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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Other voice in early modern Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 177 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226502403 0226502406 9780226502410 0226502414 9780226502427 0226502422 1281125865 9781281125866 9786611125868 6611125868 |