Memories of the Marquise de la Ferrières, born in 1748, collected by Vicomte Henri Frotier de la Messelière, presented by Hélène Mathurin, Bonnes, Éditions Les Gorgones, Collection ‘Dire the History’, 1998, XXXI-105 p.
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, pleasant to read, with vivacity and talking details, this small text brings us to the world of the poitevine nobility, to which the author belongs by birth and marriage. A universe which appears at first sight to be quite far removed from that described, for example, in the memories of Mrs Roland or Victorine of Chastenay, two daughters of the Enlightented Lumours with readings opening them to the world and to the ideas of the century, dreaming of ancient philosophy and republics. Nothing of this...