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(Bibliotheque litteraire de la Renaissance, 3.44.) Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2002. 1047 pp. index, illus, bibl. 120 [euro]. ISBN: 2-7453-0479-8.
Joachim du Bellay's prominent and disparaging remarks concerning the Puy de Rouen which for him showcases poetic "episseries, qui corrumpent le goust de nostre Langue, & ne servent si non a porter temoingnaige de notre ignorance" (Deffence, 2.4) are boldly and persuasively disproved in Denis Hue's rich and very welcome overview of the early modern literary competition in honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. Hue demonstrates that the poetic "episserie" was, in fact, "encyclopedie" and that "ignorance" …