Jacquette Guillaume (
fl.
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1665) was a French writer.
Her best-known work was ''Les dames illustres, où par bonnes et fortes raisons il se prouve que le sexe féminin surpasse en toutes sortes de genres le sexe masculin'', a work of 443 pages published by Thomas Jolly in Paris in 1665. Two copies of this book are believed to exist, in the
Library of Congress
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and at
Duke University
Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...
. In this book she argues for the moral superiority of women over men. The book has been described as "a long-neglected, obscured contribution to the history of early French feminism", and was a source for
Elizabeth Elstob
Elizabeth Elstob (29 September 1683 – 3 June 1756), the "Saxon Nymph", was a pioneering scholar of Anglo-Saxon. She was the first person to publish a grammar of Old English written in modern English.
Life
Elstob was born and brought up in the ...
's work which itself was a source for
George Ballard's ''Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain, who have been celebrated for their writings, or skill in the learned languages, arts and sciences'' (1752).
She also wrote a fictional work, ''La femme genereuse'', of which no copies are known to survive.
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Les dames illustres' full text online at
Gallica
17th-century births
17th-century deaths
17th-century French women writers
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