Joseph Bergin, Church, Society, and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. xvii+506 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-300-15098-8

Review Essays:
Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
Keith P. Luria, North Carolina State University.
Nicole Lemaitre, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Susan Rosa, Northeastern Illinois University.

Response Essay by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester.

Jann Pasler, Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2009. xi + 789 pp. Tables, figures, notes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-25740-5.

Review Essays:
Jeffrey H. Jackson, Rhodes College.
Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts.
Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
Barbara Kelly, Keele University.

Response Essay by Jann Pasler, University of California, San Diego.

D. M. G. Sutherland, Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvii + 316 pp. Figures, notes, appendix, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-88304-7.

Review Essays:
Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University.
Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
Alan Forrest, University of York.

Response Essay by D. M. G. Sutherland, University of Maryland, College Park.

Robert Darnton, The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 552 pp, 47 ill. Notes, index. $34.95/£23.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9.

Review Essays:
Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington.
Simon Burrows, University of Leeds.
Laurent Turcot, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

Response Essay by Robert Darnton, Harvard University.