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... empire. Graffigny’s presentation of this event (which she freely transposes two hundred years into the future so that Zilia can arrive in eighteenth- century France) emphasizes how the Inca, with devastating results, translated this moment of chance into a series of ominous continuities...

... of Washington 2021 In this ambitious book Pamela L. Cheek analyzes representations of female virtue by women writing in French, Dutch, German, and English and reading, translating, and imitating one another, including Françoise de Graffigny, Germaine de Staël, Isabelle de Zuylen de Charrière, Elisabeth...

... this question, because in his terms the spirit of the moment was potent enough to suspend class divisions, as he suggests in the chapter on Marivaux (19).In the chapters on de Graffigny and Boucher he seems to argue that the “sense of the moment” was not exclusively or predominantly a male...

... also included Letters of a Peruvian Woman (1747), purportedly the letters of an Inca princess to her fiancé. The author, Françoise de Graffigny, who had moved to Paris as a widow from her native Nancy, became an eminent writer of the French Enlightenment (Graffigny 2009 ). In his turn, Oliver...

... a complaint with Berryer. It was certainly Marmontel who had the best motive for dissatisfaction. All the articles contained in 1749, except two, are very short and quite innocent; the only items which might conceivably have given offense are a review of Madame de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une...