Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where v[...]

"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Mar[...]

Joseph de Maistre?s Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke?s Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard Lebrun?s 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and chronology by the translator. Published in 1797, t[...]