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Christian Biet, « Du critère de la misogynie appliqué au XVIIe siècle : Le cas de La Bruyère », Les cahiers du GRIF, ID : 10.3406/grif.1993.1869
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Far from excusing or accusing La Bruyère being a machist, this article wants to analyse the position of the author which is to consider women's defects as a literary and esthetic model, and then, to transcend this model in order to understand how, individually and collectively, women of the « ville » (as the City opposed to the Court) aspire to ord a « naturel » ethic, may be more than men. They are in a natural and social position to do so. Women can go further in this quest of« honnêteté » : they are sensitive and spontaneous, can be educated, and can relate to the ideal of« naturel » La Bruyère aims to present in his whole text.