Savantes

Fatema, you have to remember that the play Les Femmes Savantes, in which Molière makes fun of women who aspire to be educated, was still being taught while I was in public school, and we are talking about the 1960s.

Scheherazade Goes West Fatema Mernissi 2001

Vadius in "Les Femmes Savantes," in company with his deadly enemy, the

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

From "Les Femmes Savantes" ( "The Learned Women") -- "The Blue-Stockings," we might perhaps freely render the title -- we present one scene to indicate the nature of the comedy.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

We need not be like "Les Femmes Savantes" but we ought to have something to say about what we learn as well as about what we must do, and what our professors say or how they mark our themes.

The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

We need not be like "Les Femmes Savantes" but we ought to have something to say about what we learn as well as about what we MUST do, and what our professors say or how they mark our themes.

The Story of My Life Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 1903

His two last works were among the highest and happiest creations of his genius -- the _Femmes Savantes_, a sort of sequel to the _Précieuses

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

Esperance is right to have chosen this scene from _Les Femmes Savantes_.

The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt 1884

After the rehearsal of _Les Femmes Savantes_, when they finished the scene of _Iphygenia_, Jean Perliez turned to Madame Darbois and inquired the name of Esperance's instructor.

The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt 1884

She had chosen, for the comedy test to study a scene from _Les Femmes Savantes_ (the rôle of "_Henriette_"), and in tragedy a scene from _Iphygenia_.

The Idol of Paris Sarah Bernhardt 1884

Ladies that soar in the realms of Rose-Pink, whose language wears the nodding plumes of intellectual conceit, are traceable to Philaminte and Belise of the Femmes Savantes: and the mordant witty women have the tongue of

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868