La carrière « sur mesure » de madame d’Arconville

Wealthy and self-taught, Mme d’Arconville (1720-1805), exercised her talents and her desire to be active and useful, with no consideration of the limits imposed by society on women who wanted to write. Her numerous works, published anonymously, deal with sciences and literature. She both translated and wrote as moralist, chemist, novelist and historian. Her wonderful autobiographical texts reveal how important it was for her to keep on writing and sharing knowledge with others till the very end.