Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville

François-Timoléon de Choisy was a French author. He was an influential figure in the seventeenth-century French ecclesiastical community.

Marie-Jeanne L'Héritierwas a French writer in the seventeenth century.L'Héritier was a defender of women's writing and a significant writer in the fairy tale genre.

Charles Perrault was a seventeenth-century French writer and a member of the Académie française. Perrault's stories have been influential in developing the fairy tale as a literary genre.

Joan DeJean's books reflect her areas of research: the history of women's writing in France (Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France); the history of sexuality (Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937); the development of the novel (Literary Fortifications; Libertine Strategies); and the cultural history and the material culture of late 17th- and early 18th-century France (Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle; The Essence of Style; The Age of Comfort).