H-France Review, Volume 16 (2016)

January Reviews

Sébastien Prat, Constance et inconstance chez Montaigne. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011. 503pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 49€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-0362-0

Review by William McKenzie, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 1

Fumie Kawamura, Diderot et la chimie: science, pensée et écriture. Paris: Classiques Garnier, series « L”Europe des Lumières », vol. 27, 2014. 585 p. 83.00 € (cl.). 58.00 € (pb.) ISBN 978-2-8124-1792-4.

Review by Charles T. Wolfe, Ghent University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 2

Amy Freund, Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xiv + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-271-06194-8.

Review by Philippe Bordes, Université Lyon 2 – LARHRA.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 3

Zeina Hakim, Fictions déjouées. Le récit en trompe-l’œil au XVIIIe siècle. Genève: Droz, 2012. 312 pp. Bibliography and index. 42.80€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-01580-6.

Review by Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 4

Elizabeth Amann, Dandyism in the Age of Revolution: The Art of the Cut. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. 228 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN: 978-0-226-18725-9.

Review by Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 5

Response by Elizabeth Amann, Universiteit Gent.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 6

Julia Osman, Citizen Soldiers and the Key to the Bastille. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiii + 204 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. 55£. (cl). ISBN : 978-0-230-54532-8.

Review by Arnaud Guinier, Institut d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporain.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 7

Jane H.M. Taylor, Rewriting Arthurian Romance in Renaissance France: From Manuscript to Printed Book. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014. xiv + 278 pp. Tables, notes, 13 black and white illustrations, appendices, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9781843843658.

Review by Ana Pairet, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 8

Jan Noel, Along a River: The First French-Canadian Women. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 337 pp. Notes and images. $32.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4426-1238-9; $32.95 (eb). 978-1-4426-9826-0.

Review by Micah True, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 9

Kristel Smentek, Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. 342. pp. Figures (20 color, 40 b & w), notes, bibliography, and index. $119.95, U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-4724-3802-7.

Review by Rochelle Ziskin, University of Missouri, Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 10

Daniel Brewer, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the French Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xvi + 244 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-107-62614-0.

Review by G. Matthew Adkins, Columbus State Community College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 11

Perry Gethner and Theresa Varney Kennedy, eds., Madame de Maintenon, Proverbes dramatiques. Paris: Classiques Garnier, “Bibliothèque du XVIIè Siècle,” 2014. 343 pp. Bibliographie. 49€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3233-0.

Review by Anne L. Birberick, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 12

Kieko Matteson, Forests in Revolutionary France: Conservation, Community, and Conflict, 1669-1848. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xviii + 307 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-04334-3.

Review by Hamish Graham, University of New South Wales.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 13

Jacques Du Bosc, L’Honnête Femme: The Respectable Women in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women. Sharon Diane Nell and Aurora Wolfgang, ed. and trans. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 31. Toronto: Iter Inc. and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xviii + 332 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7727-2160-0. https://crrs.ca/publications/ov31/

Review by Claire Carlin, University of Victoria (British Columbia).
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 14

Ronit Milano, The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century. Leiden and Boston: Brill , 2015. xiii + 228 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €125,00 / $174.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-27624-6; (eb) 978-90-04-27625-3.

Review by Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (January 2016), No. 15

February Reviews

Caroline Potter, ed. Erik Satie: Music, Art and Literature. Surrey-Burlington: Ashgate, 2013, xix + 347 pp. Notes. Musical Examples. Illustrations. £65.00. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-4094-3421-4.

Review by Michela Niccolai, Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, Association de la Régie Théâtrale.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 16

Brian Unwin, Terrible Exile: The Last Days of Napoleon on St. Helena. London: I. B. Tauris, 2014. 231 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1780767383.

Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 17

Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber, eds. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: The Essential Political Writings.Leiden and Boston: Brill Studies in the History of Political Thought, 2014. xiii + 204 pp. 99€ (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-27399-3.

Review by Richard Whatmore, University of St. Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 18

Paula Radisich, Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects. Looking Smart. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2014. xii + 193 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-1-61149-424-2.

Review by Frédéric Ogée, Université Paris Diderot.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 19

Greig Parker, ed., Probate Inventories of French Immigrants in Early Modern London. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xii + 334 pp. Map, table, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $144.95 U.S. (all formats). ISBN 9781472420855 (hb), 9781472420862 (ebk – PDF), 9781472420879 (ebk – ePUB).

Review by Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck, University of London. H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 20

Jean Baudrillard, The Divine Left: A Chronicle of the Years 1977-1984. Translation by David L. Sweet. Los Angeles. Semiotext[e], 2014. 151 pp. $15.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-58435-129-0.

Review by by Paul Hegarty, University College Cork.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 21

Audrey Provost, Le luxe, les Lumières, et la Révolution. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2014. 262 pp. Notes. 25€ (cl). ISBN: 978-2-87673-979-6.

Review by Sarah Maza, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 22

James Cannon, The Paris Zone: A Cultural History, 1840-1944. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. xv + 248 pp. 47 color plates, bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S./ £70.00 UK. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4724-2831-8; $92.09 U.S./ £66.50 UK. (eb). ISBN 1472428315.

Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 23

Guy Brunet, ed., Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales: Amériques, Afrique et Iles de l’Océan Indien (XVIe-XXe siècles)/Marriage and Miscegenation in Colonial Societies: Americas, Africa and Islands of the Indian Ocean (XVIth-XXth Centuries).Bern: Peter Lang, 2015. 367 pp. $106.95 (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1605-7.

Review by Saliha Belmessous, University of New South Wales, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 24

Elizabeth Greenhalgh, The French Army and the First World War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xii + 469 pp. Preface, maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-10-760568-7.

Review by Andrew Orr, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 25

Pierre Berthiaume, Matières incandescentes. Problématiques matérialistes des Lumières françaises (1650-1780). Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014. 329 p. Notes, bibliographie. $39.95. 36 €. ISBN 978-2-7606-3340-7.

Review by Sophie Audidière, Université de Bourgogne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 26

Manuela Albertone, National Identity and the Agrarian Republic: The Transatlantic Commerce of Ideas between America and France (1750-1830). Farnham, Surrey (UK): Ashgate, 2014. xi + 324 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. (cl.) ISBN 978-1-4724-2136-4.

Review by by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 27

Patrice Gueniffay, Bonaparte 1769-1802. Trans. Steven Rendall. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2015. ix + 1008pp. 39.95$. ISBN. 9-780-674-368-354.

Review by by Ambrogio Caiani, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 28

Holly Grout, The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. ix + 243 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8071-5988-0.

Review by Susan B. Whitney, Carleton University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 29

Daisy Delogu, Emma Cayley, and Joan E. McRae, eds. A Companion to Alain Chartier (c. 1385-1430): Father of French Eloquence. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. xiii + 374 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. $219.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-27218-7; $219.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-90-04-29014-3.

Review by Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 30

Phillip Adamo, New Monks in Old Habits: The Formation of the Caulite Monastic Order, 1193-1267. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014. xiv + 260 pp. $85.00 (cl.) ISBN 978-0-88844-189-8.

Review by Scott G. Bruce, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 31

Joël Coste, Les Écrits de la Souffrance: La Consultation Médicale en France (1550-1825). Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2014. 269 pp. Glossary, tables, appendix, biographies, bibliography, and index. 25 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-4.

Review by Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 32

Daryl M. Hafter and Nina Kushner, eds. Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2015. Pp. xi+250. $ 36.95. (pb: alk.paper). ISBN 978-0-8071-5831-9.

Review by Samia Spencer, Auburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (February 2016), No. 33

March Reviews

André Burguière and Bernard Vincent, eds., Un siècle d’historiennes. Paris: Edition des femmes, 2014. 350 pp. Bibliographies. 19.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-7210-0634-9.

Review by Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 34

Hugues Daussy, Le parti Huguenot: Chronique d’une désillusion (1557-1572). Geneva: Droz, 2014. 882 pp. $42.00 U.S. (paper). ISBN 978-2-600-00554-8.

Review by Allan A. Tulchin, Shippensburg University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 35

Renan Viguié, La traversée électrique des Pyrenées. Histoire de l’interconnexion entre la France et l’Espagne. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2014. 190 pp. Maps, tables, figures, pictures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87574-182-0.

Review by Esther M. Sánchez Sánchez, University of Salamanca, Spain.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 36

David P. LaGuardia and Cathy Yandell, eds., Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France. Farnham and Burlington : Ashgate, 2015. ix + 267 pp. Illustrations, works cited, and index. $109.95 (hb) ISBN 978-1-4724-5337-2 ; $109.95 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-4724-5338-9.

Review by Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, The University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 37

Philip Nord, France 1940: Defending the Republic. Yale University Press, 2015. xviii + 189 pp. Notes and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 970-0300-18987-2.

Review by Talbot Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 38

Michel de Waele, Réconcilier les français: la fin des troubles de religion (1589-1598). Paris: Hermann, 2015. 380 pp. 36€ (pb.). ISBN 978-2-7056-9069-4.

Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 39

Michel De Waele, ed. Lendemains de guerre civile. Réconciliations et restaurations en France sous Henri IV [2011]. Paris: Hermann, 2015. 260 pp. 28€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-9057-1.

Review by Andrea Frisch, University of Maryland, College Park.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 40

Melissa Pollock, The Lion, The Lily, and the Leopard: The Crown and Nobility of Scotland, France, and England and the Struggle for Power (1100-1204).Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. x + 536 pp. €120.00. U.S. (hb). ISBN- 978-2-503-54040-5.

Review by Craig M. Nakashian, Texas A&M University-Texarkana.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 41

Gabriel Audisio, Une ville au sortir du Moyen Âge : Apt-en-Provence (1460-1560). Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2014. 11 + 439 pp. Maps, tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, and index. 29 EUR. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3064-0.

Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton,
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 42

Florence Doé de Maindreville and Stéphan Etcharry, eds., La Grande Guerre en musique: Vie et création musicales en France pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Brussel: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014. 318 pp. Illustrations, music examples, footnotes, bibliography, and index. £29.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87574-165-3.

Review by Laura Hamer, Liverpool Hope University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (March 2016), No. 43

April Reviews

John Merriman, Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune. Basic, 2014. 360 pp. $20.39 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0465020171.

Review by Carolyn Eichner, University of Wisonsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 44

Christophe Blanquie, Saint-Simon ou la politique des Mémoires. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. Annex I and II, notes, bibliography and index. 321 pp. ISBN 978-2-8124-3257-6.

Review by Malina Stefanovska, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 45

Timothy Tackett, The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England, 2015. x + 463 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, sources, bibliography and index. $66.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-73655-9.

Review by Jean-Pierre Gross, historien.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 46

Sarah Alyn Stacey, ed., Political, Religious and Social Conflict in the States of Savoy. Bern: Peter Lang, 2014. xiii + 317 pp. Notes and index. $72.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0831-1.

Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 47

Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller, eds., Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. 333 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8223-5845-9; $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-5857-2.

Review by Jean-Paul Martinon, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 48

Doris Y. Kadish and Deborah Jenson, eds., Poetry of Haitian Independence. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. 301p. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-19559-0.

Review by Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Bowdoin College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 49

Maureen Barry McCann Boulton, Sacred Fictions of Medieval France: Narrative Theology in the Lives of Christ and the Virgin, 1150-1500. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, Boydell & Brewer, 2015. xii + 380 pp. Appendix, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1843844143.

Review by Rachel Fulton Brown, The University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 50

Brian Nelson, The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 318 pp. Historical timeline, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780521715096.

Review by T. Chapman Wing, College of Staten Island, CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 51

Marta Teixeira Anacleto ed., Topique(s) du public et du privé dans la littérature romanesque d’Ancien Régime. Louvain and Walpole, Mass. : Editions Peeters, 2014. xvi + 427 pp. (pb). ISBN 978-90-429-3090-2.

Review by Carole Martin, Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 52

Daniel Trocmé-Latter, The Singing of the Strasbourg Protestants, 1523-1541. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. 414 pp. Tables, illustrations, music examples, notes, bibliography, and index. $154.95 U.S. (hb.). ISBN 978-1-4724-3206-3.

Review by Kate van Orden, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 53

M. A. Pollock, Scotland, England, and France After the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296: ‘Auld Amitie’. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2015. 228pp. £60 U.K. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-8438-3992-7.

Review by Colin Veach, University of Hull.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 54

Jeff Horn, Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. vii + 319 pp. Acknowledgments, abbreviations, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-06428-3.

Review by Christopher Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (April 2016), No. 55

May Reviews

Tamara Levitz, Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xxiii + 655 pp. Music examples, illustrations, color prints, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (hb) U.S. ISBN 978-0-19-973016-2.

Review by Helen Julia Minors, Kingston University, London, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 56

Guillaume Faroult, Monica Preti, and Christoph Vogtherr, eds. Delicious Decadence: The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vermont, 2014. 210 pages; Exhibition listing, Bibliography, Index of names, and 16 color and 24 b&w illustrations. $99.95 U.S. ISBN: 978-1-4724-4921-4; Short ISBN: 9781472449214.

Review by Cordula Grewe, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 57

Bette W. Oliver, Provincial Patriot of the French Revolution. François Buzot 1760-1794. Lanham-Boulder-New York-London, 2015, 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9690-8, $80.

Review by Michel Biard, Université de Rouen.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 58

Dario Gamboni, Paul Gauguin: The Mysterious Centre of Thought. London: Reaktion Books, 2014. Translated by Chris Miller. First published in French as Paul Gauguin au “centre mystérieux de la pensée,” 2013. 464 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £35 (hb). ISBN 978-1-78023-368-0.

Review by Linda Goddard, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 59

Thomas Bouchet, Vincent Bourdeau, Edward Castleton, Ludovic Frobert and François Jarrige, eds., Quand les socialistes inventaient l’avenir. Presse, théories et expériences, 1825-1860. Paris: La Découverte, 2015. 408 pp. Index. 25€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7071-8591-4.

Review by Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa Cruz.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 60

Malcolm Scott, Chateaubriand: The Paradox of Change. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2015. vi + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $57.95 U.S. (pb and ed). ISBN 978-3-0343-1845-7.

Review by Andrew J. Counter, New College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 61

Francesco Manzini, ed., Lectures croisées. Essays by Alan Raitt: Romanticism and after in France, vol. 24, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2015, xiv + 254 pp., bibliography and index, $ 64.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN : 978-3-0343-0929-5.

Review by Jacques Neefs, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 62

Alice Godfroy, Danse et poésie: le pli du mouvement dans l’écriture. Michaux, Celan, Du Bouchet, Noël. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. 367 pp. 45€ (cl). ISBN 978-274-53-2988-2.

Review by Lucille Toth, Scripps College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 63

Anna Blum, La Diplomatie de la France en Italie du Nord au temps de Richelieu et Mazarin. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 701pp. Tables, notes, bibliographie. 49€ (pb). ISBN: 978-2-8124-2030-6.

Review by Alain Hugon, Université de Caen.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 64

Jérôme Glicenstein, L’invention du Curateur, Mutations dans l’art contemporain. Paris : PUF, 2015, 314 pp., notes et bibliographie. 22.00 €. ISBN : 978-2-13-065318-9.

Review by Sophie Cras, Université Paris 1- Panthéon-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 65

Cathy McClive, Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France. Farnhan and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2015. 280 pp. $124.95 U.S. (hb) Table, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-6603-5.

Review by Pam Lieske, Kent State University at Trumbull.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 66

Tyler Lange, The First French Reformation: Church Reform and the Origins of the Old Regime. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiv + 300 pp. Bibliography and index. $110.00 U.S. ISBN 978-1-107-04936–9 (hardback).

Review by James K. Farge, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 67

Simon Trezise, ed. The Cambridge Companion to French Music. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014. xix + 417 pp. $33.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-70176-1.

Review by Richard Langham Smith, Royal College of Music, London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 68

Rachel Haworth, From the Chanson française to the Canzone d’autore in the 1960s and 1970s: Authenticity, Authority, Influence. Farnham, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2015. 201 pp. Bibliography and index. $109.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-4173-1.

Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 69

Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein, ed., Scripting Revolution. A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2015. 448 pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780804796163.

Review by Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (May 2016), No. 70

June Reviews

Dominique Julia, Réforme catholique, religion des prêtres et “foi des simples”: Études d’anthropologie religieuse (XVIe–XVIIIe siècles). Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014, distributed in France by Boccard. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 118. Sous-collection Ad Deum, no. 2. 525 pp. Notes and index. $98.40 U.S. (cl) ISBN 978–2–600–01753–4.

Review by Virginia Reinburg, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 71

Philippe Verheyde et Michel Margairaz, eds., Les politiques des territoires. La Caisse des dépôts et consignations, les institutions financières et les politiques de développement et d’aménagement des territoires en France au XXe siècle. Bruxelles : P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2014. 165 pp. Cartes, abréviations et auteurs. 42.80€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87574-151-6.

Review by Patrice Baubeau, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 72

David Andress, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii + 683 pp. Notes, bibliographies and index. £95 U.K (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-963974-8.

Review by Neil Davidson, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 73

Marie Paul Ha, French Women and the Empire: The Case of Indochina. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 304 pp. $72.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 019964036X.

Review by Jayne Werner, Long Island University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 74

Daisy Delogu, Allegorical Bodies: Power and Gender in Late Medieval France. Toronto, Buffalo, and New York: University of Toronto Press, 2015. viii + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781442641877; $75.00 U.S. (eb, epub). ISBN: 9781442622814.

Review by Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 75

Stéphanie Bernier-Tomas, Conter en vers au siècle des Lumières, du divertissement mondain au genre libertin. Paris, Honoré Champion, 2015. 782 pp. €150.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2848-9.

Review by Marc Hersant, Université de Picardie Jules Verne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 76

Anouchka Vasak, dir., L’Accident de Ménilmontant. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 279 p. 39€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3074-9.

Review by Jean-Damien Mazaré, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Khâgne de Nouméa (Nouvelle-Calédonie).
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 77

William Chester Jordan, From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. x + 223 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $39.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 977-0-691-16495-3.

Review by Sharon Farmer, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 78

Frederik Dhondt, Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy. Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht. Brill Nijhoff: Leiden, 2015. (Studies in the History of International Law 7). xii-636 pp. €179.00 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-29374-8.

Review by Peter Schröder, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 79

Response by Frederik Dhondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)/Ghent University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 80

Nicole C. Rudolph, At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort. New York: Berghahn, 2015. xiv + 257 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-78238-587-5.

Review by Michael Mulvey, Saint Thomas University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 81

Étienne Fouilloux and Frédéric Gugelot, eds., Jésuites français et sciences humaines (Années 1960). Actes de la journée d’étude organisée par le Conseil scientifique de la Collection jésuite des Fontaines et l’équipe Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, 6 juin 2012. Lyon: RESEA & LARBRA, UMR 5190, 2014. 213 pp. 20.00€. (pb). ISBN : 979-10-91592-07-9.

Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 82

Emile Chabal, A Divided Republic: Nation, State, and Citizenship in Contemporary France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 314 pp. $99.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781107061514.

Review by Jean Beaman, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 83

Frederick C. Schneid, ed., European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1802. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 288 pp. Tables, notes. $27.70 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0806140391.

Review by Christopher Tozzi, Howard University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 84

Jérôme Loiseau, «Elle fera ce que l’on voudra» La noblesse aux états de Bourgogne et la monarchie d’Henri IV à Louis XIV (1602-1715). Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014. 408 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index of names. €15 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84867-489-6.

Review by Mack P. Holt, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 85

Bernard Barbiche and Christian Sorrel, eds., La France et le concile Vatican II. Bruxelles: P.I.E Peter Lang, 2014. 263 pp. 50.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87574-119-6.

Review by Denis Pelletier, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes–Paris Sciences Lettres Université.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 86

Michael D. Garval, Cléo de Mérode and the Rise of Modern Celebrity Culture. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, 265 pp. with 40 black and white illustrations. £60 (hbk). ISBN 9781409406037.

Review by Julie Townsend, University of Redlands.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 87

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 272 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0226123745.

Review by Joshua Cole, Department of History, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 88

Philipp Lenhard, Volk oder Religion? Die Enstehung moderner jüdischer Ethnizität in Frankreich und Deutschland 1782-1848. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014. 413 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9783525310250.

Review by Sarah E. Wobick-Segev, The University of Western Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 89

François Caillat, dir., Foucault Against Himself [Foucault contre lui-même]. 52 min. DVD. (Icarus Films, 2014). $390.00 U.S.

Review by Mark Meyers, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 90

Janet L. Polasky, Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 392 pp. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0300208944.

Review by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 91

Vincent Joineau, Moudre les blés. Les moulins de l’Entre-deux-Mers bordelais (XIe-XVIIIe siècle), Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 679 pp. 57€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-2866-1.

Review by Michel Figeac, Bordeaux Montaigne Université.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 92

Monica Tilea, Henri Michaux. Interventions poétiques d’un homme en-mane. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2015. 200 pp. U.S. $54.95. ISBN 978-3-631-66231-1.

Review by Elodie Laügt, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 93

David Wingeate Pike, France Divided. The French and the Civil War in Spain. Brighton, Portland and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, 2011. xxii + 433 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84519-490-1.

Review by Sophie Baby, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 94

Antoine de La Sale, Jean de Saintré. A Late Medieval Education in Love and Chivalry. Translated by Roberta L. Krueger and Jane H. Taylor. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 264 pp. Notes, glossary, selected bibliography, and illustrations. $59.95 U.S. (cl). £ 39.00 U.K. (cl). ISBN : 978-0-8122-4586-8.

Review by Estelle Doudet, Université de Grenoble Alpes.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 95

Bruno Cabanes, The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism 1918-1924. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. vii + 390 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-107-60483-4.

Review by Christophe Prochasson, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 96

Fayçal Falaky, Social Contract, Masochist Contract. Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau. Albany: SUNY, 2014. xii + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb.). ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4989-0. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN13: 978-1-4384-4990-6.

Review by Laurence Mall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (June 2016), No. 97

July Reviews

Philip Whalen and Patrick Young, eds., Place and Locality in Modern France. London and New Delhi: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. xl + 221 pp. Illustrations, contributors, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN: 978-1-78093-686-4.

Review by Rebecca K. McCoy, Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 98

David Austin, Rosamond Faith, Andrew Fleming and David Siddle, Cipières. Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes, France. Oxford: Windgather Press, Oxbow Books, 2013. 333 pp. 223 figures, and index. $76.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781905119998.

Review by Bailey K. Young, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 99

Kate Griffiths and Andrew Watts. Adapting Nineteenth-Century France: Literature in Film, Theatre, Television, Radio and Print. Cardiff: Wales University Press, 2013. x + 235 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £95.00. (hb). ISBN 9780708325940; £27.99 (pb). ISBN 9781783163083; £27.99 (eb). ISBN 9780708325957.

Review by Briana Lewis, Allegheny College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 100

Mai Na M. Lee, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850-1960. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015. xi + 401 pp. Maps, photos, and index. $26.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0299298841.

Review by Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 101

Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs, eds. Simone de Beauvoir: A Humanist Thinker. Leiden, Boston: Brill/Rodopi: 2015. 215 pp. $75/€58 (pb). ISBN-10: 9004294406

Review by Meaghan Emery, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 102

Éric Marty, Radical French Thought and the Return of the “Jewish Question.” Translated by Alan Astro. Foreword by Bruno Chaouat. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. xi + 126 pp. Notes and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-253-01672-0; $28.00 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 978-0-253-01678-2.

Review by Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 103

Maxime Decout, Ecrire la judéité: Enquête sur un malaise dans la littérature française. Seyssel: Les Editions Champ Vallon, 2015. 299 pp. Index. 24.00€. (pb). ISBN-13: 979-1026700012.

Review by Bruno Chaouat, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 104

Martin Wåhlberg, La Scène de musique dans le roman du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 456 pp. 56.00 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3626-0.

Review by Julia Simon, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 105

Fontenelle, Digression sur les Anciens et les Modernes et autres textes philosophiques. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015. 793 pp. 49€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3230-9.

Review by Simone Mazauric, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 106

Penelope Haralambidou, Marcel Duchamp and the Architecture of Desire. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2013. xxviii + 312 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 46 color and 225 black and white illustrations. £ 45.00 GBP (pb). ISBN 978-1-4094-4345-2.

Review by Min Kyung Lee, College of the Holy Cross.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 107

Anne-Claire Hoyng, Turgot et Adam Smith: Une étrange proximité. Paris, Honoré Champion, Avant-propos d’Arnold Heertje, Préface de Jean-Pierre Chamoux, 2015, 212 p., 35€ (pb). ISBN 97-827-4-53289-84.

Review by Arnault Skornicki, Université de Paris-10.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 108

Robert J. Knecht, Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France, Variorum Collected Studies Series. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Variorum, 2015. xx + 332 pp. Plans, figures, notes, and index. $165 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-472461-49-0,

François Nawrocki, L’Amiral Claude d’Annebault, conseiller favori de François Ier, Bibliothèque d’histoire de la Renaissance, 7. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 763 pp. Maps, charts, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €98 E.U. (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3168-5; €67 E.U. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3167-8.

Review by Tyler Lange, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 109

Robert Adelson, Alain Roudier, Jenny Nex, Laure Barthel, and Michel Foussard, eds., The History of the Erard Piano and Harp in Letters and Documents, 1785-1959, 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Vol. 1: Inventions, Business, Composers and Performers, xxiv + 521 pp. Vol. 2: Erard Family Correspondence, xx + 613 pp. Documents, original French text, 40 b/w illus., bibliography, and index. $250.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 2 Volume Set – 978-1-107-09291-4; [ISBN Vol. 1 – 978-0-521-19466-2; ISBN Vol. 2 – 978-0-521-76659-3.] $200.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-316-40765-3.

Review by Ruth K. Inglefield, The Peabody Conservatory of Music of Johns Hopkins University
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 110

Helen M. Davies, Emile and Isaac Pereire: Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xiii + 266 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. £65.00 (hb) ISBN 978-0-7190-8923-7; £14.99 (pb) ISBN 978-1-7849-9356-6.

Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 111

Christophe Charle, La dérégulation culturelle : Essai d’histoire des cultures en Europe au XIXe siècle. Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 2015. 752 p. 29€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-054540-8.

Review by Philippe Poirrier, Université de Bourgogne Franche Comté.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 112

Vladimir Jankélévitch, Henri Bergson (edited by Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott, translated by Nils F. Schott). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. $94.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-8223-5916-6; $26.95 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 978-0-8223-5935-7.

Review by Giuseppe Bianco, Université de Lyon III.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 113

Adeline Beaurepaure-Hernandez and Jérémy Guedj, eds., L’entre-deux électoral. Une autre histoire de la representation politique en France (XIXe-XXe siècle). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015. ix + 164 pp. Index. 16.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-4005-7.

Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 114

Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley, eds., Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. vii + 267 pp. Bibliography and index. $114.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-409-43947-9.

Review by Therese Dolan, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 115

Christopher Johnson, Becoming Bourgeois: Love, Kinship and Power in Provincial France, 1670-1880. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. vii + 345 pp. Map, figure, notes, bibliographical notes, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13978-0-8014-5398-4.

Review by Stephen Miller, The University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 116

Jennifer Howell, The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. xv + 223 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4985-1606-8.

Review by Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 117

Dana Simmons, Vital Minimum: Needs, Science, and Politics in Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 243 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-226-25156-X.

Review by Larry S. McGrath, Wesleyan University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 118

Michel Hau, France-Allemagne: la difficile convergence. Berne: Peter Lang, 2015. 222 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 30.70€. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1604-0.

Review by Mark S. Sheetz, College of Europe.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 119

Paul Misner, Catholic Labor Movements in Europe. Social Thought and Action, 1914-1965. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. xi + 341 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8132-2753-5.

Review by Gerd-Rainer Horn, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 120

Ignaas Devisch, Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. xv + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $130.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781441165626; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781472570888.

Review by Christopher Watkin, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 121

Sarah Gensburger, translated by Jonathan Hensher with the collaboration of Elisabeth Fourmont, Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. ix + 216 pp. Photographs, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-01733-8; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-253-01744-4.

Review by Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 122

Crispin Lee, Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, Modern French Identities Volume 116, 2014, viii + 308 pp. ISBN 978-3-034301791-7.

Review by Patrick ffrench, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 123

Alessandro Zagato, ed., The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2015. vi + 144 pp. Notes. $12.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-1-78533-075-9.

Review by Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 124

Timothy Raser, Baudelaire and Photography: Finding the Painter of Modern Life. Oxford: Legenda, 2015. Ix + 132 pp. Acknowledgements, list of Illustrations, list of abbreviations, appendices, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-909662-51-3.

Review by Dorothy Kelly, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 125

Jessica Munns, Penny Richards, and Jonathan Spangler, eds., Aspiration, Representation and Memory. The Guise in Europe, 1506-1688. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2015. xi + 201 pp. Genealogical table, plates, notes, and index. £70.00 (cl). ISBN 978-1-4724-1934-7.

Review by Mark Greengrass, Centre Roland Mousnier, Université de Paris IV.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 126

Anthea Callen, The Work of Art: Plein-air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Reaktion Books, 2015 (distr. in the US by The University of Chicago Press. 336 pp. Figures (199), notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-78023-355-0.

Review by Petra Chu, Seton Hall University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 127

Marc-André Raffalovich, Uranism and Unisexuality. A Study of Different Manifestations of the Sexual Instinct. Trans. Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston; ed. Philip Healy with Frederick S. Roden. Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 312 pp. with index; one illustration. $105.00 US (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-45138-5.

Review by David A. Powell, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 128

Pamela Pear, Front Cover Iconography and Algerian Women’s Writing. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. x + 177 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7391-9837-7.

Review by Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 129

David van der Linden, Experiencing Exile. Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xviii + 289 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $134.95 (cl). ISBN 978-1-4724-2927-8.

Review by Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 130

Françoise Bayard, Patrick Fridenson et Albert Rigaudière eds., Genèse des marchés. Paris: Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France Editions, 2015. 285 pp. Notes and index. 29.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-11-129385-4.

Compte-rendu par Laurence Fontaine, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 131

Anna Opiela, La Musique dans la pensée et dans l’œuvre de Stendhal et de Nerval. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. 332 pp. €60.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-7453-2869-4.

Review by David Evans, University of St Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 132

Maya Hadeh, La Mythologie dans l’œuvre poétique de Charles Baudelaire. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2015 x + 286 pp. Bibliography + Index. $92.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4331-2725-0.

Review by Caroline Ardrey, The University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 133

Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881-1938. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. xiv + 302 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-27915-5.

Review by Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Fairfield University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 134

Karin Sagner and Max Hollein, Gustave Caillebotte: An Impressionist and Photography. Hirmer Verlag: Munich, 2013. 245 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-3777459219.

Review by Mary Morton, National Gallery of Art.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 135

Pierre Lecoeur, Henri Thomas, une poétique de la presence. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 402 pp. Bibliography and index. 46.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3061-9.

Review by Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 136

Michel Arouimi, Mylène Farmer: le monde comme il tangue. Paris: Hermann, 2014. 201 pp. 22.00€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-7056-8828-8.

Review by Kim Harrison, Independent scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 137

Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah D. Galinsky, eds., Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xxv + 282 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-28719-9. $90.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-349-44960-6. $69.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-137-31758-2.

Review by Irit Ruth Kleiman, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 138

Franz Xaver Bischof and Sylvio De Franceschi, eds., Histoires Antiromaines II, Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires n° 23. Lyon: Édité par l’équipe Religions, Sociétés Et Acculturation (RESEA) du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, UMPR 5190), 2014. 258pp. 20€ (pb). ISBN 979-10-91592-08-6.

Review by Charles Lipp, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 139

Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot, L’Internationale situationniste: De l’histoire au mythe (1948-2013). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2015. 568 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. 29.00€. (pb.). ISBN 978-2-1306-1970-3.

Review by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 140

Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower [In Search of Lost Time, vol. 2], trans. by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, edited and annotated by William C. Carter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. xiv + 587 pp. $24 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0-300-18542-3.

Review by Adam Watt, University of Exeter.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 141

Marnin Young, Realism in the Age of Impressionism. Painting and the Politics of Time. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. ix + 259 pp. 135 figures, notes and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-300-208320.

Review by Alex Potts, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 142

Seth Whidden, Authority in Crisis in French Literature, 1850-1880. Dorchester: Ashgate, 2014. 193 pp. $39.70 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1472444264.

Review by Jennifer Yee, University of Oxford, Christ Church.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 143

Ralph Albanese, Racine à l’école républicaine, ou les enjeux socio-politiques de la tragédie classique (1800-1950). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013. 292 pp. Sommaire, table des matières, notes et bibliographie. 29 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-343-01839-3.

Review by Lise Forment, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle — Paris 3.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 144

Tracy Adams, Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xi + 220 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-271-05071-3.

Review by Geri L. Smith, U.S. Military Academy, West Point.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 145

Margaret MacNamidhe, Delacroix and His Forgotten World: The Origins of Romantic Painting. London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co, 2015. 60 colour images. 280 x 240 mm. 224 pp. $49.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-78076-937-0.

Review by Katie Hornstein, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (July 2016), No. 146

August Reviews

Sue Ann Prince, ed., Of Elephants & Roses: French Natural History 1790-1830. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, volume 27. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2013. xxvi + 268 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-87169-267-2.

Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 147

Mayanthi L. Fernando, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2014. 313 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-5748-3; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-5748-3.

Review by Andrew Daily, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 148

Jay R. Berkovitz, Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court 1771-1789, 2 vols. Leiden and Boston: Koninklijke Brill, 2014. Vol. 1 xx + 222 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. Vol. 2 viii + 1084 pp. Notes, appendices, and index. $330 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-9-0042-6515-8.

Review by Patricia Behre, Fairfield University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 149

Ruth Iskin, The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s-1900s. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, 2014. xxi + 408 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-6116-8616-6; $48.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-6116-8617-3.

Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 150

Bruno Colson, Napoleon on War. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015. 560 pp. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0199685568.

Compte-rendu par Sébastien Évrard, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 151

Vincenzo Ferrone, The Enlightenment: History of an Idea. Trans. Elisabetta Tarantino. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. xvi + 216pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN. 978-0691161457.

Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 152

Françoise Hildesheimer and Dénes Harai, eds., Dictionnaire Richelieu. Dictionnaires & Références vol. 33. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2015. 402 pp. Figures and chronology. €70.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2866-3.

Review by Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 153

Andrew Newman, Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xliii + 253 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780816689620; $30.00 (pb.) ISBN 9780816689637.

Review by Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 154

Response by Andrew Newman, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 155

Yannick Nexon, Le Chancelier Séguier (1588-1672). Ministre, dévot et mécène au Grand Siècle. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2015. 515 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-0016-6.

Review by Darryl Dee, Wilfrid Laurier University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 156

Jennifer L. Shaw, Reading Claude Cahun’s Disavowals. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2013. xii + 233 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $149.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-0787-4.

Review by Tessa Paneth-Pollak, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 157

Véronique Duché, ed., L’acide dans la littérature. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 184 pp. Notes. 28 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3294-1.

Review by Anne V. Lair, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 158

Jennifer Ruimi, La Parade de société au XVIIIe siècle: Une forme dramatique oubliée. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. 562 pp. Annexes, bibliography, and index. 90.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2861-8.

Review by Maria Teodora Comsa, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 159

Sébastien Hallade, ed., Morales en révolutions. France, 1789-1940. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. 288 pp. Footnotes, appendix, bibliography, indexes. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-3646-3.

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 160

Sylvain Milbach, Les Chaires Ennemies; L’Eglise et la liberté d’enseignement secondaire dans la France des notables (1830-1850). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. 664 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €95,00 (cl). ISBN: 978-2-7453-2785-7.

Review by Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 161

Vincenzo De Santis, Le Théâtre de Louis Lemercier: entre Lumières et romantisme. Paris: Classiques Garnier, séries « L’Europe des Lumières » vol. 35, 2015. 726 p. 59€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3312-2.

Review by Susan McCready, University of South Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 162

Damiano Matasci, L’Ecole républicaine et l’étranger: Une histoire international des réformes scolaires en France 1870-1914. Lyon: ENS Editions, 2015. 276 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00€. ISBN 978-2-84788-661-0.

Review by Linda Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 163

Andrea S. Thomas, Lautréamont, Subject to Interpretation. Amsterdam-New York: Brill, Faux Titre 403, 2015. 252 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 978-90-420-3925-4; $77.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-94-012-1207-6 (E-Book).

Review by Damian Catani, Birkbeck, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 164

David Evans, Théodore de Banville: Constructing Poetic Value in Nineteenth-Century France. Oakville, Conn. and Oxford: Legenda, 2014. 322 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £55.00 ($99.00 U.S.) (hb). ISBN 978-1-9096-6234-6.

Review by Rosemary Lloyd, University of Adelaide.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 165

Antony McKenna, Études sur Pierre Bayle. Paris : Honoré Champion, coll. « Vie de Huguenots », 2015. 384 pp. € 60.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2843-4.

Review by Mara van der Lugt, Lichtenberg Kolleg—the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 166

Benjamin Pohl, Dudo of Saint-Quentin’s Historia Normannorum: Tradition, Innovation and Memory. Woodbridge and Rochester: York Medieval Press, 2015. xii and 313 pp. Maps, tables, figures, plates notes, bibliography and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978 1 903153 54 3.

Review by Charles C. Rozier, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 167

Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for modern times. Translated by Sandra Smith. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015. xi + 322 pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-87140-368-1.

Review by Peter Cogman, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 168

Debarati Sanyal, Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. 352 pp. $37.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0823265480.

Review by Zoë Roth, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 169

Brent C. Sleasman, ed., Creating Albert Camus: Foundations and Explorations of his Philosophy of Communication. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. xvii + 168 pp. Notes. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-781611-478877.

Review by John Krapp, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 170

Aimée Boutin, City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015. viii + 208 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-2520-3921-8. $25.00 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 978-0-2520-8078-4.

Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 171

Michael Greenhalgh, Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-century France: Old Stones versus Modern Identities. Brill, 2015. €150.00/$194.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9789004289208; €150.00/$194.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9789004293717.

Review by Janet T. Marquardt, emerita, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 172

Nicole Albert, Lesbian Decadence: Representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle France. New York and York: Harrington Park Press, 2016. Trans. Nancy Erber and William Peniston. xix + 403 pp. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $85 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1939594075.

Review by Annabel L. Kim, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 173

Justine Firnhaber-Baker, Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiv + 217 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-03955-1.

Review by John Arnold, Birkbeck, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 174

Kathryn Hurlock and Paul Oldfield, eds., Crusading and Pilgrimage in the Norman World. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2015. xiii + 234 pp. List of contributors, timeline, map, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-78327-025-5.

Review by Laurence W. Marvin, Berry College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (August 2016), No. 175

September Reviews

Margaret Cook Andersen, Regeneration through Empire: French Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization. 368 pages. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-4497-9.

Review by Jennifer Anne Boittin, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 176

Adeline Cordier, Post-War French Popular Music: Cultural Identity and the Brel-Brassens-Ferré Myth. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. 188 pp. $109.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781409426066.

Review by Kaley Mason, Lewis & Clark College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 177

Tanya Stabler Miller. The Beguines of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 304 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl).| ISBN 978-0-8122-4607- 0.

Review by Cecilia Gaposchkin, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 178

Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel and Dominic Thomas, eds., Colonial Culture in France Since the Revolution. Translated by Alexis Pernsteiner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. x + 633 pp. Notes, bibliography, list of contributors, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253- 01045-2; $49.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-253-01053-7.

Review by Mark McKinney, Miami University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 179

Thierry Crépin-Leblond and Monique Chatenet, eds., Anne de France: art et pouvoir en 1500: actes du colloque organisé par Moulins, Ville d’art et d’histoire, le 30 et 31 mars 2012. Paris: Picard, 2014. 221 pp. Illustrations, plans, genealogical tables, bibliography. 69.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7084-0962-0.

Review by Nicola Courtright, Amherst College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 180

Anita Guerrini, The Courtiers’ Anatomists’: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xiv + 344 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-226-24766-3.

Review by Matthew Senior, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 181

Elizabeth Heath, Wine, Sugar, and the Making of Modern France: Global Economic Crisis and the Racialization of French Citizenship, 1870-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2014. xii + 312 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1107070585; $79.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 1107070589.

Review by Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 182

Françoise F. Laot and Robecca Rogers, eds. Les Sciences de l’éducation: émergence d’un champ de recherche dans l’après-guerre. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. 317 pp. 19.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2- 7535-4058-3.

Review by Leon Sachs, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 183

Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee, eds., Commitment and Sacrifice. Personal Diaries from the Great War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ix + 321pp. Bibliography, internet resources, acknowledgements, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780199336074.

Review by Lisa M. Todd, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 184

Friedemann Pestel, Kosmopoliten wider Willen. Die “monarchiens” als Revolutionsemigranten. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2015. 589 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 978-3-11-041517-9.

Review by Damien Tricoire, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 185

Sarah Horowitz, Friendship and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. xi + 227 pp. Illustrations, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $82.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-271-06192-4.

Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 186

David Drake, Paris at War 1939-1944. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015. xi + 545 pp. 40 halftones, 3 maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-50481-3.

Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 187

Olivier Delers, The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century French Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2015. vii + 187 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-6114- 9581-2; $69.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-6114-9582-9.

Review by Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 188

Djemaa Maazouzi, Le Partage des mémoires: La guerre d’Algérie en littérature, au cinéma et sur le web. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 487 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 87.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-3836-3; 49.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3835-6.

Review by Lia Nicole Brozgal, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 189

Douglas L. Boudreau and Marnie M. Sullivan, eds., Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016. viii + 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978- 1-4985-1731-7.

Review by Jonathan F. Krell, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 190

Didier Alexandre et Xavier Galmiche, eds., Paul Claudel et la Bohême. Dissonances et accord. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 405 pp. Annexes, illustrations et index des noms. 42.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2- 8124-3071-8.

Compte-rendu par Efstratia Oktapoda, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 191

William Ritchey Newton,Les chevaux et les chiens du roi à Versailles au xviii siècle. La grande et la petite écurie, les écuries de la reine, le grand chenil et la louveterie. Paris Honoré Champion 2015. 771 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. €120 (pb). ISBN 9782745329714.

William Ritchey Newton, Dans l’ombre de la cour. Les baraques autour du château de Versailles. Le nouveau marché. L’hôtel de Limoges. Paris Honoré Champion 2015. 515 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, index. €99 (pb). ISBN 9782745329653.

Review by Jeroen Duindam, University of Leiden.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 192

Marianne Blanchard, Les écoles supérieures de commerce. Sociohistoire d’une entreprise éducative en France. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015. 411 pp. 39.00€. (pb). ISBN 10: 281243699.

Compte-rendu par Marianne Thivend, Université Lumière Lyon 2–LARHRA.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 193

Michael V. Leggiere, Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany, the Franco-Prussian War of 1813, I: The War of Liberation, Spring 1813. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 488 pp. Preface, maps, figures, notes, bibliography and index. £24.99 (hb). ISBN: 978-1-107-08051-5.

Michael V. Leggiere, Napoleon and the Struggle for Germany, the Franco-Prussian War of 1813, II: Yhe Defeat of Napoleon. Cambridge University Press, 2015. xiv + 887 pp. Preface, maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. £29.99 (hb). ISBN: 978-1-107-08054-6.

Review by Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 194

Response by Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 195

Lucien Bély, Bertrand Haan, and Stéphane Jettot, eds. La paix des Pyrénées (1659) ou le triomphe de la raison politique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 571 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and indexes. 69.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-2952-1.

Review by Charlie R. Steen, University of New Mexico.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 196

Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine, Georges Vigarello, eds., A History of Virility. Translated by Keith Cohen: New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xiv + 744pp. Notes, plates, index. $50.00 U.S (cl). ISBN 978-0-231-16878-6.

Review by Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 197

Jerrold Seigel, Between Cultures: Europe and its Others in Five Exemplary Lives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 275 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). 978-0-8122-4761-9.

Review by Patricia M.E. Lorcin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 198

Jerrold Seigel, Between Cultures: Europe and its Others in Five Exemplary Lives. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 275 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). 978-0-8122-4761-9.

Review by Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 199

Noah Shusterman, The French Revolution: Faith, Desire, and Politics. London: New York: Routledge, 2014. xiv + 265 pp. $43.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-97804155660211.

Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 200

Marion Brétéché, Les compagnons de Mercure. Journalisme et politique dans l’Europe de Louis XIV. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2015. 353 pp. 27€ (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-0022-7.

Review by Sébastien Drouin, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 201

James H. Rubin and Olivia Mattis, eds., Rival Sisters, Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism, 1815-1915. Farnham, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xiv + 389 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $129.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-2070-5.

Review by Peter L. Schmunk, Wofford College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 202

Pierre Serna, ed., La Politique du rire: satires, caricatures et blasphèmes XVIe-XXIe siècles. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2015. 262 pp. 25€ (pb) ISBN 979-10-267-0073-9.

Review by Sara Beam, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 203

Daniella Doron, Jewish Youth and Identity in Postwar France: Rebuilding Family and Nation. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015. ix + 309 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-01746-8.

Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 204

Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xix + 320 pp. Tables, figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £34.99 U.K., $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-199-36064-2.

Review by Tim Carter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 205

Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xix + 320 pp. Tables, figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. £34.99 U.K., $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-199-36064-2.

Review by James Helgeson, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 206

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xii + 236 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4715-2; $55.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8122-9133-9.

Review by Nancy McLoughlin, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 207

Karen L. Carter and Susan Waller, eds., Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914: Strangers in Paradise. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. xxii + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $109.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-4724-4354-0.

Review by Hélène Valance, Université de Franche-Comté.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 208

Dominique Billy, Les Formes poétiques selon Baudelaire. Paris: Honoré Champion éditeur, 2015. 484 pp. Bibliography and indexes. €95.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2697-3.

Review by Karen F. Quandt, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 209

Caroline Potter, Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and His World. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2016. xxxiv + 269 pp. Illustrations, map, music, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-7832-7083-5.

Review by Richard Langham Smith, Royal College of Music.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 210

Philippe Poirrier, ed., La Grande Guerre: une histoire culturelle. Dijon: Éditions universitaires de Dijon, 2015. 300 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. 20.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-3644-1139-5.

Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 211

Marc André Bernier and Marie-Laure Girou Swiderski, eds., Madame d’Arconville, moraliste et chimiste au siècle des Lumières: Etudes et texts inédit. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation, January 2016, xviii + 266 pp. Notes, 2 ills, £60/€90/$95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-7294-1172-1.

Review by Mi Gyung Kim, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 212

Peter McPhee, Liberty or Death. The French Revolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. xviii + 454 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-3001-8993-3.

Review by Jeremy Hayhoe, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 213

Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie, Isabelle Chave, and Marion Trévisi, eds., Destins croisés de deux familles nobles de l’Ancien Régime à l’Empire. Lettres d’Auguste d’Estourmel, Charles de Beauclerc et leurs familles (1784-1816). Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2015. 1345 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, index. 45€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84287-660-9.

Review by Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (September 2016), No. 214

October Reviews

Blaise Duclos, Frans Pourbus le Jeune (1569-1622): Le Portrait d’apparat à l’aube du Grand Siècle entre Habsbourg, Médicis, et Bourbons. Paris : Faton, 2011. 399 pp. Plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 148€ (cl.) ISBN: 978-2-87844-151-2.

Review by Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 215

Adam Watt, Marcel Proust. London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 208 p. Illustrations, notes, and select bibliography. $ 16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-78023-094-8.

Review by François Proulx, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 216

Micah True, Masters and Students. Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. xviii+242 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, and index. $100.00 C.A.D. & U.S.D. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7735-4512-0; $32.95 C.A.D. & U.S.D. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7735-4513-7.

Review by Roger B. Beck, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 217

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. 16 (October 2016), No. 218

Philip Mansel, The Eagle in Spendour. Inside the Court of Napoleon. London and NewYork: I.B. Tauris, 2015. x + 246 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $28.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN (hb) 978-1-78453-175-1. eISBN 978-0-85773-895-0.

Review by Michael Broers, Oxford University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 219

Dominique Kalifa and Jann Matlock, eds., Aux marges de la France. L’histoire de France vue de Berkeley, Californie. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2014. 350 pp. 25€ (pb). ISBN: 978-2-85944-803-5.

Review by Judith G. Coffin, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 220

Geoff Read, The Republic of Men: Gender and the Political Parties in Interwar France. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014. x + 289 pp. Table, notes, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8071-5521-9.

Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 221

Response by Geoff Read, Huron University College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 222

Michael Green, The Huguenot Jean Rou (1638 – 1711): Scholar, educator, civil servant. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. Collection Vie des Huguenots, No. 69. 479 pp. Appendices, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 95€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2758-1.

Review by Diane C. Margolf, Colorado State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 223

Patrick M. Bray, The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2013. xiv + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8101-2866-8.

Review by Jonathan Strauss, Miami University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 224

Robert Wellington, Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV : Artifacts for a Future Past. Ashgate, 2015. pp. 258. $109.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-1-4724-6033-2.

Compte-rendu par Fabrice Charton, Docteur en Histoire Moderne de l’EHESS.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 225

Christophe Regina, Genre, mœurs et justice. Les Marseillaises et la violence au XVIIIe siècle. Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015. 282 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography. €20 (pb). ISBN 9-791032-000090.

Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 226

Alain Sandrier, Les Lumières du miracle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 467 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €78.00 (hb) ISBN 978-2-8124-3885-1; €39.00 (pb) ISBN 978-2-8124-3884-4.

Review by Leslie Tuttle, Louisiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 227

Sophie Vasset and Alexandre Wenger, eds., Raconter la maladie. Dix-huitième siècle: revue annuelle, vol. 47. Paris: La Découverte, 2015. 752 pp. Figures, notes. 45€ (pb & eb). ISBN 978-2707186317.

Review by Thomas Dodman, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 228

Nina Kushner, Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. xi + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780-0-8014-5156-0; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-5017-0570-0.

Review by Alistaire Tallent, Colorado College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 229

Andrea Goulet, Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. viii + 295 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4779-4.

Review by Sharon P. Johnson, Virginia Tech.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 230

Sung-Eun Choi, Decolonization and the French of Algeria: Bringing the Settler Colony Home. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. x + 220 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-137-52074-6.

Review by Emile Chabal, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 231

Lauren Janes, Colonial Food in Interwar Paris: The Taste of Empire. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. xii + 220 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $112.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4725-9282-8.

Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 232

Jennifer L. Sweatman, The Risky Business of French Feminism. Publishing, Politics, and Artistry. London and Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014. 217 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7391-7965-9; $89.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-7391-7966-6.

Review by Bibia Pavard, Université Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 233

Robert Michael Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country.. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. x + 352 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4699-5.

Review by Cécile Vidal, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (Octber 2016), No. 234

Thomas Parker, Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea.. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xii + 229 pp. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-27750-2; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-520-27751-9.

Review by Rod Phillips, Carleton University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 235

Edward M. Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope, eds., After the Paris Attacks: Responses in Canada, Europe, and around the Globe.. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2015. vii + 221 pp. $32.95 Cdn. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4426-3001-7.

Review by Alexandre De Aranjo, Independent Researcher.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 236

Janet Marquardt, Zodiaque: Making Medieval Modern, 1951-2001.. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xv + 202 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-2710-6506-9.

Review by William J. Diebold, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 237

Sudhir Hazareesingh, How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People.. New York: Basic Books, 2015. xii + 338 pp. Notes and index. $29.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-465-03249-5.

Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 238

Marie Loiseau, Éros et chronos. Étude sur la temporalité dans le libertinage de Crébillon fils.. Paris: Champion, 2015. 192 pp. 35€ (cl). ISBN 972745328571.

Review by Anne Richardot, Université Lille-3.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 239

Magali Rouquier, L’Émergence des constructions clivées, pseudo-clivées et liées en français.. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 205 pp. Notes, tableaux, bibliographie, et index. 29.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3032-9.

Review by Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 240

Emanuele Sica, Mussolini’s Army in the Riviera: Italy’s Occupation of France.. Urbana, Chicago, Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016. viii + 275 pp. Chronology, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-252-03985-0.

Review by Karine Varley, University of Strathclyde.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 241

James Hanrahan and Síofra Pierse, eds., The Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres.. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016. 260 pp. $64.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1848-8.

Review by Kate E. Tunstall, University of Oxford, Worcester College.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 242

Sean L. Field, Robert E. Lerner, and Sylvain Piron, eds., Marguerite Porete et le Miroir des simples âmes: Perspectives historiques, philosophiques et littéraires.. Paris: Vrin, 2013. 368 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $43.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7116-2524-6.

Review by Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 243

Andrea Mammone, Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy.. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xx + 305 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13 9781107030916.

Review by Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 244

David A. Bell, Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present.. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Xii + 444 pp. Illustrations and Index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-026268-6.

Review by Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 245

M. J. Heisey and Nancy R. Heisey, Relief Work as Pilgrimage: “Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945-1948.. Lanham and London: Lexington Books, 2015. vii + 168 pp. Bibliography and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4985-0810-0; $79.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4985-0811-7.

Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 246

Robert Frank and Éric Roussel with Vincent Laniol, eds., Deux passions françaises: Pierre Mendès France et Charles de Gaulle.. Paris: CRNS Éditions, 2014. Notes. 22.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-07995-4.

Review by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 247

November Reviews

Magali Rouquier, L’Émergence des constructions clivées, pseudo-clivées et liées en français. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2014. 205 pp. Notes, tableaux, bibliographie, et index. 29.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3032-9.

Review by Sylvie Bazin-Tacchella, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 248

Riadh Ben Khalifa, Délinquance en temps de crise: L’ordinaire exceptionnel devant la justice correctionnelle des Alpes-Maritimes (1938-1944). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. 608 pp. Maps, figures, graphs, archival sources, bibliography, and index. 90.00€. (pb). ISBN978-2-7453-2814-4.

Review by Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 249

Monique Yaari, ed., “Infra-noir”, un et multiple. Un groupe surréaliste entre Bucarest et Paris, 1945-1947. Berne: Peter Lang, 2014. 404 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $73.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1762-7.

Review by Cosana Eram, University of the Pacific.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 250

Sean L. Field, Robert E. Lerner, and Sylvain Piron, eds., Marguerite Porete et le Miroir des simples âmes: Perspectives historiques, philosophiques et littéraires. Paris: Vrin, 2013. 368 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $43.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7116-2524-6.

Review by Tanya Stabler Miller, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (October 2016), No. 243 – link to original review number (review accidentally posted twice).

Anne Curry, Agincourt. (Great Battles, ed. Hew Strachan). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. ix + 256 pp., maps, illustrations, £18.99 (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-968101-3.

Review by David Potter, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 252

Christian Sapin, Les cryptes en France. Pour une approche archéologique, IVe-XIIe siècle. Paris: Éditions A. et J. Picard, 2014. 320 pp. Illustrations, index, and bibliography. 76 € (cl.) ISBN 978-2-7084-0965-1.

Review by Bonnie Effros, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 253

Guillebert de Mets, Description de la ville de Paris 1434. Text, translation, and notes by Evelyn Mullally. Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Âge 14. Turnhout: Brepols, 2015. 180 pp. Translation, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. €65.00 (pb). ISBN: 978-2-503-55496-9.

Review by Daniel Hobbins, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 254

James K. Farge, ed., Religion, Reformation, and Repression in the Reign of Francis I. 2 vols. Vol. 1, Documents 1515-1543. Vol. 2, Documents 1544-1547. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2015. xlvi + 1463pp. ISBN 978-0-88844-196-6.

Review by Robert Knecht, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 255

Christine Marie Petto, Mapping and Charting in Early Modern England and France: Power, Patronage, and Production. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. vii + 225 pp. Figures and bibliography. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7391-7536-1.

Review by Michael Wolfe, Queens College-CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 256

Françoise Gasparri, Suger de Saint-Denis: Abbé, soldat, homme d’État au XIIe siècle. Paris: ePicard, 2015. 208 pp. 16 colour plates, bibliography, and index. 32 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-7084-0991-0.

Review by Charlotte Pickard, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 257

Paul Sonnino, The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask: A Historical Detective Story. Lanham, Md. and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. xvi + 252pp. Maps, table, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4422-5363-6; $34.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4422-5364-3.

Review by Julius R. Ruff, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 258

Malina Stefanovska and Adrien Paschoud, eds., Littérature et politique: Factions et dissidences de la Ligue à la Fronde. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 244 pp. Notes, bibliography, index nominum, and article abstracts. 32€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-4590-3.

Review by Bruce Hayes, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 259

Caroline Maillet-Rao, La pensée politique des dévots Mathieu de Morgues et Michel de Marillac: Une opposition au ministériat du cardinal de Richelieu. Preface by Donald A. Bailey. Bibliothèque d’histoire moderne et contemporaine 49. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2015. 405 pp. Bibliography and index. €75.00 (pb.). ISBN 978-2745329035.

Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 260

Nicolas Lombart, ed., Les Nouveaux Mondes juridiques: Du Moyen Âge au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 349 pp. Bibliography and index. 35€ (hb). ISBN 978-2-8124-4594-1.

Review by Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 261

Lewis C. Seifert and Rebecca M. Wilkin, eds., Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France. Farnham, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2015. x + 305 pp. Table, figures, bibliography, and index. £70.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4724-5409-6.

Review by Gary Ferguson, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 262

William D. Paden, Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon. Medieval Academy Books 115. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Medieval Academy of America, 2016. xiv + 278 pp. Figures, maps, notes, glossary, and bibliography. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4426-2934-9.

Review by Wendy Pfeffer, University of Louisville.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 263

Rachel Chrastil, The Siege of Strasbourg. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2014. 302 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes and index. $42 (cl). ISBN 978-0-72886-8.

Review by Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 264

Michèle Bokobza Kahan, Témoigner des miracles au siècle des Lumières: Récits et discours de Saint-Médard. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 372 pp. Notes, bibliography, index and table of contents. 74.00€ TTC. (hb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3654-3; 39.00€ TTC. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3653-6.

Review by Allison Stedman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 265

Robert D. Priest, The Gospel According to Renan: Reading, Writing and Religion in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 265 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $110.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-1987-2875-7.

Review by Kevin Hart, The University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 266

Nicole Cadène, “Mon énigme éternel”: Marie-Edmée…, une jeune fille française sous le Second Empire. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2012. 370 pp. Notes and bibliography. 28 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-85399-850-5.

Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 267

Yannick Marec; Jean-Pierre Daviet; Bernard Garnier; Jean Laspougeas; Jean Quellien, La Normandie au 19e siècle. Entre tradition et modernité. Rennes: Editions Ouest-France, 2015, 606 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. 27€ (pb). ISBN978-2-7373-3796-3.

Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 268

Geneviève Dumas, Santé et société à Montpellier à la fin du Moyen Âge (The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500, vol. 102). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. xiii + 591 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 193€ (hb). ISBN: 978-90-04-28239-1 .

Review by Fernando Salmón, University of Cantabria (Spain).
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 269

Claudia Leskien, Operation Welcome: How Strasbourg Remained a Seat of European Institutions, 1949-1979. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2016. 330 pp. References and appendices. $62.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87574-316-9.

Review by Timothy Andrews Sayle, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 270

Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier, Administrer les Menus Plaisirs du roi: L’État, la cour et les spectacles dans la France des Lumières. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2016. 380 pages. £20.40/€ 28 (pb). ISBN-10: 1026700531. ISBN-13: 979-1026700531.

Review by Anne Byrne, Birkbeck, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 271

Claire M. Waters, Translating Clergie: Status, Education, and Salvation in Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. xv + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 978-0-8122-4772-5 .

Review by Maureen Boulton, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 272

Jeanne Flore, Tales and Trials of Love: A Bilingual Edition and Study. Ed. and trans. Kelly Digby Peebles. Poems translated by Marta Rijn Finch. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 33. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. xiv + 342 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7727-2166-2.

Review by Kathleen A. Loysen, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 273

Bernard Beugnot, Loin du monde et du bruit: le discours de la retraite au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Editions Hermann, 2015. Xii + 319 pp. Bibliography, index, afterword. 32 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-9051-9.

Review by Ellen M. McClure, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 274

William Olmsted, The Censorship Effect: Baudelaire, Flaubert, and the Formation of French Modernism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii + 226 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-1902-3863-6.

Review by Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 275

Elma Brenner, Leprosy and Charity in Medieval Rouen. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, for the Royal Historical Society, 2015. xii + 203 pp. Map, photos, appendices, bibliography, and index. $90 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-86193-339-6; ISSN 0269-2244.

Review by David S. Spear, Furman University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 276

Tom Conley, À fleur de page: Voir et lire le texte de la Renaissance. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 207 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3248-4.

Review by Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 277

Hélène Bah Ostrowiecki, Pascal et l’expérience du corps. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2016. 206 pp. 68€ (hb) ISBN 978-2-406-05755-0; 29 € (pb) ISBN 978-2-406-05754-3.

Review by Michael Moriarty, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (November 2016), No. 278

December Reviews

Henri Garric, Parole muette, récit burlesque: Les expressions silencieuses aux XIXe-XXe siècles. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 469 pp. Bibliography, index, and fiches techniques des films. 49.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3708-3.

Review by Christophe Wall-Romana, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 279

Henri Garric, Parole muette, récit burlesque: Les expressions silencieuses aux XIXe-XXe siècles. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 469 pp. Bibliography, index, and fiches techniques des films. 49.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3708-3.

Compte-rendu par Marcella Leopizzi, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 280

Jonathyne Briggs, Sounds French: Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music, 1958-1980. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xi + 226 pp. 8 half-tones, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 9780199377060.

Review by Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 281

Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Clemenceau: Dernières nouvelles du Tigre. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2016. vii + 217 pp. Biographical chronology and index. 19.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-08938-0.

Review by William Keylor, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 282

Mita Choudhury. The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint: A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. xiii + 176pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978.-0-271-07081-0.

Stéphane Lamotte. L’affaire Girard-Cardière: Justice, satire et religion au XVIIIe siècle. Preface by Joël Fouilleron. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2016. 266pp. Figures, notes, and bibliography. 28€ (pb). ISBN 9-791032-000359.

Review by Annette Chapman-Adisho, Salem State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 283

John Hardman, The Life of Louis XVI. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. xi + 499pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0300220421.

Review by Michael P. Fitzsimmons, Auburn University Montgomery.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 284

Yan Brailowsky Y et Inglebert H., eds., 1970-2010, les sciences de l’homme en débat. Nanterre : Presses Universitaire de Paris-Ouest, 2013. 489 pp. Annexes. 25,00€. ISBN 978-2-8401-6134-9.

Review by Jean-Christophe Marcel, L’Université de Bourgogne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 285

Steven Vanderputten, Imagining Religious Leadership in the Middle Ages: Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Politics of Reform. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. xiii + 244 pp. Illustrations, map, appendices, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0978-0-8014-5377-9.

Review by Elizabeth Dachowski, Tennessee State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 286

Luc Foisneau, ed., Dictionnaire des philosophes français du XVIIe siècle: Acteurs et réseaux du savoir. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 2138 pp. €295. ISBN 978-2-8124-1722-1.

Review by Emma Gilby, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 287

André Stanguennec, Ernest Renan: De l’idéalisme au scepticisme. Coll. Romantisme et Modernités. Paris : Honoré Champion. 2015. 321pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 55.00 €. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-2914-1.

Review by Mary Pickering, San Jose State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 288

Nicole Dombrowski Risser, France Under Fire: German Invasion, Civilian Flight, and Family Survival during World War II. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, and bibliography. $38.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-107-52125-4.

Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 289

Raymond A. Mentzer and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, eds., A Companion to the Huguenots. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. xv + 481 pp. 26 figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 229€. ISBN 9-789004-310353.

Review by Yves Krumenacker, Université de Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 290

Anne-Sophie Angelo, Le Sens des personnages chez André Gide. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 469 pp. Notes, bibliography, indexes. €29 (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-5987-0.

Review by Pamela Genova, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 291

Tracey Rizzo and Steven Gerontakis, Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxiv + 398 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780199978342.

Review by Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 292

Please see the continued discussion that occurred on H-France.

Bette H. Lustig, The Concept of the Soul in Marcel Proust: Homophilia, Misogyny, and the Time-Memory Correlative. New York and Bern: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016. ix + 169 pp. Bibliography and index. $78.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4331-3189-9.

Review by Casey Walker, The Cooper Union.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 293

Response by Bette H. Lustig, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 294

Hervé Joly, Les Gillet de Lyon. Fortunes d’une grande dynastie industrielle (1838-2015). Librairie Droz: Geneva, 2015. 512 pp. Tableaux, graphiques, cartes, généaologies, schémas, and index. 29.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-01894-4.

Review by Helen M. Davies, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 295

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, A Taste for Provence. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. x + 283 pp. Figures, notes, index. $30 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-32284-1.

Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 296

Paul-Laurent Assoun, Tuer le mort. Le désir révolutionnaire. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2015. 267 pp. Index. 22€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-13-063507-9.

Review by Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 16 (December 2016), No. 297