Les fleurs du bien présentent clairement deux dimensions:-la dimension didactique,-la dimension éthique.C'est un livre d'enseignement donc profondément pédagogique.Dans sa dimension didactique, c'est un mélange bien réussi entre la poésie classique avec la métrique ou versification et la poésie moderne libre, surréaliste. Dans un souci d'initiation à la composition poétique, nous avons pratiqué la césure sur des sonnets et des odes écrits en alexandrin pour obtenir des poèmes libres en hémistiche et vice-versa.Dans sa dimension éthique, les aînés que nous sommes devons modeler le comportement de nos jeunes pour leur libérer des pesanteurs de sens tels que l'appât du gain facile, le sexe, le pouvoir, l'égoïsme, la jalousie...etc., pour leur inculquer le sens de DONNER, de PARTAGER et de PARDONNER. Nous devons tout faire pour favoriser l'éclosion du sens de RESPONSABILITE, de l'ENGAGEMENT et de la CREATIVITE qui sont les gages de l'EXCELLENCE.

This work offers for the first time a complete list of all books published wholly or partially in the French language before 1601. Based on twelve years of investigations in libraries in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere, it provides an analytical short-title catalogue of over 52,000 bibliographically distinct items, with reference to surviving copies in over 1,600 libraries worldwide. Many of the items described are editions and even complete texts fully unknown and re-discovered by the project. French Vernacular Books is an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. III & IV please go to French Books III & IV.

Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Brown offers a groundbreaking account of Matisse's position in the literary cross-currents of 20th-century France and explores ways in which reading influenced the artist's work in a range of media. This study argues that the livre d'artiste became the privileged means by which Matisse enfolded literature into his own idiom and demonstrated the centrality of his aesthetic to modernist debates about authorship and creativity. By tracing the compositional and interpretive choices that Matisse made as a painter, print maker, and reader in the field of book production, this study offers a new theoretical account of visual art's capacity to function as a form of literary criticism and extends debates about the gendering of 20th-century bibliophilia. Brown also demonstrates the importance of Matisse's self-placement in relation to the French literary canon in the charged political climate of the Second World War and its aftermath. Through a combination of archival resources, art history, and literary criticism, this study offers a new interpretation of Matisse's artist's books and will be of interest to art historians, literary scholars, and researchers in book history and modernism.

First published in 1956, Ruth Kelso's Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance is a landmark work that has lived up to its early, laudatory reviews by remaining in demand among scholars of Renaissance studies and of women in the Renaissance. It both offers a comprehensive account of Renaissance views on woman and acknowledges that women were ''in many ways excluded from the freedom and enlightenment characteristic of the period.''This new printing retains the foreword by Katharine Rogers that was added to the 1978 edition.

Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaireís collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.