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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.

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