From Royal Retainers to Public Servants, or how an Old Regime Family succeeded in Post-Revolutionary France

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Date: 
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 17:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 602

Dena Goodman is the Lila Miller Collegiate Professor, History and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan. A leading specialist in the cultural and intellectual history of early modern France, her monographs include Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters (2009) and The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994), both with Cornell University Press.

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Humanities Center
Department of History
Department of French and Italian
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt
World Regions: 
Europe
Western Europe