[Mobile book] The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray
☆ Nina Rattner Gelbart ☆
| #853159 in Books | 1998-05-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.17 x6.30 x9.28l, | File Name: 0520210360 | 358 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing History|By Deana|I read this book years ago and am rather sad to see more people have not written a review for the work. Midwife practices of the 1700s does not sound like a fun read, but Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray was a fascinating woman. You learn much about her and life in this well research work. Including a number of legal iss|.com |In The King's Midwife, scholar Nina Rattner Gelbart takes on a daunting task: the biography of a woman so fiercely private (or should that be public?) that she left no record at all of her personal life. "In her hundreds of letters there is never
This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities ... [PDF.aa96] The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray Rating: 3.67 (799 Votes)
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