Biography in early modern France, 1540-1630
Subtitle: forms and functions
By: Katherine MacDonald.
Contributors: Modern Humanities Research Association.
Series: Research monographs in French studies -- 23
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781905981113
Subjects: Biography as a literary form; Biographers -- France -- Biography; Authors, French -- 16th century -- Biography -- History and criticism; Authors, French -- 17th century -- Biography -- History and criticism; France -- Biography -- History and criticism; France -- History -- 16th century; France -- History -- 17th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Legenda is the imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing."

Originally presented as: Thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [103]-111) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Puis que peut faire un courtisan vagabond?': Le Roy's Gulielmi Budæi Vita (1540); title: Diplomacy and biography in the Wars of Religion: Charles Paschal's Life of Guy du Faur de Pibrac (1584); title: The traffic of mercury: Claude Binet and the Vie de Ronsard (1586); title: Medicine and method in Nicolas de Nancel's Petri Rami Vita (1599); title: Staging baroque autobiography: spectacle in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Sa vie à ses enfants (1629); title: Conclusion.