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Do you have this reference?

Hynes, Peter.  "Writing Across the Official Languages:  Bilingualism and
Rhetoric in the Canadian College."  English Quarterly 20.1 (Spring 1987):
5261.

I find it particularly intriguing.  (In part for its contrast between the
_dissertation" and the 5-paragraph essay, which I would VERY tentatively
hypothesize parallels the distinction between French Rationalism and British
Empericism.)

At 09:54 PM 2/26/99 -0800, you wrote: My sense is that through
>most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the study of
>Francophone rhetoric followed the classical tradition closely.  Is this
>correct?

This is not a terribly informed opinion, but this is my sense also.  What I
don't know is what, if anything, became of rhetoric as the classical tradition
was replaced.