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Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and direct...

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1. Verfasser: Maintenon, Madame de, 1635-1719
Weitere Verfasser: Conley, John J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Schriftenreihe:Other voice in early modern Europe.
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Zusammenfassung:Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women. Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and religious fanatic, Maintenon has long been criticized as an.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxxiii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index.
ISBN:9780226502403
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9780226502410
0226502414
9780226502427
0226502422
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9781281125866
9786611125868
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