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Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans Montpensier (duchesse de)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226534936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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In seventeenth-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de Montpensier—a first cousin of Louis XIV—was one of very few exceptions, thanks to the vast wealth she inherited from her mother, who died shortly after Montpensier was born. She was also one of the few politically powerful women in France at the time to have been an accomplished writer. In the daring letters presented in this bilingual edition, Montpensier condemns the alliance system of marriage, proposing instead to found a republic that she would govern, "a corner of the world in which . . . women are their own mistresses," and where marriage and even courtship would be outlawed. Her pastoral utopia would provide medical care and vocational training for the poor, and all the homes would have libraries and studies, so that each woman would have a "room of her own" in which to write books. Joan DeJean's lively introduction and accessible translation of Montpensier's letters—four previously unpublished—allow us unprecedented access to the courageous voice of this extraordinary woman.

Author: Vincent Joseph Pitts
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801864667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a unique perspective on several aspects of seventeenth-century France: the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life.

Author: Sophie Maríñez
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004337296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France examines questions of self-construction in the works of Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693), the wealthiest unmarried woman in Europe at the time, a pro-women advocate, author of memoirs, letters and novels, and the commissioner of four châteaux and other buildings throughout France, including Saint-Fargeau, Champigny-sur-Veude, Eu, and Choisy-le-roi. An NEH-funded project, this study explores the interplay between writing and the symbolic import of châteaux to examine Montpensier’s strategies to establish herself as a woman with autonomy and power in early modern France.

Author: Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801481659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Exploring the ways in which French women went public through publication, this book shows how they contributed to the formation of the public sphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Going Public also takes the critical literature on the woman writer to a new level by examining the implications of print publicity. The contributors investigate the intersection of gender and publicity in a wide range of printed texts, from memoirs and legal briefs to novels, poems, and fairy tales. In doing so they reveal much about why individual women drawn from the whole spectrum of society embraced the medium of print and about the impact this form of publicity had on their lives.

Author: George Saintsbury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Sylvia P. Vance
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823361503
Category : Cardinals
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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