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Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)
Against Marriage The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle - The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe
Author: Anne-Marie-Louise D'Orleans Montpensier
In seventeenth-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de Montpensier--a first cousin of Louis XIV--was one of very few exceptions, thanks to the va...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226534923
ISBN-10: 0226534928
Publication Date: 12/1/2002
Pages: 115
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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