January/Janvier Reviews

Olivia Bloechl, Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiii + 203 pp. Appendix, acknowledgments, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780226522753.

Review by Tili Boon Cuillé, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 1. 

Gérard Béaur, ed., Alternative Agriculture in Europe (Sixteenth-Twentieth Centuries). Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 349 pp. Illustrations and tables. €80.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-58674-8.

Review by Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 2. 

Alexandra Perisic, Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2019. 240 pp. Notes and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8142-1410-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8142-5552-0; $29.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8142-7731-7.

Review by Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Tulane University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 3. 

Sarah Greer, Alice Hicklin, and Stefan Esders, eds. Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire, c. 900-c.1050. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xi + 308 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367002510; $48.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780367002527; $48.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429400551.

Review by John Eldevik, Hamilton College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 4. 

Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, eds., Life in Revolutionary France. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, and Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 424 pp. Figures, maps, acknowledgements, notes, recommended reading, and index. $37.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781350077294; $115.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781350077300.

Review by Corinne Gressang, Erskine College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 5. 

Caroline zum Kolk and Kathleen Wilson, eds., Femmes à la cour de France: Charges et fonctions (XVe- XIXe siècle). Lille: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2018. 406 pp. Illustrations. € 32.00 (pb). ISBN 9782757423615.

Review by Tracy Adams, The University of Auckland.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 6. 

Rose-Marie Peake, The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identity. Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 245 pp. Sources, notes on vocabulary, and index. €99.00 (hb). ISBN 9789462986688; €98.99 (eb). ISBN 9789048537976.

Review by Joy Palacios, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 7. 

Julie Hardwick, Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2020. ix + 280 pp. $35.00 U.S. (hb). 978-0-190945183.

Review by Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 8. 

Shalon Parker, Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France. Lanham, MA: University of Delaware Press/ The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2019. 184 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $100.00 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 978-1-61149-670-3; $95.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-61149-671-0.

Review by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 9. 

Adam Coker, Russia’s French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. ix + 360 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, and index. £120.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-367-81992-7; £33.29. (eb). ISBN 978-1-003-01123-1.

Review by Derek Offord, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 10. 

Pierre Karila-Cohen, Monsieur le Préfet. Incarner l’État dans la France du XIXe siècle. Ceyzérieu, France: Champ Vallon, 2021. 363 pp. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-0973-2.

Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 11. 

Jessie Hewitt, Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2020. 252 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5017-53312.

Review by Alison Downham Moore, Western Sydney University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 12. 

Noëlline Castagnez, Frédéric Cépède, Fabien Conord, Pascale Goetschel et Gilles Vergnon (dir.), Pas d’histoire sans archives. Mélanges « secret défense » offerts à Gilles Morin. Nancy, Arbre bleu éditions, 2020. 273 pp. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9791090129375. 

Compte-rendu par Jean Vigreux, Université de Bourgogne.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 13.

Isabelle Daunais and Allan Hepburn, eds., Diplomacy and the Modern Novel: France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature. University of Toronto Press, 2020. viii + 244 pp. $65.00 CAN (hb). ISBN 9781487508098; $65.00 CAN (eb). ISBN 9781487537548.

Review by Lynn A. Higgins, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 14. 

Marie-Laure Legay, Finance et calomnie. L’abbé Terray, ministre de Louis XV. Paris : CNRS Editions, 2021. 308 pp. Figures, notes, bibliographie. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-12707-5.

Compte-rendu par Jérôme Loiseau, Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 15.

Paul Rodmell, French Music in Britain, 1830–1914. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. xii + 238 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, and index. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367219390; $44.05 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429268861.

Review by Paul Watt, University of Adelaide.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 16. 

Margaret Atack, Jean-François Vilar: Theatres of Crime. Research Monographs in French Studies 51. Cambridge, U.K.: Legenda, 2020. xi + 152 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £75.00, $99.00 U.S., €85.00. (cl). ISBN 978-1-781887-03-5; £9.99, $12.50 U.S., €12.50. (pb). ISBN 978-1-781883-90-7; $0.00. (eb). ISBN: 978-1-781883-91-4.

Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 17. 

Guillaume Peureux, De main en main: Poètes, poèmes et lecteurs au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Hermann, 2021. 400 pp. €40.00. (pb). ISBN 979-1-0370-0555-7.

Review by Nicholas Hammond, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 18. 

Michael Meere and Kelly Fender McConnell, eds., Coups de Maître: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Culture, in Honour of John D. Lyons. Medieval and Early Modern French Studies, Volume 18. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. xxxii + 560 pp. Figures, tables, and index. $72.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789971453; $72.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789971477.

Review by Esther Van Dyke, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 19. 

Anne Quennedey, L’Éloquence de Saint-Just à la Convention nationale. Un sublime moderne. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2020. 534 pp. Preface by Jean Dagen, references and index. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5425-9.

Review by Mitchell Abidor, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 20. 

Chris Pearson, Dogopolis: How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 259 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226796994; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780226798165; $23.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780226797045.

Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 21. 

Michael S. Neiberg, When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 320 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780674258563.

Review by Elizabeth Stice, Palm Beach Atlantic University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (January 2022), No. 22. 

February/Février Reviews

Odile Join-Lambert, Travailler au musée. Publics, gardiens et conservateurs du Louvre et du British Museum : regards croisés (1946-1981). Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2019. 310 pp. Foreword, bibliography, appendices, and index. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7574-2958-7; €21.00 (eb). ISBN 978-2-7574-2973-0.

Review by Frauke V. Josenhans, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (February 2022), No. 23. 

Loris Chavanette, ed., Le Directoire: Forger la République. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020. 335pp. Notes and index. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782271124258.

Review by Jill Maciak Walshaw, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (February 2022), No. 24. 

Rebecca Peabody, Steven Nelson, and Dominic Thomas, eds., Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2021. vi + 191 pp. Eighty-eight color and five black-and-white illustrations. $55.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60606-668-3.

Review by John Zarobell, University of San Francisco.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (February 2022), No. 25. 

Colin Foss, The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. vii + 236 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $130.00 U.S./£90.00 U.K. (hb) ISBN 9781789621921; £90.00 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9781789627718.

Review by Heidi Brevik-Zender, University of California, Riverside.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (February 2022), No. 26. 

Simon Perego, Pleurons-les: Les Juifs de Paris et la commémoration de la Shoah (1944-1967). Preface by Claire Andrieu. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2020. Coll. Époques. 387 pp. Index, bibliography, illustrations and glossary. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-0933-6.

Review by Gary D. Mole, Bar-Ilan University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (February 2022), No. 27. 

Kate Vigurs, Mission France: The True History of the Women of SOE. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. xxii + 301 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 9780300208573.

Review by Rachel Nuñez, Hollins University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (February 2022), No. 28. 

March/Mars Reviews

Frédéric Lelong, Descartes et la question de la civilité. La philosophie de l’honnête homme.  Paris: Honoré Champion, 2020. 244 pp. Bibliography and index. $86.38 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9782745352835.

Review by Lisa Shapiro, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 29. 

Katie Chenoweth, The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 350 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780812251494.

Review by Jennifer Oliver, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 30. 

Katie Chenoweth, The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 350 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780812251494.

Review by Jennifer Oliver, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 30. 

Carmontelle, Garden at Monceau, edited by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and Joseph Disponzio, translated by Andrew Ayers. New York, NY and Upperville, VA: The Foundation for Landscape Studies and Oak Spring Garden Foundation, 2020. 196 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U. S. (hb). ISBN 9780300254686.  

Review by Lauren R. Cannady, University of Maryland, College Park.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 31. 

Jean Tulard, ed., La Contre-Révolution: Origines, histoire, postérité. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2021, 3rd ed. (1st ed. 1990, 2nd ed. 2013). 527 pp. Chronology, dictionary of the counterrevolutionaries, and index. €12.00 Fr. (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-13616-9.

Review by Glauco Schettini, Fordham University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 32. 

Matthew D. Mendham, Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau. The Jean-Jacques Problem. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 296 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780812252835; ISBN 9780812297805 (eb).

Review by Jürgen Oelkers, University of Zürich.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 33. 

Vincent Martigny, Laurent Martin, and Emmanuel Wallon, eds., Les années Lang, une histoire des politiques culturelles, 1981-1993. Dictionnaire critique. Paris: La Documentation française, 2021. 589 pp. Bibliography, list of acronyms, and index. €27.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2111571068; €17.99 (eb). ISBN 9-78-2111574823.

Review by Susan Collard, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 34. 

Chloé Chaudet, Stefania Cubeddu-Proux and Jean-Marc Moura (eds.). L’Atlantique littéraire au féminin: Approches comparatistes (xxe-xxie siècles). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2020. 270 pp. €18.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-84516-943-2; €12.00. (eb). ISBN 978-2-84516-945-6.

Review by Jennifer Boum Make, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 35. 

Jay R. Berkovitz, Law’s Dominion: Jewish Community, Religion, and Family Life in Early Modern Metz. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. xv + 404pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $76.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9789004417397; $76.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9789004417403.

Review by David Ellenson, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 36. 

Jean H. Duffy, Perceiving Dubuffet: Art, Embodiment, and the Viewer. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. xxv + 411 pp. Figures, notes, references, and index. £85.00. (hb). ISBN 9781789621693.

Review by Stephanie Chadwick, Lamar University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 37. 

Christopher Drew Armstrong, Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History. New York: Routledge, 2012, 2021. xix + 300 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $182.86 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780415778893; $48.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780367617684; $44.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780203723722.

Review by Sun-Young Park, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 38. 

Edward Hughes, Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. xii + 330 pp. Bibliography, index. £95.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-1-800-34842-4; £95.00 U.K. (eb). ISBN 978-1-800-34548-5.

Review by Kevin Inston, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 39. 

Susan Mokhberi, The Persian Mirror: Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xi + 223 pp. $78.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780190884796.

Review by Junko Takeda, Syracuse University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 40. 

David Gascoigne and Ana de Medeiros, eds., Marie Nimier: Le sujet et ses écritures / The Self in the Web of Language. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2021. xii + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $67.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800791954; $67.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800791978.

Review by Lisa Connell, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 41. 

Elizabeth L. Block, Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2021. 296 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780262045841. $21.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 0262045842.

Review by Sophie Kurkdjian, American University of Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (March 2022), No. 42. 

April/Avril Reviews

Dominique Barthélemy, Isabelle Guyot-Bachy, Frédérique Lachaud, and Jean-Marie Moeglin, eds., Communitas regni: La “communauté de royaume” de la fin du X^e siècle au début du XIV^e siècle (Angleterre, Écosse, France, Empire, Scandinavie). Paris: Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019. 352 pp. Maps, tables, notes. €34.00 (pb.). ISBN 9-79-1023106138.

Review by Chris Jones, University of Canterbury.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 43. 

Raisa Adah Rexer. The Fallen Veil. A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 2021. xii + 328pp. Eighty-seven halftones, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 9780812252866.

Review by Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 44. 

Response by Raisa Adah Rexer, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 21 (April 2022), No. 45.

Donald Reid, Opening the Gates. The Lip Affair, 1968-1981. London: Verso, 2018. xvi + 492 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. £32.00; $48.00 (U.S.). ISBN 978-1-78663-540-2.

Review by Julian Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 46. 

William Max Nelson, The Time of Enlightenment: Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 224 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781487507701.

Review by Meghan K. Roberts, Bowdoin College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 47. 

Charly Coleman, The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2021. xi + 376 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781503608436; $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781503614826; $28.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781503614833.

Review by Gail Bossenga, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 48. 

Response by Charly Coleman, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 21 (April 2022), No. 49.

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021. vi + 339 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781496833105; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781496833112.

Review by Cécile Accilien, Kennesaw State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 50. 

Hiddleston, Jane and Khalid Lyamlahy, eds., Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism, and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. xii + 401 pp. Illustrations, notes on contributors, bibliography, and index. $130.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-78962-233-1. 

Review by Imane Terhmina, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 51. 

Daniel Williman and Karen Corsano, The World Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis: A Manuscript’s Journey from Saint-Denis to St. Pancras. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter / Medieval Institute Publications, 2020. xii + 238 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $109.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-5015-1871-3; $109.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-5015-1001-4.

Review by Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 52. 

Giada Alessandroni, Amongst Women: Literary Representations of Female Homosociality in Belle Epoque France, 1880–1914. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. viii + 236 pp. $63.95 (pb). ISBN 9781800790643; $63.95 (eb). ISBN 9781800790650.

Review by Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 53. 

Bertrand Marquer and Eléonore Reverzy, eds., Histoires de chasses: Traces et traques dans la littérature du XIX^e siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 289 pp. Notes, index nominum, chapter summaries. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11802-2.

Review by Corry Cropper, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 54. 

Response to H-France Review Vol. 21, no. 193 by Alison Baird Lovell, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 55.
See above for original review.

Robert Dumont, La Condamnation des prêtres-ouvriers (1953-1954). Étude de cas à travers les documents. Postface by Denis Pelletier. Paris: Karthala, 2019. 710 pp. €42.00 (pb). ISBN9782811126711; €32.99 (eb). ISBN 9782811126711.

Review by Rachel Johnston-White, University of Groningen.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 56. 

Lawrence M. Principe, The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2020. xv + 464 pp. Table, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0226700786. $44.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0226700816.

Review by Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 57. 

Jane Gilbert, Simon Gaunt, and William Burgwinkle, Medieval French Literary Culture Abroad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. x + 290 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-19-883245-4.

Review by Anne-Hélène Miller, University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 58. 

Elizabeth Andrews Bond, The Writing Public. Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020, pp. 272. Illustrations and appendix. $99.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1501753565.

Review by Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 59. 

Sarah Dunstan, Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from WWI to the Cold War. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.xii + 320 pp. Notes on terminology and language, bibliography, and index. $99.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9781108486972.

Review by Celeste Day Moore, Hamilton College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 60. 

Nicolas Schapira, Maîtres et secrétaires (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). L’exercice du pouvoir dans la France d’Ancien Régime. Paris: Albin Michel, 2020. Preface by Roger Chartier. 332 pp. Bibliography, index, and notes. (pb). €24.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-226-453051.

Review by Fabien Montcher, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 61. 

Jennifer J. Popiel, Heroics Hearts: Sentiment, Saints, and Authority in Modern France. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xxi + 320 pp. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4962-1961-9; $65.00 U.S. (epub). ISBN 978-1-4962-2720-1; $65.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4962-2722-5.

Compte-rendu par Caroline Muller, Université Rennes 2.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 62.

Loïc Bourdeau, ed., Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. x + 213 pp. Index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780803293984; $45.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781496218292; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781496218278.

Review by Juliette Rogers, Macalester College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 63. 

Greg Kerr, Exile, Non-Belonging and Statelessness in Grangaud, Jabès, Lubin and Luca: No man’s language. London: UCL Press, 2021. 204 pp. £20.00. (pb). ISBN 9781787356740; £40.00. (hb). ISBN 9781787356757.

Review by Peter Consenstein, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 64. 

Ariane Viktoria Fichtl, La Radicalisation de l’idéal républicain. Modèles antiques et la Révolution française. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2020. 467 pp. Dictionnaire des références antiques, notes, bibliographie et index des auteurs cités. €88.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-10382-0; €49.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-10381-3.

Compte-rendu par Suzanne Levin, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 65.

Jonathan Beecher, Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xix + 474 pp. Figures, chronology, glossary and index. £29.99 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781108842532.

Review by Maxime Goergen, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 66. 

Anaïs Albert, La vie à crédit. La consommation des classes populaires à Paris (années 1880-1920). Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021. 388 pp. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-351-0649-2.

Review by Alexia Yates, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 67. 

Gabriel Proulx, Quand les spectres prennent la parole : Échos beckettiens chez Christophe Tarkos. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 165 pp. €63.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-10096-6; €24.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-10095-9.

Compte-rendu par Nathalie Wourm, Birkbeck, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 68.

Nelly Furman, Georges Bizet’s Carmen. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. ix + 134 pp. Illustrations, notes, index, companion website. $78.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780190059149; $16.95 U.S. (pb). IBSN 9780190059156; $10.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780190059156.

Review by Erin M. Brooks, State University of New York-Potsdam.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 69. 

Jennifer Cazenave, An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah.” Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. xxxviii + 313 pp. Chronology, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781438474779; $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781438474762.

Review by Audrey Evrard, Fordham University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 70. 

Huguette Krief. Le Métis révolutionnaire. Barbault-Royer, homme de lettres et voyageur engagé. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 341 pp. €38.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11337-9.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 71. 

Deborah Bauer, Marianne is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xv + 337 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4962-2372-2; $65.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4962-2914-4; $65.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4962-2915-1.

Review by Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (April 2022), No. 72. 

May/Mai Reviews

Abel Alexis Louis, Hommes en noir, femmes en blanc? La culture des apparences à l’épreuve du système esclavagiste en Martinique (1765-1848). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2020. 325 pp. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-343-20767-4.

Review by Mary Gallagher, University College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 73. 

Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée, The Streets as a Cloister: History of the Daughters of Charity, 17th and 18th Centuries, translated by Marie Poole and Margaret Barrett. (New York: New City Press, 2020). Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. 665 pp. $79.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-56548-027-8.

Review by Mary M. Rowan, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 74. 

Augustin Jomier, Islam, réforme et colonisation. Une histoire de l’ibadisme en Algérie (1882-1962). Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020. 397 pp. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-351-0532-7.

Compte-rendu par par Alain Messaoudi, Nantes Université.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 75.

Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c. 1790-1890. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xii + 361 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9781108478847; $96.00 (eb). ISBN: 9781108802888.

Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 76. 

Maria Kathryn Tomlinson, From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French, Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 77. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. 234 pp. Index. £90.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781800348462; £90.00 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9781800345539.

Review by Alison Downham Moore, Western Sydney University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 77. 

Susanna Caviglia, History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020. xxii + 281 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789620399.

Review by Elizabeth Mansfield, Penn State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 78. 

Mathieu Marraud, Le Pouvoir marchand. Corps et corporatisme à Paris sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Champ-Vallon, 2021. 512 pp. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-0948-0.

Compte-rendu par Natacha Coquery, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 79.

Marc Allégret, dir., Avec André Gide. 1951: Pierre Braunberger/Panthéon Productions; 2019: 2K restoration, Les Films du Panthéon/Les Films du Jeudi/Icarus Films, 2019. 92 min.

Review by Alison James, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 80. 

Sofia Lodén, French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021. ix + 216 pp. Notes, references, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781843845829; $24.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800101586.

Review by Jaqueline Victor, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 81. 

Susanne Friede, ed., Autour du Graal: Questions d’approche(s). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 297 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €68.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406104308; €29.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406104292.

Review by Miranda Griffin, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 82. 

William Weber with Beverly Wilcox, Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press: Lully to Wagner. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2021. 328 pp. Bibliography and notes. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781648250163; $19.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800103290.

Review by Kerry Murphy, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 83. 

Armelle St-Martin, Sade, la Révolution et la finance. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 260 pp. €68.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-406-11977-7; €27.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11976-0.

Review by Adrian O’Connor, University of South Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 84. 

Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Matisse: The Books. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020. 319 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-75054-5.

Review by John Klein, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 85. 

Jeffrey H. Jackson, Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 2020. 336 pp. $27.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1616209162; $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1643752051; $21.95 (eb). ISBN 9781643751122.

Review by Paula Schwartz, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 86. 

James H. Rubin, Why Monet Matters: Meanings Among the Lily Pads. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021. xiv + 378 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-271-08620-0; $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-271-09116-7.

Review by Bradley Fratello, St. Louis Community College, Meramec.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 87. 

Response by James Rubin, Stony Brook University (Professor Emeritus).
H-France Review Vol. 21 (May 2022), No. 88.

Katie Scott, Becoming Property: Art, Theory, and Law in Early Modern France. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2018. 384 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300222791.

Review by Susan M. Wager, University of New Hampshire.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 89. 

Simon Davies, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Colonial Traveller, Enlightenment Reformer, Celebrity Writer. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. xii + 323 pp. Bibliography and index. £65.00 (pb). ISBN 978-1-789-62248-5; £65.00 (eb). ISBN 978-1-800-85779-7.

Review by April G. Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 90. 

Lisa Reilly, The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii + 214 pp. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, selected bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781108488167.

Review by Dana Katz, Universität Hamburg and Bard Graduate Center.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 91. 

François Dell and Romain Benini, La Concordance chez Racine. Rapports entre structure grammaticale et forme métrique dans le théâtre de Racine. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2020. 229 pp. Notes, bibliographie, et index. €67.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-406-09616-0; €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-09615-3.

Compte-rendu par Tristan Alonge, Université de la Réunion.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 92.

Ashley M. Williard, Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xii + 294 pp. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4962-2024-0; $65.00 U.S. (epub). ISBN 978-1-4962-2545-0; $65.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4962-2547-4.

Compte-rendu par Cécile Vidal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 93.

John Klein, Matisse and Decoration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 271 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300135640.

Review by Gordon Hughes, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 94. 

Robert Darnton, Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. vi + 391 pp. Notes and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780195144529.

Review by Nina Rattner Gelbart, Occidental College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 95. 

Colin Jones, The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 572 pp. Maps, notes, and bibliography. $32.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978–0198715955; $13.79 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0191025044.

Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 96. 

Response by Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 21 (May 2022), No. 97.

Quentin Deluermoz, ed., D’ici d’ailleurs: Histoires globales de la France contemporaine. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2021. 344 pp. Notes. €23.00; $33.42 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9782348060106.

Review by Emily Lord Fransee, University of Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (May 2022), No. 98. 

June/Juin Reviews

Dorothy Kelly, The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021. x + 172 pp. Bibliography and index. £80.00 (hb). ISBN 9781781886502.

Review by Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 99. 

Christian Michel et Jacqueline Lichtenstein, eds., Chris Miller, trans., Lectures on Art: Selected Conférences from the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1667-1772. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2020. xii + 475 pp. $75.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60606-646-1.

Compte-rendu par Isabelle Pichet, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 100.

Niels Niessen, Miraculous Realism: The French-Walloon Cinéma du Nord. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. xiii + 322 pp. Acknowledgments, notes, films referenced, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781438477336; $33.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781438477343; $32.25 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781438477350

Review by Jennifer Cazenave, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 101. 

Andrew S. Curran, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. New York: Other Press, 2019. 528pp. $28.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1590516706; $19.99 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 9-78-1635420395.

Review by Charles Devellennes, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 101. 

Jean-Pierre Le Crom et Marc Boninchi, eds., La chicotte et le pécule. Les travailleurs à l’épreuve du droit colonial français (XIXe-XXe siècles). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021.  332 pp. €25.00. (pb). ISBN 9782753580664.

Compte-rendu par Isabelle Merle, Aix Marseille Université.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 103.

Stéphane Pujol, Morale et sciences des mœurs dans l’Encyclopédie. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 462 pp. Bibliography and index. €58.00. ISBN 9782745355669.

Review by Devin Vartija, Utrecht University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 104. 

Trine Rogg Korsvik, Politicizing Rape and Pornography. 1970s Feminist Movements in France and Norway. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. xii + 297 pp. Figures, references, and index. £79.99 (hb). ISBN 978-3-030-55638-9.

Review by Jane Freeland, German Historical Institute London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 105. 

Michaël Abecassis and Maribel Peñalver Vicea, eds., Rêve d’écriture et écriture du rêve. Entre carcéralités et libertés langagières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 252 pp. Bibliography, indexes and abstracts. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2406114901.

Review by Laura Vordermayer, Saarland University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 106. 

Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis, eds., Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2022. 216 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $130.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-1684483419; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1684483402.

Review by Gemma Tidman, Queen Mary, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 107. 

J. P. Daughton, In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021. 384 pages. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780393541014.

Review by Deborah Neill, York University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 108. 

Hélène E. Bilis and Ellen McClure, eds., Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy. Options for teaching, volume 55. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2021. x + 363 pp. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1603295307; $36.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1603295314. 

Review by Edward Forman, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 109. 

Eric Smoodin, Paris in the Dark: Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930-1950. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2020. xiv + 203 pp. $99.95 (cl). ISBN 978-1-478-00611-4; $25.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-478-00692-3.

Review by Steven Ungar, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (June 2022), No. 110. 

July/Juillet Reviews

Martijn van der Burg, Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany: Conquest, Incorporation, and Integration. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. $59.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9783030666576; Open Access (eb). ISSN 9783030666583.

Review by Nicola P. Todorov, Université de Guyane.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 111. 

Malina Stefanovska, ed., Casanova in the Enlightenment: From the Margins to the Centre. UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. vii + 176 pp. Notes and index. $63.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9781487506643; $63.00 U.S. (eb) 9781487534585.

Review by Caroline Warman, Jesus College Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 112. 

Masha Belenky, Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. xii + 183 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. £85.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781526138590; £20.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9781526160218; £20.00 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9781526138613.

Review by Marina van Zuylen, Bard College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 113. 

Rachel Anne Gillett, At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xvii + 235 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780190842703; $72.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 9780190842710.

Review by Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 114. 

Vincent Fontana, Éclairer le crime. Une histoire de l’enquête pénale sous la Révolution et l’Empire (Genève 1790-1814). Chêne-Bourg: Georg Éditeur, 2021. 695 pp. 25.00 CHF (pb). ISBN 9782825712344.

Compte-rendu par Aurélien Lignereux, Université Grenoble Alpes.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 115.

Melissa Percival and Muriel Adrien, eds., “Fancy” in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, 2020. xvii + 325 pp. Figures, notes, summaries, bibliography, and index. £75.00. (pb). ISBN 9781789620030; £65.00 (eb). ISBN 9781800346703.

Review by Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 116. 

Polly Galis, Antonia Wimbush, and Maria Tomlinson, eds., Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture. Modern French Identities 140. New York: Peter Lang, 2021. ix + 279 pp. Index. $67.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789975147; $67.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789975161. 

Review by Daniel Nabil Maroun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 117. 

Devin J. Vartija, The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 312 pp. Notes, index, and table. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0812253191. 

Review by Tracy L. Rutler, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 118. 

Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Exh. cat. Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. 300 pp. Chronology, map, figures, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-0300257595. 

Review by Jason Vrooman, Middlebury College Museum of Art.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 119. 

Philipp Müller and Hervé Joly, eds., Les espaces d’interaction des élites françaises et allemandes, 1920-1950. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. 210 pp. €24.00 (pb.). ISBN 9782753582170. 

Review by Talbot Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 120. 

Annalena Müller, From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France, 1642-1100. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022. xiv + 272 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-367-71451-2; $44.05 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-003-15208-8. 

Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawai’i Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 121. 

Glenda Sluga, The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. xvi + 369 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S./£29.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9780691208213; $35.00 U.S./£29.00 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9780691226798. 

Review by Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 122. 

Ulla Kölving, ed., Entente culturelle. L’Europe des correspondances littéraires. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2021. xii + 278 pp. €60.00 (pb). ISBN 9782845591417. 

Review by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 123. 

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition. University of Chicago Press, 2021. 341 pages. Colour plates, halftones, notes, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226745046; $54.99 U.S. (pdf & eb). ISBN 9780226745183. 

Review by Marsha Morton, Pratt Institute.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 124. 

Sophie Goetzmann, “Et les grands cris de l’Est”: Robert Delaunay à Berlin 1912-1914. Paris: Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art and Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2021. 390 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2735127344. 

Review by Sherry Buckberrough, University of Hartford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 125. 

François-Marc Gagnon, Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement, transl. by Donald Winkler. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. 224pp. 77 color illustrations. $49.95 CAD (hb). ISBN 9-78-0228001157. 

Review by Roald Nasgaard, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (July 2022), No. 126. 

August/Août Reviews

Renault, Jean-Baptiste, ed., Originaux et cartulaires dans la Lorraine médiévale (XIIe-XVIe siècles). Recueil d’études. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2016. 245 pp. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-56756-3.

Yoric Schleef and Natacha Helas, eds., Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Pierremont (1095-1297). Édition d’après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouvelles acquisitions latines, 1608. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018. 375 pp. €85.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-503-58084-5. 

Review by Kathryn Salzer, Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 127. 

Crystal Marie Fleming, Resurrecting Slavery: Racial Legacies and White Supremacy in France. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2017. xi + 276 pp. Notes, references, and index. $99.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781439914083; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9781439914090; $34.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978143991410. 

Review by Sarah C. Dunstan, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 128. 

Emmanuelle Chapron, Livres d’école et littérature de jeunesse en France au XVIIIe siècle. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. x + 401 pp. Figures, table, bibliographie, sources et index. £65.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-1-800-34803-5.

Compte-rendu par Sonia Cherrad, CELLAM-Université Rennes 2.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 129.

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-60. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. viii + 320 pp. £95.00. (hb). ISBN 9781800348400. £90.00. (eb). ISBN 9781800345461. 

Review by Alexandra Paulin-Booth, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 130. 

Samuel Raybone, Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter. New York and London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020. xi + 243 pp. Bibliography and index. $130.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978150133994-3; $117.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978150133996-7. 

Review by Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 131. 

Marc Meuleau, Les HEC et la première révolution managériale en France (1881-1973). Paris: Éditions ESKA, 2021. 358 pp. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2747230926. 

Review by Joseph Bohling, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 132. 

John Shovlin, Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2021. xxxv + 374 pp. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300253566.

Compte-rendu par Francis Démier, Université de Paris-Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 133.

Satish Padiyar, Fragonard: Painting Out of Time. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. 248 pp. 114 color illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. £35.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781789142099.

Review by Aaron Wile, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 134. 

Response by Satish Padiyar, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
H-France Review Vol. 21 (August 2022), No. 135.

Jane Gilbert and Miranda Griffin, eds., The Future of Medieval French: Essays in Honour of Sarah Kay. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. 402 pp. Illustrations, bibliographies, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781843845959; $24.99 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781800101746; $24.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800101753. 

Review by Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 136. 

Michael Sonenscher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Division of Labour, the Politics of the Imagination and the Concept of a Federal Government. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020. xiii + 177 pp. Bibliography and index. $113.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9789004392144; $116.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9789004420335. 

Review by Rebecca Crisafulli, Saint Anselm College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 137. 

Michael Gott and Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, eds., ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xiv + 248 pp. Figures, filmography, index, and notes. £80.00 (hb). ISBN 9-78-1474466516; £24.99 (pb). ISBN 9-78-1474466523; £80.00 (eb). ISBN 9-78-1474466547. £80.00 (pdf). ISBN 9-78-1474466530. 

Review by Peter J. Bloom, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 138. 

Michelle Royer, The Cinema of Marguerite Duras: Multisensoriality and Female Subjectivity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. viii + 133 pp. £75.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1474440547; £15.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1474427852; £0.00 U.K. (eb) ISBN 9-78-1474427876. 

Review by Katie Pleming, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 139. 

Daisy Sainsbury, Contemporary French Poetry: Towards a Minor Poetics. Oxford: Legenda, 2021. xxii + 202 pp. $110.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9781781888421. ISBN: 9781781888469 (pb). ISBN: 9781781888506 (JSTOR eb). 

Review by Victoria Bergstrom, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 140. 

Jean-François Labourdette, La Maison de La Trémoille au XVIIIe siècle. Bibliothèque d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 66. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 518 pp. Notes and bibliography. 68€ (pb). ISBN 9782745356307; 68€ (pdf). ISBN 9782745356307. 

Review by Elizabeth C. Macknight, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 141. 

Emmanuel Taïeb, Hiding the Guillotine: Public Executions in France, 1870-1939, translated by Sarah-Louise Raillard. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. xix + 312 pp. Notes, tables, graphs, figures, index. $49.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN 9781501750946; $32.99 U.S. (eb) ISBN 9781501750953. 

Review by Elizabeth Propes, Tennessee Technological University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 142. 

Mathias Dreyfuss, Aux sources juives de l’histoire de France. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2021. 414 pp. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2271121431.

Review by Julie Kalman, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 143. 

Béatrice Didier, À l’extrême de l’écriture de soi. Les derniers textes autobiographiques de J.-J. Rousseau. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020. 329 pp. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 978-88-7885-809-1; €9.49 (eb). ISBN 978-88-7885-810-7.

Compte-rendu par Rudy Le Menthéour, Bryn Mawr College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 144.

Marika Takanishi Knowles, Realism and Role-Play. The Human Figure in French Art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2021. xiv + 324 pp. Illustrations (black & white; color), index, and bibliography. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781644531808; $37.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781644532058.

Review by Todd P. Olson, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 145.

Owen White, The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press. 2021. 336 pp. Maps, table, illustrations, notes, and index. $41.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0674248441.

Review by Rod Phillips, Carleton University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 146. 

Brian Valente-Quinn. Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2021. xi + 202 pp. Index, bibliography, and illustrations. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0810143661; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0810143654.

Review by Rod Phillips, Carleton University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (August 2022), No. 147.

September/Septembre Reviews

Nina Rattner Gelbart, Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. ix + 340pp. Notes and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300252569; $23.27 US (eb). ISBN 9780300258431.

Review by Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 148.

François Brunet, The Birth of the Idea of Photography, translated by Shane B. Lillis. Toronto: RIC Books (Ryerson Image Centre); Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2019. xx + 385 pp. Color illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780262043267.

Review by Nancy Locke, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 150.

Malcolm Crook, How the French Learned to Vote: A History of Electoral Practice in France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. xviii + 262 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780192894786.

Review by Geoff Read, Huron University College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 151.

Christian Mühling, Le Débat européen sur la guerre de religion (1679-1714). Mémoire confessionnelle et politique internationale à l’époque de Louis XIV. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2021. 624 pp. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 9782745354594.

Compte-rendu par Denis Crouzet, Sorbonne Université.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 152.

Amy L. Hubbell, Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. 186 pp. Figures and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4962-1402-7; $50.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4962-2350-0.

Review by Rebekah Vince, Queen Mary University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 153.

Didier Alexandre, ed., with Pascale Langlois, Paul Claudel, aujourd’hui. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 497 pp. Names index and abstracts. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406104209.

Review by Pamela A. Genova, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 154.

Sean M. Quinlan, Morbid Undercurrents: Medical Subcultures in Postrevolutionary France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021. xiv + 318 pp. Index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-501-75833-1; $29.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-501-75835-5.

Review by Larry Duffy, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 155.

Tristan Leperlier, Algérie: les écrivains dans la décennie noire. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2018. 344 pp. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2271120755.

Review by Joseph Ford, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 156.

Henning Hillmann, The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. xii + 322 pp. Appendix, acknowledgments, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $140.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780231180382; $35.00 U.S . (pb). ISBN 9780231180399.

Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 157.

Daniel J. Watkins, Berruyer’s Bible: Public Opinion and the Politics of Enlightenment Catholicism in France. McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Religion. Montreal and Kingston, London and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. xviii + 326 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $130.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780228006305; $37.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780228006299.

Review by Joseph P. Harmon, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 158.

Philippe Genequand, Officiers et Gouvernement de l’Église sous Clément VII d’Avignon (1378-1394). Bibliothèque d’histoire médiévale 28. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 605pp. Notes, references, and index. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406115861.

Review by Joëlle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 159.

Pamela L. Cheek, Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century. Haney Foundation Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. x + 280 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780812251487; $79.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780812296365.

Review by Annalisa Nicholson, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (September 2022), No. 160.

October/Octobre Reviews

Dean Kostantaras, Nationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1763-1848. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 272 pp. €99.00 (hb). ISBN 9789462985186; €98.99. (eb). ISBN 9789048536214.

Review by Thomas Hippler, University of Caen Normandy.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 161.

Response by Dean Kostantaras, Northwestern State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 162.

Simon Kelly, Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2021. 250 pp. 8 colour & 64 b/w illustrations and appendices. $150.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501343797; $135.85 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501343803; $135.85 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781501343810.

Review by Steven Adams, University of Hertfordshire.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 163.

Denis M. Provencher and Siham Bouamer, eds., Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-places, Affect, and Temporalities. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. Viii + 302 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781793644862; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781793644879.

Review by Jarrod Hayes, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 164.

Mary Kelly, French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861-1956: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Depictions of Difference. London: Routledge, 2021. 246 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £120.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1472440310; £33.29 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1003185130.

Review by Alia Nour, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 165.

John O’Brien and Marc Schachter, eds., Sedition: The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021. 324 pp. Figures, notes, and index. € 90.00 (hb). ISBN 9782503589909; € 90.00 (eb). ISBN 9782503589923.

Review by Scott Francis, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 166.

Robert Pike, Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France. Cheltenham: The History Press, 2021. 382pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. £20.00 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 9780750999670; £14.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9780750991346; £10.39 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9780750997607.

Review by Andrew Knapp, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 167.

Pierre Odin, Pwofitasyon. Luttes syndicales et anticolonialisme en Guadeloupe et en Martinique. Paris: La Découverte, 2019. xi + 311 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, and biographical index. €22.00. (p.b.) ISBN 9782348043475; €15.99 (eb). ISBN 9782348043475.

Review by Edenz Maurice, CERMA-Mondes Américains/EHESS.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 168.

Esther da Costa Meyer, Dividing Paris: Urban Renewal and Social Inequality, 1852-1870. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. x + 400 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $49.95 U.S./£ 40.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9780691162805; (eb). ISBN 9780691223537.

Review by Masha Belensky, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 169.

Mathilde Bedel, Mirabilia Indiae: Voyageurs français et représentations de l’Inde au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 349 pp. Appendices, glossary, bibliography, and indices. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2406121534.

Review by Faith E. Beasley, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 170.

Alice Hazard, The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021. 239 pp. Black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. £75.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781843845874; £19.99 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9781800101722.

Review by Luke Sunderland, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 171.

Estelle Berthereau, La fabrique politique du journal. Pierre-Sébastien Laurentie (1793 – 1876), un antimoderne au temps de Balzac. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 476 pp. €69.00. (pb). ISBN 9782745355331.

Review by C. J. T. Talar, University of Saint Thomas, Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 172.

Damian Catani. Louis Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme. London: Reaktion Books, 2021. 392 pp. Bibliography, index, and illustrations. $37.50 (hc). ISBN 9-78-1789144673; $40.00 (eb). ISBN 9-78-1789144680.

Review by Rosemarie Scullion, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 173.

Meghan Tinsley, Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia. London: Routledge, 2022. xi +182 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £120.00 (hb). ISBN 9-78-0367551858.

Review by Dónal Hassatt, University College Cork.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 174.

Carolyn J. Eichner, The Paris Commune. A Brief History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2022. A volume in the Reinventions of the Commune series edited by Kristin Ross. vii+143pp. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781978827684; $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781978827691; $19.95 (epub). ISBN 9781978827707; $19.95 (pdf). ISBN 9781978827714.

Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 175.

Emma Rothschild, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries.  Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. 464 pp. Appendix, notes, and index $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780691200309. $32.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0691208183.

Review by Katherine A. Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 176.

Yann Potin, Trésor, écrits, pouvoirs. Archives et bibliothèques d’État en France à la fin du Moyen Âge. Preface by Patrick Boucheron. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020. 271 pp. Tables, black-and-white figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €25.00 (pb). ISBN: 978-2-271-13239-0.

Review by Zrinka Stahuljak, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 177.

Natalie Lang, Religion and Pride: Hindus in Search of Recognition in La Réunion. New York: Berghahn Books, 2021. 234 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $135.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-80073-027-4; $34.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-80073-028-1.

Review by Marek Ahnee, Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 178. 

Céline Frigau Manning, Ce que la musique fait à l’hypnose: Une relation spectaculaire au XIXe siècle. Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2021. 377 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978378961749.

Review by Katrin Schultheiss, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 179.

Stefano Magagnoli and Philippe Meyzie, eds., Réputation et marché. Produits, origines et marques: Perspectives historiques. Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2022. 304 pp. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7574-3560-1.

Review by Kolleen M. Guy, Duke Kunshan University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 180.

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Clotilde Dauphant, and Sylvie Lefèvre, eds., Le Rondeaux entre XIIIe et XVIe siècles. Une forme lyrique en liberté surveillée. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 222 pp. Bibliography and index. €35.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5535-5. €35.00 (eb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5535-5.

Review by Helen J. Swift, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (October 2022), No. 181.

November/Novembre Reviews

Caroline Warman, The Atheist’s Bible: Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020. X + 428 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN 9781783748976; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781783748969.

Review by Shane H. Hockin, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 182.

Response by Caroline Warman, Jesus College, Oxford University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 183.

Emma Wagstaff, André du Bouchet. Poetic Forms of Attention. Leyden: Brill, 2020. 229 pp. $123.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-90-04-42714-3; $123.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 978-90-04-43288-8.

Review by Hugues Azérad, Cambridge University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 184.

Marc Belissa and Yannick Bosc, Le Consulat de Bonaparte: La fabrique de l’Etat et la société propriétaire. Paris: La Fabrique, 2021. 304pp. €15.00. (pb.). ISBN 9782358722223.

Review by Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 185.

Response de Marc Belissa, Université de Paris Nantes et Yannick Bosc, Université de Rouen
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 186.

C.L. Quinan, Hybrid Anxieties: Queering the French-Algerian War and Its Postcolonial Legacies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xii + 276 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4962-0681-7; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4962-2426-2; $30.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4962-2361-6; $30.00 U.S. (epub). ISBN 978-1-4962-2359-3.

Review by Blase A. Provitola, Trinity College (CT).
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 187.

Emily E. Thompson, ed., Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France: Negotiating Shifting Forms. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2022. vi + 281 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1644532379; $46.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1644532362.

Review by Emma Herdman, University of St. Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 188.

Sophie Bertho, La Peinture Selon Proust. Les détournements du visuel. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 170 pp. €26.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-10757-6; €65.00. (hb). ISBN  978-2-406-10758-3.

Review by by Shuangyi Li., University of Bristol
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 189.

Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Clotilde Dauphant, and Sylvie Lefèvre, eds., Le Rondeaux entre XIII^e et XVI^e siècles. Une forme lyrique en liberté surveillée. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 222 pp. Bibliography and index. €35.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5535-5. €35.00 (eb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5535-5. 

Review by Helen J. Swift, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (November 2022), No. 190.

December/Décembre Reviews

Troy Thomas, Poussin’s Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist’s Works. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 386 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. €128.00. (hb). ISBN 9789463721844.

Review by Sheila McTighe, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 191.

Response de Troy Thomas, Penn State University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 192.

Deborah Mawer, ed., Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture, 1860-1960. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. 270 pp. Bibliography, index, and list of contributors. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0367881641; $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1472474759; $49.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1315586847. 

Review by Michael Strasser, Baldwin Wallace University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 193.

Kevin Petroni, L’Adieu aux aspirations nationales: Crise des formes de vie dans la littérature corsophone. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 346 pp. Notes and index. €78.00 (hb). ISBN 9782406104445; €39.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406104438. 

Review by David Evans, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 194.

Francesco Benigno and Daniele Di Bartolomeo, La magie du passé: l’idée de la répétition historique dans la Révolution française. Translated by Christian J. Floquet. Rennes: Editions Les Perséides, 2022. 198 pp. €19.90. (pb). ISBN 9782371250345. 

Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 195.

Dorothea Heitsch and Jeremie C. Korta, eds., Early Modern Visions of Space: France and Beyond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 443 pp. $65.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4696-6740-9; $29.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4696-6741-6. 

Review by Melanie Conroy, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 196.

Amaury Lorin, Paul Doumer. La République audacieuse. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2022. 416 pp. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 9791026710301; 18.99 € (eb). ISBN 9791026710318.

Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 197.

François-Marc Gagnon, Alexandre Turgeon, Donald Kuspit, and Clarence Epstein, Québec. Un tableau d’Adam Miller. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. Preface by Salvatore Guerrera. ix+82 pp. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0773557277.

Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 198.

Fabien Arribert-Narce, Fuhito Endo and Kamila Pawlikowksa, eds., The Pleasure in/of the Text: About the Joys and Perversities of Reading. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2021. 170 pp. Biographical references and index. $57.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-789977004.

Review by Kris Pint, Hasselt University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 199.

Mathew Rickard, Against the Grain: The Poetics of Non-Normative Masculinity in Decadent French Literature. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2021. xii + 260 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $52.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800791756; $52.95 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781800791763; $52.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781800791770; $52.95 (mobi). ISBN 9781800791787.

Review by Helen Craske, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 200.

Nathalie Freidel, Le Temps des “écriveuses”: L’oeuvre pionnière des épistolaires au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 290 pp. Footnotes, figures, bibliography, and index. €25.00. (pb). ISBN 9-78-2406128236.

Review by Theresa Varney Kennedy, Baylor University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 201.

Isabelle Delage-Béland and Anne Salamon, eds., Le Dit du berceau au tombeau (XIIIe-XVe siècle). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 178 pp. Bibliography, indices, résumés, and tables. €16.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406128946.

Review by Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 202.

Charlie Samuelson, Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022. viii + 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8142-1498-5; $49.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8142-8197-0.

Review by Emma Campbell, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 203.

Richard Thomson, The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870–1905: Modernity and Continuity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. 288 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 9-78-0300257106.

Review by Marnin Young, Yeshiva University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 204.

André Dombrowski, ed., A Companion to Impressionism. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. 640 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $140.64 U.S. (hc). ISBN 9-78-1-119373896.

Review by Harmon Siegel, Harvard Society of Fellows.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 205.

Florence Bourillon and Corinne Jaquand, eds., La parcelle dans tous ses états. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022. viii + 260 pp. € 24.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2753582477; €11.99 (eb). ISBN 9-78-2753587243.

Review by Sun-Young Park, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 206.

Caroline Rae, ed., André Jolivet: Music, Art and Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xxxix + 329 pp. Figures, tables, notes, and index. $128.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781472442956; $39.16 (pb). ISBN 9780367583712; $39.16 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429429255.

Review by Clare Wilson, Dublin City University.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 207.

Anne Raffin, Republican Citizenship in French Colonial Pondicherry, 1870-1914. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. 250 pp. €99.00. (hb). ISBN 9789463723558; €98.99. (eb). ISBN 9789048553556.

Review by Akhila Yechury, University of St. Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 208.

Daniel Desormeaux, Alexandre Dumas, fabrique d’immortalité. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 347 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €13.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406111658.

Review by Eric Martone, Mercy College.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 209.

James Smith Allen, A Civil Society: The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744-1944. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 374 pp. Photographs, illustrations, appendices, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781496227782.

Review by Margaret C. Jacob, University of California Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 210.

Dominique Demartini and Claire le Ninan, eds., Genèses et filiations dans l’œuvre de Christine de Pizan. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 442 pp. €78.00. (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-11891-6; €39.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11890-9.

Review by Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 211.

De Carné, Damien, and Christine Ferlampin-Acher, eds. La Tradition manuscrite du Tristan en prose: Bilan et perspectives. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 323 pp. Notes, references, and index. €68.00. (hb). 9782406122005; €29.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406121992.

Review by Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 212.

Joël Blanchard, Poétiques de l’amour: Sexualité, genre, pouvoir XIe-XVe siècle. Paris: Passés composés/Humensis, 2022. 334 pp. €22.00. (pb). ISBN 9782379332517.

Review by Charlie Samuelson, University Colorado Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 22 (December 2022), No. 213.