The Ranums' Panat Times

Our most recent pages and writings

Note, January 2013: Our edition of Charles Le Maistre's Voyage en Allemagne, Hongrie et Italie, 1664-1665, ISNB: 2 912268 08 7, having been removed from the book market, we are offering scholars an online version of the book.

NEW: Beginning to be a Jesuit : instructions for the Paris Noviciate, circa 1685, edited and translated by Patricia Ranum, with an appendix on civility by Orest Ranum, available from the Institute for Jesuit Sources, St. Louis MO. (There is also a hard-cover version)

NEW ABOUT PANAT:

We have begun a new set of pages that show the patrimoine of Panat, some of it lost, some of it hidden, some of it restored  There are some very interesting photos: we hope you enjoy them!   Cliquez ici pour les pages sur Panat.

We are also transcribing documents about Panat and the d'Adémar family.         

THE LATEST FROM OREST:

•  January 2013: Katia Béguin, Financer la guerre au XVII^e siècle

•  December 2012: an obituary of Jacques Poujol that takes the form of essay on his writings

•  December 2012: Sylvie Daubresse (and Bertrand Haen), Actes du Parlement de Paris

•  December 2012: Marie Houllemare, Politiques de la parole: le parlement de Paris au XVI^e siècle

•  December 2012: Carl Goldstein, Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print

•  September 2012: A five-part essay on Jacques-Auguste de Thou

•  April 2012: a review of: Daniel Roche, La Gloire et la Puissance: Histoire de la culture équestre, XVI^e-XIX^e siècle

•  January 2012: Gibbon and Northernness, a paper given at a session honoring J.G.A. Pocock, American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 2012.

THE LATEST FROM PATRICIA:

•  See her many articles, September 2011-December 2012, on the history of Panat, especially the nineteenth-century church. Just click Panat in the task bar at the top of this page

•  December 2012: The watercolor portrait of Henri Du Mont, was it based on the bust on his tomb at Saint-Paul?

•  September 2011: À propos de la signature "Charpentier" dans la Biblia Sacra qui appartient à l'abbé Jèrôme Prosdocimi et qui a été le sujet de conversation sur Facebook pendant l'été de 2011 (Concerning the signature "Charpentier" in abbé Jèrôme Prosdocimi 's copy of the Biblia Sacra, about which there was considerable discussion on Facebook during the summer of 2011) 

•  January 2011: Were Magdeleine and Marguerite Pièche nicknamed "Magdelon" and " Margot"?

•  Novembre 2010: A Musing by Patricia on the Discovery of an autograph treatise by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

•  Fall 2010: A Musing on scholarly reciprocity