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 olbach’s Lettres à Eugénie and Diderot’s Entretien d’un philosophe
  avec la maréchale de ***
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DESCRIPTION:The Department of French and Italian invites you to an engaging
  talk by Dr. Ruggero Sciuto from USC. He will explore the intriguing topic
  of women atheists in eighteenth-century Paris.\n\nJoin us for this enrich
 ing discussion!\n\n \n\nSpeaker: Dr Ruggero Sciuto (USC\, Department of Fr
 ench and Italian)\n\nWhen: Thursday\, 7 November at 10 am\n\nWhere: Taper 
 Hall 309K\n\nAbstract: \n\nOutside of tribunals and torture chambers\, mos
 t early modern thinkers believed that no one could genuinely reject God’
 s existence. Female atheism\, in particular\, was often perceived as an im
 possibility. If Samuel Johnson pointed to the ‘female atheist[s who talk
 ] you dead’ as one of the many factors that made life in eighteenth-cent
 ury London unbearable\, Bayle better voiced his contemporaries’ view whe
 n he wrote in the Pensées diverses that ‘Sûrement ce n’est point le 
 vice des femmes que l’athéisme’.\n\n \n\nIn the second half of the ei
 ghteenth century\, two French philosophes set out to fill this alleged gap
  and “create” women atheists. They did so in seemingly very different 
 ways. In the Lettres à Eugénie (1768)\, Paul-Thiry d’Holbach set out t
 o promote atheism amongst women by means of (condescending) proselytism\, 
 without for all that excluding the possibility of female unbelief independ
 ent of male intervention. Conversely\, Diderot’s Entretien d’un philos
 ophe avec la maréchale de *** (1774) normalised women atheists’ existen
 ce by means of an elegant dialogue revolving around the notion of hypocris
 y. No need for proselytism\, he seemed to suggest\, women atheists are alr
 eady among us.\n\n \n\nDid either of the two philosophes actually contribu
 te to the religious emancipation of women? Well\, at least one of them may
  have… And not only that\, for religious and social emancipation go hand
  in hand.
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SUMMARY:Representing Women Atheists in Eighteenth-Century Paris: D’Holbac
 h’s Lettres à Eugénie and Diderot’s Entretien d’un philosophe avec
  la maréchale de ***
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