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- Author: Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
- Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
- ISBN-10: 1421896117
- ISBN-13: 9781421896113
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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It has been a labor of love with many distinguished Frenchmen to recall the memories of the women who have made their society so illustrious, and to retouch with sympathetic insight the features which time was beginning to dim. One naturally hesitates to enter a field that has been gleaned so carefully, and with such brilliant results, by men like Cousin, Sainte-Beuve, Goncourt, and others of lesser note. But the social life of the two centuries in which women played so important a role in France is always full of human interest from whatever point of view one may regard it. If there is not a great deal to be said that is new, old facts may be grouped afresh, and old modes of life and thought measured by modern standards.
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- Author: Amelia Ruth Gere Mason
- Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
- ISBN-10: 1421896117
- ISBN-13: 9781421896113
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
It has been a labor of love with many distinguished Frenchmen to recall the memories of the women who have made their society so illustrious, and to retouch with sympathetic insight the features which time was beginning to dim. One naturally hesitates to enter a field that has been gleaned so carefully, and with such brilliant results, by men like Cousin, Sainte-Beuve, Goncourt, and others of lesser note. But the social life of the two centuries in which women played so important a role in France is always full of human interest from whatever point of view one may regard it. If there is not a great deal to be said that is new, old facts may be grouped afresh, and old modes of life and thought measured by modern standards.
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