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Laboratoire Litt&Arts

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with that background the question is : How did a few wmnwomen - very few - succeedin escaping from the imposed role for theirsex? You discover that they had ONEfeature in common: they didn't depend ona man, father or husband. They were entitledto solitude and free time, for différent reasons they were loosedfrom the bonds of family, marriage,motherhood.

One discovers that these remarkablewomen were either widows, neglected or separated wives, either nuns, eithersingle, described under the scornful nameof spinsters, either lesbians, as was thefirst of all wmnwomen to leave her name to posteritySAPPHO, the greek poet of 5th Century BC.I will briefly quote a few famous names...  you maynot have heard of them not being French...But I am sure that in every country, onecan draw up a similar list.

I will mention Héloïse, a 12th Century nunMme de Lafayette, whose husband never livedwith her. Author of one of the most famous novelsin the 17th. Mme de Maintenon (widow L. XIVLouis XIV) Mmede Sévigné, widow. George Sand of course, divorcedvery young and who took care not to remarrywhich left her free of writing more than 30 books, of having a passionate life (Musset Chopin) and politicalengagements