Barbin

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
There appeared through Barbin of Paris, in stages, a six-volume historical novel or collection of tales, Le Journal Amoureux, which began as a project of MCV for adapting a work by another writer.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
19
Morrissette, Bruce Archer. The Life and Works of Marie-Catherine Desjardins. 1947.
83
Klein, Nancy Deighton. The Female Protagonist in the Nouvelles of Madame de Villedieu. Peter Lang, 1992.
183
Textual Production Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
She then turned, not to Barbin, but to Jean Ribou in 1667 to publish a short novel, Anaxandre. Next year she returned to Barbin to publish a pastoral novel, Carmente, described on its...
Textual Production Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette
This book, set in the period which in England was Elizabethan , became notorious before publication through private salon readings. When published in Paris by Barbin , with the author's name withheld, it was immediately...

Timeline

By the end of April 1699: The first volume of François de Fénelon's...

Writing climate item

By the end of April 1699

The first volume of François de Fénelon 's Télémaque appeared at Paris, and was quickly suppressed.
Labrosse, Claude. “La fiction, le récit et le livre: l’illustration du Télémaque de Fénelon”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 1-32.
2

Texts

Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de. La princesse de Clèves. Barbin, 1678.
Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de, and Pierre-Daniel Huet. Zayde. Barbin, 1671, 2 vols.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Les Exiléz de la Cour d’Auguste. Barbin, 1672, 6 vols.
Villedieu, Marie-Catherine de. Oeuvres meslées. Barbin, 1674, 3 vols.