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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture

by Mita Choudhury

2004 272 pages eng

"Representations of convents and nuns took on power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters …

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