1st Edition

Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

Edited By Colette H. Winn, Anne R. Larsen Copyright 2000
    by Routledge

    616 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Dedication, Contributors, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1. Marie de France, Chapter 2. Gormonda de Monpeslier, Chapter 3. Marguerite de Navarre, Chapter 4. Helisenne de Crenne, Chapter 5. Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, Chapter 6. Georgette de Montenay, Chapter 7. Marie de Romieu, Chapter 8. Catherine des Roches, Chapter 9. Gabrielle de Coignard, Chapter 10. Anne de Marquets, Chapter 11. Madame de Mornay (Charlotte Arbaleste de la Borde), Chapter 12. Marie de Gournay, Chapter 13. Madeleine de Scudery, Chapter 14. Madame de Saint-Balmon (Alberte-Barbe d’Ernecourt), Chapter 15. Francoise Pascal, Chapter 16. Francoise d’Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon, Chapter 17. Madame de Sevigne (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal), Chapter 18. Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), Chapter 19. Catherine Durand, Chapter 20. Anne-Marguerite Du Noyer, Chapter 21. Anne-Therese de Lambert, Chapter 22. Madame de Gomez (Madeleine-Angelique Poisson), Chapter 23. Marie-Anne Fiquet Du Boccage, Chapter 24. Francoise de Graffigny, Chapter 25. Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Chapter 26. Louise d’Epinay, Chapter 27. Isabelle de Charriere, Chapter 28. Charlotte Elisabeth Ai'sse, Chapter 29. Olympe de Gouges, Chapter 30. Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun, Souvenirs (1835-1837), Index

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    Colette H. Winn, Anne R. Larsen