c1700-1864 La Malice Des Femmes, Avec La Farce de Martin Baton [With] La Malice des Femmes Ou Les Fourberies Feminines [With] Le Merite des Femmes Poeme Par Gabriel Legouve [With] Le Demerite Des Femmes Par Auguste Imbert

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

With a frontispiece and vignette title to 'La Malice des Femmes Ou Les Fourberies Feminines' and 'Le Demerite Des Femmes'. The first two works to this volume are written anonymously, with no record of their authorship. The first work, 'La Malice des Femmes Avec La Farce de Martin Baton' is undated and there does not appear to be a record of this particular imprint. Dated c1700 in accordance to other Rouen imprints of same pagination. The second work to this volume is a collection of anecdotes regarding the malice or cunning of women. It contains a number of 'comic and entertaining' anecdotes at the expense of women. The third work to this volume is a poem titled 'le merite des femmes' by the famous French playwright, poet and moralist critic. The fourth work to this volume is a piece written by the 19th Century French playwright, Auguste Imbert. This piece has a graphic frontispiece and title page of a woman being hanged. To the preface Imbert speaks of these images he sketched, saying that it is not a hollow dream or imagination but what should be reality. He then goes on to speak of women's wiles. This work is an interesting collection of viewpoints and satire towards women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. All works are in French.