Excerpt from The Women of the French Salons It has been the aim in these studies to gather within a limited compass the women who represented the social life of their time on its most intellettual side, and to trace lightly their influence upon civilization through the ave nues of literature and manners. Though the work may lose something in full ness from the ejfort to put so much into so small a space, perhaps there is some compensation in the opportunity of comparing, in one gallery, the women who exercised the greatest ...
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Excerpt from The Women of the French Salons It has been the aim in these studies to gather within a limited compass the women who represented the social life of their time on its most intellettual side, and to trace lightly their influence upon civilization through the ave nues of literature and manners. Though the work may lose something in full ness from the ejfort to put so much into so small a space, perhaps there is some compensation in the opportunity of comparing, in one gallery, the women who exercised the greatest power in France for a period of more than two hundred years. The impossibility of entering into the details of so many lives in a single volume is clearly apparent. Onlv the most salient points can be considered. Many who would amply repay a careful studv have sim ply been glanced at, and others have been omitted altogether. As it would be out of the question in a few pages to make an adequate portrait of women who occupy so conspicuous a place in history as Mme. De Maintenon and Mme. De Stael, the former has been reluctantly passed with a simple allusion. And the latter outlined in a brief re'sume' not at all proportioned to the rela tive interest or importance of the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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