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PRINGY, Jeanne Michelle de - Les differens caracteres des fe…
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542
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PRINGY, Jeanne Michelle de - Les differens caracteres des fe…
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Estimate €150
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Description
PRINGY, Jeanne Michelle de - Les differens caracteres des femmes du siecle, avec la description de l'amour propre. Containing six characteristics & six perfections. Caracteres. I. The Coquettes. II. The Bigottes. III. The Spiritualists. IV. The Economes. V. The Players. VI. The Pleaders. Perfections. I. Modesty. II. Piety. III. Science. IV. The Rule. V. Occupation. VI. The Peace. By Madame de Pringy. Seconde edition augmentée. Paris, Medard-Michel, 1699. In-8, (10) ff, 278 pp. (1) f., contemporary granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, small damage to one edge.
GAY I, 913. First edition in 1694. Dedicated to Marie d'Orléans, duchesse de Nemours. ''Curieuse étude sur les femmes du grand Siècle, dédiée à Marie d'Orléans, duchesse de Nemours.'' Mme de Pringy presents the ''Coquettes'', the ''Bigotes'' and the ''Spirituelles'' in balance with virtues that contrast with them. For example, coquettes are compared with modesty. Self-love, "the dominant passion of women", contains the seeds of all their faults. Mme de Pringy no doubt remembers La Rochefoucauld's observations, which she merely develops. Although she describes the effects of a bad education, her criticism remains misogynistic: women's temperament predisposes them to trifles. Beauty inspires in them a self-love which makes them lead a soft and inactive life: and instead of breaking the course of this effeminate inclination, they are still provided with means to strengthen the habit and to enjoy it even more''. Ex-libris of the Count of Saint-Albin.
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