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1
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  • the most famous woman in French history
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JEANNE D’ARC

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she is put on trial by the English in Rouen (Normandy) and is found guily of heresy and burned at the stake

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JEANNE D’ARC

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Year in which the English lose France and the 100 Years War

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1453

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Years of the 100 years of war

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1133–1453 ) involving the English and the French (and secondarily, the Burgundians)

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Where was Joan of Arc born

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Lorraine in 1412

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Who captured Joan of Arc

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Burgundians and sold to the English

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Decides not to remarry and devote herself to writing
- Poetry: le Livre des cent ballades (1399)
- Literary criticism: Dit de la rose (1402)
- Feminism: La Cité des dames (1405)
-an allegorical city of ladies
-famous women serve as building blocks
-women are thoroughly capable of intellectual and social contribution
- Women’s education: le Trésor de la cité des dames (1405)
- education for women of all estates
- Praise of women: Ditié de Jeanne d’Arc (1429)

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CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

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-organized a weekly salon with women playing the leading role
- fostering refinement of langage and literature
- mocked by Molière in Les Précieuses

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Mme de Rambouillet

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  • incredibly prolific novelist
  • her novels (Clélie, Artamène) are the longest in French history each running over 10,000 pages
  • take place in antique settings but involve disguised contemporary figures
  • involve detailed conversations on emotions and other aspects of psychology
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Mlle de Scudéry

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MEN TAMERSTHE PRECIEUSES

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Mme de Rambouillet (1588-1665)
-Mlle de Scudéry(167-1701):

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Who invited CARTE DE TENDRE

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Mlle de Scudéry in her novel, Clélie:
The land of Tender

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MEN TAMERSTHE SALONNIERES

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  • 18th century Enlightenment
  • salons run by women: Mme de Tencin, Mme du Deffand, Mlle de Lespinasse…
  • weekly meetings in a private home (with or without meal)
  • 20-30 writers, artists and men of power, important foreign visitors, for conversation and reading
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Who was ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN

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Arguably the greatest French woman painter
1755-1842
Friend and portraitist of Marie-Antoinette
Examples:
Self-portrait painting!
Self-portrait with daughter

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Who was LOUISE MICHEL

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A revolutionary and active fighter during the Commune

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Author of La Misère

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LOUISE MICHEL

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founds the anarchist journal: Le Libertaire

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LOUISE MICHEL

16
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Who was MARIE CURIE

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A SCIENTIST
Nobel Prize in Physics 1903:
- Research on radiation (with her husband Pierre Curie)
- first female professor at the Sorbonne (1906)
- Traité de radioactivité (1910)
- now a widow, she is demonized because of a love affair with a married man (1911)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1913)
- Research on the elements, polonium and radium

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Where was Coco Chanel first store

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Deauville in 1910

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Year of Chanel’s Paris store

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1921

19
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Year in which Coco Chanel reopens her French business

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1954

20
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Who wasSIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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FEMINIST
prolific writer
-essayist:
Le Deuxième sexe (1948) (1000 pages): One isn’t bor a woman, one becomes a woman»
La Vieillesse (1970)
-novelist:
Les Mandarins (1954): novel about left bank Paris in the 50s
- memoirs:
In multiple volumes (3000 pages)

21
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Wrote 1937 La Condition ouvrière

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SIMONE WEIL

22
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Who was SIMONE WEIL

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Philosopher

23
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  • L’Enracinement (Rootedness) of Simone Weil
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  • her political testament
  • SW puts obligations (duties) before rights
  • presents 14 spiritual needs of mankind
  • denounces the three forms (bad) uprooting: of workers, of peasants and of citizens
  • so need to re-root (enraciner) mankind (role of literature and the arts)
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La Pesanteur et la Grâce (Gravity and Grace) of Simone Weil

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  • her spiritual testament
  • thoughts from notebooks organized by Gustave Thibon
  • the thoughts are short and remarkable – in this book she comes across a feminine and Christian mirror image of Nietzsche (and her life shows her concern for the «under-person» not the «Ubermensch!!!)
    -Affliction(malheur) is the feeling of suffering created by experiences like war, and affliction can drive us out of ourselves and toward God
  • Beauty is the proof that the world points to something beyond itself, the divine reality
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Year of the first feminist daily

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1897

26
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Year for legal economic autonomy (salary)

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1907

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Year of right to vote

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1944

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Year of contraceptive pill, legal and reimbursed

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1967

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Year of Mouvement de Libération de Femmes

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1970

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Year for the right of abortion

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1975

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Year for obligation of mixed schools

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1976

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Year of : law of professional equality

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1983

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Year of first female Prime Minister (Edith Cresson)

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1991

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first female Prime Minister

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Edith Cresson

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Year of political parity: parties must present equal numbers of female and male candidates (or pay a fine)

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2000

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Year of law against sexual harassment

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2006

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