Salons, History, And the Creation of SeventeenthÃÂCentury France
Subtitle: Mastering Memory (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780754653547
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Social history; Women's studies; History - General History; Feminist; Literary Criticism; French; History; France; Intellectual life; Europe - France; European - French; 17th century; Social life and customs; Women intellectuals
First sentence: In 1981, when Marguerite Yourcenar was admitted as the first woman to the French Academy, she faced a challenge that none of her male predecessors of the previous three hundred and fifty years had had to confront: how to compose an acceptance speech that would acknowledge the monumental departure from historical precedent that her election constituted.