Under Louis XIV France became the leading cultural nation in Europe. The great authors of this age are presented here in exemplary and innovative interpretations. The selection of texts is based in part on the image of women in French classicism and in part on those texts which have most influenced the consciousness of modern Europe. The author: Paul Geyer is currently one of the foremost Romance language scholars in Germany and Professor of Romance Languages at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Bonn.weiterlesen