This book aims to trace the life of the seventeenth-century Frenchwoman from cradle to the grave through mainly contemporary primary sources which include just about everything from collections of laws to traveller's tales. Rather than reworking and refuting the twentieth-century experts in the field, the author works directly through from birth and childhood through matrimony, women at work, and in political life, manners and religion to conclusive death.

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University of Reading, UK

Wendy Gibson

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Book Title: Women In 17th Century France
Authors: Wendy Gibson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20067-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46395-6Published: 17 July 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-20067-2Published: 17 July 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 440
Topics: Social History, European History, History of Early Modern Europe, Gender Studies

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