Copyrighted at Washington and entered at Stationer's Hall, London,

1907–1908

and printed by arrangement with George Barrie's Sons.

PRINTED IN U.S.A.


Contents

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]

PREFACE