| Sumario: | Presentación del editor: "In modern times, the court of France offers a particularly favorable ground for the female sex. From the end of the Middle Ages, she joined a growing number of women whose offices diversify and gain prestige. The queens and princesses who lived in the heart of this great "court of the Ladies" appear throughout the pages of this collection, but it is the ladies and young ladies, maids and other officers of their suites, the highest charges in more modest, which are at the heart of the reflection. By drawing on a wide range of sources, surveys explore their backgrounds as well as the strategies and constraints that have marked them. They cross the reflection on the socio-political functioning of the court with the question of the feminine forms of the exercise of power and the place of women in society. First book dedicated to this subject, this book illuminates in a new light the complex history of the female presence in the circles of power, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century."
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