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Beauty and the Beast
The Original Story
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast, was a successful novelist...
The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile
Three Women’s Stories
This volume provides an English translation of firsthand testimonies by three early modern French women. It...
Midwife to the Queen of France
Diverse Observations
Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a...
Othea’s Letter to Hector
Othea’s Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan’s most popular works, is at the same...
Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France
Three Women’s Stories
The texts available here in English for the first time open a window into the lives...
The Book of the Mutability of Fortune
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters,...
Writings of Resistance
An erudite abbess of Port-Royal, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly (1624 – 1684) resisted the demands of...
Beauty and the Beast
The Original Story
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast, was a successful novelist...
The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile
Three Women’s Stories
This volume provides an English translation of firsthand testimonies by three early modern French women. It...
Midwife to the Queen of France
Diverse Observations
Diverse Observations is a groundbreaking book available for the first time in English. Written by a...
Othea’s Letter to Hector
Othea’s Letter to Hector, one of Christine de Pizan’s most popular works, is at the same...
Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France
Three Women’s Stories
The texts available here in English for the first time open a window into the lives...
The Book of the Mutability of Fortune
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364–ca. 1431) has long been recognized as France’s first professional woman of letters,...
Writings of Resistance
An erudite abbess of Port-Royal, Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d’Andilly (1624 – 1684) resisted the demands of...