resources
e-texts
francophone
theory
medieval
17th
18th
19th
20th
Seventeenth Century
Le Théatre de la Foire à Paris
-- archive of primary sources on the Parisian fairground theaters during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Descartes Page
La Fontaine Page
La Rouchefoucauld Page
Molière Page
--
most noted for its lists of roles Molière played himself, and the names of original actors in his plays.
Sévigné Page
La Marquise de Sévigné
-- historically and critically informative.
Rabelais and the Pantagrueline Spirit
-- speech delivered to the Faculty of Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1932, regarding Rabelais' activities as a doctor and proponent of Pantagruelism.
Grotesque Realism and the Novel
-- notes from Michel Bakhtin's
Rabelais and His World
.