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| Some Women Of France | 
| Author: Paul Barron Watson
Publisher: Braithwaite Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1406770779
EAN: 9781406770773
ASIN: 1406770779
Publication Date: March 15, 2007
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SOME WOMEN OF FRANCE By PAUL BAflRON WATSON Author of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Swedish Revolution under Gustavus Vascf Tales of Ncrmandie New Yorfc COWARD-McCANN, fnc. MADAME DE STAEL FOREWORD T J-H - H 1 E handful of essays contained in this little volume has no other purpose than to whet ones appetite for more elaborate studies. They were compiled merely as a pastime by a busy lawyer who loves France and admires many of the traits of French people. There are certain things about the French which Anglo-Saxons do not readily comprehend. Chief of these is the extraordinary influence which women have exerted in almost every period of French history. To some extent this is due to innate characteristics of the Latin races. They are people of warm emotions. But the main reason why vi FOREWORD French women have been able to play a leading part is that they are carefully educated in those things which in the natu ral order of events will be the chief preoccupation of their lives. Appreciation of art and architecture, correct diction, posture, the art of conversation, social amenities of every kind, are fundamentals of every French girls training. Of still greater importances every girl, before her schooling is ended, has an exhaustive knowledge of her countrys literature. She can read, if not speak, English and Italian. And, above all, she has acquired skill in literary composition. The humblest seamstress in France can write a letter which reminds one of madame de Sevigne. Then, too, most French women are dis tinguished by an intense enthusiasm for their native land. Beginning with Jeanne dArc and running through the days of the Revolution, when madame Roland was sacrificed on the scaffold, women have vied with men in deeds of heroic cour age. Female heroism stands forth almost as a national cult. To record the doings of all those women who have added luster to France would not be possible in a single book. The women whose lives are herein pictured are no more famous than many others. Most of them have been chosen for dis cussion simply because they do not seem to the writer to have been adequately treated in other works. CONTENTS H L O 7 5 E page 1 ISABEAU de BAVI RE page 23 MADAME du DEFFAND page 45 MADAME de STAEL page 97 DELPHI NE GAY page 149 MARIE dAGOULT page 181 JULIETTE LAMBER page 217 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MADAME de STAEL Frontispiece MADAME du DEFFAND Facing page 46 DELPHINE GAY Facing page 150 MARIE dAGOULT Facing page 182 JULIETTE LAMBER Facing page 218 mi OF mm
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