| PREFACE | [vii] |
| Chapter I.
| Woman in politics | [1] |
| Chapter II.
| Woman in Family Life, Education, and Letters | [31] |
| Chapter III.
| The Seventeenth Century: Woman at Her Best | [69] |
| Chapter IV.
| Woman in Society and Literature | [97] |
| Chapter V.
| Mistresses and Wives of Louis XIV | [131] |
| Chapter VI.
| Mme. de Sévigné, Mme. de La Fayette, Mme. Dacier, Mme. de Caylus | [165] |
| Chapter VII.
| Woman in Religion | [197] |
| Chapter VIII.
| Salon Leaders: Mme. de Tencin, Mme. Geoffrin, Mme. du Deffand, Mlle. de Lespinasse,
Mme. du Châtelet | [221] |
| Chapter IX.
| Salon Leaders—(Continued):
Mme. Necker, Mme. d'Epinay, Mme. de Genlis: Minor Salons
| [249] |
| Chapter X.
| Social Classes | [277] |
| Chapter XI.
| Royal Mistresses | [305] |
| Chapter XII.
| Marie Antoinette and the Revolution | [329] |
| Chapter XIII.
| Women of the Revolution and the Empire | [355] |
| Chapter XIV.
| Women of the Nineteenth Century | [381] |