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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

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Contents

	PREFACE	vii
Chapter I.	Woman in politics	1
Chapter II.	Woman in Family Life, Education, and Letters	31
Chapter III.	The Seventeenth Century: Woman at Her Best	69
Chapter IV.	Woman in Society and Literature	97
Chapter V.	Mistresses and Wives of Louis XIV	131
Chapter VI.	Mme. de Sévigné, Mme. de La Fayette, Mme. Dacier, Mme. de Caylus	165
Chapter VII.	Woman in Religion	197
Chapter VIII.	Salon Leaders: Mme. de Tencin, Mme. Geoffrin, Mme. du Deffand, Mlle. de Lespinasse,Mme. du Châtelet	221
Chapter IX.	Salon Leaders—(Continued):Mme. Necker, Mme. d'Epinay, Mme. de Genlis: Minor Salons	249
Chapter X.	Social Classes	277
Chapter XI.	Royal Mistresses	305
Chapter XII.	Marie Antoinette and the Revolution	329
Chapter XIII.	Women of the Revolution and the Empire	355
Chapter XIV.	Women of the Nineteenth Century	381

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PREFACE

Among the Latin races, the French race differs essentiallyin one characteristic which has been the key to thesuccess of French women—namely, the social instinct.The whole French nation has always lived for the presenttime, in actuality, deriving from life more of what may becalled social pleasure than any other nation. It has beena universal characteristic among French people since thesixteenth century to love to please, to make themselvesagreeable, to bring joy and happiness to others, and to beloved and admired as well. With this instinctive traitFrench women have always been bountifully endowed.Highly emotional, they love to charm, and this has become

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