Les Cahiers du Jazz.
Published with the cooperation of the Centre national des lettres, and supported by a large "comite d'etude et de lecture," this journal presents a more substantive and scholarly appearance than many jazz organs, and is clearly aimed at a more critical and research-oriented audience. This is not to say that...

The hooked stick in the Lascaux shaft scene.
The Lascaux shaft scene has provided the source for much analysis and discussion of Palaeolithic bison-hunting practices. The ideas may need reconsideration in the light of research, both around the cave at Lascaux and from parallels drawn from the North American plains. American and Native American hunters were well...

Mousterian fires from Grotte XVI (Dordogne, France).
A new study from the Dordogne decisively identifies and confirms the use of fires in a Mousterian context; and the thick ashy deposit, identified as the remains of burnt lichen, clarifies the real nature of those distinctive deposits, known from other sites of the era. Excavation in the...

Georges Arnaud: Vie d'un rebelle.
Roger Martin has written an absorbing biography of "Georges Arnaud" (Henri Girard, 1917-87). Made famous by his novel Le salaire de la peur (1950; Eng. The Wages of Fear), from which Henri-Georges Clouzot directed the classic 1953 movie, he is often confused with Georges J. Arnaud, a well-known detective-novel and...

The archaeology of Solvieux, an Upper Paleolithic open air site in France.
JAMES SACKETT. The archaeology of Solvieux, an Upper Paleolithic open air site in France (Monumenta Archaeologica 19). xiv+328 pages, figures, tables, 73 plates. 1999. Los Angeles (CA): UCLA Institute of Archaeology; 0-917956-91-5 hardback $75. The archaeology of Solvieux is the long-awaited report on excavations at the large,...

Rats yield active clues to drug addiction.
Rats yield active clues to drug addiction Researchers have begun to develop an animal model of drug addiction that takes into account individual differences in the propensity to ingest drugs. The new approach may lead to a better understanding of the biology of animal and human vulnerability to...

Rustic and hearty, it's French duck and bean stew.
Where the green Dordogne River valley snakes through limestone cliffs dotted with ancient chateaux, duck and goose reign supreme. Foie gras is the best known food of this area of southwestern France. But among the locals, a rustic duck and bean stew is equally celebrated. Simple, rich...

Heresy in Medieval France: Dualism in Aquitaine and the Agenais, 1000-1249.
Heresy in Medieval France: Dualism in Aquitaine and the Agenais, 10001249. By Claire Taylor. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series. Woodbridge, U.K.: Royal Historical Society/Boydell, 2005. xi + 314 pp. 3 maps, 3 genealogies. $90.00 cloth. Claire Taylor is professor of history at the University...

History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France.
History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France. By Yves-Marie Berce (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. x plus 359 pp. $57.50/cloth $18.95/paper). This is an abridged and translated edition of Berce's 2 volume, 974 page, 1974 these entitled Histoire de Croquants: Etude des soulevements...

Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine.
In Confession and Community in Seventeenth Century France, Gregory Hanlon sets outs to identify the substance of religious toleration as it was lived in one French village over the course of the seventeenth century. Possessing a wide and thorough grounding in the historiography of seventeenth-century France, as well as an...