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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 Sévigné, Mme. de La Fayette, Mme. Dacier,
Mme. de Caylus

Chapter VII. Woman in Religion

Chapter VIII. Salon Leaders Mme. de Tencin, Mme. Geoffrin, Mme.
du Deffand, Mlle. de Lespinasse, Mme. du Châtelet

Chapter IX. Salon Leaders—(Continued): Mme. Necker, Mme.
d'Epinay, Mme. de Genlis: Minor Salons