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MADAME DE MAINTENON ET LA CULTURE ROUMAINE
MADAME DE MAINTENON AND THE ROMANIAN CULTURE

Author(s): Ileana Mihaila
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Françoise d’Aubigné; Marquise de Maintenon; 17th century French literature; Eugenia Scriban; Constantin Şăineanu; Ana Davila; Dora d’Istria; female education; literary reception.

Summary/Abstract: Madame de Maintenon et la culture roumaine. The purpose of this paper is to offer an outline of Madame de Maintenon’s reception in Romanian culture. Her name, although unknown as a writer, may be found in Romanian newspapers as early as 1907. Several articles in the literary journals would be dedicated to Madame de Maintenon. They presented her personality, her life, and her rich correspondence, through which “she went down into French literary history”.

  • Issue Year: 56/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 81-88
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: French