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Title: Women of Modern France
Woman In All Ages And In All Countries

Author: Hugo P. Thieme

Release Date: November 26, 2005 [EBook #17159]

Language: English

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WOMAN

in all ages and in all countries

WOMEN OF MODERN FRANCE

by

HUGO P. THIEME, Ph.D.

Of the University of Michigan

THE RITTENHOUSE PRESS PHILADELPHIA

Copyrighted at Washington and entered at Stationer's Hall, London,

1907--1908

and printed by arrangement with George Barrie's Sons.

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter I. Woman in politics

Chapter II. Woman in Family Life, Education, and Letters

Chapter III. The Seventeenth Century: Woman at Her Best

Chapter IV. Woman in Society and Literature

Chapter V. Mistresses and Wives of Louis XIV

Chapter VI. Mme. de Sevigne, Mme. de La Fayette, Mme. Dacier,
Mme. de Caylus

Chapter VII. Woman in Religion

Chapter VIII. Salon Leaders Mme. de Tencin, Mme. Geoffrin, Mme.
du Deffand, Mlle. de Lespinasse, Mme. du Chatelet

Chapter IX. Salon Leaders--(Continued): Mme. Necker, Mme.
d'Epinay, Mme. de Genlis: Minor Salons

Chapter X. Social Classes

Chapter XI. Royal Mistresses

Chapter XII. Marie Antoinette and the Revolution

Chapter XIII. Women of the Revolution and the Empire

Chapter XIV. Women of the Nineteenth Century

PREFACE

Among the Latin races, the French race differs essentially in one
characteristic which has been the key to the success of French
women--namely, the social instinct. The whole French nation has always
lived for the present time, in actuality, deriving from life more of
what may be called social pleasure than any other nation. It has been
a universa