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R. de (René) Maulde-La-Clavière
1848–1902
A French historian with a flair for the Renaissance, he wrote lively studies of royal courts, diplomacy, and women's lives in early modern Europe. His work is best known today for exploring the world of the Renaissance through both politics and culture.
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The women of the Renaissance : A study of feminism
by R. de (René) Maulde-La-Clavière
About the author
Born in Nibelle, France, in 1848 and dead in Paris in 1902, he was a French historian and one of the founders of the Société d'histoire diplomatique. His work focused on French history, especially the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and he wrote with a strong interest in archives, courts, and political life.
Among his notable books are Histoire de Jeanne de France, Histoire de Louis XII, and Les Femmes de la Renaissance—the last of which later appeared in English as The Women of the Renaissance: A Study of Feminism. Across these works, he brought together biography, statecraft, and social history in a way that still feels readable.
He is remembered less as a novelist than as a historical interpreter: a scholar who tried to make the personalities and ideas of Renaissance France vivid for general readers. For listeners interested in older historical writing, his books offer both detailed research and a distinctly 19th-century voice.