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Women.- [Lambert (Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de)] Reflexions Nouvelles sur les Femmes, third edition, Londres, chez J.P.Coderc, in Little New-port Stret, 1730.

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Women.- [Lambert (Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de)] Reflexions Nouvelles sur les Femmes, third edition, half-title, lightly browned, old ink stamp to margin of first leaf of text, colour-printed armorial bookplate of Jules de Moulin to rear pastedown, contemporary sheep, spine gilt with later red roan label, rubbed, corners a little worn, 12mo, "Londres, chez J.P.Coderc, in Little New-port Stret", 1730.

⁂ The Marquise de Lambert was a celebrated hostess whose weekly salons for the literati and society inaugurated the Enlightenment's salon tradition which became influential in electing many seats at the Académie Français. She was interested in education and is most well-know for her works Advice from a mother to her son (1726) and Advice from a mother to her daughter (1728). The present work was first published in 1727.

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Women.- [Lambert (Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de)] Reflexions Nouvelles sur les Femmes, third edition, half-title, lightly browned, old ink stamp to margin of first leaf of text, colour-printed armorial bookplate of Jules de Moulin to rear pastedown, contemporary sheep, spine gilt with later red roan label, rubbed, corners a little worn, 12mo, "Londres, chez J.P.Coderc, in Little New-port Stret", 1730.

⁂ The Marquise de Lambert was a celebrated hostess whose weekly salons for the literati and society inaugurated the Enlightenment's salon tradition which became influential in electing many seats at the Académie Français. She was interested in education and is most well-know for her works Advice from a mother to her son (1726) and Advice from a mother to her daughter (1728). The present work was first published in 1727.

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