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She deserves a very special thank-you for her support and graciousness in the handling of this book’s publication. A special thanks also to Stephen Holtje for many hours of work on this project. Most of all, we hope our eventual readers gain from reading our book in both enjoyment and intellectual stimulation, and perhaps even in their own personal lives. This page intentionally left blank Contents Z Foreword I 1 II 2 3 III 4 5 IV 6 7 8 V 9 10 vii Inspiration and Overview Introduction:

rate continued to fall from 3.5 per cent in Q3 (2000) to 3.1 per cent for Q3 (2001), but rose marginally in October. However, the most recent reports of the Purchasing Managers Institute (PMI) released in the first week of November provide gloomier reading. 10 The Corporate Finance Environment For manufacturing, although there was a surprise increase of 1.4 per cent in output in August, the year on year growth rate remained negative at –2.0 per cent with further declines in output signalled

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on the balls of their feet, peering inside. A police officer came out, waving the curious back, demanding that a path be cleared to the curb. As he shouted, an ambulance careened around the northwest corner, its horn joining the sharp, piercing notes from its roof, warning all to get out of its way; the driver nosed his outsized vehicle to a stop in the space created by the departed Peugeot. Jason could watch no longer. He had to get to the Carillon du Lac, gather his things, and get out of Zurich

BAKER, « Louise Labé's Conditional Imperatives : Subversion and Transcendence of the Petrarchan Tradition », Sixteenth Century Journal, 21.4, hiver 1990, pp. 523-41.  &        = : &  +! Deborah Lesko BAKER, « Re-reading the folie : Louise Labé's Sonnet XVIII and the Renaissance Love Heritage » Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 17.1 (hiver 1993), pp. 5-14. Wilson BALDRIDGE, « Le Langage de la séparation chez Louise Labé » in Etudes Littéraires 2,