99 (cl). ISBN 978-0-8264-2262-0.

Review by Gavin Bowd, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 49

Charly Coleman, The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2014. xi + 402 pages.  Notes, bibliography, and index.  ISBN: 978-0-8047-8443-6.

Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 50

Zahi Zalloua, Reading Unruly: Interpretation and its Ethical Demands. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. 232pp. $35 U.S.; £24.99. (pb). ISBN-13 978-0-8032-4627-0.

Review by Patrick Bray, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 51

Robert J. Knecht, Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014. xiii + 356 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, glossary, and index. ISBN 978-4724-2930-8.

Review by Mark Konnert, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 52

Susan McClary, ed., Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression. UCLA Center Clark Library Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xiii + 382 pp. Illustrations, musical examples, notes, index. $80.00. (cl.) ISBN 978-1-4426-4062-7.

Review by Rebecca Cypess, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 53

Charles Vincent, Diderot en quête d'éthique (1773-1784), coll. 'Europe des Lumières', 28. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014., 679 pages. 70€ (cl). ISBN-10: 2812420189.

Review by Kate E. Tunstall, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 54

Nancy L. Green, The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2014. 326 pp. Figures, notes, and index.  $40.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-0-226-30688-9.

Review by Whitney Walton, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 55

Fabien Theofilakis, Les prisonniers de guerre allemands: France 1944-1949. Paris: Librarie Arthème Fayard, 2014. 762 pp. Notes, appendices, illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography and index. 32.00€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-213-66304-3.

Review by Julia S. Torrie, St. Thomas University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 56

Christopher Lloyd, Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels. London: Thames & Hudson / Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2014. 320 pp. 250 color illustrations and index. $39.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-1-60606-327-9.

Review by Heather J. Vinson, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 57

Andy Fry, Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. 282 pp. Photographs, figures, notes, and index. $30 US (pb) ISBN 978-0-226-13881-7; $30 US (eb) ISBN 978-0-226-13895-4.

Review by Jeremy F. Lane, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 58

Julian Brigstocke, The Life of the City: Space, Humour, and the Experience of Truth in Fin-de-siècle Montmartre. Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. xv + 230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $119.95  ISBN 978-1-4094-4896-9 (hb), $95.96 ISBN 978-1-4094-4897-6 (ebook), ISBN 978-1-4094-7170-7 (epub).

Review by Margaret Werth, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 59

J. Michael Hayden, The Catholicisms of Coutances: Varieties of Religion in Early Modern France. Montreal and Kingston, London and Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. xvi + 368pp. Maps, graph, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $100 CAN and US (cl). ISBN 978-0-7735-4113-9.

Review by Elizabeth C Tingle, Plymouth University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 60

Alan Forrest, Étienne François and Karen Hagemann, eds., War Memories: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Modern European Culture. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xxi + 414 pages. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0230272163; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1137365408.

Review by Christopher Tozzi, Howard University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 61

Damian Catani, Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 222 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4725-8251-5.

Review by Scott M. Powers, the University of Mary Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 62

Astrid Swenson, The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Part of New Studies in European History. xvii + 413p. Table, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780521117623.

Review by Janet T. Marquardt, Smith College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (April 2015), No. 63

May Reviews

Tom Eyers, Post-Rationalism: Psychoanalysis, Epistemology, and Marxism in Post-War France. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. x + 217 pp. $120 U.S. (hb). $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-1-4411-8688-1 (hb). 978-1474213011 (pb).

Review by Knox Peden, Australian National University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 64

Isabelle Vanderschelden, Studying French Cinema. Leighton Buzzard UK: Auteur Press, 2013. 249 pp.  Glossary, bibliography, filmography, and index.  $76.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-906733-16-2. $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-906733-15-5.

Review by Dayna L. Oscherwitz, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 65

Jonathan Israel, Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. viii + 870 pp.  $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-691-15172-4.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
Response by Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), Nos. 66 & 67
Responses by Vivian Gruder, Paul Sonnino, Paul Werner, and Tami Sarfatti

Gisèle Sapiro, The French Writers’ War 1940-1953. Translated by Vanessa Doriott Anderson and Dorrit Cohn. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014. 672 pp. $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0822351919.

Review by Margaret Atack, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 68

Steven Bednarski, A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xviii + 199 pp. Illustrations, plates, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4426-0477-3.

Review by Michael A. Ryan, University of New Mexico.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 69

Ronald G. Asch, Sacral Kingship between Disenchantment & Re-enchantment: The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. x + 278 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-78238-356-7.

Review by Ellen McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 70

Juvénal Ngorwanubusa, Le Regard étranger: L’image du Burundi dans les littératures belge et française. Bruxelles and New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014. 216 pp. Selective bibliography. $55.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-2-87574-162-2.

Review by Heidi Brown, Loyola University Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 71

Tuomas Tikanoja, Transgressing Boundaries: Worldly Conversation, Politeness and Sociability in Ancien Régime France, 1660-1789. Helsinki: Tuomas Tikanoja, 2013. 277 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-952-93-2685-3.

Review by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 72

Mary Noonan, Echo’s Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude. London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2014. 165 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-907975-50-9.

Review by Kelsey L. Haskett, Trinity Western University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 73

Eric Hazan, A People’s History of the French Revolution. London and New York: Verso, 2014. 416 pp. Trans. David Fernbach. Maps, figures, notes, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-78169-589-1.

Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 74
Responses by Mark Traugott, David Andress, Vivian Gruder, and Nigel Ritchie

Francesco Spandri, ed., La Littérature au prisme de l’économie: argent et roman en France au XIXe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 399 pp. Bibliography, index, and abstracts. 49€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-2981-1.

Review by Aleksandar Stević, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 75

Tiina Arppe, Affectivity and the Social Bond: Transcendence, Economy and Violence in French Social Theory. Surrey, UK and Burlington. Vt.: Ashgate, 2014. vii + 248 pp. Bibliography and index $110.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-3182-4 (cl.), ISBN 978-1-4094-3183-1(ebk-PDF), ISBN 978-1-4724-0313-1 (ebk-ePUB).

Review by Brady Brower, Weber State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 76

Michael Kwass, Contraband. Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014. 457 pp. Figures, notes, index.  $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-72683-3.

Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (May 2015), No. 77

June Reviews

Diana Rowell, Paris: The “New Rome” of Napoleon I. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012 (e-book) and 2014 (paperback). 237 pp.; 26 b/w ills. £21.99 (e-book). ISBN 9781441128836. £21.99 (pb). ISBN 9781472525291.

Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 78

Nicholas Hammond and Michael Moriarty, eds., Evocations of Eloquence: Rhetoric, Literature and Religion in Early Modern France. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2012. viii + 364 pp. Notes and index. $73.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0343-0849-6.

Review by Christopher Semk, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 79

Gilles Feyel, dir., Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution 1789-1799. La presse départementale, tome IV. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2014. xi + 507 pp. €220 (cl). ISBN 978-2-84559-107-3.

Review by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 80

Rafal Krazek, Montaigne et la philosophie du plaisir. Pour une lecture épicurienne des Essais. Paris: Classiques Garniers, 2011.  279 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. 39€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-0361-3.

Review by Marc-André Wiesmann, Skidmore College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 81

Anna Arzoumanov, Pour lire les clefs de l’Ancien Régime. Anatomie d’un protocole interprétatif. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2013. 533 pp. Notes, annex, bibliography, and indexes. 73 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-1426-8; 48 € (p). ISBN 978-2-8124-1425-1.

Review by Nicholas D. Paige, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 82

Melvin Edelstein, The French Revolution and the Birth of Electoral Democracy. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xxv + 365 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $139.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-5471-7.

Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 83

Andrew Knapp, Les Français sous les bombes alliées 1940-1945. Paris: Éditions Tallandier, 2014. 592 pp. Tables, notes, maps, bibliography, and index. 23.90€. (pb). ISBN 979-10-210-0461-0.

Review by Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science & Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 84

Gisèle Sapiro, dir., Traduire la littérature et les sciences humaines. Conditions et obstacles. Paris : Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, 2012. 397pp. Preface, introduction, tables, notes, author’s presentation, and index. 14.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-211-128148-6.

Review by Susana Cruces Colado, Vigo University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 85

Bertrand Goujon, Monarchies postrévolutionnaires, 1814-1848. Paris: Seuil, 2012. 447 pp.  Chronology, bibliography, index. 25€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-02-103347-2.

Review by Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 86

Joseph Acquisto, Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature: Solitary Adventures. Lanham, Md.: University of Delaware Press, 2012. ix + 271 pp. Works cited and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-61149-406-8.

Review by Christy Wampole, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 87

Adam Zamoyski, Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848. New York: Basic Books, 2014. xv + 569 pp. $ 35.00 U.S. (cl). Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 978-0-465-03989-0.

Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University—SUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 88

Arnaud Guinier, L’honneur du soldat: Éthique martiale et discipline guerrière dans la France des Lumières. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2014. 410 pp. 28€ (cl). ISBN-10: 2876739925.

Review by David A. Bell, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 89

Geneviève Boucher, Écrire le temps: Les Tableaux urbains de Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Montreal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014. 268 pp. Bibliography and index. $34.95 Can. (cl). ISBN 2-7606-3444-2.

Review by Michael Mulryan, Christopher Newport University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (June 2015), No. 90

July Reviews

Claire White, Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 246 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-137-37306-9.

Review by Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 91

Chiara Gambacorti, Sade : une esthétique de la duplicité, Autour des romans historiques sadiens. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014. 508 pages. 58€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-2838-8.

Review by Marc Hersant, Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 92

Bruno Cabanes, Août 1914: La France entre en guerre. Paris: Gallimard, 2014. 244 pp. Notes and index. 18.90€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-07-012994-2.

Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales Australia, Canberra.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 93

Leon Sachs, The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xi + 240 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4505-1.

Review by Daniel Fairfax, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 94

Hannah Feldman, From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2014. xvi + 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-5356-0; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-5371-3.

Review by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University-State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 95

Rodney J. Dean, L’Assemblée constituante et la réforme ecclésiastique, 1790. Paris and London: Rodney Dean, 2014. 797 pp. 45 € (pb). ISBN 13: 978-2-7084-0886-9.

Review by Michael P. Fitzsimmons, Auburn University Montgomery.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 96
Response by Annie Jourdan

James H. Dahlinger, Saving France in the 1580s: Writings of Etienne Pasquier. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2014. vii + 132 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 (hb) ISBN 978-1-4331-2063-3.

Review by Nicholas Shangler, Xavier University, Cincinnati.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 97

Laura Auricchio, The Marquis. Lafayette Reconsidered. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. xxvi + 409 pp. Map. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 30.00 US (cl.) ISBN 978-0-307-26755-9.

Review by William Doyle, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 98

Kathleen M. Llewellyn, Representing Judith in Early Modern French Literature. Farnham, England and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014. ix + 150 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $104.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4724-3533-0; $104.95 (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4724-3534-7.

Review by Katherine S. Maynard, Washington College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 99

Michelle Bubenicek, Meurtre au donjon: l’affaire Huguette de Sainte-Croix. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014. 245 pp. Genealogical tables, bibliography, and indices of names and places, contents page. 21€. ISBN 978-2-13-061788-4.

Review by Hannah Skoda, St John’s College and University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (July 2015), No. 100

August Reviews

Shirley Ann Brown, The Bayeux Tapestry, Bayeux, Médiathèque municipale: Ms. 1: A Sourcebook. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013. cvi + 316 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 85.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-54917-0. .

Review by Karen Rose Mathews, University of Miami.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 101

Raymond A. Mentzer, ed., Les Registres des consistoires des Eglises réformées de France--XVIe-XVIIe siècles: un inventaire. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014. 170 pp. Bibliography, indexes. 57.90 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-600-01786-2.

Review by Carolyn Chappell Lougee, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 102

Kenneth Loiselle, Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2014. xiii + 261 pp. Acknowledgments and index. $59.95 (hb). ISBN: 978 0 8014 5243 7.

Review by Marisa Linton, Kingston University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 103

Juliet Bellow, Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xviii + 280 pp. $119.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1409409112.

Review by Danijela Špirić-Beard, University of Nottingham.
Response by Juliet Bellow
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), Nos. 104 and 105

Lucien Faggion, Christophe Regina, and Bernard Ribémont, eds., La culture judiciaire: Discours, représentations et usages de la justice du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2014. 522 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes. 32€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-36441-100-5.

Review by Julius R. Ruff, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 106

Arnaud Bernadet, Poétique de Verlaine : « En sourdine, à ma manière. » Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 1277 pp. Bibliography and index. 59 €. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3045-9.

Review by Erin E. Edgington, Queen’s University Belfast.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 107

Kenneth Jason Wardley, Praying to a French God: The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste. Intensities: Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion. Patrice Haynes and Steven Shakespeare, eds. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2014. ix + 246 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index.  £60.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-147242865-3.

Review by Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 108

Chiara Gambacorti, Sade: une esthétique de la duplicité, Autour des romans historiques sadiens. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2014. 508 pages. 58€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-2838-8.

Review by Marc Hersant, Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 109

Claire Jones, Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895: Sculpture and the Decorative Arts. Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. xiv + 226 pp., with 4 color and 35 black and white illustrations. Notes, bibliography and index. £ 60.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-4724-1523-3.

Review by Caterina Y. Pierre, City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 110

Leslie Barnes, Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. viii +312 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8032-4997-4.

Review by Marie-Paule Ha, The University of Hong Kong.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 111

Marie-Odile Delacour and Jean-René Huleu, eds., Melissa Marcus, trans., Writings from the Sand: Collected Works of Isabelle Eberhardt. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2012 (vol 1) v + 570 pp. 2014 (vol 2) v + 619pp. Index, maps, chronology, glossary, bibliography, appendices. $34 U.S. (pb., vol 1) ISBN 978-0-803-216-112 and $42 U.S. (pb., vol 2). ISBN-10: 0803217552.

Review by Margaret McColley, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 112

Gilles Bonnet, La Pantomime noire (1836-1896). Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2014. 348 pp. Acknowledgements, notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. 35 €. (cl). ISBN 978-2-7056-8884-4.

Review by Jennifer Forrest, Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 113

Kathleen Wellman, Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2013. xii + 433 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-17885-2.

Review by Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 114

Helen Vassallo and Paul Cooke, eds., Alienation and Alterity: Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Francophone Contexts. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009. xxx + 337 pp. Notes. $77.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-547-1

Review by Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 115

Pannill Camp, The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xii + 288pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781107079168.

Review by Joseph Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 116

Leah L. Chang and Katherine Kong, eds. and trans, Portraits of the Queen Mother: Polemics, Panegyrics, Letters. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series (Book 35). Illustrations, tables, notes, glossaries, bibliography, and index. 283 pp. $31.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7727-2172-3.

Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 117

Jérôme Loiseau, « Elle fera ce que voudra ». La noblesse aux états de Bourgogne et la monarchie d’Henri IV à Louis XIV (1602-1715). Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014. Préface de Christine Lamarre ; postface de Julian Swann. 408 pp. 15€ (pb). ISBN-10: 284867489X.

Review by Marie-Laure Legay, Université Lille 3.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (August 2015), No. 118

September Reviews

Anne M. Scott, ed., Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France. Farnham, England and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xviii + 335 pp. Select bibliography and index. $134.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-4108-3.

Review by Janine Lanza, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 119

Martine Clouzot, Musique, folie et nature au Moyen Âge: Les figurations du fou musicien dans les manuscrits enluminés (XIIIe-XVe siècles). Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2014. xii + 489 pp. Figures, drawings, notes, bibliography, and index. $122.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1306-3.

Review by Daniel E. O’Sullivan, University of Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 120

Christian Ayne Crouch, Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians and the End of New France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2014. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. xii-250 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-814-5244-4.

Review by Kenneth Banks, Wofford College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 121

Amaury Lorin and Christelle Taraud, eds., Nouvelle histoire des colonisations européennes (XIXe-XXe siècles): Sociétés, cultures, politiques. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, 2013. vi + 225 pp. Preface, notes, and bibliography. 20.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-061928-4.

Review by Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 122

Anne Coudreuse and Catriona Seth, eds., Le Temps des femmes: Textes mémoriels des Lumières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 303 pp. Bibliography, index, summaries.  32.00 € France (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3023-7.

Review by Helen Tolson Dunn, University of Virginia and James Madison University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 123

Orlene Denice McMahon, Listening to the French New Wave: The Film Music and Composers of Postwar French Art Cinema. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2014. xiv + 295 pp. Figures, filmography, bibliography, and index. $72.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1750-4.

Review by Kim Harrison, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 124

Paula J. Martin, Suzanne Noël. Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014). xi + 157 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. 109.95 U.S. (hb) . ISBN 978-1-4724-1188-4.

Review by Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University, Emerita.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 125

Arnaud Guinier, L'Honneur du Soldat: éthique martiale et discipline guerrière dans la France des Lumières (1748-1789). Ceyzérieu dans l'Ain:  Éditions Champ Vallon, 2014.  410 pp. Tables, charts, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 25€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-992-5.

Review by Julia Osman, Mississippi State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 126

Nicole Hudgins, Hold Still, Madame: Wartime Gender and the Photography of Women in France during the Great War. St. Andrews, UK: St. Andrews Studies in French History and Culture, 2014. No price listed. (pb). ISBN 978-1-907548-12-3; (e-book). ISBN 978-1-907548-13-0.

Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 127

Giora Sternberg, Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiv + 209 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index.  $73.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0199640348.

Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 128
Response by Paul Sonnino

Jean Hoen, K.L.B. Journal de Buchenwald (1943-1945). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2013. xxi + 433 pp. Presented by Olivier Lalieu, with a foreword and biographical note by Catherine Gostiaux, illustrations by Ralph, American photos of Buchenwald, and appendices by Léon Reuter. 23.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-062084-6.

Review by Nathan Bracher, Texas A & M University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 129

Meredith Cohen and Fanny Madeline, eds., Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and Imagined Geographies. Farnham, Surrey, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Pp. xvi, 245; 17 black-and-white figures, 15 maps, and 4 tables. $119.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-4724-0237-0.

Review by Daniel K. Connolly, Alma College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 130

Barnett Singer, The Americanization of France: Searching for Happiness After the Algerian War. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. vii + 283 pp. Bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4422-2165-9; $53.13 U.S. (ebook). ISBN 978-1-4422-2166-6.

Review by Seth Armus, St. Joseph’s College (New York).
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 131

Marco Nievergelt and Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath, eds., The ‘Pèlerinage’ Allegories of Guillaume de Deguileville: Tradition, Authority, Influence. Gallica volume 32. Cambridge, Engl.: D. S. Brewer, 2013. xvi + 227 pp. 18 illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-334-4.

Review by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 132

Audrey Guitton, L'autre lointain en dialogue. La quête de la voix idéale au siècle des Lumières. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2012. 531 pp. 48€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-0396-5.

Review by Marc Hersant, Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (September 2015), No. 133

October Reviews

Kathryn Norberg and Sandra Rosenbaum, eds., Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV: Interpreting the Art of Elegance. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech Press, 2014. xxxi + 270. 83 B&W, 41 color illustrations, 2 tables, notes bibliography, and index. $45.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-89672-857-8; (eb) ISBN 978-0-89672-858-5.

Review by Donna Bohanan, Auburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 134

Steven Biddlecombe, ed., The Historia Ierosolimitana of Baldric of Bourgueil. Woodbridge, U.K., and Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2014. cvii + 153 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84383-901-9.

Review by Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 135

Stephen A. Noble, Silence et langage: Genèse de la phénomenologie de Merleau-Ponty au seuil de l’ontologie. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. 285 pp. Editor’s foreword, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments. $163.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-90-04-26651-3.

Review by Glen A. Mazis, Penn State Harrisburg.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 136

Joseph F. Byrnes, Priests of the French Revolution: Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xxvi + 314pp. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0271063775.

Review by Noah Shusterman, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 137
Responses by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall and Joseph Byrnes

Daniel Heimmermann, Work, Regulation, and Identity in Provincial France: The Bordeaux Leather Trades, 1740-1815. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 298 pp. Notes, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-43855-3.

Review by Daryl M. Hafter, Eastern Michigan University, Emerita.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 138

Philip Knee, L’Expérience de la perte autour du moment 1800. Oxford : Voltaire Foundation. 2014. xi + 303 pp. Bibliographie, index des noms. $94.00 US. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1143-1.

Review by Denis D. Grélé, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 139

Guy Rowlands, Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV’s France. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xvi + 265 pp.  Preface, Maps, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, and index. $115.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-38178-1.

Review by Gail Bossenga, Elizabethtown College.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 140

Jay A. Clarke, ed., The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark. With essays by Mary Weaver Chapin, Jay A. Clarke, Anne Higonnet, Richard Kendall, and Alastair Wright. Williamstown, Mass: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2013. 148 pp. 103 color illustrations, director’s foreword, preface and acknowledgments, notes, exhibition checklist, further reading, and index. $45.00 U.S. (pb with flaps). ISBN 9780300191936.

Review by Anne Leonard, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 141

Ingrid Sykes, Society, Culture and the Auditory Imagination in Modern France: The Humanity of Hearing. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 169 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $90.00 U.S. ISBN 978-1-137-45534-5.

Review by Alexandra Kieffer, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 142

Michael Meere, ed., French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, and Theory. Lanham: University of Delaware Press, 2015. xi + 336 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, list of contributors. $77.45 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-1611495485.

Review by Jonathan Patterson, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 143

W. Gregory Monahan, Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-968844-9.

Review by Carolyn Chappell Lougee, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 144

Nicolas Mariot, Tous unis dans la tranchée? 1914-1918, les intellectuels rencontrent le peuple. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2013. 496 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-02-111880-3.

Review by James E. Connolly, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 145

Jean-René Maillot, Jean Luchaire et la revue Notre Temps (1927-1940). Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013. xx + 503 pp. 99.80€. (cl). Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 978-3-0343-1342-1.

Review by Martyn Cornick, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 146

Will Higbee, Post-Beur Cinema: North African Émigré and Maghrebi-French Filmmaking in France since 2000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 228 pp. 21 B/W illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S./ £70.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9780748640041; $40.00 U.S./ £24.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9780748697373.

Review by Margaret C. Flinn, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 147

Monika Kulesza, Le romanesque dans les Lettres de Madame de Sévigné. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New-York, Oxford, Wien : Peter Lang Edition, 2014. 177 pp. $ 48.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-3-631-65451-4.

Review by Nathalie Freidel, Wilfrid Laurier University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 148

Eric Reed, Selling the Yellow Jersey: the Tour de France in the Global Era. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. viii + 251 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-20653-0.

Review by Robert W. Lewis, California State University Polytechnic, Pomona.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 149

Rosi Braidotti and Patricia Pisters, eds. Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze. London: Bloomsbury 2014. i-xii, 238 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography and index. $37.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4725-2468-3.

Review by Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 150

Nelcya Delanoë, D’une petite rafle provençale…. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2013. 219 pp. Notes and bibliography. 18.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-02-111383-9.

Review by Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 151

Simon Kitson, Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xviii + 307 pp. $149.00. U.S. (cl). ISBN: 1385-7827.

Review by Clifford Rosenberg, City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 152

Elizabeth Guild, Unsettling Montaigne: Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings. Cambridge, and Rochester, New York: D.S. Brewer, 2014 [Gallica, 34], xii + 291 pp. Notes and index. £70.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-371-9.

Review by Wes Williams, University of Oxford
H-France Review Vol. 15 (October 2015), No. 153

November Reviews

Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein, eds., Esprit Montmartre: Bohemian Life in Paris around 1900. Frankfurt: Hirmer Publishers, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2014. 320 pages + 290 color plates. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-3-7774-2197.

Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 154

Alexandra Stara, The Museum of French Monuments 1795–1816: ‘Killing art to make history.’ Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. 183 pp., 38 b. & w. illus. $104.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-3799-4.

Review by Keith Bresnahan, OCAD University
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 155

Phillip John Usher and Isabelle Fernbach, eds., Virgilian Identities in the French Renaissance. Gallica, 27. Woodbridge; Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer, 2012. xiii + 260 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781843843177.

Review by Louisa Mackenzie, University of Washington, Seattle.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 156

Catriona Seth, Évariste Parny (1753–1814). Créole, révolutionnaire, académicien. Collection “La République des Lettres.” Paris: Éditions Hermann, 2014. 332 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 36 € (pb.) ISBN 978-2-7056-89575

Review by Aimée Boutin, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 157

Thomas Bouchet, Les Fruits défendus: Socialismes et sensualité du XIXe siècle à nos jours. Paris: Editions Stock, 2014. 352 pp. Notes and index. 20.99€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2234-0-710-63; 14.99€ (digital file).

Review by Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 158

Ivan Jablonka, ed., L’Enfant-Shoah. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2014. 276 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. 22.00€. (pb). ISBN : 978-2-13-059228-0.

Review by Erin Corber, New Europe College, Bucharest.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 159

Hubert Bonin, Banque et identité commerciale, la Société générale 1864-201. Villeneuve d’Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2014. 292 pp. Table des matières, 215 illustrations en noir et blanc, cahier d’illustrations supplémentaire en ligne sur http://www.septentrion.com/fr/livre/?GCOI=275741004 59970, index des personnes, et présentation de l’auteur et de ses publications sur la Société générale. 24.00€. ISBN 2757405977 ; Version numérique. 263 illustrations en couleur. 18.00€. ISBN 2-7574-0652-3.

Review by Nicolas Stoskopf, Université de Haute-Alsace
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 160

Meredith Cohen, The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xi + 293 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-107-02557-8.

Review by Robert Bork, The University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 161

Willibald Sauerländer, Manet Paints Monet: A Summer in Argenteuil , tr. David Dollenmayer. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2014. 80 pp. 30 color and 8 b/w illustrations, notes. $19.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-60606-428-3.

Review by Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 162

Cécile Bishop, Postcolonial Criticism and Representations of African Dictatorship. Oxford: Legenda, 2014. ix + 125 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-909662-01-08.

Review by Aedín Ní Loingsigh, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 163

Denis Gabriel, La ‘Maison des pauvres maîtres’ de Robert de Sorbon: Les débuts de la Sorbonne (1254-1274). Classiques Garnier, 2014. 315 pp. 39.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-81324-3089-3.

Review by Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 164

Yves Krumenacker and Boris Noguès, eds., Protestantisme et éducation dans la France moderne. Lyon: Équipe Religions, Sociétés Et Acculturation (RESEA) du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, UMR 5190), 2014. Collection Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires No. 24. 280 pp. Maps, tables, figures, and notes. 22€ (pb). ISBN 979-10-91592-09-3.

Review by Karen E. Carter, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 165

Lorenz E. Baumer, Frédéric Elsig and Sabine Frommel, eds., Les Années 1540: Regards croisés sur les arts et les lettres. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015. 260 pp. Figures. $85.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1132-8.

Review by Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 166

Sylvia Vabre, Le Sacre du Roquefort: L’Emergence d’une industrie agroalimentaire fin XVIII siècle-1925. Rennes and Tours: Presses universitaires de Rennes and Presses universitaires François-Rabelais de Tours, 2015. 582 pp. Maps, documents, photographs, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-3557-2.

Review by Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 167

Alain Chatriot, Pierre Mendès France pour une République moderne. Paris: Armand Colin, 2015. 317 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and table of contents. 22.00€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-200-60319-9.

Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside, and New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 168

Alex Kershaw, Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and one American Family’s Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris. New York: Crown Publishers, 2015. 320 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index.[1] $28.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8041-4003-4.

Review by Kirrily Freeman, Saint Mary's University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 169

Gérard Cholvy, Les Religions et les cultures dans l’Occident européen au XIXe siècle (1800-1914). Paris: Karthala, 2014. 398 pp. 27.00€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-8111-1313-1.

Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 170

Samuel Kalman, French Colonial Fascism: The Extreme Right in Algeria, 1919-1939. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. ix + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-30708-8.

Review by Gavin Murray-Miller, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (November 2015), No. 171

December Reviews

Rochelle Ziskin, Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century France. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. xix + 354 pp. maps, figures, plates, notes, bibliography, and indices. $79.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-0-271-03785-1.

Review by JoLynn Edwards, University of Washington
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 172

Jean-Claude Caron, Les Deux Vies du Général Foy (1775-1825). Guerrier et Législateur Ceyze´rieu : Champ Vallon, 2014. 357 pp. Tables, figures, notes. 27€ (pb). ISBN978-2-87673-970-3.

Review by Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University-Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 173

Rafe Blaufarb, Michael S. Christofferson and Darrin McMahon, eds., David Bien, Interpreting the Ancien Régime. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2014. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2014:09. xiv + 300 pp. Tables, bibliography and index. $102 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978 0 7294 1144 8.

Review by David Garrioch, Monash University
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 174

Micah Alpaugh, Non-violence and the French Revolution : Political Demonstrations in Paris, 1787-1795. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.viii + 292 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €93.57 £58.50 $82.67 U.S. (cl). ISBN 078-1-10708279-3.

Review by D.M.G. Sutherland, University of Maryland, College Park.
Response by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), Nos. 175 and 176
Response by David Andress

Patrick Dandrey, La Guerre comique. Molière et la querelle de L’École des femmes. Paris: Hermann, 2014. 416 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. 27€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-8955-1.

Review by Larry F. Norman, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 177

Blandine Perona, Prosopopée et persona à la Renaissance. Paris: Classiques Garnier (“Bibliothèque de la Renaissance” 12), 2013, 418 pp. 39€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-1755-9.

Review by Alison Calhoun, Indiana University
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 178

Diana Masny and David R. Cole, Mapping Multiple Literacies: An Introduction to Deleuzian Literacy Studies. Bloomsbury : London. New Delhi, New York, Sydney, 2012. 190 p. $140 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4411-4920-6.

Review by Anne-Marie Chartier, LARHRA/ENS-Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 179

Colin Jones, The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 231 p. Figures, notes, and index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-871581-8.

Review by Jean-Jacques Courtine, University of Auckland
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 180

Élise Pavy-Guilbert, L’Image et la langue: Diderot à l’épreuve du langage dans les Salons. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 470pp. 49€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3176-0.

Review by R.S. Agin, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 181

Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby, eds., French Designs on Colonial New South Wales: François Péron’s Memoir on the English Settlements in New Holland, Van Diemen’s Land and the Archipelagos of the Great Pacific Ocean. Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia, 2014. xviii + 396 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. $65 AUS (hb). ISBN 978-1-876-154 72-1; $35 AUS (pb). ISBN 978-1-876-154-75-2.

Review by Briony Neilson, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 182

Josette Pintueles, Aragon et son Œuvre poétique. L' "Œuvre" au défi. Paris: Classiques Garnier, Etudes de littérature des XXe et XXIe siècles, 2014. 460 pp. Annexes, notes, bibliographie et index. 49€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3021-3.

Review by Roselyne Waller, Université de Strasbourg..
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 183

Rebecca L. Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. viii + 350 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $39.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-04703-7.

Review by Clifford D. Conner, School of Professional Studies, City University of New York Graduate Center.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 184

Nicole D. Smith, Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Xi + 269 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-04137-3

Review by Sarah Brazil, University of Geneva.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 185

Lisa Moses Leff, The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-199-3809-54.

Review by Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, University of Denver.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 186

Peter Fuhring, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach, eds., A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715, exhibition catalogue. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2015, xi + 332 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. (hb). $80.00 U.S. ISBN 978-2-7177-2663-3.

Review by Carl Goldstein, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 187

Waterloo 1815-A Commemorative Anthology. London: Extraordinary Editions, 2015. (No ISBN or total pagination listed), 950£.

Review by Michael Leggiere, University of North Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 15 (December 2015), No. 188