Madame de Maintenon, A Memoir

by Walter Bennett

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Extra-illustrated. 365 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Purple morocco gilt with Cosway style binding with watercolor portrait under glass, a.e.g., by Root & Son, London. Item #320582 Madame de Maintenon founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, considered to have greatly influenced the demands of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, the first women's political interest group founded in 1793. Maintenon’s treatises on education linked gender

• Binding: Leather

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