Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women
Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women

Author: Colette H. Winn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-29

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 1317944585

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The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women, providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. 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 - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment.

Madame de SŽvignŽ
Madame de SŽvignŽ

Author: Frances Mossiker

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780231061537

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This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.