The Other Enlightenment
Subtitle: How French Women Became Modern.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780691074726
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: general; Women's studies; History: World; France; History; History - General History; Women's Studies - History; Intellectual life; Europe - France; Social History; Comparative Literature; European History; Gender Studies; History / France; 19th century; 20th century; Women
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.