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OF
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Woman
In
all
ages
and
in
all
countries
VOLUME
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WOMEN
OF
MODERN
FRANCE
BY
HUGO
P.
THIEME,
PH.D.
Of
the
University
of
Michigan
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE
BARRIE
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SONS,
PUBLISHERS
Stationers'
Hall,
London
preface
women
of
the
different
periods
of
the
history
of
France,
and
according
to
these
they
may
by
right
be
judged;
for
their
moral
vii
intrigues,
participating
in
and
HUGO
PAUL
THIEME.
University
of
Michigan.
in politics
be
said
that
3
slavery
and
obscurity
Middle
Ages
gave
place
to
an
equal
power
of
initiation
and
self-assertion.
The
first
royal
woman
dangerous
because
of
her
almost
absolute
control
over
her
son,
the
king.
At
this
time
there
were
castes at
elegant
at
this
time
was
to
cause
her
hope
of
coming
into
changed
entirely;
retaining
only
a
semblance
of
king,
called
d'Alencon;
by
this
means,
did
not
complain.
held
by
him.
claim
was
under
of
the
charming.
of
his
mistress,
of
any
mistress.
The
influence
exerted
by
her
may
in
some
respects
be
forced
pro-
tection
to
the
Protestants.
Eventually,
hers
was
king
was
in
Italy,
the
seems no
more a
up
against
hands of three mistresses.
in
humanity
she
royalty,
remaining
exactly
on
unscrupulousness, cruelty;
the
inspiration
part
of
her
politics,
the
politics
educated?
Wise
from
experience,
she
foresaw
father
both
reserve
A furious
I.,
husband
and
the
king.
Brantome
difficult
to
find
another
woman
so
well-disposed,
another
wife
so
faithful
to
her
duties,
another
princess
so
accomplished
in
point
of
instruction
and
intelligence.
The
menage
d
trots
(household
of
three)
king
livres,
twenty-five
Charles
IX.
between
the
king
and
Catherine;
Catherine.
Although
her
in
1589.
This
who
had
been
delinquent
were
stripped
and
beaten
with
lashes;
for
correction
frequently
for
mere
pastime
she
would
paradis.
repulsed;
but
mate after
necessity
as
to
choose
between
losing
one
or
the
are
some
few
types
that
represent
education,
family
life,
purity,
and
culture.
antr Hettets
Such
women
were
Claude,
daughter
of
virtuous
lives
in
comparative
obscurity.
33
or
undone,
even
though
the
king
liked
and
sometimes
turmoil,
Louise
busied
a
mother
of
the
people,
marriage,
was
prepared,
as
lieutenant-general
of
the
kingdom,
a
position
he
ac-
cepted
from
the
pontiff,
to
deprive
his
wife
of
her
posses-
sions.
project
made
it
possible
for
for
who
belief
that
Cath-
erine
was
instrumental
in
causing
it
that,
probably,
being
catastrophe
she
was
planning.
A
few
hours
before
her
agony,
Jeanne
dictated
the
provisions
of
have
her
brought
up
in
Beam,
and
that
she
shall
in
mourning.
But,
says
when Admiral
symbol
and
living
image
exclusively
in
captivity
until
the
arrival
of
to tolerate
rank;
to
this
to
give
up
gallantries
and
love.
secret
of
her
summate
skill,
directed
conversations
and
proposed
sub-
jects,
encouraging
discussion,
and
skilfully
drawing
from
union,
thus
of
the
sixteenth
century;
time
of
her
ideals; thus,
constant
you,
and,
on
erected
in
her
chamber,
and
all
the
French
of
the
household,
great
lords
and
domestics
alike,
knelt
the soul
the
family
of
the
emperor
in
her
attempts
to
free
the
king,
she
succeeded,
by
arranging
the
marriage,
in
completely
her
brother,
still
at
Madrid:
fame
pecheresse,
in
which
she
failed
to
mention
purgatory
or
the
saints,
constant
worry
and
mental
suffering.
When
de-
velopment
and
encouragement
of
good
literature,
good
taste,
high
art,
and
pure
morals;
thirdly,
as
a
upon
the
sixteenth-century
world,
leaving
its
moulding
into
a
classic
French
form
to
the
next
tf
'And
yet
I
have
the
opinion,'
says
Parlemente,
'that
no
not have
a
It
is
not
so
much
her
own
deep
sentiment
that
Pel-
letier,
Bonaventure-Desperiers,
Mellin
de
Saint-Gelais,
Lefevre
d'Etaples,
Amyot,
Calvin,
Berquin.
Charles
de
wings.
Many
critics
believe
which
later
French
women
of
versatility
all forms
little
or
no
consort
than
dolls,
accusing
pardon,
every
an
immense
library
and
to
every
literary
movement.
much
disaster.
In
spite
of
that
and
literary
influence
being
less
marked.
fflenturg:
2UBoman
at
ISest
in
this
cen-
tury
and
the
following
one,
the
position
and
constitution
for the
sake of
person
was
of
a
nature
vastly
superior
to
that
exerted
by
her
in
the
rapacious
Jew,
was
isolated
and
in
of
the
period,
from
the
time
of
knight up
king's
laws,
became
powerful,
for
law
was
absolute.
A
deadly
rivalry
sprang
up
between
the
parties
France
melites
coterie
of
galaxy
of
period
into
two
of
France.
from the
up
the
in
open
support
preparing
for
the
possible
fall
of
Mazarin.
to
his
Duke of
own
methods,
she
she
was
banished
by
him,
the
cardinal
being
wise
enough
to
fulness
of
her
power,
she
gradually
retired,
having
seen,
in
turn,
the
passing
away
or
the
fall
of
Richelieu,
intrigued
over
all
to
in
these
opposite
account
of
deaths
of
Richelieu
and
Louis
XIII.,
and
the
Importants,
flocking
to
Paris
to
regain
their
rights
and
to
Importants,
who
were
very
powerful
in
the
salons,
society,
and
politics.
of
Conde
would
This
Shortly
after
this,
Coligny,
as
champion
sorts
of
favors.
Mazarin,
in
1646,
succeeded
in
causing
desired,
met
Mme.
de
Longueville
who
was
in
the
height
of
her
glory
and
over
to
the
party
of
the
Importants,
she
being
the
first
of
tactics,
politics,
and
generalship.
With
to
please,
to
could
existence
being
given
up
to
his
suc-
cessors
of
the
seventeenth
century.
antr
literature
and
become
self-respecting.
The
customs
of
the
time
placed
many
disadvantages
in
99
religious
establishments.
Mme.
de
pro-
nounced
characteristics
of
the
time;
rough,
theatre;
such
authors
as
the husband whom
I
all
swollen
could
it
be
due
to
having
elevation
of
the
soul,
and
every
man
distinguished
day,
goodness, justice,
speaks
admirably
of
things,
through
simple
common
sense
only';
on
the
contrary,
she
the
art
of
constructing
a
palace
of
children
salon
were
interrupted
from
about
1650
to
1652.
period
of
the
salon
there
were
no
blue-stockings,
no
pedants:
these
were
later
developments.
It
was,
primarily,
a
gathering
the last
elegance,
of
second-
rate
importance,
and
Malherbe
tolerated
only
interesting
tales
are
told.
She
was
the
mother
of
two
children;
upon
the
poet
Scarron
Hotel
de
rimpe-
cuniosite
received
almost
all
the
frequenters
of
Ninon's
any
of
her
contempo-
raries.
Having
lost
her
parents
early
in
life,
her
uncle
thrown into
drama,
L'Auberge
ou
les
Brigands
sans
le
Savoir.
and
famous
all,
her
confidant,
name
likened
by
her
je
deviens
inutile.
Qui
contente
le
plus
et
qui
coute
le
moins.
[I
am
both
stupid
and
bright,
honest
and
dishonest;
less
sincere
at
court
than
tremble,
the
strong
let
me
pass,
the
wise
stop
me.
and
pro-
duction
of
splendid
books
with
heroes
and
salon
of
Mme.
de
Rambouillet
degenerated
among
the
aristocracy
into
those
seventeenth
century.
Her
descriptions
and
anecdotes
possess
a
won-
a woman as
mind
was
not
prepared
for
a
broader
field
until
it
had
passed
through
the
previously
made
the
theatre
inaccessible
to
woman;
hence,
his
characters
of
humanity
(Cid)
and
politeness
(Menteur).
grasp
that
popular
spirit
in
politics.
Thus,
in
every
period
in
French
history,
a
group
of
women
effect-
ively
moulds
French
thought
and
language,
and
directs
intellectual
activity
in
general.
splendidly
sculptured
about
to
be
published;
gambling,
which
seemed
to
be
the
principal
means
of
entertaining
in
those
days,
had
no
place
of
not
separate
themselves
from
reason
and
thought,
even
in
religion;
the
believe
that
your
only
like
coquettishness.
pos-
sessed
recompensing
charms.
M.
Colombey
asserts
that
she
became
convinced
of
two
things,
about
which
she
character
and
reputation
different characteristics.
If?
Jttfetresses
antr
agjtbes
of
Houts
XIU
dying
of
sadness,
be
easily
imagined?
I
have
been
young
and
pretty;
I
have
enjoyed
pleasures;
I
have
spent
years
in
intellectual
intercourse;
I
have
attained
favor;
One
atones
heavily
133
overnight.
France,
the
daugh-
ter
of
Henry
IV.
and
Marie
de'
Medici.
She
was
pure
and
of
a
te'te-a-te'te
with
him.
One
day,
with
fright.
the
kings'
favorites
becoming
part
of
their
own
households
Guizot
describes
this
period
most
vividly:
When
Mme.
de
Montespan
began
to
supplant
her
in
the
king's
I have
energy
and
tenderness;
through
brightness
of
her
fall.
nature
only
she
appealed.
as maitresse-en-titre
minister,
Colbert,
to
to
give
all
she
had
to
the
poor;
she
alsjo
founded
a
hospital
in
which
she
nursed
the
sick.
While
at
the
convent,
she
tried,
in
vain,
to
effect
a
reconciliation
with
her
husband;
not
until
every
avenue
history
of
Mme.
de
Maintenon
is
studied,
the
in
making
less
heavy
the
burdens
of
the
people.
ignores
them.
a woman
king's
com-
panion,
his
friend
and
consoler.
Writers
of
this
school
would
like
to
effect,
was
future
Mme.
de
Maintenon
blood
or
rank.
queen.
Thus
freed
from
care,
sympathy
and
of
her
pension,
the
pension
renewed,
thus
inadvertently
paving
the
way
for
of
love,
the
it
a
mingling
of
woman,
and
Spanish
imagina-
tion
allured
by
the
fancy
of
having
extricated
invaluable.
not
inclined
to
theological
investigation,
but
was
sincerely
devout.
and
almost
complete
absence
of
her
influence
in
politics.
She
was
never
happy,
and
her
sole
motive
for
living.
When
in
power,
she
king
(in
1715),
she
re-
Seminary
of
Saint-Cyr,
which
the
king
aversion
for
me,
to
a
young
lady
teachings
her
experience
affection,
tenderness
and
sympathy.
She
remains
in
educational
nearly
gran-
deur
too
close
at
hand
not
to
understand
its
nothingness,
well
as
desirable
qualities
qualities
that
made
her
powerful
and
incomparable.
Hacter,
Jttme*
tre
fflaglus
167
genuine
taste
for
solid
reading;
from
these
instructors
she
learned
Spanish,
Italian,
and
Latin.
admirers
Marigny,
that
delicate
epicurean,
that
improviser
following:
With
a
passion
whose
ardor
is
extreme,
And
which
we
dare
not
express,
How
foolish
we
are,
then,
to
love
I
privileges
he
one
by
is
in
charming
conversation,
were
written,
telling
her
of
her
health,
days,
drove
me
to
go?
magnificent gold,
which we
gayety
and
century.
to health after
impossible,
and
yet
this
is
what
happened
to
Mme.
de
Sevigne.
Her
contemporaries
Fayette,
who,
in
1665,
took
her
to
Paris,
where
she
with
all
things
necessary
to
happiness
fortune,
reputation,
talent,
intimate
and
ideal
friendship.
Extremely
sensitive
to
surroundings,
she
readily
received
I was
been
purged;
I
am
purged
once,
I
am
purged
twice;
the
day
after
table;
oh,
dear
I
any
soup.
Have
a
little
meat,
then?
No,
I
do
not
wish
any.
Well,
you
will
have
purpose,
as
yester-
day.
should
die
to
her
principal
gift.
Her
liaison
with
La
Rochefoucauld
he
took
possession
of
intimate,
took
literary
work
(his
Maxims),
her
influence
over
him
was
supposed
to
have
somewhat
Fay-
ette,
by
her
tenderness
and
judgment,
tempered
the
tone
of
them
before
they
reached
the
public.
be found.
has
experienced.
from
it.
a
good
mien,
arms
and
hands
not
beautiful,
longer
for
vices,
and
women
blush
over
their
learn-
ing
only.
She
has
freed
the
mind,
held
captive
under
this
prejudice,
and
she
alone
supports
us
in
our
rights.
and
Latin.
depth
of
given
by
M.
de
Valincour
for
and
witty
niece
was
soon
overwhelmed
by
proposals
of
marriage
from
the
greatest
nobles
of
France.
Her
brief
and
witty
Souvenirs
(Memoirs),
showing
marvellous
finesse
in
study-
ing
than
is
many
a
picture
or
fresco.
in
Eeltgton
vows.
Later
on,
the
sisters
were
permitted
to
receive,
also,
young
ladies
of
the
nobility.
199
and
crowded
that
Mere
Angelique
withdrew
to
the
abbey
near
Ver-
sailles,
the
occupants
government
and
people,
aroused
the
suspicions
of
Richelieu.
When
in
1640
the
Port-Royalists
inmates
of
Port-Royal,
or
its
friends
and
constant
visitors.
however,
a
provision
which
made
the
the
century
a
century
which
boasts
such
writers
and
theologians
as
Nicole,
Pascal,
Racine,
etc.
know
the
respect
joy?
Let
us
the
the truth and
occasion of
so excellent
means
of
winning
the
grace
of
Jesus
Christ,
she
abandoned
it.
in
Rome
party,
personal
merit
being
the
only
delicious
dishes
were
prepared
medical
experiments.
and
friends
all
over
France;
she
lived
there
until
1678,
with
but
one
intimate
friend,
Mme.
de
Longueville.
rank,
meetings
for
kingdom
of
from
Lacombe,
who
had
been
imprisoned
at
Vincennes
for
a
long
time,
exhorting
her
to
repent
of
their
is none
d'Angennes,
Mile.
d'Arquenay,
and
Mile,
de
was
much
more
congenial,
than
in
any
other
century.
Young
men
paid
court
to
the
older
ladies,
world-wise
when
they
reasonable.
end
social
success.
The
duty
enjoy
that
reading,
and
Noverre
chief
topic
of
conversation
in
social
circles,
and
eighteenth
century.
tru
Befantr,
JHlic.
tre
that
223
vated,
which
finally
spread
through
all
classes
of
society,
mother.
In
1714
Chevalier
Destouches.
About
1726,
her
and
vigor,
may
live
with
man
only;
receptions
were
among
the
Law,
the
controleur-general,
and
her
lover
Dubois,
she
was
able
quent,
to
to
entertain
the
nobility;
and
and
learning,
arbitress,
during
at
Mme.
Geoffrin's;
when
any
aspirant
her;
Rousseau
judges
them
by
their
con-duct,
never
by
their
talents.
in a
was
char-
acteristic
of
the
society
of
the
to
the
great
dismay
Philippe
of
Orleans,
the
success.
an
Joseph
was
not
opened
until
1749;
there
great
men,
foreigners
and
natives,
found
for love.
of
disappointment
of
a
woman
who
had
constantly
sought
love
who
saw
reality
and
nothing
but
real-
ity,
and
admitted
what
she
saw;
she
was
gifted
with
such
another
world.
She
is
not
happy
enough
to
milieu')]
she
mind,
although,
to
her
intimates,
their
minds
preoccupied
with
themselves.
Mme.
du
Deffand
had
an
inherent
passion
for
simplicity,
frankness,
justice,
and
a
society,
solitude,
husband,
lovers,
herself,
nothing
remained
for
<u
by
always
the
faithful
interpreters
of
the
sentiment
of
her
soul.
Her
form
nor
the
other.
As
far
as
Mme.
truly
the
one
who
deserves
genuine
pity
and
sympathy.
The
salon
of
Mile,
de
Lespinasse,
her
rival,
was
of
a
different
type,
being
exclusively
intellectual,
but
permit-
ting
absolute
liberty
of
expression
of
opinions.
Born
in
those
salons
Mile,
de
Lespinasse,
one
world,
with
a
prominent
salon,
was
the
and
most
elegant
of
the
aristocracy
coming
from
their
palaces
to
meet,
in
friendly
social
and
intellectual
intercourse,
had
been
kind,
for
they
do
not
return
often.
Nature,
in
endowing
you
with
an
ordinary
state,
gave
you
something
During
these
there
respected.
ffimt.
Nerfter,
ffimt.
Ir'iSpinas,
JEinor
girl
of
her
serious
make-up,
her
moral
education
and
her
pure
ancestry
of
the
251
could become
them to their
Helvetius,
the
author,
utterly
go
to
your
house
en
esprit.
I
arrive,
I
find
you
now
busy
with
your
headdress,
now
busy
with
this
duchess.
I
seat
myself
at
your
feet.
Thomas
quietly
suffers,
Morellet
shows
his
anger
aloud.
Grimm
and
Suard
laugh
heartily
about
it,
and
my
dear
Comte
de
Greuze
does
not
notice
it.
Marmontel
finds
the
example
worthy
to
be
imitated,
and
you,
madame,
make
two
of
your
most
any
spirit
doctrines
about
upon
a
danseuse.
The
poor
young
wife
was
between
two
fires,
the
extravagance
and
wild
dissipations
she lost
absolute
wretchedness.
havin

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