The Vida of Queen Fredegund in Tote Listoire de France: vernacular translation and genre in thirteenth-century French and Occitan literature

This article examines the role that translation may have played in the development of medieval vernacular literature. It analyses an extract of an early 13th-c. translation into a hybrid French-Occitan vernacular of an 8th-c. historical text, the 'Liber Historiae Francorum'. The translation coincides with the adoption of narrative prose both in Old French and in Occitan literature, which reflects a growing interest in historical writings. The second half of the article compares the anecdote with the narrative structures and content of one of the troubadour 'vidas' and 'razos' - biographical texts in prose that emerged in the same period and regions as this translation. The article concludes by suggesting that the new vernacular genre shares narrative features with the early medieval Latin text that are preserved in its translation.

Treatment of newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL): a comparison of French-Belgian-Swiss and PETHEMA results

All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) plus anthracycline chemotherapy is the reference treatment of newly diagnosed acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), whereas the role of cytosine arabinoside (AraC) remains disputed. We performed a joint analysis of patients younger than 65 years included in Programa para el Estudio de la Terapéutica en Hemopatía Maligna (PETHEMA) LPA 99 trial, where patients received no AraC in addition to ATRA, high cumulative dose idarubicin, and mitoxantrone, and APL 2000 trial, where patients received AraC in addition to ATRA and lower cumulative dose daunorubicin. In patients with white blood cell (WBC) count less than 10 x 10(9)/L, complete remission (CR) rates were similar, but 3-year cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR) was significantly lower in LPA 99 trial: 4.2% versus 14.3% (P = .03), although 3-year survival was similar in both trials. This suggested that AraC is not required in APL with WBC count less than 10 x 10(9)/L, at least in trials with high-dose anthracycline and maintenance treatment. In patients with WBC of 10 x 10(9)/L or more, however, the CR rate (95.1% vs 83.6% P = .018) and 3-year survival (91.5% vs 80.8%, P = .026) were significantly higher in APL 2000 trial, and there was a trend for lower 3-year CIR (9.9% vs 18.5%, P = .12), suggesting a beneficial role for AraC in those patients.

The gentleman and lady's key to polite literature, or, A compendious dictionary of fabulous history : containing the characters, and principal actions, ascribed to the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c. and the manner in which the ancients represented the deities & heroes ... : intended for the assistance of those who would understand mythology, poetry, painting, statuary and theatrical entertainments, and particularly adapted to the use of Latin and French schools.

Frontispiece signed "Le Pautre." Engraved title-page.

Trends & styles in twentieth century French literature.

Includes bibliography.

The influence of French literature on Europe; an historical research reference of literary value to students in universities, normal schools, and junior colleges.

Contains bibliographical foot-notes and index.

Manual of the history of French literature,

Bibliographical foot-notes.

The romantic movement in French literature,

French texts with introd. and notes in English.

A manual of historical literature, comprising brief descriptions of the most important histories in English, French and German, together with practical suggestions as to methods and courses of historical study ...

"Third edition, revised and enlarged."

French prose of popular science and descriptive literature.

Mode of access: Internet.

From the Montaigne to Molière or, The preparation for the classical age of French literature /

Mode of access: Internet.

A collection of late voyages and travels : chiefly translated and abridged from the French and other foreign publications of Niebuhr, Mariti, Beauchamp, &c. &c. The whole forming a body of important and amusing information, concerning the present state of society and manners, of arts and literature, of religion and government, the appearances of nature, and the works of human industry in Persia, Arabia, Turkey, &c. /

Niebuhr's description of Arabia.--Mariti's travels.--M. De Beauchamp's travels in Persia.--Travels of M. De Ferriers Sauveboeuf.

A history of French literature,

Bibliography: p. [881]-937.

Handbook of French literature; historical, biographical, and critical.

Preface signed: Margaret Foster.