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Category:17th-century French women. Category. : 17th-century French women. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 17th-century women of France. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century French people. It includes French people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Julie d'Aubigny (French: [ʒyli dobiɲi]; 1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, rumour, and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous fictional and semi ...
Madame d'Aulnoy. Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy (1650/1651 – 14 January 1705), [1] also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, was a French author known for her literary fairy tales. Her 1697 collection Les Contes des Fées (Fairy Tales) coined the literary genre's name and included the first story to feature "Prince Charmant ...
Charles Joseph of Lorraine. Charles Louis, Count of Marsan. Charles de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac. Charles, Count of Marsan. Charles, Prince of Rochefort. Charles, Duke of Berry (1686–1714) Martin Chartier. Marie-Madeleine de Chauvigny de la Peltrie. Germaine Cousin.
Amélie (given name) Amicie. Anaïs (given name) Anastasie. Andrea. Andréanne. Andrée (given name) Andrée-Anne. Angèle.
Women in the French Revolution. In Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, Lady Liberty leads the people of the French Revolution of 1830. Historians since the late 20th century have debated how women shared in the French Revolution and what impact it had on French women. Women had no political rights in pre-Revolutionary France; they ...
Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne. Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut. Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), philosophe, author of Julie, or the New Heloise. Denis Diderot (1713–1784), philosophe, author of Rameau's Nephew.
Catherine Arley, pen name of Pierrette Pernot (1922–2016), novelist and actress. Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918), writer, biographer and historian. Angélique Arnaud (1799–1884), novelist, essayist and feminist. Madeleine de l’Aubespine (1546–1596), poet, literary patron, and one of the earliest female erotic poets.