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Old 18-May-17, 23:01
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Default Re: Dominant female aristocrats / women rulers defeating men rulers

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Madame de Saint-Belmont is also someone about whom I'm hearing for the first time. Thanks for sharing!
I'm glad you liked the story about Madame de Saint-Belmont who challenged and defeated that French officer in a duel. This is what I like about aristocratic women from the past, they were eager to defend their honor. I think they had much stronger character than modern women while at the same time they dressed and acted very feminine like Madame de Saint-Belmont still acting like a polite lady to a rude man she defeated. People think that women were submissive back then because the society was "patriarchical" but I think that actually made those aristocratic women at the top even stronger to keep the men submissive to them in such environment. They had to be very cunning and dominant.
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