Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Dramatic Proverbs - trans. Paige Tierney, intro and ed. Theresa Varney Kennedy

Madame de Maintenon’s Dramatic Proverbs, transl. Paige Tierney, intro and ed. Theresa Varney Kennedy, The University of Chicago Press, 2025.

– a witty and engaging English translation of the short proverb plays composed for Maintenon’s students at Saint-Cyr. 

This volume, part of "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series" (Vol. 111), features a spirited English translation by Paige Tierney, with annotations and an introduction by Theresa Varney Kennedy.

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