French 376 Autumn 2023

Translation of the mazarinade "Le Conseiller Fidel av Roy".

This is a critical edition of a Mazarinade from 1649 about the arrest of Broussel, a prominent member of the Parlement.

The Cahier des Doléances from the Bailiwick of Caen for the Estates General of 1789

A critical edition of footnote D from the entry on Manicheans in Pierre Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary.

This is a translation/modernization of the political testament by Richelieu.

I transcribed and translated Book II Chapter XX "We taste nothing pure, " by Michel de Montaigne. This chapter focuses on themes surrounding virtue and relativism in 16th-century France.

A brief annotation and translation of the preface Poésies diverses, patoises et françoises.

Critical edition of NAUDÆANA et PATINIANA, Ou Singularitez Remarquables, Prises Des Conversations De Mess. Naudé & Patin, including introduction, preface, selected passages, and annotations, by Piper Thomas

A critical edition of Fénelon's 'Les Aventures De Télémaque, Fils D'Ulysse,' the utopian novel he intended to be a moral and governance guide for the Duke of Burgundy.

In this critical edition, you will read the preface of the 1694 edition of the Dictionnaire as well as a few articles presented in the Statuts et Règlements de l'Académie Françoise to explain part of the story of how the French language evolved to become the modern vernacular we speak today.