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
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 Ellis, Havelock
Secrecy.—The secret known to two is no longer a secret.—Ninon de Lenclos.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
The nearest approach in modern times to such trysting-places, where beauty, wit and talent found a congenial atmosphere, were the celebrated salons of Ninon de Lenclos, Mlle. de l'Espinasse and Mme. du Deffand.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
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 Terhune, Albert Payson
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