Background
Madeleine de Scudéry was born in 1607 at Le Havre. Orphaned at an early age, she and her brother Georges, author of plays and novels, were brought up by an uncle.
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Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus est un roman-fleuve et un roman à clef de Madeleine et Georges de Scudéry. Originellement publié entre 1649 et 1653, le roman est connu pour être le plus long roman français jamais écrit (13 095 pages dans lédition originale et environ 2 100 000 mots). Il fallut cinq ans, de 1649 à 1653, pour que ce roman-fleuve paraisse dans sa totalité. De fait, bien que l'uvre connût un succès considérable à l'époque, elle n'a plus été publiée après le xviie siècle en raison de sa longueur. Certains personnages sont inspirés de l'univers romanesque de La Fronde. Volume 1 de 10
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Los dos textos de Madeleine de Scudéry que conforman Sobre la mentira, el disimulo y la sinceridad extraídos de sus Conversations (cinco volúmenes, 1680-1692) y que por vez primera ven la luz en lengua castellana ponen en escena unos armoniosos y expresivos diálogos morales entre hombres y mujeres en los que, mediante una novedosa gramática del amor y la sociabilidad, se presentan al lector con fina inteligencia las profundas imbricaciones existentes entre el bien y el mal, entre lo verdadero y lo falso.
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Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon culture, a woman who supported herself through her writing and defended women's education. She was the first woman to be honored by the French Academy, and she earned a pension from Louis XIV for her writing. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues is a careful selection of Scudéry's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudéry's Amorous Letters, only recently identified as her work, as well as selections from her Famous Women, or Heroic Speeches, and her series of Conversations. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of rhetoric, French literature, and women's studies.
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Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume novels were popular bestsellers in her time, translated almost immediately into English, German, Italian, Spanish, and even Arabic. The Story of Sapho makes available for the first time in modern English a self-contained section from Scudéry's novel Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the would-be salonnières that Molière satirized in Les précieuses ridicules. The Story tells of Sapho, a woman writer modeled on the Greek Sappho, who deems marriage slavery. Interspersed in the love story of Sapho and Phaon are a series of conversations like those that took place in Scudéry's own salon in which Sapho and her circle discuss the nature of love, the education of women, writing, and right conduct. This edition also includes a translation of an oration, or harangue, of Scudéry's in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order to persuade them to write.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T085533 In fact by Madelène de Scudéry . Titlepage in red and black. London : printed for J. Bedford; and C. Sympson, 1768. 4,225,3p. ; 12°
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Madeleine de Scudéry was born in 1607 at Le Havre. Orphaned at an early age, she and her brother Georges, author of plays and novels, were brought up by an uncle.
Uncle gave Madeleine an abnormally well-rounded education: she studied writing, spelling, drawing, dancing, painting, and needlework. In addition, on her own, Madeleine studied agriculture, medicine, cooking, Spanish, and Italian.
Madeleine de Scudéry moved to Paris to join her brother after the death of her uncle, who had cared for her after she and her brother had been orphaned. Clever and bright, she soon made her mark on the literary circle of the Hôtel de Rambouillet; by the late 1640s, she had replaced Madame de Rambouillet as the leading literary hostess in Paris and had established her own salon, known as the Société du Samedi (the Saturday Club).
Her first novel, Ibrahim ou l’illustre bassa (1642; Ibrahim or the Illustrious Bassa), was published in four volumes. Her later works were even longer; both Artamène ou le grand Cyrus (1649–53; Artamenes or the Grand Cyrus) and Clélie, histoire romaine (1654–60; Clelia) were published in 10 volumes. Contemporary readers, accustomed to such long novels, appreciated De Scudéry’s works both for their bulk and for the glimpses they provided into the lives of important society figures of the day. These individuals were thinly disguised as Persian, Greek, and Roman warriors and maidens; De Scudéry herself appears in Artamène as Sappho, a name by which she was known to her friends.
Other of her works include Almahide, ou l’es- clave reine (1660–63; “Almahide, or the Slave Queen”), Mathilde d’Aguilar, histoire espagnole (1667; “Mathilda of Aguilar, a Spanish Tale”), and La Promenade de Versailles, ou l’histoire de Célanire (1669; “The Versailles Promenade, or the Tale of Celanire”). Most of the novels were published anonymously or under the name of her brother Georges. They included long passages devoted to conversations on such topics as the education of women; these were excerpted and published separately.
Although her novels were exceptionally popular and were lauded by such notables as Madame de Sévigné, they also met with some criticism. The poet and critic Nicolas Boileau, for instance, satirized them harshly. She died in Paris, June 2, 1701.
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( Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance nove...)
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(Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus est un roman-fleuve et un roma...)
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Quotations:
"Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. "
"Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. "
"A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for. "
"Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. "
"Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes. "
"Love makes mutes of those who habitually speak most fluently. "
"The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. "
Scudéry was deaf for the last 40 years of her life.
She never married.