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Description:: Démasquer la femme au XVIIème siècle: remise en cause de la personne féminine dans les nouvelles historiques examines the unexpected reconceptualization of personhood in feminine …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Balguerie, Valentine F (creator); Seifert, Lewis (Director); Krause, Virginia (Reader); Beasley, Faith (Reader); Brown University. French Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Personhood; Novel; Gender; Early Modern; Women; Sex; France
Collection:: French Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation investigates the relationship between learning how to speak and learning how to die, between the discovery of eloquence and the experience of death. …
Year:: 2015
Contributor:: Bernthal, Sarah E (creator); Schultz, Gretchen (Director); Saint-Amand, Pierre (Reader); Grossman, Kathryn (Reader); Brown University. French Studies (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: death penalty; execution; scaffold; speech act; revolt; condemnation; courtroom; Romanticism; Human rights; Capital punishment; Executions and executioners; Last words; Speech; Violence; Revolutions; Heroes; Guillotine; Sacrifice; Performance
Collection:: French Studies; Theses and Dissertations

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