FR245 Reading list
- Louise Bourgeois, R茅cit v茅ritable de la naissance de messeigneurs et dames les enfans de France, Instruction 脿 ma fille, Prefaces A la Royne, Au lecteur. Click on the titles to access PDF versions these texts, taken from the 1617 edition of Bourgeois's much larger Observations. All works can also be consulted in a modern edition :
- Louise Bourgeois, 'Instruction 脿 ma fille', in R茅cit v茅ritable de la naissance de messeigneurs et dames les enfans de France, Instruction a ma fille et autres textes. Edition critique par Colette Winn (Geneva: Droz, 2000), pp. 123 - 144 available in the library, and in the C么t茅 femmes edition available here.
- Louise Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois, R茅cit v茅ritable de la naissance de messeigneurs et dames les enfans de France (Paris : chez A Saugrain, 1617). Transcribed by Jonathan Durham and Cathy Hampton (2010)
- Louise Bourgeois, Prefaces to first edition of the Observations diverses sur la st茅rilit茅, perte de fruits, f茅condit茅, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveau-n茅s (1609), reproduced in 1652 (Paris: Jean Dehoury). Transcribed by Jonathan Durham and Cathy Hampton (2010)
- Louise Bourgeois, Observations diverses sur la st茅rilit茅, perte de fruits, f茅condit茅, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveau-n茅s suivi de Instructions 脿 ma fille (1652) (Paris: C么t茅 femmes, 1992) This alternative edition is also available for consultation in the library
- All these works are available in English translation here (Bourgeois, Louise. Midwife to the Queen of France : Diverse Observations, edited by Lingo, Alison Klairmont, Iter Press, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, ):
- Mme de S茅vign茅, . A selection of the letters we will look at will be made available shortly.
- Pierre Corneille, Rodogune (Paris: Folio Gallimard, 2004). Text also available on the internet at
- English translation available here:
- Corneille's 1660 Examen, reviewing the play:
- Charles Perrault, Contes (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 2009). Other editions can also be used, providing they contain the Contes en vers and the Histoires ou contes du temps pass茅. An online version of the text is also available here:
- English translations of some of the tales available here: