January/Janvier Reviews

Annie Jourdan. La Révolution française. Une histoire à repenser. Paris: Champs, 2021. 658 pp. Notes, references, and index. €12.00. (pb). ISBN 9782080255624; €11.99 (eb). ISBN 9782080266088.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 1.

Réponse d’Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 2.

Sally Debra Charnow, Edmond Fleg and Jewish minority culture in twentieth-century France. New York: Routledge, 2021. 250 pp. 15 B/W illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0367186142; $48.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0429197208.

Review by Noëmie Duhaut, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 3.

Ruoting Ding, L’Usurpation du pouvoir dans le théâtre français du XVIIe siècle (1636-1696). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 559 pp. Bibliography and index. €75.00. ISBN 9-78-2745355270.

Review by Perry Gethner, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 4.

Natalie Berkman, OuLiPo and the Mathematics of Literature. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. xiv + 324 pp. Annex, bibliography, and index. $72.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789977806; $72.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789977820.

Review by Warren Motte, University of Colorado Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 5.

Julius Fein, Hitler’s Refugees and the French Response, 1933-1938. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. xii + 288 pp. Notes, biography and index. £92.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9-781-793622280.

Review by John Bulaitis, Canterbury Christ Church University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 6.

Cyril Francès, dir. Le Politique et le Féminin: Les femmes de pouvoir dans les Mémoires d’Ancien Régime. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020. 320 pp. Notes, references, and index. €68.00 (hb). ISBN: 9782406097600; €29.00 (pb). ISBN: 9782406097594.

Review by Susan Broomhall, Australian Catholic University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 7.

Marine Cellier, Amina Damerji, and Sylvain Loloret, eds. La Fabrique de la race dans la Caraïbe de l’époque moderne à nos jours. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 258 pp. Notes, references, index, bibliography, and resumes. €19.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11493-2.

Review by Tessie P. Liu, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 8.

Christophe Charle, Paris, « capitales » des XIXe siècles. Paris: Seuil, 2021. 651 pp. €14.50. (pb). ISBN 9782757892091.

Compte-rendu par Florence Bourillon, Université Paris-Est Créeil Val de Marne.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 9.

Yves Balmer, Thomas Lacôte, and Christopher Brent Murray, Le modèle et l’invention: Messiaen et la technique de l’emprunt (Lyon: Symétrie, 2017). Illustrations and music. 624 pp. €65.00. (hb). ISBN ‎9782364850453.

Review by Robert Sholl, Royal Academy of Music and University of West London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 10.

Boris Bove, Alain Salamagne, and Caroline Zum Kolk, eds., L’Itinérance de la Cour en France et en Europe: Moyen Âge – XIX^e siècle, Villeneuve-d’Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2021. 414 pp. Bibliography. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7574-3362-1; €24.00 (eb). ISBN 978-2-7574-3373-7.

Review by Scott Miller, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 11.

Carole Primot, Teofilo Folengo en France à la Renaissance. « Entendons ce que dict Merlin Cocagne. » Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 293 pp. €74.00. (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12178-7; €35.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-12177-0.

Compte-rendu par Alice Roullière, St. John’s College (Oxford).
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 12.

Pauline Eaton, Mothers Voicing Mothering? The Representation of Motherhood in the Novels and Short Stories of Marie NDiaye. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. 255 pp. Bibliography, index, and series index. $65.85 U.S. (pb) ISBN 9781800792227; $64.90 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800792241.

Review by Judith Still, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 13.

Violaine Heryaud and Bernard Vouilloux, eds. Relire Cyrano de Bergerac. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 220 pp. Notes and index. €64.00 (hb). ISBN 9782406126409; €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406126393.

Review by Hervé Picherit, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 14.

Anne D. Hedeman, Visual Translation. Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists. Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame Press, 2022. xxiv + 370 pp. 183 color illustrations, 1 table, 5 appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-0268202279; $63.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0268202262; $63.99 U.S. (Web PDF). ISBN 9-78-0268202293.

Review by Camille Serchuk, Southern Connecticut State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 15.

Sandrine Ferret, La photographie document en action: Expériences et histoires. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2021. 214 pp. Introduction, website references, bibliography and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753582743.

Review by Jennifer Stob, Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 16.

Jessica Priebe, François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France. London: Routledge, 2022. xvi + 254 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $150.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781472435835; $44.05 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003224730.

Review by Alden R. Gordon, Trinity College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 17.

Review of Meryl Altman, Beauvoir In Time. Leiden/Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2020. 580 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Open Access (eb). ISBN 9789004431218; $171.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9789004431201.

Review by Elaine Stavro, Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 18.

Sarah Grant, Female Portraiture and Patronage in Marie-Antoinette’s Court: The Princesse de Lamballe. New York: Routledge Press, 2019. xvi + 232 pp. Illustrations, acknowledgments, figures, notes, plates, bibliography, and index. $128.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 97810138480827; $48.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032338927; $39.16 U.S. (eb). ISBN 7781351061827.

Review by Lauren Walter, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 19.

Elisheva Baumgarten, Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780812253580; $50.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780812297522.

Review by Constant J. Mews, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (January 2023), No. 20.

February/Février Reviews

Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire: State, Church, and Society, 1604-1830. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. 640 pp. Notes, references, glossary, timeline, and index. $85.00 CAD (cl). ISBN 9780773553149.

Review by Benjamin Steiner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 21.

Nicholas D. Paige, Technologies of the Novel. Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 287 pp. Index, figures, technologies section, and bibliography. $33.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 9781108890861.

Review by Christof Schöch, Universität Trier.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 22.

Alessandro Maras, Apollinaire, les musiciens et la musique. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 230 pp. €69.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12352-1; €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-12351-4.

Compte-rendu par Laurence Campa, Université Paris Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 23.

Annabel L. Kim, Cacaphonies. The Excremental Canon of French Literature. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $108.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-1517910877; $27.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1517910884.

Review by Mercédès Baillargeon, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 24.

Leo Damrosch, Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. vii + 422 pp. 34 color + 49 b-w illus. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-300-24828-9.

Review by James H. Johnson, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 25.

Xavier Bourdenet, L’Ecriture de l’Histoire chez Mérimée: L’archive et l’archè. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 752 pp. Appendix, bibliography, and index. €98.99 (hb). ISBN 9782406128052; €59.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406128045.

Review by Corry Cropper, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 26.

Adeline Lionetto and Jean-Charles Monferran, eds., Fleurs et jardins de poésie. Les anthologies poétiques au XVIe siècle (domaine français, incursions européennes). Paris: Garnier Classiques, 2021. 403 pp. Notes, references, and index. €78.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406121817; €39.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406121800.

Review by Valerie Worth-Stylianou, Trinity College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 27.

Frédéric Calas, ed., Peau d’âne et peaux de bêtes. Variations et reconfigurations d’un motif dans les mythes, les fables et les contes. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2021. 375 pp. General bibliography and index. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 9782845169791; €16.00 (pdf). ISBN 9782845169807.

Review by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 28.

Antonia Wimbush, Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. 272 pp. Notes, references, and index. £95.00. (hb). ISBN 9781800858015.

Review by Valérie K. Orlando, University of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 29.

Guyon, Catherine, Yves Krumenacker, and Bruno Maes, eds. Une piété lotharingienne. Foi publique, foi intériorisée (XIIe-XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 357pp. Notes, references, illustrations, figures, and indexes. €73.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406122173; €32.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406122166.

Review by Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 30.

Joy Palacios, Ceremonial Spendor: Performing Priesthood in Early Modern France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. x + 271 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781512822786; $54.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781512822779.

Review by Eric Nelson, Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (February 2023), No. 31.

March/Mars Reviews

Jean Goldzink and Florence Chapiro, Le Sang du récit. Essai sur les passions romanesques du XVIIe au XIXe siècles. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2020. 264 pp. €73.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-406-09222-3; €34.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-09221-6.

Compte-rendu par Marco Menin Università degli Studi di Torino.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 32.

Pierre Boulez, Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures. Edited and translated by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman, and Arnold Whittall. Preface by Jonathan Goldman; introductory essay “Pierre Boulez, Lecturer” by Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. xxvi + 662 pp. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780226672595; $23.99 U.S. (pdf/epub). ISBN 9780226672625.

Review by Edward Campbell, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 33.

Irving Goh, ed., French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK. London: Routledge, 2020. xv + 194 pp. Notes, table, and index. $170.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367408220; $48.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032087436; $48.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780367809287.

Review by Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 34.

Caroline Labrune, Fictions dramatiques et succession monarchique (1637-1691). Lumière classique 120. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 568 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index nominum. €70.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5543-0.

Review by Suzanne Jones, St. Andrew’s College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 35.

Lise Andries, Bandits, pirates et hors-la-loi au temps des Lumières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 248 pp. €68 (hb) 00978-2-406-10990-7, €29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-10989-1.

Review by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 36.

Juan Manuel Ibeas-Altamira, La Pédagogie dans le boudoir. Heurs et malheurs de Félicité de Genlis. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 234 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. €29.00. (eb). ISBN 9782406125365.

Review by Flora Champy, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 37.

Réponse par Juan Manuel Ibeas-Altamira, Universidad del País Vasco.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 38

yasser elhariry, ed., Sounds Senses. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. vii + 312 pp. Notes, figures, references, and index. $143 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781800856882.

Review by Aimée Boutin, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 39.

Martin Goodman. Bastards at Work: Universal Lessons on Bullying from Contemporary French Storytelling. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. xi + 342 pp. Notes, tables, graphs, photographs and index. $70.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800794740; $67.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800794764.

Review by Anne M. Mulhall, Trinity College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 40.

Anna Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska, éd., Animal(ité). Études dix-neuvièmistes. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021. 157 pp. $56.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9783631845097; $60.95 U.S. (PDF) 9783631855621; $60.95 U.S. (ePUB). ISBN 9783631855676; $60.95 U.S. (MOBI), ISBN 9783631855683.

Compte-rendu par Sara Buekens, Ghent University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 41.

Robert Payne, Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. vii + 214 pp. Bibliography. $65.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781788747714; $63.95 U.S. (pdf); ISBN 9781788747721; $63.95 U.S. (epub) ISBN 9781788747738; $63.95 U.S. (MOBI) ISBN 9781788747745.

Review by Jessica Garcés Jensen, University of Southern Indiana.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 42.

Szymon Piotr Kubiak, Loin de Moscou. Gérard Singer et l’art engagé, traduit par Erik Veaux. Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2020. 187 pp. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7351-2443-5.

Compte-rendu par Gwenn Riou, Aix-Marseille Université.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 43.

Donatien Grau, dir., Pierre Guyotat. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 279 pp. Bibliographie, résumés, et index. €71.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12879-3; €32.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-12878‑6.

Compte-rendu par Juliette Drigny, CY Clergy Paris Université
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 44.

Gaël Rideau, Une société en marche: les processions en France au XVIIIe siècle. Ceyzérieu : Champ Vallon, 2021. 542 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9791026710103.

Review by Taylor Van Doorne, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 45.

Henri Béhar, Essai d’analyse culturelle des textes. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. Index. 252 pp. €29.00. (pb). ISBN 9-78-2406126478; €68.00. (hb). ISBN 9-78-2406126485.

Review by Madeleine Chalmers, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 46.

Jeremy Black, The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Strategies for a World War. Lanham, Md. and London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. xii + 221 pp. Notes, bibliographie, et index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-5381-6369-6; $32.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5381-6370-2; $30.50 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-5381-6371-9.

Compte-rendu par Bruno Colson, Université de Namur.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 47.

Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby, eds., ‘Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe’: Nicolas Baudin’s Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2021. 341pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1743058275.

Review by Dourinda Outram, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 48.

Robert Weston, A Country Doctor in the French Revolution: Marie-François-Bernardin Ramel. New York: Routledge, 2020. x + 114 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367271893; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781032091495; $20.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429295393.

Compte-rendu par Bénédicte Prot, Université de Bâle.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 49.

Gianluca Mori, Athéisme et dissimulation au XVII^e siècle. Guy Patin et le Theophrasticus redivivus. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022. 414 pp. Avant-propos par Antony McKenna. Tables, notes, bibliographie, et index. €68.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5791-5.

Compte-rendu par Julien Léonard, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 50.

Meredith L. Scott, The Lifeline: Salomon Grumbach and the Quest for Safety. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022. vii + 186 pp. Bibliography and index. $127.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-51439-3; $127.00 U.S (eb). ISBN 978-90-04-51489-8.

Review by Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (March 2023), No. 51.

April/Avril Reviews

Tracy L. Rutler, Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Xxi + 291 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. €65.00. (pb). ISBN 978-1-800-85980-7; €65.00 (eb). ISBN 978-1-800-85797-1.

Review by Jessica Stacey, Freie Universität, Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 52.

Alain Ruscio (dir.), Regards français sur l’Islam des Croisades à l’ère coloniale. Vulaines-sur-Seine: Éditions du Croquant, 2021. 345 pp. €20.00. (pb). ISBN 9782365123167.

Compte-rendu par Alain Messaoudi, Nantes Université.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 53.

Clovis Gladstone, Rousseau et le matérialisme. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. 264 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £75.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-1789622027; £65.00 (eb). ISBN 9-78-1800345706.

Review by Fayçal Falaky, Tulane University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 54.

Philippe Meyzie, L’unique et le véritable. Réputation, origine et marchés alimentaires (vers 1680-vers 1830). Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2021. 376 pp. €26.00. (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-1020-2.

Compte-rendu par Emmanuelle Charpentier, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 55.

Laura Mason, The Last Revolutionaries: The Conspiracy Trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the Equals. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2022. xi + 304 pp. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300259551.

Compte-rendu par Sophie Wahnich, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 56.

Catriona MacLeod, Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2022. xii + 244 pp. Notes, references, index, and figures. $113.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781789383904; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781789386813; $85.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789383928.

Review by Fransiska Louwagie, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 57.

Christina Parker-Flynn, Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. ix + 246 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781978825079; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781978825062; $32.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781978825086.

Review by Sarah Keller, University of Massachusetts Boston.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 58.

Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone, eds., In Search of Expo 67. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. ix + 230 pp. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780228001140; (French edition: À la recherche d’Expo 67. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. ix + 230 pp. $55.00 CAD. (pb). ISBN 9780228001133).

Review by Peter Sealy, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 59.

Nick Underwood, Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. xv + 245 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-025305796.

Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 60.

Pascale Goetschel, Une autre histoire du théâtre: discours de crise et pratiques spectaculaires, France, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2020. 413 pp. 27€. (pb). ISBN 9782271121455.

Review by Michelle S. Cheyne, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 61.

Alison James, The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature. Writing with Facts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 288 pp. Bibliography and index. £59.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0198859680.

Review by Andy Stafford, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 62.

Helder Mendes Baiao, Rêves de citoyens. L’utopie républicaine dans la littérature Suisse-romande au XVIII^e siècle. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. 320pp. $75.15 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1787076488. $74.05 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1787076501.

Review by Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 63.

Céline Borello, Christophe Regina, Gabriele Vickermann-Ribémont (dirs.), Séduire du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Discours, représentations et pratiques. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 336 pp. €72.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-11485-7; €33.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11484-0.

Compte-rendu par Jean-Alexandre Perras, European University Institute, Florence.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 64.

Nicolas Lyon-Caen and Raphaël Morera, À vos poubelles citoyens ! Environnement urbain, salubrité publique et investissement civique (Paris, XVI^e-XVIII^esiècle). 215 pp. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2020. €22.00. (cl). ISBN 979-10-267-0928-2.

Compte-rendu par Constance Font-Réaulx, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 65.

Elizabeth Benjamin, Existentialist Comics: Bande Dessinée and the Art of Ethics. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. xvi + 216 pp. 1 fig. col., 15 fig. b/w. $63.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800792739; $63.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800792753.

Review by Erin Duncan-O’Neill, University Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 66.

Bianca-Livia Bartoş, Le Thésée d’André Gide: Entre tradition et innovation. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 169 pp. €57.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-12719-2; €18.00 (pb); ISBN 978-2-406-12718-5.

Compte-rendu par Patrick Pollard, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 67.

Rémi Dalisson, Au plus près du peuple: Les voyages politiques de Napoléon III. Paris: Vendémiaire, 2022. 331 pp. Carte, tableaux, documents, notes, bibliographie et index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-36358-379-6.

Compte-rendu par Jean-Charles Geslot, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines/Université de Paris-Saclay.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 68.

Keith Reader, Across Texts: Essays on Different Forms of French Textuality. Oxford, U.K.: Legenda, 2021. 252 pp. $115.00 (hb). ISBN 9-78-1781888063.

Review by Patrick Bray, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 69.

Richard Verdi, Poussin as a Painter. From Classicism to Abstraction. London: Reaktion Books, 2020. 366 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1-789141474.

Review by Henry Keazor, Heidelberg University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 70.

Audrey Evrard, Precarious Sociality, Ethics and Politics: French Documentary Cinema in the Early Twenty-First Century. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2022. 298 pp. Halftones, notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. $88.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1786838421.

Review by Joseph Mai, Clemson University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 71.

Iris Moon and Richard Taws, eds. Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. xiv + 261 pp. Figures, plates, notes, and index. $120.00. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1-501348396.

Review by Stephanie O’Rourke, University of St. Andrews.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (April 2023), No. 72.

May/Mai Reviews

Amelia Rauser, The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion, and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020. 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300241204.

Compte-rendu par Élise Urbain Ruano, Musée royal de Mariemont.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 73.

Florence Orwat, Le Rire chrétien de La Fontaine. Les Contes et nouvelles en vers. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 441 pp. €68.00. (pb). ISBN 9782745355782.

Compte-rendu par Pierre Lyraud, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 74.

Marie-Pierre Le Hir, French Immigrants and Pioneers and the Making of America. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2022. ix + 288 pp. $59.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781476684420.

Compte-rendu par Yves Frenette, Université de Saint-Boniface.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 75.

Tessa Friederike Rosebrock, Kurt Martin et le Musée des Beaux-arts de Strasbourg: Politique des musées et des expositions sous le IIIe Reich et dans l’immédiat après-guerre, trans. Françoise Joly. Paris: Maison des sciences de l’homme/Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, 2019. xxvii + 524 pages. Figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. €30.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7351-2442-8.

Review by Dominique Poulot, IHMC, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 76.

Megan Brown, The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 368 pp. Notes, references, and index. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780674251144.

Review by Andrew W. M. Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 77.

Sara Buekens and Julien Defraeye, eds., Animal et Animalité: Stratégies de représentation dans les littératures d’expression française. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 329 pp. Index and bibliography. €74.00. (hb). ISBN 9782406128649; €35.00. (pb). ISBN 9782406128632.

Review by Liam Lewis, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 78.

Jessica L. Fripp, Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2020. xiv +260. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781644532010; $99.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781644532027.

Review by Emma Barker, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 79.

Timothy J. Standring, ed., Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France. New Haven: Denver Art Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2021. vii + 245 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9-78-0300254457.

Review by Alexis Clark, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 80.

François Jacob, Voltaire après la nuit: Paris, Moscou, Genève. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2021. v + 185 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography and index. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 9782845591509.

Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [1]
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 81.

Joseph Acquisto, Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 311 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $119.99 (hb). ISBN 9-78-303061013-5; $84.99 (pb). ISBN 9-78-3030610166.

Review by Robert A. Schneider, Indiana University Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 82.

Carolyn J. Eichner, Feminism’s Empire. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. xiv + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-5017-6380-9; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5017-6381-6; $21.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN978-1-5017-6383-0.

Review by Laura L. Frader, Northeastern University Emerita.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 83.

Oana Panaïté, Necrofiction and the Politics of Literary Memory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. x + 200 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $143.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781802077179.

Review by Alison Rice, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 84.

Marcie Ray, Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester University Press, 2020. xi + 191 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781580469883; $29.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781787449008.

Review by Don Fader, University of Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 85.

Lucy Rayfield, Poetics, Performances and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy. Oxford: Legenda (MHRA), 2022. 228 pp. Notes, references, timeline, and index. ₤85.00 (pb). ISBN 9781781885161.

Review by Corinne Noirot, Virginia Tech.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 86.

Michael Kwass, The Consumer Revolution, 1650-1800. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xi + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780521198707; $25.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780521139595; $25.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781009234399

Review by Pierre Gervais, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 87.

Jérémy Decot and Clare Siviter, eds., Un engagement en vers et contre tous : Servir les révolutions, rejouer leurs mémoires (1789-1848). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2022. 282 pp. Bibliography, notes. 20.00 € (pb.). ISBN 9782845169975; 13.00 € (pdf.). ISBN 978238770176.

Review by Joseph D. Begley, New College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 88.

Thomas Kvist Christiansen, Nous sommes ici pour mourir. L’itinéraire d’Arlette Lévy-Andersen, rescapée d’Auschwitz. Translated and edited by Fabrice Boyer. Clermont-Ferrand : Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2021. 248 pp. Photographs, notes, annexes, and bibliography. €35.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2845169999. [Original Edition: Thomas Kvist Christiansen, Vi er her for at dø. Fredericia: Kvist Kommunikation og Billunds Boghandel, 2018.]

Review by Ashley Valanzola, Middle Tennessee State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (May 2023), No. 89.

June/Juin Reviews

Céline Labrune Badiane, Le pari de l’école: une histoire de l’institution scolaire en Casamance, 1860-1960. Paris: Hémisphères Éditions and Maisonneuve & Larose Nouvelles Éditions, 2022. 384 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, and bibliography. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782377011162.

Review by Kelly Duke Bryant, Rowan University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (Jun 2023), No. 90.

Nick Nesbitt, The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2022. viii + 274 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780813947082; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780813947099; $28.00 (eb). ISBN 9780813947105

Review by Christopher Bonner, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 91.

Myriam Boucharenc, L’Écrivain et la publicité: Histoire d’une tentation. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2022. 334 pp. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-1055-4.

Review by Seth Armus, St. Joseph’s University (Brooklyn, New York).
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 92.

Reva Wolf and Alisa Luxenberg, eds., Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. xviii + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $160 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501337963. $36.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781501366925.

Review by Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 93.

Andrew Sobanet and Kylie Sago, eds., Revisioning French Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. vii + 372 pp. Notes and index. ₤83.60 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781789620207; ₤24.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9781802077445; ₤70.40 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9781789624366.

Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 94.

Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, eds., The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2021. x + 242 pp. 21 b-w images, bibliography, notes, notes on contributors, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781978809802; $32.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781978809796; $32.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781978809819; $32.95 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781978809833.

Review by Thibaut Schilt, College of the Holy Cross.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 95.

Erwan Pointeau-Lagadec, Les écrans de fumée. Film et cannabis en France (1969-2002). Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021. 298 pp. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-343-24433-4.

Compte-rendu par Anne Roekens, Université de Namur.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 96.

Olga Smith, Contemporary Photography in France. Between Theory and Practice. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. €45.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-9462703445. €39.00 (eb). ISBN 9-78-9461664891.

Review by Pierre Taminiaux, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 97.

Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, The Franco-Algerian War through a Twenty-First Century Lens: Film and History. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. xii + 210 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. $112.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1474262804; $36.85 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1350246805; $29.48 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1474262828; $29.40 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9-78-1474262828..

Review by Anne Donadey, San Diego State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 98.

Julien Zanetta. L’Hôpital de la peinture: Baudelaire, la critique d’art et son lexique. Paris: Éditions Rue d’Ulm, 2022. 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782728807895.

Review by Timothy Raser, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 99.

Guy Debord, director. The Society of the Spectacle. 91 min. DVD and streaming. (Icarus Films, 2020). $29.98 U.S.

Review by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 100.

Suzanne Levin, La République de Prieur de la Marne: Défendre les droits de l’homme en état de guerre, 1792-an II. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2022. 563 pp. Chronology, chronology of missions, notes, index of names, index of place names. €45.00. ISBN 9-78-2140208508.

Review by Paul Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 101.

Nancy Ireson, ed., Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel. Philadelphia and London: Barnes Foundation, in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2021. 159 pp. Illustrations, chronology, appendices, bibliography, notes, references, and exhibition checklist. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-913645-13-7.

Review by Lucy Whelan, Cambridge University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 102.

Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves: A New Translation and Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the Digital Age. Dirigé par Hélène E. Bilis, Jean-Vincent Blanchard, David Harrison, and Hélène Visentin. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Lever Press, 2022. 808 pp. Cartes, tables, figures, notes, bibliographie et index. Open Access. ISBN: 978-1-64315-038-3.

Compte-rendu par Christophe Schuwey, Université Bretagne Sud.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 103.

Richard Langham Smith, Bizet’s “Carmen” Uncovered. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021. xxviii + 296 pp. Colour plates, black and white plates, music examples, bibliography, and index. £29.95, $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781783275250; £19.99, $24.95 U.S. (epdf). 9781787449213; £24.99, $29.95 U.S. (epub). 9781800100466.

Review by Tommaso Sabbatini, University of Bristol / McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 104.

Sarah Hickmott, Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. x + 245 pp. Notes and bibliography. $110.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781474458313; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781474458320; $110.00 U.S. (ePub). ISBN 9781474458337; $110.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781474458344.

Review by Andrew Kingston, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 105.

Annick Lacroix, Un service pour quel public? Postes et télécommunications dans l’Algérie colonisée (1830-1939). Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2022. 454 pp. €30.00 (pb). ISBN 9782753582446.

Compte-rendu par Claire Fredj, Université Paris Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 106.

Thomas Kirchner, Peindre contre le crime: De la justice selon Pierre-Paul Prud’hon. Translated by Aude Virey-Wallon. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2020. 135 pp. Figures and notes. €12.00 (pb). ISBN 9782735127078; €8.49 (eb). ISBN 9782735127436.

Review by Lela Graybill, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 107.

Robert Adelson, Erard: A Passion for the Piano. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. xviii + 238 pp. Notes, references, figures, and index. $82.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780197565315.

Review by Pheaross Graham, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 108.

Olaf Jubin, ed. Paris and the Musical: The City of Light on Stage and Screen. London: Routledge, 2021. x + 396 pp. Notes, photographs, and index. $136.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781138611061; $39.16 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781138611092; $39.16 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429465437.

Review by Vanessa R. Schwartz, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 109.

Gillian Opstad. Emma & Claude Debussy: The Biography of a Relationship. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022. xii + 361 pp. Illustrations, abbreviations and note, select bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1783276585; $24.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1800104044.

Review by Marie Rolf, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 110.

Zrinka Stahuljak, Les fixeurs au Moyen Age: Histoire et littérature connectées. Paris: Seuil, Series l’Univers Historique, 2020. 195 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. €20.00. (pb). ISBN 9-78-2021440744.

Review by Anna Klosowska, Miami University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 111.

Carol Bourne-Taylor and Sara-Louise Cooper, eds., Variations on the Ethics of Mourning in Modern Literature in French. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022. xiv + 302 pp. Index and notes. $65.85 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1789972733: $63.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1789972757.

Review by David Fieni, SUNY Oneonta.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 112.

Elizabeth Benjamin, Existentialist Comics: Bande Dessinée and the Art of Ethics. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2021. xvi + 216 pp. 1 fig. col., 15 fig. b/w. $63.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781800792739; $63.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800792753.

Review by Erin Duncan-O’Neill, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 113.

Peter Frei and Nelly Labère, eds., The Politics of Obscenity in the Age of the Gutenberg Revolution: Obscene Means in Early Modern French and European Print Culture and Literature. New York: Routledge, 2022. x + 380 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $128.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367537357; $39.16 U.S. (eb) ISBN 9781003083214.

Review by Hugh Roberts, University of Exeter.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 114.

Judith Sribnai, Pierre Gassendi: Le voyage vers la sagesse (1592-1655). Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2017. 257 pp. $34.95 Cdn. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7606-3793-1; $18.99 Cdn. (pdf). ISBN 978-2-7606-3794-8; $18.99 Cdn. (epub). ISBN 978-2-7606-3795-5.

Compte-rendu par Jean-Pierre Cavaillé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 115.

Réponse de Judith Sribnai, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 116.

Charlie Michael, French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. xvii + 236 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $110.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781474424233; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781474484275; $27.95 (epub). ISBN 9781474424257; $110.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781474424240.

Review by Ben McCann, University of Adelaide.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 117.

Aleksandra Pfau, Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France. Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. 202 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. €117.00 (hb). ISBN 9789462983359; €0.00 (pdf). ISBN 9789048533329.

Review by Jenni Kuuliala, Tampere University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (June 2023), No. 118.

July/Juillet Reviews

Polo B. Moji, Gender and the Spatiality of Blackness in Contemporary AfroFrench Narratives. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. viii + 172 pp. Notes and works cited by chapter, index. $170.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0367637514; $47.65 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1003120544.

Review by Kristen Stern, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 119.

Julia Doe, The Comedians of the King: ‘Opéra-Comique’ and the Bourbon Monarchy on the Eve of Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 296 pp. Color plates, halftones, line drawings, tables. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226743257; $54.99 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9780226743394; $54.99 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9780226743394.

Review by Maxime Margollé, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 120.

Richard J. Golsan, Justice in Lyon: Klaus Barbie and France’s First Trial for Crimes against Humanity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022. xii + 317 pp. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4875-0644-5; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4875-4559-8; $39.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 978-1-4875-3417-2; $39.95 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4875-3416-5.

Review by Julian Jackson, Queen Mary University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 121.

Bruno Lemesle, Procès en récit: Formes et perception de procès avant l’an mil (IX^e-X^e siècles). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 294 pp. Bibliography and index. €69.00 (hb). ISBN 9782406109846; €31.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406109839.

Review by Fraser McNair, Eberhard Karls, Universität, Tübingen.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 122.

Camille Robcis, Disalienation. Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 240 pp. Lists of abbreviations and figures, notes, bibliography, index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0226777603; $35.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-0226777740; $34.99 (eb). ISBN 9-78-0226777887.

Review by Richard Bates, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 123.

Jennifer Anne Boittin, Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2022. 272 pp. Acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226822235; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780226822259; $34.99 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9780226822242.

Review by Hannah Frydman, University of Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 124.

Pierre Saint-Amand, Suite libertine. Vies du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. 171 pp. €58.00 (hb). ISBN978-2-406-11425-3; €19.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-11424-6.

Compte-rendu par Caroline Fischer, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 125.

Clorinda Donato and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, eds., Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830. Toronto: University of Toronto University Press, 2021. vi + 364 pp. $84.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781487508906; $84.00 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781487539276; $84.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781487539269.

Review by Urs B. Leu, Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 126.

Jack Thomas. Les Protestants du Languedoc et la justice royale de Louis XIV à la Révolution. De l’obscurité à la lumière. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022. 504 pp. Notes, references, and index. €85.00 (pb). ISBN 9782745357229; €85.00 (eb, pdf). ISBN 9782745357229.

Review by David van der Linden, University of Groningen.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 127.

Amélie Auzoux, Camille Koskas, Élisabeth Russo, eds., Des revues et des femmes: la place des femmes dans les revues littéraires de la Belle Époque jusqu’à la fin des années 1950. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022. 306 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €49.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5676-5.

Compte-rendu par Françoise Ghillebaert, University of Puerto Rico.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 128.

Marine Roussillon, Don Quichotte à Versailles: L’imaginaire médiéval du Grand Siècle. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2022. 211 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-1060-8.

Review by Kelly Fender McConnell, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 129.

Leonid Livak, Histoire culturelle de l’émigration russe en France. Paris : Eur’Orbem Éditions, 2022. 364 pp. €18.96 (pb). ISBN 979-10-96982-21-9.

Compte-rendu par Victoire Feuillebois, Université de Strasbourg.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 130.

William Doyle, Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. 231 pp. References, note on sources, index. $22.50 (cl). ISBN 9-78-1789146172. $22.50 (eb). ISBN 9-78-1789146189.

Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 131.

Hedy Law, Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France. Woodbridge and Rochester: Boydell Press, 2020. xvii + 265 pp. Musical examples, notes, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781783275601; $29.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781787449374.

Review by Olivia Sabee, Swarthmore College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 132.

Valérie Toureille, Jeanne d’Arc. Paris: Perrin, 2020. 425 pp. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782262063948; €17.99 (ebook). ISBN 9782262087265.

Review by Craig Taylor, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 133.

Constance Brittain Bouchard, Negotiation and Resistance: Peasant Agency in High Medieval France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022. xi + 169 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501766572; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781501766589; $12.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501766602.

Review by Erika Graham-Goering, Ghent University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 134.

Elodie Silberstein, Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity. New York: Routledge, 2022. xi + 139 pp. Illustrations. $170.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781032135427; $47.65 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003230793.

Review by Brett A. Berliner, Morgan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (July 2023), No. 135.

August/Août Reviews

Gabriella Nugent, Colonial Legacies. Contemporary Lens-Based Art and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021. 232 pp. €55.00 (pb). ISBN 9789462702998; €41.00 (ebook). ISBN 9789461664273.

Review by Sarah Van Beurden, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 136.

Martin Schwander, ed., Édouard Vuillard: Im Louvre–Bilder für eine Basler Villa/In the Louvre–Paintings for a Basel Villa. Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2021. 199 pp. €39.90/£35.00/$45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-7774-3759-0.

Review by Maika Pollack, University of Hawaiʻi.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 137.

Alice Blackhurst, Luxury, Sensation and the Moving Image. Cambridge: Legenda, 2021. ix + 186 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781839540226.

Review by Maureen Turim, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 138.

Françoise Bigot du Mesnil du Buisson, Portraits d’un sans-culotte. Préface by Philippe Bourdin. Chamalières, France: Lemme Édit, 2022. v+217 pp. Table, figures, notes, and annexes. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2492818028.

Review by Heather Belnap, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 139.

Tessie P. Liu, A Frail Liberty: Probationary Citizens in the French and Haitian Revolutions. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. xiv + 427 pp. Map, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781427294; $65.00 U.S. (eb, pdf). ISBN 9781496232298; $65.00 U.S. (eb, epub). ISBN 9781496232281.

Review by Lauren R. Clay, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 140.

Steve Hagimont, Pyrénées. Une histoire environnementale du tourisme. Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2022. 367 pp. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-267-1050-9.

Review by Patrick Young, University of Massachusetts-Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 141.

Jonathan Spangler, Monsieur: Second Sons in the Monarchy of France, 1550-1800. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. 354 pp. 14 B/W illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 9780367761943; $34.26 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003165897; $170.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367761936.

Review by Christophe Gillain, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 142.

Pauline Ferrier-Viaud, Épouses de ministers. Une histoire sociale du pouvoir féminin au temps de Louis XIV. Paris. Champ Vallon. 2022. €25.00. (pb). ISBN 9791026710356.

Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 143.

Hubert Bonin, Saint-Gobain et ses banquiers (1914-2000). Enjeux et méthodes du financement d’une grande entreprise. Genève: Droz, 2020. 192 pp. Tableaux, notes, bibliographie, et index. €33.76 (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-06011-0 ; €27.01 (pdf). ISBN 978-2-600-16011-7.

Compte-rendu par Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 144.

Alexander Statman, A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 356 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226825762; $44.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780226825748.

Review by Qingfan Jiang, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 145.

Bertrand Tillier, ed., Cartes postales illustrées en guerre (1914-1918). Preface by Annette Becker. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2021. 397 pp. Figures and notes. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2271133045.

Review by Libby Murphy, Georgia College and State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 146.

Basile Baudez, Inessential Colors. Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. x + 255 pp., 172 figures, Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $68.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-0691213569; $47.60 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0691233154.

Review by Maarten Delbeke, ETH Zürich.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 147.

Françoise Taliano-des Garets, ed., Ports d’Europe. Images et imaginaires, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2022. 415 pp. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 9782271126078.

Compte-rendu par Laure Quennouëlle-Corre, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 148.

Guillaume Lancereau, Suzanne Rochefort, and Jan Synowiecki, Échos des Lumières. Un XVIIIe siècle pour aujourd’hui. Paris: Nouveau Monde Éditions, 2022. x+373 pp. Notes and index. €19.90. (pb). ISBN: 9782380942644; €15.99. (eb). ISBN: 2380942641.

Review by Valentina Denzel, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 149.

Lia Brozgal, Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris, 17 October 1961. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020. xiv + 351 pp. 16 illustrations, bibliography, and index. £83.60 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9781789622386; £24.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9781800348196; £24.00 U.K. (pdf). ISBN 9781789622621.

Review by Guy Austin, Newcastle University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (August 2023), No. 150.

September/Septembre Reviews

Kintz, Jean-Pierre. L’Alsace au XVI^e siècle: Les hommes et leur espace de vie, 1525-1618. Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2018. 442 pp. Charts, graphs, tables, maps, appendices, and bibliographies. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-86820-538-4.

Review by Peter G. Wallace, Harwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 151.

Kathrina Ann LaPorta, Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2021. xiii + 322 pp. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-64453-209-6 ; $39.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-64453-210-2.

Compte-rendu par Mathilde Bombart, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 152.

Katherine Cross, Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in Normandy and England, c.950-c.1015. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer/York: York Medieval Press, 2018. xii + 262 pp. Maps, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $115.00 U.S./£75.00 (hb). ISBN 9781903153796; $37.50 U.S./£25.00 (pb). ISBN 9781903153970; $29.95 U.S./£24.99 (eb). ISBN 9781787442207.

Review by Benjamin Pohl, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 153.

Judith G. Coffin, Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020. 328 pp. Notes, references, illustrations, and index. $32.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501750540. $15.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501750557.

Review by Susan Rubin Suleiman, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 154.

Macs Smith, Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2021. 296 pp. 37 b&w photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780262045544. $24.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780262362559.

Review by Greg Hainge, University of Queensland.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 155.

Laura Nicolì, Les Philosophes et les Dieux. Le Polythéisme en débat dans la France des Lumières (1704-1770), trans. Julia Ollivier. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022. 508 pp. €71.10 (pb/pdf). ISBN ‎9782745356789.

Review by Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 156.

Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2022. xii + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780810144712; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780810144705.

Review by Chloé Hogg, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 157.

Ruth Zylberman, director. Les enfants du 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe. ARTE France and Zadig Productions, 2017. 100 minutes. Distributed by Icarus Films. $348.00 U.S. (institutional use).

Review by Brad Prager, University of Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 158.

Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee. Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. xii + 304 pp. Figures, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780252086762; $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780252044670; $19.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780252053696.

Review by Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 159.

Guillaume Blanc, Mathieu Guérin, et Grégory Quenet, eds., Protéger et détruire. Gouverner la nature sous les tropiques (XX-XXIe siècle). Paris : CNRS Éditions, 2022. 381 pp. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782271144256.

Compte-rendu par Odile Goerg, Université Paris Cité-Centre d’Études en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 160.

Alexandra Onuf and Nicholas Ealy, eds., Violence, Trauma, and Memory: Responses to War in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2022. 270 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781666914566; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781666914573.

Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 161.

Henri Gonnard, Musique et surréalisme en France d’Erik Satie à Pierre Boulez. Preface by Caroline Potter. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 184 pp. Bibliography and index. €35.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2745355829.

Review by Campbell Shiflett, Oklahoma City University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 162.

Melanie Conroy, Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 1 + 78 pp. Maps, tables, figures, references, and sources. $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781108994910; $22.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781108992923.

Review by Dorothy Kelly, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 163.

Sharon Larson, Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Epoque. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. xiii + 190pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $99.95 (hb). ISBN 9-78-0271094441.

Review by Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 164.

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417. Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiii + 406 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781107168947; $125.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781316731901.

Review by Martin John Cable, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 165.

Hubert Bonin, Le Crédit Agricole (1951-2001). De la banque des campagnes à la banque universelle. Geneva: Droz, 2020. 472 pp. Figures, tables, and index. €36.97 (hb). ISBN 9782600060684.

Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 166.

Xavier Hélary, L’ascension et la chute de Pierre de La Broce, chambellan du roi (†1278). Étude sur le pouvoir royal au temps de Saint Louis et de Philippe III (v. 1250-v. 1280). Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 520 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €78.00 (pb). ISBN 9782745355522.

Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 167.

Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Custom, Law and Monarchy: A Legal History of Early Modern France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. x + 289 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-284549-8.

Compte-rendu par Sylvia Daubresse, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 168.

Paul-André Rosental, A Human Garden. French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation. Translated by Carolyn Avery. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2020. 248 pp. 15 Illustrations, bibliography, index. $135.00 U.S (hb). ISBN 9781789205435; $34.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781789205442.

Review by Alexandra Barmpouti, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 169.

Philip Benedict, Season of Conspiracy: Calvin, the French Reformed Churches, and Protestant Plotting in the Reign of Francis II (1559-60). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2020. xi+224 pages. Bibliography, index, illustrations, and appendix. $37.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1606180853.

Review by Michael W. Bruening, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 170.

Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (September 2023), No. 171.

October/Octobre Reviews

Valérie Fasseur and Cécile Rochelois, eds., Ponctuer l’oeuvre médiévale. Des signes au sens. Genève: Droz, 2016. 718 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 48.99 CHF (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-01910-1.

Review by Maria Teresa Rachetta, Universita degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 172.

Derval Conroy, ed., Towards an Equality of the Sexes in Early Modern France. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. xii + 240 pp. £130.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9780367224929; £36.99 (pb). ISBN 9780367708467; £33.29 (eb). ISBN 9780429275203.

Review by Michael Moriarty, Cambridge University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 173.

Philippe Bourdin, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand. Deux siècles de théâtre en province de Louis XV à la Troisième République. Clermont-Ferrand : Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2022. 584 pp. Cartes, graphiques, images, notes, bibliographie et index. €65.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-38377-001-5.

Compte-rendu par Florence Naugrette, Sorbonne Université.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 174.

Thomas Bouchet, éd., Chateaubriand et la révolution de 1830. Paris: La Fabrique, 2022. 152 pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 9782358722346.

Compte-rendu par Jacob Lachat, Université de Lausanne.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 175.

Alain Viala, L’Adhésion littéraire. Montreuil: Le Temps des Cerises, 2022. 186 pp. Foreword and bibliography. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2370712516.

Review by Van Kelly, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 176.

Paula J. Birnbaum, Sculpting a Life: Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv. Waltham, Mass: Brandeis University Press, 2022. B & W illustrations, 16 color plates, notes, bibliography, and index. 411 pp. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781684581139; $44.95 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781684581146; $44.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781684581146.

Review by Richard Sonn, University of Arkansas.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 177.

Nicholas Bullock, Modernising Post-War France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022. ix + 294 pp. Photographs and image credits, maps, figures, notes, and index. $128.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367556501; $35.96 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780367556518; $35.96 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781003094562.

Review by Sue Collard, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 178.

Louis K. Epstein, The Creative Labor of Music Patronage in Interwar France. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2022. xv + 236 pp. Tables, musical examples, bibliography, and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781783276691; $29.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781800104358; $29.95 U.S. (epdf). ISBN 9781800104341.

Review by Deborah Mawer, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 179.

Robert Zaretsky, The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 181 pp. Notes and index. $20.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9-78-0226549330; $15.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0226826608; $14.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-0226549477.

Review by Christine Zyka, The Newman Institute.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 180.

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain. William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques. Lyon: ENS Éditions / Institut d’Histoire du Livre, 2023. 290 pp. Notes, figures, references, and index. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9-79-1036206283; €14.99 (eb). ISBN 79-1036206290.

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (October 2023), No. 181.

November/Novembre Reviews

Alain Resnais, Five Short Films. 80 min. DVD (Icarus Films, 2022). $398.00 U.S. and Claude Chabrol, Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer and Jean Rouch, Six in Paris (Paris vu par). 96 min. DVD (Icarus Films, 2020). $348.00 U.S.

Review by Tadas Bugnevicius, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 182.

Anne Donadey, The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. 235 pp. Notes, works cited, filmography, and index. $110.00 U.S (hb). ISBN 9-78-1793626646; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-781793626653.

Review by Michael Gott, the University of Cincinnati.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 183.

Francis Démier, La nation, frontière du libéralisme: Libre-échangistes et protectionnistes français, 1786-1914. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2022. 464 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 9782271132048.

Review by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 184.

Laurence De Cock and Mathilde Larrère, Manifs et stations: le métro des militant-e-s. Ivry-sur-Seine: Les Editions de l’Atelier, 2020. 205 pp. Notes and illustrations. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 9782708246195.

Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 185.

Cyril Triolaire, Trétaux dans le Massif: Circulations et mobilités professionnelles théâtrales en province des Lumières à la Belle Époque. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2022. 422 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 9782383770664; €13.00 (pdf). ISBN 9782383770671; €13.00 (epub). ISBN 9782383770688.

Review by Rebecca Free and Mark Ingram, Goucher College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 186.

Benjamin W.D. Redding, The English and French Navies, 1500–1650: Expansion, Organisation and State-Building. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2022. xviii + 233 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781783276578; $29.95 U.S. (pdf). ISBN 9781800103993; $29.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781800104006.

Review by Evan Wilson, U.S. Naval War College.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 187.

Stéphane Frioux, ed., Une France en transition: urbanisation, risques environnementaux et horizon écologique dans le second XXe siècle. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2021. viii + 392 pp. €27.00 (pb). ISBN 9791026709138.

Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 188.

François Etner, Catholiques et économistes: Leurs controverses depuis la Révolution. Bibliothèque de l’économiste, no. 46. Edited by André Tiran. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022. 453 pp. Bibliography and index. €48.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406129479.

Review by Charly Colman, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 189.

Response by François Etner, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 190.

Christian Jouhaud, Le Siècle de Marie Du Bois: Ecrire l’expérience au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2022. 382 pp. Illustrations, facsimiles, and 15 photographs. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782021492026; €17.99 (epub). ISBN 9782021492033.

Review by Jonathan Dewald, The State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 191.

Réponse par Christian Jouhaud, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 192.

Patrick Griffin, The Age of Atlantic Revolution: The Fall and Rise of a Connected World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. viii + 376 pp. Notes, references, 27 b&w illustrations, and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9783000206333.

Review by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 193.

Response by Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 194.

Ashli White, Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century World. New York and London: Yale University Press, 2023. 392 pp. Notes and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300259018.

Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 195.

Sean M. Kennedy, France in the World: The Career of André Siegfried. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. ix + 339 pp. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780228014317; $95.00 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9780228015345; $95.00 U.S. (epdf). ISBN 9780228015338.

Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 23 (November 2023), No. 196.

December/Décembre Reviews