La Vertu Feminine, de la Cour de Sceaux a la Guillotine [French]

Book Overview

This text considers the Enlightenment through the unprecedented prism of female virtue. It presents figures who embody its project of emancipation. Against a backdrop of polygenesis, it shows how exempla virtutis, the foundation of the Enlightenment imaginary, are heirs to humanism and gallant culture, among other things.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2406125823
• ISBN13: 9782406125822
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 39.39 lbs.