Portraits littéraires /

--III. Théocrite. Virgile et Constantin le Grand, par m. J.-P. Rossignol. Francois Ier poëte. Le chevalier de Méré, ou De l'hommête homme au XVIIe siècle. Mademoiselle Aïssé. Benjamin Constant et madame de Charrière. Madame de Krüdner et ce qu'en aurait dit Saint-Évremond. M. de Rémusat. Charles Labitte. Réception de m. le comte Alfred de Vigny à lA̓cadémie française. M. Étienne. Réception de m. Vitet à lA̓cadeémie française. Lettres de Rancé. Mémoires de madame Staal-Delaunay. La̓bbé Prevost et les Bénédictins. M. Victor Cousin: Cours de lh̓istoire de la philosophie moderne. Sur lÉ̓cole françoise dA̓thènes. M. Rodolphe Topffer. Mort de m. Vinet. Études sur Pascal, par m. Vinet. Relation inédite de la dernière maladie de Louis XV. Pensées.

La Dunciade, poëme.

Tome 2 (a biographical dictionary) has half title: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de notre littérature depuis François premier jusqu'à nos jours.

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de notre littérature, depuis François 1er jusquà nos jours;

A biographical dictionary.

Les originaux du siècle dernier; les oubliés et les dédaignés.

Avant-propos.--Linguet.--Mercier.--Dorat-Cubières. --Olympe de Gouges.--Le Cousin Jacques.--Le Chevalier de la Morlière.--Le Chevalier de Mouhy.--Gorjy. --Dorvigny.--La Morency.--Plancher-Valcour.--Baculard d'Arnaud.--Grimod de la Reynière.

Un receuil: containing painting, penmanship, algebra and pieces selected from various authors in prose and verse, with a few pieces in French with their translation / by Phebe Folger of Nantucket : manuscript, 1797-1806

Written mostly in a copperplate hand in black ink, and illustrated with watercolor drawings.

The dier's assistant in the art of dying wool and woollen goods : extracted from the philosophical and chymical works of those most eminent authors Ferguson, Dufay, Hellot, Geoffery, Colbert; and that reputable French dier, Mons. de Julienne : translated from the French : with additions and practical experiments /

First published in Leeds, 1778.

The royal dictionary English and French and French and English : extracted from the writings of the best authors in both languages /

Mode of access: Internet.

Exercises to the rules and construction of French speech; consisting of passages extracted out of the best French authors, with a reference to the grammar-rules, to be turned back into French.

With his Grammar of the French tongue. London, 1801.

Easy lessons for learning French : selected from approved authors.

Printed covers; publisher's advertisements on back cover.

French authors; a hand-book of French literature. Froissart --Living writers.

Mode of access: Internet.

Half-hours with the best French authors : short passages from some of the most celebrated prose writers, translated into English /

Mode of access: Internet.

Wives and mothers in the olden time : from French, Italian, and Latin authors /

Mode of access: Internet.

French version of the Family Attitude Scale : psychometric properties and relation of attitudes to the respondent's psychiatric status

The Family Attitude Scale (FAS) is a self-report measure of critical or hostile attitudes and behaviors towards another family member, and demonstrates an ability to predict relapse in psychoses. Data are not currently available on a French version of the scale. The present study developed a French version of the FAS, using a large general population sample to test its internal structure, criterion validity and relationships with the respondents' symptoms and psychiatric diagnoses, and examined the reciprocity of FAS ratings by respondents and their partners. A total of 2072 adults from an urban population undertook a diagnostic interview and completed self-report measures, including an FAS about their partner. A subset of participants had partners who also completed the FAS. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed an excellent fit by a single-factor model, and the FAS demonstrated a strong association with dyadic adjustment. FAS scores of respondents were affected by their anxiety levels and mood, alcohol and anxiety diagnoses, and moderate reciprocity of attitudes and behaviors between the partners was seen. The French version of the FAS has similarly strong psychometric properties to the original English version. Future research should assess the ability of the French FAS to predict relapse of psychiatric disorders.

Overview of the 2015 ALTA shared task: Identifying French cognates in English text

This paper presents an overview of the 6th ALTA shared task that ran in 2015. The task was to identify in English texts all the potential cognates from the perspective of the French language. In other words, identify all the words in the English text that would acceptably translate into a similar word in French. We present the motivations for the task, the description of the data and the results of the 4 participating teams. We discuss the results against a baseline and prior work.

Authorizing a tradition: Theory, criticism and (self-) canonization in French Caribbean writing

As critics have noted, Antillean literature has developed in tandem with a strong (self-) critical and theoretical body of work. The various attempts to theorize Antillean identity (négritude, antillanité, créolité) have been controversial and divisive, and the literary scene has been characterized as explosive, incestuous and self-referential. Yet writers aligned with, or opposed to, a given theory often have superior visibility. Meanwhile writers who claim to operate outside the boundaries of theory, such as Maryse Condé, are often canny theoretical operators who, from prestigious academic or cultural positions, manipulate readers’ responses and their own self-image through criticism. While recent polemics have helped to raise the critical stock of the islands generally, they have particularly enhanced the cultural capital of Chamoiseau and Condé, whose literary antagonism is in fact mutually sustaining. Both writers, through a strong awareness of (and contribution to) the critical field in which their work is read, position themselves as canonical authors.