The French Issue

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Essays

• Diderot: A Geography of Chatter   Jean Starobinski   
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• On Receiving the Merck-Serono Prize   Jean Starobinski   
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• The Battle for Joan   Frederick Brown   

• The Songs of Thibaut de Champagne (1201–1253)   Anne Ibos-Augé   
  Emily Grosholz   

Fiction

• From Les Vierges   Irène Némirovsky   
  Linda Coverdale    Full Text

Poetry

• Villon's Epitaph (Ballade of the Hanged Men)   François Villon   
  Richard Wilbur    Full Text

• La rue Soufflot   Valery Larbaud   
  Richard Pevear   

• From The Songbook of the King   Thibaut de Champagne   
  Emily Grosholz   

Reviews

• Phantasmagoria of French Fiction   Tess Lewis   

• The Compassion, the Desire   Bruce Whiteman   

Chronicles & Reviews

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Mnouchkine   Richard Hornby   

• Summer Opera in Santa Fe   Erick Neher   

• The Matrix of Time   Susan Balée   

• Portrait of a Genius…But   William H. Pritchard   

• Dying to Write Poetry   David Mason   
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• Elaine Pagels' Revelations   Brooke Allen