Translation by Richard Shane Agin and Maria Elena Versari

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yet it has been a medium for fiction from the very beginning

providing academic digression for the scholar and factual clarification for anyone turning to the topic for the first time

Hersilia's Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France food Translation by Richard Shane AginNorman Bryson Political and cultural history and the arts combine in this engaging account of 1790s France. In 1799, when the French artist Jacques Louis David (17481825) exhibited his Intervention of the Sabines, a history painting featuring the ancient heroine Hersilia, he added portraits of two contemporary women on either side of herHenriette de Verninac, daughter of Charles Franois Delacroix, minister of foreign affairs, and Juliette Rcamier, a