Divid Diop Le Temps Du Martyre

quality, it drew attention to issues (the relationship between love and marriage, the link between love and religion and the importance of courtly values) which widened the remit of literature. Thereafter, the argument reverted to the older gender divide and Desportes’s anti-feminist ‘Stances du mariage’ (1571) provoked strong reactions, among others from Marie de Romieu (?1545–90) in 1581. By that time, the first salonnières – Sophie (c.1520–87) and Catherine (c.1542–87) des Roches at Poitiers and