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Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros (2006)
Journal Article
Schachter, M. (2006). Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros. Renaissance Quarterly, 59(2), 406-439. https://doi.org/10.1353/ren.2008.0331

This essay considers commentaries on and translations of Plato’s Symposium (by Marsilio Ficino, the Henri Estienne-Jean de Serres team, and, preeminently, Louis Le Roy) as well as an influential Neoplatonic passage from Baldassar Castiglione’s Il Cor... Read More about Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros.

Francois II, roi de France. By Charles-Jean-Francois Henault (2006)
Book
Wynn, T. (Ed.). (2006). Francois II, roi de France. By Charles-Jean-Francois Henault. Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA)

Today the Président Hénault (1685–1770) is perhaps best remembered for his Abrégé chronologique de l’histoire de France. In addition, this académicien wrote several plays including François II, roi de France, a five-act tragedy depicting ‘la jalousie... Read More about Francois II, roi de France. By Charles-Jean-Francois Henault.

Policies and Practices of Transition in Soviet Education from the Revolution to the End of Stalinism. (2006)
Journal Article
Byford, A., & Jones, P. (2006). Policies and Practices of Transition in Soviet Education from the Revolution to the End of Stalinism. History of Education, 35(4-5), Article 419-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467600600713070

This essay introduces the major themes of the special issue by presenting the period between 1917 and 1953 as a time of intense yet ambiguous ‘Sovietization’ of education, a complicated era of turbulent sociohistorical ‘transition’ that cannot be red... Read More about Policies and Practices of Transition in Soviet Education from the Revolution to the End of Stalinism..

Manon through the lens of Clouzot (1948): ‘images troublantes et précises’ (2006)
Journal Article
Wynn, T. (2006). Manon through the lens of Clouzot (1948): ‘images troublantes et précises’. French Cultural Studies, 17(1), 73-85. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155806060796

If cinema may potentially recast what is most fundamental to literature, Henri-Georges Clouzot's version of Prévost's Manon Lescautassumes its duty to show the once hidden heroine by transferring the novel to the early days of post-war France. Follow... Read More about Manon through the lens of Clouzot (1948): ‘images troublantes et précises’.

The Russian Intelligentsia Now (2006)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2006). The Russian Intelligentsia Now. Forum for anthropology and culture, 3, 289-292

A note on the authorship of Voltaire’s 'La Fête de Bélesbat’ (2006)
Journal Article
Wynn, T. (2006). A note on the authorship of Voltaire’s 'La Fête de Bélesbat’. French Studies Bulletin, 27(101), 99-101. https://doi.org/10.1093/frebul/ktl037

On 15 May 1760 Voltaire wrote to the historian and parlementaire Charles-Jean-François Hénault: ‘Songez vous bien, mon illustre confrère, que de tous ceux qui assistèrent à l'extrême onction que je donnai au curé et à cette fête que vous embellîtes,... Read More about A note on the authorship of Voltaire’s 'La Fête de Bélesbat’.