FR245 Reading list

• Louise Bourgeois, Récit véritable de la naissance de messeigneurs et dames les enfans de France, Instruction à 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 à ma fille', in Récit véritable 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. This is available for consultation in the library (I will be giving out extracts of the Instruction in modern typeface in the first lecture of term).
  • Louise Bourgeois, Louise Bourgeois, Récit véritable 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 stérilité, perte de fruits, fécondité, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveau-nés (1609), reproduced in 1652 (Paris: Jean Dehoury). Transcribed by Jonathan Durham and Cathy Hampton (2010)
  • Louise Bourgeois, Observations diverses sur la stérilité, perte de fruits, fécondité, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveau-nés suivi de Instructions à ma fille (1652) (Paris: Côté 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, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=7193894):
    • To the Queen (p. 89)
    • To the Reader (p. 92)
    • True Accounts of the Births of My Lords and Ladies The Children of France
    • Advice to My Daughter
• Mme de Sévigné, Lettres choisies de Madame de Sévigné. 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 Théâtre Classique : édition de RODOGUNE, PRINCESSE DES PARTHES (CORNEILLE, Pierre) (theatre-classique.fr)
  • English translation available here: Chief Plays of Corneille (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Corneille's 1660 Examen, reviewing the play: Rodogune princesse des Parthes/Examen - Wikisource
• 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 passé. An online version of the text is also available here: Contes (ebooksgratuits.com)
  • English translations of some of the tales available here: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Tales of Passed Time, by Charles Perrault