Michael G. Paulson

The Queens' Encounter

The Mary Stuart Anachronism in Dramas by Diamante, Boursault, Schiller, and Donizetti

The Queens' Encounter is the first scholarly work to examine the anachronistic meeting between Mary Stuart and Elizabeth Tudor in a coherent, internat...

Alexandre Hardy

A Critical and Annotated Bibliography

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The Possible Influence of Montaigne's Essais on Descartes' Treatise on the Passions

This present study takes a new look at the essayist Michel de Montaigne and the philosopher Rene Descartes and attempts to show a new interrelationshi...

Catherine de Medici

Five Portraits

Annotation Pursuing the French literary connection to Italian history, Paulson (emeritus, French and Spanish, Kutztown U., PA) considers several 19th-...

The Figure of Louis XIII in Modern French Literature

From The Three Musketeers to The Fortune de France

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A Critical Analysis of de La Fayette's La Princesse de Clèves as a Royal Exemplary Novel

Kings, Queens, and Splendor

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I'm Henry IV, I Am

Henry IV of France in Selected Works of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

This book focuses on Henry IV of France as he is presented in selected works by Voltaire, Alfred de Vigny, Alexandre Dumas père, and George Sand. The...

Madame de La Fayette's The Princess of Clèves

A New Translation

Adapting The Princess of Cleves to a modern language format, this book offers a new, readable translation of Madame de La Fayette's masterpiece. The w...