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    parloit de sa sagesse Nul ne pouvoit, à droit, apercevoir Sa grande vertu, prudence, noblesse C'est un abysme que de le concevoir. (Translation- modern...
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    p. 80-86. Journal des dames, April 1759, p. 37-46. Mes principes, ou la Vertu raisonnée, par Madame B***, Amsterdam and Paris, Cuissart, 1759. « Lettre...
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    Louis-Bertrand Gillon, was a study of the medieval theology of hope, entitled "La vertu d'espérance de Pierre Lombard à saint Thomas" (1954). Upon completion of...
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    physical strength, valorous conduct, and moral rectitude". The French words vertu and virtu came from this Latin root. The word virtue "was borrowed into...
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    parloit de sa sagesse Nul ne pouvoit, à droit, apercevoir Sa grande vertu, prudence, noblesse C'est un abysme que de le concevoir. (Translation- modern...
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    Hierarchy". Woman's Art Journal. 16 (2): 29–34. JSTOR 1358572. Allen, Prudence (2005). The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250–1500...
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  • ducally-gorged and chained Or Supporters: On either side a Mastiff Proper Mottos: La vertu est la seule noblesse (Virtue is the only nobility); Animo et fide (With...
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    de Véronique (1953) Contes d'enfer (1955) Léonara ou les dangers de la vertu (1955) Carnets de l'écrivain (1957) L'école des filles (1960) Journaliers...
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    cité des dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) and Le Livre des trois vertus (Book of Three Virtues, known as The Treasure of the City of Ladies). In...
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    Mod. World. Green, Karen (2022). "The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan's Sources". The Intellectual Dynamism of the High...
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    competence is positively unbecoming." Christine de Pisan's Livre des Trois Vertus is contemporary with Bruni's book, and "sets down the things which a lady...
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    Lumières Denis Diderot, was inaugurated in Langres. Essai sur le mérite et la vertu, written by Shaftesbury French translation and annotation by Diderot (1745)...
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    with the symbols of the four virtues: Courage, Temperance, Justice and Prudence, that she always tried to wear. All Italian arts were appreciated by the...
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    de la monarchie française où sont descrits les faicts memorables & les vertus heroïques de nos anciens rois, Paris, Claude Morlot, 1629. Deuxième édition :...
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    appointed to a commission to confiscate the goods and property of the Count of Vertus. Fresshe had a portfolio of Essex estates and properties which had been...
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    sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes » (Volume 59, pp. 556–557), Michaud frères, 1835. « Jean-Marie...
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