The Rise of the Third Estate was influential in the overthrow of the monarchy in the French Revolution in 1789. The novel of the 18th century explored all the potential devices of a novel - different ...

Her research focuses on early modern (particularly eighteenth-century) French literature and cultural history, and she has work published in French Studies, Romanic Review, and with the Voltaire ...

A one-semester survey of seventeenth-century French literature, with an emphasis on the relationship ... New trends in the second half of the 18th century; the emergence of the age of sensibility and ...

Pépin also continued his academic studies during this time and earned a M.A. in 18th-century French literature from Columbia University in 1972.