Scudéry
Americannoun
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Philippe Sellier, a literature professor at Paris IV university, added that Madame de La Fayette, along with the aristocratic writers Madame de Sévigné and Mademoiselle de Scudéry, formed what he called a “feminine avant-garde”.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2017
Pélisson was twenty-nine, and Mademoiselle de Scudéry forty-five, when they first met.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
In describing the deep and rare friendships with which the "Grand Cyrus" abounds, Mademoiselle de Scudéry had but to look into her own heart, and make copies from her experience.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
Nobody, on the other hand, who knows Richardson and Mademoiselle de Scudéry can doubt the influence of the French book—a century old as it was—on the "father of the English novel."
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Fouquet heard of it, and found means to send, by the hands of Madame Scudéry, a year's allowance to the faithful newsman.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
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