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WOMAN

in all ages and in all countries


WOMEN OF MODERN FRANCE

by

HUGO P. THIEME, Ph.D.

Of the University of Michigan


THE RITTENHOUSE PRESS PHILADELPHIA




Copyrighted at Washington and entered at Stationer's Hall, London,

1907--1908

and printed by arrangement with George Barrie's Sons.


PRINTED IN U.S.A.




CONTENTS

                PREFACE

     Chapter I. Woman in politics

    Chapter II. Woman in Family Life, Education, and Letters

   Chapter III. The Seventeenth Century: Woman at Her Best

    Chapter IV. Woman in Society and Literature

     Chapter V. Mistresses and Wives of Louis XIV

    Chapter VI. Mme. de Sevigne, M