Download or read book Femmes Savantes Et Femmes D'esprit written by Roland G. Bonnel and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century France, there were numerous women thinkers and writers, whose contributions to society and to intellectual life were rarely acknowledged either by their contemporaries or in successive generations. This book aims at evaluating their involvement in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century France as novelists, épistolières, moralists, philosophers, journalists, painters, dramatists, and salonières.