The Description for this book, Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in Seventeenth-Century France, will be forthcoming.

What if you lived in a world where everybody was kind to each other? What if you were the one who could assist in creating that?What if you had a relationship t

How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system

Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as w

Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential power brokers, French Salons offers an orig