Madeleine de Puisieux

Madeleine d'Arsant de Puisieux (1720–1798) was a French writer and feminist.

Madeleine de Puisieux, who was born in Paris, became a published author in 1745 and sometimes collaborated with Denis Diderot. In 1750, she published La Femme n'est pas inférieure à l'homme ("Woman is not inferior to man"). She was married to Philippe-Florent de Puisieux (1713–1772), lawyer at the Paris parliament and the French ambassador to Switzerland. She had no children but made her name publishing advice books for girls.[1] She was given a state pension in 1795 and died in 1798.

From 1746 to 1755 she had a relationship with Denis Diderot. [2]

Bibliography

Sources

  1. Berenguier, Nadine. Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France. p. 9. ISBN 1409478580. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  2. Will Durant (1965). The Story of Civilization Volume 9:The Age of Voltaire. Simon&Schuster. pp. 624,675.
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