Lenclos
Americannoun
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This remarkable volume demonstrates that she was a great writer of another kind: a superb expositor of the self in the grand Gallic tradition of Montaigne, Rousseau and Ninon de Lenclos.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, for human life is a paradox, this knowledge comes when it is no longer of any use, since every woman is not a Ninon de Lenclos.
From The Orchard of Tears by Sax Rohmer
But, like Ninon de Lenclos and Diane de Poictiers and other of the world's true super-women, age had no power to mar her.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
It was certainly true of many of them—even of some of the most distinguished—such, for instance, as Mme. d'Epinay, Mme. du Deffand, Ninon de Lenclos and Mme.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
Ninon de Lenclos, as we have seen, was not strictly a courtesan, but she was a pioneer in the assertion of woman's rights.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
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