Far from Home in Early Modern France

Three Women's Stories

Far from Home in Early Modern France
Marie Guyart De L'inc, Anne-marie Fiquet Du Bocca, Henriette-lucie Dillon De La To, Colette H Winn, Lauren King
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Paperback
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4 Nov 2022 US
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9781649590541
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An engaging account of women' s travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when such traveling was rare. In 1639, Marie de l' Incarnation embarked for New France where she founded the first Ursuline monastery in present-day Canada. In 1750, Madame du Boccage set out at the age of forty on her first "grand tour. " She visited England, the Netherlands, and Italy where she experienced firsthand the intellectual liberty offered there to educated women. As the Reign of Terror gripped France, the Marquise de la Tour du Pin fled to America with her husband and their two young children, where they ran a farm from 1794 to 1796. The writings these women left behind detailing their respective journeys abroad represent significant contributions to early modern travel literature. This book makes available to anglophone readers three texts that are rich in both historical and literary terms.
Marie Guyart de l' Incarnation was an Ursuline nun and missionary. Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage was a Frenchwoman who set out for a series of "grand tours" in Europe in 1750 who kept a detailed record of her educational journeys to England, Holland, and Italy. Henriette-Lucie Dillon de la Tour du Pin fled revolutionary France for the United States. Her copious Journal of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman is one of few written testimonies of escape from the Reign of Terror written by a woman author. Colette H. Winn is professor emerita of French at Washington University in St. Louis. Lauren King received her MA in French literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. Elizabeth Hagstrom received her B. A. in French and international and area studies from Washington University in St. Louis.
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ISBN-13: 9781649590541
Published: 4 Nov 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Iter Press
Publisher: Iter Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 9mm
Width: 6mm
Pages: 312

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