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Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.1179/175226911x13025317627586

A. Wygant

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Beasts in the Devout Life: Animals in the Writing of St François de Sales 虔诚生活中的野兽:圣弗朗萨雷索·德·萨勒斯笔下的动物

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.1179/175226911X13025317627603

R. Parish

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Kronos as Crone: Inversions of Beauty and Gender through Translation in L'Astrée 克罗诺斯的老妪:从《阿斯特拉西姆》的翻译看美与性别的颠倒

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2011-07-01 DOI: 10.1179/175226911X13025317627702

T. Meding

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Marie de Gournay, Poetry and Gender: In Search of 'La vraye douceur' 玛丽·德·古尔内:《诗歌与性别:寻找“爱情”》

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610X12857561930958

Jonathan Patterson

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Husband-Killer, Christian Heroine, Victim: The Execution of Madame Tiquet, 1699 杀害丈夫者，基督教女英雄，受害者:蒂凯夫人的处决，1699年

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610X12857561930714

J. Ravel

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National Characters: Playing Against Type in the Ballet des Muses (1666–67) 民族人物:在《缪斯芭蕾舞》(1666-67)中与文字对抗

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610X12857561930912

Ellen R. Welch

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La Remarque ou l'art de la dissimilation chez La Bruyère et Richelet bruyere和Richelet的注释或异化艺术

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610X12857561930877

J. Brillaud

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Pierre Du Bellocq's Poem on the Dôme des Invalides 皮埃尔·杜·贝洛克在荣军院圆顶上的诗

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610X12857561930750

Robert W. Berger

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A Pragmatic Interpretation of the 'Indwelling of Christ' in the Preaching of Claude La Colombière (1641–1682) 克洛德·拉·哥伦比亚(1641-1682)布道中“基督的内住”的实用主义解读

Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610X12857561930831

W. O'Brien

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Seventeenth-century French studies Pub Date : 2010-12-01 DOI: 10.1179/026510610x12857561930679

A. Wygant

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