Vivian Gruder, The Notables and the Nation. The Political Schooling of the French, 1787–1788. Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 495 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, notes, index. $59.95 (hb.) ISBN 978 0 674 02534 9.

Review Essays:
Joël Félix, University of Reading.
William Doyle, University of Bristol.
Nigel Aston, University of Leicester.
Clarisse Coulomb, University of Grenoble.

Response Essay by Vivian Gruder, Professor Emerita Queens College, City University of New York.

Christopher L. Miller, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade.  Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008.  xvi + 571 pp.  Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.  $27.95 (pb.) ISBN 978-0-8223-4151-2.  $99.95 (hb.) ISBN 978-0-8223-4127-7.

Review Essays:
John D. Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington
Nick Nesbitt, University of Aberdeen
Carolyn Vellenga Berman, The New School

Response Essay by Christopher L. Miller, Yale University.

Joseph Clarke, Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789–1799.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  316 pp.  Illustrations, notes, index.  $99.00 (hb).  ISBN 0-521-87850-0.

Review Essays:
David O'Brien, University of Illinois
Marisa Linton, Kingston University
Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame

Response Essay by Joseph Clarke, Trinity College, Dublin

Tom McDonough, “The Beautiful Language of My Century”: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968.  Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2007.  273 pp.  Illustrations, notes, index.  $34.95 (hb).  ISBN 0-262-13477-2.

Review Essays:
Julian Bourg, Bucknell University
Steven Ungar, University of Iowa
Gisèle Sapiro, CNRS, Centre de sociologie européenne
Gerd-Rainer Horn, University of Warwick

Response Essay by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University