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The Woman Priest: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novella, La Femme Abbé (in English)
Sylvain Marechal
(Author)
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Sheila Delany
(Translated by)
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University of Alberta Press
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The Woman Priest: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novella, La Femme Abbé (in English) - Maréchal, Sylvain ; Delany, Sheila
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Synopsis "The Woman Priest: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novella, La Femme Abbé (in English)"
"My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes--I feel this in the purity of my intentions." --Agatha, writing to Zoé In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest--a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in La Nouvelle France, which became part of British-run Canada during Maréchal's lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women's studies, and religious studies.
