ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Monika Kropej (Zagreb), Emanuela Timotin (Bucharest), and Daiva Vaitkevičienė (Vilnius), who allowed me to take advantage of their research; Marie Dominique Leclerc and Alain Robert (Troyes), Anne Martineau (Saint-Étienne), and Gian Marco Mondino (Turin), who provided me with otherwise inaccessible documents; and Ronald Grambo (Kongsvinger), Baujke Finet van der Schaaf (Paris), Claude Thomasset (Paris), and Philippe Walter (Grenoble), who helped me solve several linguistic problems.