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  2. Category:17th-century French women - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century French people. It includes French people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:17th-century French men

  3. Category:17th-century French women writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century French writers. It includes French writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:17th-century French male writers

  4. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  5. Julie d'Aubigny - Wikipedia

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    Julie d'Aubigny (French: [ʒyli dobiɲi]; 1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career and flamboyant lifestyle were the subject of gossip, rumour, and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous fictional and semi ...

  6. Category:17th-century French people - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:17th-century French Jews and Category:17th-century French LGBTQ people and Category:17th-century French women The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  7. 17th-century French literature - Wikipedia

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    17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de' Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France.

  8. Category:17th-century women writers - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:17th-century writers. ... 17th-century French women writers (43 P) G. 17th-century German women writers (17 P) H.

  9. Madame de La Fayette - Wikipedia

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    Christened Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she was born in Paris to a family of minor but wealthy nobility. At 16, de la Vergne became the maid of honour to Queen Anne of Austria and began also to acquire a literary education from Gilles Ménage, who gave her lessons in Italian and Latin. [1]