This volume covers the lives and works of 30 pre-revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.
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Marie de France is generally considered to have been France's first woman of letters, and her importance is not merely historical, for scholars have also acknowledged her as one of the most gifted authors of the French Middle Ages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Madame de Lambert, New York, Charlotte de Bourbon, Mme de Maintenon, Madeleine de Scudéry, Pre-Revolutionary French Women, Primary Works, Jesus Christ, Mme de Sévigné, Madame de Sévigné, Madeleine-Angélique Poisson, Mademoiselle Pascal, Mme de Tencin, Mlle Dumeny, Mme de Grignan, Quebec City, William of Orange, French Momen, Madame de Mornay, Marie de France, Marie de Gournay, Mme de Ferriol, Catherine des Roches, Guilhem Figueira, Count of Grignan New!
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Marie de France is generally considered to have been France's first woman of letters, and her importance is not merely historical, for scholars have also acknowledged her as one of the most gifted authors of the French Middle Ages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vineyard keeper, illustrious women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Madame de Lambert, New York, Charlotte de Bourbon, Mme de Maintenon, Madeleine de Scudéry, Pre-Revolutionary French Women, Primary Works, Jesus Christ, Mme de Sévigné, Madame de Sévigné, Madeleine-Angélique Poisson, Mademoiselle Pascal, Mme de Tencin, Mlle Dumeny, Mme de Grignan, Quebec City, William of Orange, French Momen, Madame de Mornay, Marie de France, Marie de Gournay, Mme de Ferriol, Catherine des Roches, Guilhem Figueira, Count of Grignan New!
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- Rights of Woman by Olympe De Gouges on page 561, and page 571
- The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol. 1 by Jacobus de Voragine on page 214, and page 223
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison in Front Matter
- Devotional Poetry in France by Cave on page 223
- The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine de Pizan on page 63
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- Hell Hath No Fury: Women's Letters from the End of the Affair by Anna Holmes in Back Matter
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