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New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women (Paperback)
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New Observations on the French Language, with Praises of Illustrious Learned Women (Paperback)
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Two volumes by a seventeenth-century French gentlewoman and
teacher, published in English for the first time. Â According
to the few historical records that mention Marguerite Buffet, she
lived her entire life in seventeenth-century Paris where she taught
French to aristocratic women. Buffet’s vivid example of proper
language use in New Observations on the French Language offers a
rare glimpse into the life, habits, and culture of
seventeenth-century France. She describes common errors in
contemporary language use and gives examples of correct expressions
for speaking and writing all the while encouraging women to aspire
to higher levels of intellectual achievement. Â In addition,
her Praises of Illustrious Learned Women, a catalog of biographies
of women who displayed exemplary intellect, wit, and conversation,
includes a number of the author’s contemporaries such as Anna
Maria van Schurman and Madeleine de Scudéry. Buffet’s collected
praises of these women, many of whom were connected to the court of
Louis XIV, show her unique position as both a participant in and
historian of the intellectual and social world of the French salon.
 This volume presents Buffet’s work in its near entirety
for the first time in English, bringing to light Buffet’s unique
contribution to the centuries-long debate concerning the status of
women known as the querelle des femmes. Â
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