H-France Reviews Volume 9

H-France Reviews: Volume 9 (2009)

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January Reviews

Vincent Denis, Une histoire de l’identité. France 1715-1815. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2008. 466 pp. Notes, bibliography, annex, and table. €30 (pb); ISBN 978-2-87673-477-7.

Review by Jacob Soll, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 1

Paul V. Dutton, Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France 1914-1947. Cambridge University Press: 2002, 251 pp. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81334-4.

Review by George Weisz, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 2

Florence Gauthier. , L’Aristocratie de l’épiderme. Le combat de la Société des Citoyens de Couleur 1789-1791. Préf. Pierre Philippy. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2007. 446 pp. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-06576-6.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 3

Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $14.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-393-33100-8.

Review by Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 4

Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone, Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques [Landmarks in Music since 1950]. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. xii + 128 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, notes, and compact disc. $69.95 U.S. / £35.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5630-2.

Review by Jonathyne Briggs, Indiana University Northwest.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 5

Philip P. Boucher, France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 372 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8725-3; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8726-0.

Review by Laurent Dubois, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 6

Edward Corp (with contributions by Edward Gregg, Howard Erskine-Hill and Geoffrey Scott), A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689-1718. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 386 pp. Appendix, bibliography, and index. $111.00 U.S. (hb).ISBN 9-780521-584623.

Review by Mark Bryant, University of Chichester.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 7

Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois, Countess and Lord (c. 1067-1137). Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. xxv + 663 pp. Maps, family trees, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85182-563-0.

Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 8

Denis Provencher, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citzenship in France. Burlington, UK: Ashgate, 2007. 225 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-754-64795-1.

Review by Scott Gunther, Wellesley College.
<H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 9

T. J. Demos, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007. 304 pp, bibliography, notes and index. $25.95 (US). ISBN-10:0-262-04237-1.

Compte-rendu par Marc Décimo, Université d’Orléans.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 10

William D. Paden and Frances Freeman Paden, trans., Troubadour Poems from the South of France. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2007. xiii + 278 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 U. S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84384-129-6.

Review by Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 11

Dana S. Hale, Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. Black and white illustrations, notes, and index. 215 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN: 978-0-253-21899-5.

Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 12

Guy Dempsey, Albuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War, Frontline Books: London, 2008. 336 pp. Foreward and Appendices, £25 (hb). ISBN 978-84832-499-2.

Michael Oliver and Richard Partridge, The Battle of Albuera 1811: “Glorious Field of Grief’, Pen & Sword: Barnsley, 2007. 176 pp. Appendices and Notes. £ 19.99 (hb). ISBN 1-84415-461-0.

Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 13

Naomi Andrews, Socialism’s Muse: Gender in the Intellectual Landscape of French Romantic Socialism, Lanhan, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. 210 pp. $66.00 (hb). ISBN 10-0739-108-441.

Review by Lynn Sharp, Whitman College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 14

Mark Gregory Pegg, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom. Pivotal Moments in World History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxx + 253 pp. Maps, genealogical tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-517131-0.

Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 15

Louisa A. Burnham, So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvi + 217pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4131-8.

Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 16

Renee Winegarten, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, vii + 343 pp. $ 35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780300119251.

Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 17

Gilles Laferté, La Bourgogne et ses vins: image d’origine contrôlée. Paris : Belin, 2006. 319 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. € 22 (pb). ISBN 9-782701-142982.

Review by Marion Demossier, University of Bath.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 18

February Reviews

Biancamaria Fontana, Montaigne’s Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. vii+207 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $29.95, £17.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0691-13122-1.

Review by David Potter, University of Kent
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 19

Doris H. Gray, Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2008. v + 199 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1804-8; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1805-6.

Review by Gillian B. Glaes, Carroll College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 20

Philip Dwyer, Napoleon: The Path to Power. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. xiii + 651 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-13754-5.

Review by Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 21

Sharif Gemie, Brittany 1750-1950: the Invisible Nation (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007). xvi + 308 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2002-0.

Review by Julian Wright, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 22

Philippe Bordes, Jacques- Louis David: Empire to Exile. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 2005. xvii +379 pp. 80 color and 88 black and white illus., notes, bibliography, and index. $ 50.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-9311102-60-x.

Review by Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 23

Greg Burgess, Refuge in the Land of Liberty: France and its Refugees, from the Revolution to the End of Asylum, 1787-1939. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $85.00 (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-230-50775-3.

Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 24

William Weber, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 334 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-521-88260-6.

Review by Robert Adelson, Palais Lascaris-Musée de la Musique de Nice.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 25

Carol Symes, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. xvi + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-8014-4581-1.

Review by Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 26

Michael Moriarty, Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $170.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-926146-6.

Michael Moriarty, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 430 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-929103-9.

Review by Paul Cohen, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 27

Kathryn A. Edwards and Susie Speakman Sutch, trans. and eds., Leonarde’s Ghost: Popular Piety and “The Appearance of a Spirit” in 1628. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies v. 82. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2008. xiii + 125pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-931112-79-6.

Review by Katherine Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 28

Tomas M. Carr Jr., Voix des abbesses du Grand Siècle: La prédication au féminin à Port-Royal. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 360pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €58.00 (cl). ISBN 3-8233-6189-9.

Review by Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 29

Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 30

Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 31

Alexandre Wenger, La Fibre littéraire: Le Discours médical sur la lecture au XVIIIe siècle. Genève: Droz, 2007. 358 pp. Bibliography and index. € 44.84. ISBN 978-2-600-01173-0. ISSN 1660-5829.

Review by Suellen Diaconoff, Colby College (emerita).
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 32

March Reviews

Review by David Potter, University of Kent.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 33

Yannick Marec, ed., Acceuillir ou soigner? L’hôpital et ses alternatives du Moyen Äge à nos jours. Rouen and Le Havre: Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2007. 453 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes and index. € 35.00. ISBN 978-2-87775-423-1.

Review by Daniel Hickey, Emeritus, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 34

Jonathan P. Eburne, Surrealism and the Art of Crime. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. xi + 324 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8014-4674-0.

Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 35

Anne Kraatz, Mode et philosophie ou le néoplatonisme en silhouette, 1470-1500. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2005. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2-251-42024-X.

Review by Donald Gilman, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 36

Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The icon and the image. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Xxi + 368 pp. 54 photographs, chronology, notes, bibliography, discography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03157-1. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07412-7.

Review by Elizabeth Ezra, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 37

John G. Gallaher, Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible: General Dominique Vandamme. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 362 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U. S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8061-3875-6.

Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 38

Sylvia Neely, A Concise History of the French Revolution. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008. v + 287 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0742534117.

Review by Stephen Auerbach, Georgia College and State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 39

John C. O’Neal, ed., The Nature of Rousseau’s “Rêveries”: Physical, Human, Aesthetic. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2008: 03. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. v + 281 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, summaries, bibliography, index. £60/€85/$125 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7294-0928-5

Review by Charly Coleman, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 40

Barbara L. Kelly, French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xix + 260 pp. Illustrations, chronology, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58046-272-3.

Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 41

Claude Liauzu, Histoire de l’anticolonialisme en France du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Paris: Armand Colin, 2007. 304 pp. Preface, notes, appendices, indices. 24.50 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-2003-5093-2.

Review by John Strachan, Lancaster University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 42

Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Fictions of Childhood: The Roots of Identity in Contemporary French Narratives. Lanham, Maryland and Plymouth, United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2008. xi + 95 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1829-3.

Review by Rosemary Lloyd, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 43

Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère and David J. Sturdy, eds., L’Enquête du Régent 1716-1718 : Sciences, Techniques et Politique dans la France pré-industrielle. Turnhout, Belgium: BREPOLS, 2008. 1019 pp. Notes and index. €100. ISBN: 978-2-503-52817-5.

Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 44

Amy Lyford, Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007, ix + 225 pp. Notes. $52.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-520-24640-9.

Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 45

April Reviews

Robert W. Berger and Thomas F. Hedin, Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles under Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. viii + 171 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes and index. $55 U.S. (Cl.) ISBN 978-08122-4107-5

Review by Linda Frey, University of Montana, and Marsha Frey, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 46

Lisa Downing & Sue Harris, eds. From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. 188 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. $57.56 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978 0 7190 7338 0.

Review by Sylvie Blum-Reid, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 47

Geneviève Sellier, Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 280 pp. Photographs. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13-978-0-8223-4175-8. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 13-978-0-8223-4192-5.

Review by David Pettersen, Davidson College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 48

Nancy Locklin, Women’s Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. viii + 162 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5819-1.

Review by Daryl Hafter, Eastern Michigan University (Emerita).
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 49

Sherry Lindquist, C. M., Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xviii + 251 pp. Plates, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $114.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 10: 075466046X. ISBN 13: 978-0754660460.

Review by Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 50

Vanessa R. Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press. 2007. 272 pp. Color plates, halftones. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226742427.

Review by Siân Reynolds, Stirling University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 51

Christian Chevandier and Jean-Claude Daumas, eds., Travailler dans les entreprises sous l’Occupation. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007. 523pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84867-211-3.

Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 52

Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. vii + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.94 U.S. (cl), ISBN 978-0-691-1243-5.

Review by Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris Descartes, UMR Cerlis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 53

Gaëtan Benoît, Eugène Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France. Duluth, Minn.: Litwin Books, LLC, 2008. 260 p. $ 32.00 US (pb). ISBN 978-0-9778617-8-1.

Compte-rendu par Anne-Marie Thiesse, Directrice de recherche au CNRS, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 54

Henry C. Clark, Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007. xx + 388 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1483-2

Review by John Shovlin, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 55

Olivier Wieviorka, Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. xvii + 446 pp. Abbreviations, illustrations, notes, archival sources, select bibliography, index.$29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-674-02838-8.

Review by Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 56

Charles Donahue, Jr., Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xix + 672 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $140.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-87728-2.

Review by Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 57

Jean Dubray, La pensée de l’abbé Grégoire: despotisme et liberté. Studies on Voltaire & the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008, xiii + 338 pp. Table, bibliography, and index. €90 E.U./$140 U.S. (hdbk). ISBN 978-0-7294-0927-8.

Review by Yvon Le Gall, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 58

May Reviews

Antonella Alimento, Réformes fiscales et crises politiques dans la France de Louis XV: De la taille tarifée au cadastre general. Brussels and New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. 402 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 71.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9789052014142

Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 59

Paul J. Young, Seducing the Eighteenth-Century Reader: Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. vi + 167 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6417-8.

Review by Philip Stewart, Duke University
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 60

Mario Vargas Llosa, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. Trans. John King. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 196 pp. Notes, index. $24.95 (cl). ISBN 13 9780691131115

Review by Isabel K. Roche, Bennington College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 61

Matthew A. Vester, Jacques de Savoie-Nemours; l’apanage du Genevois au cœur de la puissance dynastique savoyarde au XVIe siècle. Trans. Eléonore Mazel and Déborah Engel. Geneva: Droz, 2008. Vol. 85, Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance. 360 pp. 47.06 € (pb). ISBN 9872600012119.

Review by Orest Ranum, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 62

Michael Lynn, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. ix + 177 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780719073731.

Review by Matthew Ramsey, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 63

Larry Busbea, Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970. Cambridge, Mass. and London : M.I.T. Press, 2007. ix + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-262-02611-6.

Review by Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 64

Janine M. Lanza, From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris. Gender, Economy, and Law. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vt.T : Ashgate, 2007. ix +252 pp. Bibliography and index. $114.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780754656432.

Review by Jennifer M. Jones, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 65

Robert J. Alderson, Jr., This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiii + 273 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-1-57003-745-0.

Review by Marsha Frey, Kansas State University, and Linda Frey, University of Montana.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 66
Response by Robert J. Alderson, Jr., Georgia Perimeter College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 67

Logan E. Whalen, Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. xii + 208 pp. Appendices, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 9780813215099.

Review by Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 68

Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg, Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles or, The Book of Galehaut Retold. Jaffrey, N. H.: David Godine, 2006. xxvii +228 pp. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781567923247.

Review by Tracy Adams, University of Auckland.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 69

Thomas M. Lennon, The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xi + 255 pp. Bibliography and index. $145.00 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-17115-2.

Review by José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/CNPq, Brazil.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 70

Glenn Richardson, ed., ‘The Contending Kingdoms’: France and England 1420—1700. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2008. xii +191 pp. Notes, appendices, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5789-7.

Review by Thomas Worcester, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 71

Simone Mazauric, Fontenelle et l’invention de l’histoire des sciences à l’aube des Lumières. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2007. 399 pp. Notes and bibliography. €24 (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63306-0.

Review by J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 72

June Reviews

Kendall B. Tarte, Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 269 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $56.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-87413-965-5.

Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 73

Matt Perry, Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xiv + 296 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5607-4

Review by Laird Boswell, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 74

Vincent J. Pitts, Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age. Baltimore MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii + 477 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-0818-9027-7.

Review by Eric Nelson, Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 75

Willa Z. Silverman, The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print 1880-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xvii + 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3.

Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 76

Sydney Watts, Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. x +232 pp. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-58046-211-1.

Review by Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 77

Daniel Brewer, The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii + 260 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-87944-6.

Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 78

Margaret Jewett Burland, Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. x + 332pp. Bibliography and index. $37.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0268022038.

Review by Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 79

Thierry Martin and Michèle Virol, eds., Vauban, architecte de la modernité?. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté: Paris, 2008. 301 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps and illustrations. 29€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84867-232-8.

Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 80

Marie-Claude Chaudonneret,Ed., Les artistes étrangers à Paris: De la fin du Moyen Âge aux années 1920: Actes des journées d’études organisées par le Centre André Chastel les 15 et 16 décembre 2005. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. xii + 288 pp. Illustrations and Author Notes. $81.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-3-03911-192-3.

Review by Heidi A. Strobel, University of Evansville.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 81

Robert Gildea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xx + 540 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-674-03209-5.

Review by Steven Rowe, Chicago State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 82

Joyce Carol Polistena, The Religious Paintings of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): The Initiator of the Style of Modern Religious Art. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2008. xiii+ 318 pp. 12 color plates and 29 black and white figures, preface, acknowledgements, endnotes, chronological list of 220 religious subjects considered to be done by Eugène Delacroix, selected bibliography, index. $119.95 U.S. (hb); ₤74.95 U.K. (hb). ISBN-13:978-0-7734-4973-2 and ISBN-10:0-7734-4973-6.

Review by Shaw Smith, Davidson College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 83

James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall, The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA and distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 2007. xi + 313 pp. 223 color and 74 black and white illustrations, exhibition checklist, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11862-9. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-931102-71

Review by Grace Seiberling, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 84

Catherine Emerson and Maria Scott, eds., Artful Deceptions: Verbal and Visual Trickery in French Culture; éds, Les Supercheries littéraires et visuelles: la Tromperie dans la culture française. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 2006. 386 pages. Figures and index. $74.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-701-1; US-ISBN 978-0-8204-7966-8; ISBN-13 978-3039107018.

Review by Catherine Nesci, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 85

Peter Read, Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books). University of California Press: Berkeley, 2008. 334 pp. + illustrations. $49.95 (hb). ISBN 052-0243-617.

Review by John Finlay, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 86

Albert Camus, Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947, ed. Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. xli + 334 pp. Notes, chronology, and bibliography. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-691-12004-8.

Review by Margaret Atack, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 87

Helena Rosenblatt, Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (Cambridge: University Press, 2008). 275 pp. $ 99.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-0-521-89825-6.

Review by Robert Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 88

John West-Sooby, ed., Nowhere is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 251 pp. Notes. $30.00 U.S (pb). ISBN 978-0-87413-048-5.

Review by Sanja Perovic, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 89

Rosemary Lancaster, Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2008. 234 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-921401-13-8.

Review by Karen Offen, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 90

Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008. xii + 340 pp. Notes and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-02647-0

Review by J. K. Kitchen, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 91

Robert C. Solomon, Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 241 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-518157-3.

Review by William E. Duvall, Willamette University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 92

July Reviews

Thomas Bouchet, Un Jeudi à l’Assemblée: Politiques du discours et droit au travail dans la France de 1848. Québec: Editions Nota Bene, 2007. 195 pp. Notes, index. $24.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 978-2-89518-250-4.

Review by Cynthia A. Bouton, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 93

Claiborne A. Skinner, The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii +202 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8018-8838-7

Review by Sara E. Chapman, Oakland University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 94

Michael Sonenscher, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. x + 415 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12499-5 (hb).

Review by Henry C. Clark, Canisius College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 95

Michael S. Neiberg, The Second Battle of the Marne. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii + 217 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-35146-3.

Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 96

Charles Forsdick, Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiii + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $145 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-925829-5.

Review by H. Hazel Hahn, Seattle University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 97

Hendrik D. L. Vervliet, The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. viii + 564 pp. in 2 vols. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. 195 €; $299.00 U.S. ISBN 978-90-04-16982-1.

Review by Stephen Rawles, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 98

John V. C. Nye, War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12917-4.

Review by David Todd, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 99

August Reviews

Haim Finkelstein, The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb); £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6116-0.

Review by Raymond Spiteri, Victoria University at Wellington.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 100

Rosemary Lloyd, Charles Baudelaire. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 192 pp. References, Further Reading. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-781861-893635.

Review by Maria Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 101

Cecile Accilien, Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. 202 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7391-1657-9.

Review byCarine M. Mardorossian, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 102

Verena Schöberl, “Es gibt ein grosses und herrliches Land, das sich selbst nicht kennt…es heisst Europa.” Die Diskussion um die Paneuropaidee in Deutschland, Frankreich und Grossbritannien 1922-1933. Berlin: Lit Verl, 2008. 404 pp. € 34.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-8258-1104-4.

Review by Talbot Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 103

David Caron, My Father & I: The Marais & the Queerness of Community. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. x + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4773-0.

Review by William A. Peniston, The Newark Museum.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 104

Anthony J. Steinhoff, The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xviii + 518 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $168.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-16405-5.

Review by Steven C. Hause, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 105

Ivan Ermakoff, Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxxiii+ 402 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $95.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-4143-7; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-4164-2.

Review by John F. Sweets, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 106

Review by Raymond Spiteri, Victoria University at Wellington.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 107

Charlotte Guichard, Les Amateurs d’Art à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2008. 400 pp. Bibliography and index. € 29 (pb). ISBN 9782876734920.

Review by Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 108

Rosemary Lloyd, Charles Baudelaire. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 192 pp. References, Further Reading. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-781861-893635.

Review by Maria Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 109

Gary Ferguson, Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaisssance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture. Burlington, Vt., and Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. Ix + 375 pp. Acknowledgements, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $114.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6377-5.

Review by Marc Schachter, Villa I Tatti/Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 110

Patrick Henry, We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xxii +192 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8132-1493-1.

Raymond-Raoul Lambert, Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943. Edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen. Translated from the French by Isabel Best. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007. lxvi + 221 pp. Map, illustrations, notes and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 13-978-1-56663-740-4.

Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 111

Mark Ledbury, ed. David after David: Essays on the Later Work. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007; distributed by Yale University Press. xvi + 360 pp. 135 b/w and 15 color illustrations. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-931102-69-1 and 978-0-300-12151-3.

Review by Jann Matlock, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 112

September Reviews

L’Histoire culturelle : un tournant mondial dans l’historiographie ? Sous la direction de Philippe Poirrier, avec une postface de Roger Chartier (Dijon : Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2008). 198 p. Tables. 20 €. ISBN 978-2-915611-06-9

Compte-rendu de Laurent Martin, Sciences Po Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 113

Pierre Vernus, Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2006. 425 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, lexicon of technical terms, annexes, bibliography and index. €35.00. ISBN 2-7061-0997-3.

Review by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 114

David S. Barnes, The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 314 pp. Notes, index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-8018-8349-0.

Review by Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 115

Anne Conchon, J.-J. Guyenot de Châteaubourg (1745-1824) ou le commerce des relations. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008. 206 pp. Notes. €20. ISBN: 978-2-85944-603-1.

Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 116

Jann Pasler, Writing Through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv + 513 pp. Figures, notes, tables, musical examples, appendices, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-532489-1.

Review by Keith Clifton, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 117

William Ritchey Newton, Derrière La Façade--Vivre Au Château de Versailles Au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2008. 268 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes. 19€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-262-02930-2.

Review by Jeroen Duindam, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 118

Germaine de Staël, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, Aurelian Craiutu, ed. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. vii + 755 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $30 (cl) ISBN-0-86597-731-3. $14.50 (pb) ISBN 86597-732-1.

Review by Madelyn Gutwirth, West Chester University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 119

Hugh Macdonald, Beethoven’s Century: Essays on Composers and Themes.Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xii + 255 pp. Musical examples, figures, notes, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13:978-1-58046-275-4.

Review by Glenn Stanley, The University of Connecticut, Storrs.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 120

Henrice Altink and Sharif Gemie, eds., At the Border: Margins and Peripheries in Modern France. French and Francophone Studies. Series editors Hanna Diamond and Claire Gorrara. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008. xvii + 199 pp. Notes, index. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7083-2076-7.

Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 121

Claude Coquard, ed., Annales historiques de la Révolution française: Tables du Centenaire 1908-2007. Paris: Société des etudes robespierristes, 2008. Introduction plus CD-Rom. 29 € (pb). ISBN: 978-2-908327-68-7.

Review by Jack Censer, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 122

Laura Levine Frader, Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008, ix + 347 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-4182-6; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-4198-7.

Review by Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 123

October Reviews

Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2008. 409 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84520-374-0.

Review by Julia Landweber, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 124

Laurence Giavarini, ed. Construire l’exemplarité: pratiques littéraires et discours historiens (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2008. 250 pp. Bibliography. 20 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-915552-87-4.

Review by Natania Meeker, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 125

Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey C. Isaac, America through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. viii + 288 pp. $65.00 (U.S.) (hb). ISBN 0-27103-390-8.

Review by Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champlain.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 126

Peter J. Bernardi. Maurice Blondel, Social Catholicism, and Action Française: The Clash over the Church’s Role in Society during the Modernist Era. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. xii + 297 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8132-1542-6.

Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 127

Eli Friedlander, J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 160 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $46.50 (hb). ISBN 0-674-01514-2.

Review by Sean C. Goodlett, Fitchburg State College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 128

Samuel Kalman, The Extreme Right in Interwar France: The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu. Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. x+ 265 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6240-2.

Review by Samual Huston Goodfellow, Westminster College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 129

Steven L. Kaplan, Le pain maudit: Retour sur la France des années oubliées 1945-1958 Paris: Fayard, 2008. 1124 pp. Maps, tables, photographs, and indexes. 39 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63648-1.

Review by Kyri Watson Claflin, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 130

Rodney J. Dean, L’abbé Grégoire et l’Église constitutionnelle après la Terreur, 1794-1797, préface de Jean Dubray. Paris: Picard Distributeur, 2008. xviii + 363 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 45 €. ISBN 978-2-7084-0823-4.

_____________, L’Église constitutionnelle, Napoléon et le Concordat de 1801, préface de Jean Tulard. Paris: Picard Distributeur, 2004. xiv + 737 pp. Notes and bibliography. 42 €. ISBN 2-7084-0719-8.

Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 131

Henriette de Bruyn Kops, A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade Between France and the Dutch Republic in its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2007. xiii + 371 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $139.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 90- 04-16074-4.

Review by Thomas Brennan, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 132

Zoë A. Schneider, The King’s Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xvi + 326 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781580462921.

Review by Jeremy Hayhoe, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 133

November Reviews

Colette Cosnier, Les Dames de Femina. Un féminisme mystifié. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009. Viii + 308pp. Illustrations, bibliography, contents. 20 Euros. ISBN 978-2-7535-0812-5.

Review by Lenard Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 134

Jean-François Dubost, Marie de Médicis, La reine dévoilée. Paris: Éditions Payot, 2009. iv + 1039pp. Index, tables, and bibliography. €30 ISBN 2228903936.

Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 135

Rebecca M. Wilkin, Women, Imagination, and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France. Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2008. x +253 pp. Eleven b & w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £55.00, on-line £49.00(hb). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6138-2.

Review by Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College and University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 136

David Todd, L'identité économique de la France. Libre-échange et protectionnisme (1814-1851). Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2008. 487 pp. Maps, charts, notes, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography, indexes. 22.50€. ISBN 13-978-2-246-71181-0.

Compte-rendu par Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Université Lille Nord-de-France.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 137

Philippe Poirrier, L’Etat et la culture en France au XXe siècle. 2e éd. augmentée. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2006. 258 pp. Notes, bibliographie, index. 6.50 €. (pb). ISBN 978-2-253-90464-9.

Compte rendu par Monique Yaari, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 138

Isabelle Richefort and Burghart Schmidt, eds., Les Relations entre la France et les villes hanséatiques de Hambourg, Brême et Lübeck: Moyen Âge - XIXe siècle – Die Beziehungen zwischen Frankreich und den Hansestädten Hamburg, Bremen und Lübeck : Mittelalter – 19. Jahrhundert. Peter Lang: Brussels, 2006. 536 pp. $44 (pb). ISBN 90-5201-286-5.

Review by Peter G. Wallace, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 139

Judy Barrett Litoff, ed., An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xxxviii + 270. $29.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN (978-0-8232-2581-1). $16.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN (978-0-8232-2582-8).

Review by Kathryn N. Jones, Swansea University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 140

December Reviews

Michael V. Leggiere, The Fall of Napoleon, Volume One: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 704 pp. Portraits, maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U. S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-87542-4.

Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 141

Jay M. Smith, ed., The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century. Reassessments and New Approaches, University Park: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 346 pp., further reading, list of contributors, index. $74.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0–271–02898–X.

Review by Peter R. Campbell, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin and University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 142

Eric Touya de Mayenne, French-American Relations: Remembering D-Day after September 11. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2008. vi + 201 pp. $36.78. ISBN: 0-7618-3968-2.

Review by Vera Mark, Pennsylvania State University-University Park.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 143

Daniel Hobbins, Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. xii + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4155-6.

Review by Michael Randall, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 144

Jeffrey S. Ravel, The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. xxv + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, and index. $25.00 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 978-0-618-19731-6.

Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 145

Peter W. Shoemaker, Powerful Connections. The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 291 p. $60 (hb). ISBN: 0874139937

Compte-rendu par Mathilde Bombart, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 146

André Loez et Nicolas Mariot, eds., Obéir/désobéir: Les mutineries de 1917 en perspective. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2008. 448 pp. €28 (pb); ISBN 978-2-7071-5619-8.

Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 147

Martin O’Shaughnessy. The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. x + 194 pp. Filmography, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. £40.00 UK (hb). ISBN 978-1-84545-322-0.

Review by Phil Powrie, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 148

Marc Bergère (dir.), L’épuration économique en France à la Libération, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008, 343 pp., Tableaux, figures, notes. 22 Euros. ISBN : 978-2-7535-0624-4.

Compte-rendu par Jean-Claude Daumas, Université de Franche-Comté/Institut universitaire de France.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 149

Antoine Le Camus and Alexandre Wenger, Abdeker ou l’art de conserver la beauté: 1754. Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Millon, 2008. 277 pp. Notes and bibliography. 20 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-84137-238-6.

Review by Antoinette Sol, University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 150

Casey Harison, The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 331 pp. Maps, graphs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-87413-020-1.

Review by Cynthia Truant, University of California, San Diego.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 151

E.H. and A.M. Blackmore and Francine Giguère, eds. and trans., La Rochefoucauld: Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (Oxford World Classics). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. lxiv + 354 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. £9.99 U.K., $13.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-280649-9.

Review by Stephen Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 152

Victoria Johnson, Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv + 281 pp. Plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-40195-9.

Review by Lauren Clay, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 153

Nicholas Cronk, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 235 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $81.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-84973-9; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-61495-5.

Review by James Hanrahan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 154

Sean M. Quinlan. The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity, and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c. 1750-1850. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 265 pp. Includes bibliographical references. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6089-9.

Review by Michael Winston, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 155

L’Histoire culturelle : un tournant mondial dans l’historiographie? Sous la direction de Philippe Poirrier, avec une postface de Roger Chartier Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2008. 198 p. Tables. 20 €. ISBN 978-2-915611-06-9.

Compte-rendu par Laurent Martin, Sciences Po Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 156

Patrick Greaney, Untimely Beggar: Poetry and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxiii + 227 pp. Index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8166-4951-8; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-4950-1.

Review by Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 157

Jeremy Hayhoe, Enlightened Feudalism: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy. Rochester, N.Y. and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xii + 309 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58046-271-6.