January/Janvier Reviews
Barbara Nestola, Benoît Dratwicki, Julien Dubruque, and Thomas Leconte, eds., The Fashioning of French Opera (1672-1791): Identity, Production, Networks. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2022. 440 pp. Bibliography, abstracts, and index. €90.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-503-60478-7.
Review by Annalise Smith, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
H-France Review Vol. 26 (January 2026), No. 1.
Pierre Lyraud, Figures de la finitude chez Pascal: La fin et le passage. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2022. 698 pp. Bibliography and index. €75.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-5756-4.
Review by Christopher Braider, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 26 (January 2026), No. 2.
Elizabeth Eva Leach, Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. xxv + 299 pp. Tables, figures, music examples, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978150771873; $34.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501771880.
Review by Sarah Kay, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 26 (January 2026), No. 3.
Thomas Wynn, Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 252 pp. Notes, references, et index. $110.00 U.S./£84.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 9780198895329.
Compte-rendu par Thibaut Julian, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
H-France Review Vol. 26 ( January 2026), No. 4.
February/Février Reviews
Pauline Beaucé, Sandrine Dubouilh and Cyril Triolaire, eds, Les espaces du spectacle vivant dans la ville: Permanences, mutations, hybridité (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles). Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2021. 310 pp. €23,70 (pb). 65 illustrations. ISBN 9782383773290.
Review by Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 26 (February 2026), No. 5.
Tessa Murphy, The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 310 pp. Notes and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9870812253382; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781512826159; $29.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780812299977.
Review by Bridget Brereton, The University of the West Indies at St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago.
H-France Review Vol. 26 (February 2026), No. 6.