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Born a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. This volume presents the dialogues and adresses in which she explains her controversial philosophy of education for women.Madame de Maintenon is the author of 'Dialogues and Addresses (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)', published 2004 under ISBN 9780226502410 and ISBN 0226502414.
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