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Anne Deneys-Tunney, « La République des femmes dans De l'Amour de Destuit de Tracy », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.2004.2595
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Unfairly eclipsed by the posthumous success of Stendhal's homonymous work, Tracy's essay conciliates reform projects for the education of children of the period of the French Revolution (to whom he dedicated his Eléments d'Idéologie) and Ancien Régime aristocratic literature which celebrated women. Tracy's projects for a 'revolution5 in women's education are closely dependent on his sensualist anthropology and on a critical history of the law which justified the repression of sexual inclinations and the subordination of women. Comparison with Rousseau and Laclos' conceptions concerning women reveal the great boldness of Tracy's projects. However, like most revolutionaries, Tracy did not grant women any political rights.