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The article presents the author's reflections on urban life and the particular experience of a city street in poetry. Topics addressed include an interpretation of Charles Baudelaire's transformation of the regular "Tableau de Paris" into "Tableaux parisiens," the title of his 19th century street poetry, Joseph de Maistre's influence on Baudelaire's political and theological conjectures, and reference to other poems about cities.

The article reviews the book "Jeunes sans qualifications. Trajectoires, situations et stratégies," by Monique Eckmann-Saillant, Claudio Bolzman and Gérard de Rham.

Reviews the book `The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French,' edited by Peter France.

Reviews the book `Montaigne bilingue: le latin des `Essais,'' by Floyd Gray.

Reviews four books concerned with Roland Barthes. Roland Barthes' `Incidents,' translated by Richard Howard, a collection of manuscripts chosen by the executors of Barthes' estate that unambiguously exposed Barthes' homosexuality. Also `Bringing Out Roland Barthes,' by D.A. Miller; `Roland Barthes: The figures of writing,' by Andrew Brown; The memoir `Roland Barthes,' by Patrick Mauries.