Abstract
In an essay first published in 1819, De la Politesse, ouvrage critique, moral et philosophique, Louis-Damien Emeric made the following generalisation: ‘Social bonds, order, and general prosperity depend on the behaviour of women.’1 Many members of the French intellectual community, and no doubt others who left fewer traces, agreed with Emeric. Literally hundreds of books by and about women appeared in the first decades of the nineteenth century because of such assumptions. In the context of post-Revolutionary uncertainties about the future of French society, women’s behaviour emerged as a matter of extreme urgency, one with potentially dire consequences if not addressed promptly.
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