Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays : 9781517268558

Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects for remodelling the religion and government of his empire, the ironical satirist, Sylvain Mar?chal, thrust in his "Plan for a Law prohibiting the Alphabet to Women."Daring, keen, sarcastic, learned, the little tract retains to-day so much of its pungency, that we can hardly wonder at the honest simplicity of the author's friend and biographer, Madame Gacon Dufour, who declared that he must be insane, and soberly replied to him.

Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Sep 08, 2015

Number of Pages: 118 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1517268559

ISBN-13: 9781517268558