Author: BEAUPRE, B. de
Title: Notions Generales et Elementaires de Droit Francais a l'Usage des Femmes ...
Description: Paris, Mme Ve Maire-Nyon 1844. 12mo calf backed mottled boards (paper surface nibbled by bugs). A few light spots, pretty good with the bookplate of de Rambuteau - Claude-Philibert Barthelot, prefect of Paris in the 1830s and 40s, the man who gave Paris the pissoir. ¶ First edition. This didn't have the success predicted by Delphine de Girardin, in one of her Parisian Letters: "Mr. de Beaupre has just published a very interesting book entitled: General and Elementary Notions of French Law for the Use of Women. This work, quite timely, is destined for the greatest success. In France, the future of business belongs to women. Men, dizzy, sleepy, stupefied by the immoderate use of tobacco, will soon no longer be in a position to occupy themselves seriously. In fifty years from now, women will be at the head of all businesses, administrations, banking houses, etc., etc.; they already direct all political affairs surreptitiously; in fifty years, they will conduct all industrial and administrative affairs openly;" But, then again, neither did women.

Keywords: social science political economy law feminism reform c19th France women