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DU BOSC, Jacques - The Honest Woman.
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114
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DU BOSC, Jacques - The Honest Woman.
See original version (French)
Estimate €600
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DU BOSC, Jacques - The Honest Woman. Last edition. Reveuë, corrigée et augmentée par l'Autheur. Paris, Augustin Courbé, 1640-1639 (tome III). 3 vol. in-4, (28) ff, 454 pp, (5) ff; (8) ff, 381 (25) pp; (4) ff, 528 pp, (8) ff, yellowed paper, contemporary granulated brown calf, gilt thread on covers, spine with mute nerves decorated with gilt thread.
First edition from 1632 to 1636. Volumes I and II are dedicated to Marie-Madeleine de Vignerot, niece of Richelieu; volume III to Christine de France, daughter of Henri IV and Duchess of Savoy. Jacques du Bosc, a Cordelier, also wrote a 2-volume Philosophe indifférent in 1643, whose apologetic method prefigured that of Pascal's Pensées. The work is preceded by an important preface by Perrot d'Ablancourt who, according to Tallemant, may have reworked it. Along with Grenaille, Du Bos represents the Christian feminist movement that emerged in the first half of the 17th century. Their main historical interest was to break with a tradition of anti-feminism that was well established in ecclesiastical circles. The primary concern of Christian feminism was to restore the idea of equality between the sexes (V. Albistur, Histoire du féminisme français, pp. 188-189). Du Bosc, although he could not find strong enough words to stigmatise the reading of novels, the source of all vices and debaucheries, nevertheless advocated the education of women; the sciences should be taken out of the colleges where they were confined, particularly classical culture, which women should make the most of. He challenged a number of prejudices: that nobility by blood was no guarantee of virtue or honesty, and that women were unequally suited to acquiring knowledge.
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