French and Italian News

NCFS Colloquium

NCFS Colloquium

Professors Corry Cropper and Daryl Lee recently hosted the 35th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Over 200 participants from the North America and Europe presented research on the theme, "Fossilization and Evolution." The full program of the conference can be seen online: http://NCFS.byu.edu

The Single Sword

The Single Sword

Former students Robert Preston Hyatt and Devin Wilson (French minor '05) recently published the translation of a treatise by the sixteenth-century fencing master Henry de Sainct-Didier. Their translation, begun as and ORCA project when they were undergraduates, is titled, The Single Sword of Henry de Sainct- Didier, and is published by Paladin Press. Dr. Jesse Hurlbut helped them with the translation of the original treatise, written in Middle French.