The Other Enlightenment
Subtitle: How French Women Became Modern
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780691114804
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; History; History - General History; French; France; Europe - France; Women's Studies - History; Comparative Literature; European History; Gender Studies; History / France
First sentence: Early in the spring of 1793, at he height of the revolutionary crisis in France, a middle-aged domestic cook named Jeanne-Catherine Clere frequented a Parisian cafe near her employer on the rue des Poules where she was in the habit of tippling a few and losing her senses.