Parnasse des Dames

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In 1773 Louis-Édme Billardon de Sauvigny (1736-1812) published the Parnasse des Dames in Paris , with the full title: Parnasse des Dames ou choix de pièces de quelques femmes célébres en littérature . It is an anthology of European women writers since antiquity in French.

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Louis Édme Billardon de Sauvignys Parnasse des Dames ou choix de pièces de quelques femmes célébres en littérature ( Parnassus or selected literature by famous women writers ) is an anthology and at the same time literary history in French. Billardon de Sauvigny's intention was to show "the genius of women of all times and nations".

content

The ten-volume collection in French contains texts by European women writers from ancient Greece. The first digitized volume contains a detailed introduction with a treatise on ancient lyrical genres and articles, for example, on the origin of philosophy. It is dedicated to Greek and Roman poets whose lives and examples of their works are presented. Several alphabetic registers of names of women are particularly useful, as they should represent a treasure trove for women's research. The first (page 191): Femmes grecques poetes (Greek poets), then Noms des femmes grecques savantes (names of Greek learned women), Des femmes qui ont sagement gouverné les Ètats (wise leaders), Femmes courageuses (courageous women) and Courtisannes, qui se sont rendues célébres (famous hetaerae). A rococo-style copperplate engraving introduces the volume.

The other volumes contain Théatre des femmes angloises as well as the same of "femmes francoises", "allemandes" and "danoises" ( plays by English, French, German and Danish women). No information is available about the respective translation.

reception

  • The complete series first appeared in Paris in 1773, initially the first volume individually. From it it emerges that initially only five volumes of French women writers were planned, "mais le désire a faire connoître la génie des Femmes des tous les siécles & toutes des Nations" (but the desire to know the genius of women of all times and nations learn) and the necessary research would have delayed the output.
  • In Germany, for example, the collection belonged to the private library of Anna Amalia von Weimar and, after her death in 1807, was moved to the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar, which is later named after her , today also the Thuringian State Library . The volumes were damaged in the fire in the Weimar library in 2004, but their essential substance was fully preserved or restored, and can be borrowed in the reading room.
  • Digitization of the first volume on google books
  • Reprint 2007, ISBN 1274 339286 , ISBN 978-127433-9287

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parnasse des Dames , Vol. 1–10. Paris, Ruault 1773. Original available in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library Weimar, see web links.
  2. ^ First volume on google books, see web links.
  3. ↑ See web links.
  4. ↑ See volume one at google books (Weblinks).
  5. ↑ See Avis du libraire , first page (preface not paginated).
  6. ↑ Michael Knoche (Ed.): Duchess Anna Amalia Library. Cultural history of a collection. Weimar Classic Foundation at Hanser, 1999, ISBN 3-446-19724-9 , p. 86.
  7. ↑ See web links.