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1095: 573: 474:, which contains about 2.1 million words, ranks among the longest novels ever published. Her novels derive their length from endless conversations and, as far as incidents go, successive abductions of the heroines, conceived and told decorously. Contemporary readers also enjoyed these novels because they gave a glimpse into the life of important society figures. These figures were often disguised as Persian, Greek, and Roman warriors and maidens. In fact, Scudéry created the 671: 185:, Normandy, in northern France, she was without fortune, but she was exceedingly well-educated. Her father, captain of the port in Le Havre, died in 1613 with her mother following shortly after. Madeleine and her brother Georges de Scudéry were placed in the care of an uncle who cared for them very well. He gave Madeleine an abnormally well-rounded education: she studied writing, spelling, drawing, dancing, painting, and 44: 1032: 1062: 589:
Madeleine survived her brother by more than thirty years, and in her later days published numerous volumes of conversations, to a great extent extracted from her novels, thus forming a kind of anthology of her work. Scudéry was deaf for the last 40 years of her life. She outlived her vogue to some
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covering "Conversation," "The Art of Speaking," "Raillery," "Invention," and "The Manner of Writing Letters." This text offers the rhetoric of salon conversation and model scenarios where women take intellectual control of the conversation. Other works devoted to conversations, pertaining to the
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that it is suspected she had received instruction in Greek and Latin. In 1637, following the death of her uncle, Scudéry established herself in Paris with her brother, Georges de Scudéry, who became a playwright. Madeleine often used her older brother's name,
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Madeleine de Scudéry was part of a movement in the late Renaissance in England and France where women used classical rhetorical theory for their own. She revised discourse to be modeled on conversation rather than public speaking, favoring that as a means of
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education of women include: "The Slave Queen" (1660), "Mathilda of Aguilar, a Spanish Tale," (1667), and "The Versailles Promenade, or the Tale of Celanire" (1669). These covered the art of speaking,
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The Carte de Tendre was "conceived as a social game during the Winter of 1653–1654" by Madeleine de Scudery, and a printed copy was "later incorporated into the first volume of her coded novel,
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Oliver Mallick, "Le héros de toutes les saisons": Herrscherlob und politische Reflexionen in Madeleine de Scudérys Roman "La Promenade de Versailles" (1669), in:
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Scudéry's novels are usually set in the classical world or "the Orient", but their language and action reflect fashionable ideas of the 17th century, and the
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Donawerth, Jane (Spring 1992). "Conversation and the Boundaries of Public Discourse in Rhetorical Theory by Renaissance Women".
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where the geography is all based around the theme of love: the river of Inclination flows past the villages of "Billet Doux" (
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to a theory of salon conversation and letter writing. Scudéry's Conversations Sur Divers Sujets, included
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to provide a forum for her thinly veiled fiction featuring political and public figures.
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of France and of the world. She formed a close romantic relationship with
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Controversial in her own era, Mademoiselle de Scudéry was satirized by
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Summaries of the stories and keys to the characters may be found in
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Madeleine de Scudéry et son salon: d'après des documents inédits
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wrote what is usually referred to as the first German-language
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which was only ended by his death in 1693. She never married.
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The Grand Cyrus, Clelia, and Ibraheem the Illustrious Bassa
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was published at Paris by MM. Rathery and Boutron in 1873.
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Her works also demonstrate such comprehensive knowledge of
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Conversations Nouvelles sur Divers Sujets, Dediees Au Roy
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Geschichte des französischen Romans im 17ten Jahrhundert
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Mademoiselle de Scudéry is also featured prominently in
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Selected letters, orations, and rhetorical dialogues
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Mademoiselle de Scudéry: Sa vie et sa correspondance
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Project Continua: Biography of Madeleine de Scudéry
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Index

Mademoiselle de Scudéry
Madeleine de Scudéry
Le Havre
Normandy
France
Roman à clef
Précieuses
ancient history
George
Hôtel de Rambouillet
préciosité
salon
bluestocking
Paul Pellisson
Le Havre
needlework
French
Francophone literature
by category
Medieval
Renaissance
17th
18th
19th
20th century
Contemporary
Précieuses
Classicism
Rococo
Decadent

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