{"id":5353,"date":"2015-06-15T13:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2015-06-16T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T09:06:52","slug":"madame-de-graffigny-femme-de-lettres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/?p=5353","title":{"rendered":"Madame de Graffigny, &#8216;femme de lettres&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5354\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5354\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5354 \" alt=\"Graf_sig_bck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Graf_sig_bck.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"298\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madame de Graffigny, signed by Lev\u00eaque, in Jean Restout, &#8216;Galerie fran\u00e7aise&#8217; (Paris, 1771), vol. 1, p. 27 (source of image: The Voltaire Foundation).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today\u2019s publication in EMLO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/blog\/?catalogue=de-graffigny\" target=\"_blank\">correspondence of Fran\u00e7oise de Graffigny<\/a> (1695\u20131758), the pioneering French writer and salon hostess, heralds the inaugural catalogue in an exciting new partnership between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk\/www_vf\/default.ssi\" target=\"_blank\">Voltaire Foundation<\/a> and Cultures of Knowledge. Following an agreement made earlier this year, metadata has been prepared from the Voltaire Foundation\u2019s exquisitely and meticulously produced edition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk\/www_vf\/graffigny\/graffigny_index.ssi\" target=\"_blank\">Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny<\/a>, ed. \u2020J. A. Dainard and English Showalter, 16 vols (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1985\u2013 ) for publication in our union catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>Preparatory work on this calendar was carried out in its entirety during the closing month of CofK\u2019s second phase and involved Stephen Ashworth working on site at the Voltaire Foundation to input metadata in collaboration with EMLO staff, while scholarly input and oversight was provided by de Graffigny&#8217;s editor English Showalter and the Foundation&#8217;s in-house editorial team. We hope very much indeed that you will consult the edition itself; Madame de Graffigny\u2019s letters are of particular interest to scholars for their use of everyday language \u2014 the correspondence is conducted entirely in French \u2014 and, in their genuine spontaneity, they offer a unique glimpse into the social, literary, and political issues of eighteenth-century France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s publication in EMLO of the correspondence of Fran\u00e7oise de Graffigny (1695\u20131758), the pioneering French writer and salon hostess, heralds the inaugural catalogue in an exciting new partnership between the Voltaire Foundation and Cultures of Knowledge. Following an agreement made earlier this year, metadata has been prepared from the Voltaire Foundation\u2019s exquisitely and meticulously produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.culturesofknowledge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}