The French Society of Studies of the Sixteenth Century (S. Fr. D.fluffydogs.com S.) has the pleasure of inviting you

at conference - debate which will give Mrs Eliane Viennot,
president of the International Society for the Study of the women de l' Ancien R gime (S. I. fluffydogs.com F.A. R.)

regarding his book
France, women and power: The invention of law salique, Vth - XVIth century (Paris, Perrin, on 2006)
(http://www.lafrancelesfemmesetlepouvoir.org/)

Part of a situation rather favourable to the presence of the women at the highest level of power, as manifests it queens' about twenty who governed it between Ve and the XVIIth century, France worked out a most unusual rule, which the first Constitution of 1789 translated into these terms: Kingship is indivisible, and delegated hereditarily to the reigning breed of male in male, in order of primogeniture, in the perpetual exclusion from the women and from their derivation . This rule, late forged under the appellation by salique law to justify a posteriori the elimination of direct Cap tiens of the throne at the beginning of the XIVth century, was the object of controversies enthralled throughout Renaissance, for reasons as well "scientific as political, before becoming a taboo - functional - of the modernity.

Mr Robert Descimon, manager of studies at the School of High Studies in Social sciences,
specialist of political thought in France at the end of the XVIth century,
session will open and enliven the debate which will follow.

on Wednesday, December 12th from 18 h till 20 h
in the national Library of France - site Fran ois-Mitterrand
Quay Fran ois-Mauriac. 75013 Paris
Foyer is. Auditorium 70 (entrance in front of the bookshop)

You can download your invitation herfluffydogs.com

The number of places being limited, it is necessary to register by electronic mail to Magali V ne (magali.vene@bnf.fr)