L'Exercice de l'ame vertueuse.(Cabinet des saines affections)(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Hampton, Cathy | Copyright information

L'Exercice de l'ame vertueuse. By MARIE LE GENDRE. Ed. by COLETTE H. WINN. (Textes de la Renaissance, 38) Paris: Champion. 2001. 197 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0460-7.

Cabinet des saines affections. Attributed to MADELEINE DE L'AUBESPINE. Ed. by COLETTE H. WNN. (Textes de la Renaissance, 39) Paris: Champion. 2001. 133 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0461-5

These two editions of late sixteenth-century texts, forming part of Champion's extremely useful Textes de la Renaissance series, are...

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