French Literature Reviews - 2026
Animals in the 17th Century
History, Politics and Society
Animals in the 17th Century
Proceedings of the
first research symposium (November 21, 2001)
of the
Research Center
on the 17th
European Century
(1660-1700)
L'Animal au XVII° siècle
. Proceedings of the 1st research symposium (November 21, 2001) of the Research Center on the European 17th Century (1600-1700) (Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III), edited by Charles MAZOUER, Tübingen, Gunter Narr, 2003, 198 p. ( Biblio 17 , no. 146).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Charles Mazouer
Preface.
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Denis Lopez
Animals in the 17th Century: Theological, Mythological, and Philosophical Background (Key Anchor Points).
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Véronique Ferrer
The Metamorphoses of the Biblical Bestiary in Jean-Baptiste Chassignet's Paraphrases sur les CL Pseaumes de David .
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Denis Lopez
"Perhaps other heroes / Would have won me less glory": On the Status of Animals in 17th-Century Poetry.
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Nadia Maillard
Function and Representation of Animals in Tristan L'Hermite's Le Page disgracié, or the Chatty Storyteller and the Mute Linnet.
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Nathalie Grande
A Salon Celebrity: The Chameleon.
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Sabine Du Crest
Bees in Barberini Rome: On the Dilatation of an Insect in Art.
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Michel Wiedemann
A Collection of Fish Engravings by Adrien Collaert: Piscium vivae icones in aes incisae et editae ab Adriano Collardo.
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Madeleine Pinault-Sorensen
The King's Animals: From Pieter Boel to the Draftsmen of the Royal Academy of Sciences.
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Aurélia Gaillard
Real Bestiary, Enchanted Bestiary: Animals at Versailles Under Louis XIV.
This collection gathers contributions presented at the inaugural research symposium of the Research Center on the European 17th Century at the Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III. The volume is edited by Charles Mazouer and published by Gunter Narr in 2003 as part of the Biblio 17 series. The contents include a preface by Charles Mazouer and papers by Denis Lopez, Véronique Ferrer, Nadia Maillard, Nathalie Grande, Sabine Du Crest, Michel Wiedemann, Madeleine Pinault-Sorensen, and Aurélia Gaillard.
The essays collected here investigate specific texts and artistic works, ranging from biblical paraphrases and poetry to salon culture, royal art, and natural history illustrations. The chapters cover topics such as theological, mythological, and philosophical backgrounds, the biblical bestiary in Jean-Baptiste Chassignet, animals in seventeenth-century poetry, Tristan L'Hermite, the chameleon in salon culture, bees in Barberini Rome, fish engravings by Adrien Collaert, royal animals by Pieter Boel and the Royal Academy of Sciences, and animals at Versailles. Readers interested in early modern cultural history, seventeenth-century literature, and the history of human-animal relations may find these proceedings relevant to their research.