Faith E BeasleyFaith E. Beasley is associate professor of French at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Revising Memory: Women's Fiction and Memoirs in Seventeenth-Century France (1990) and of articles on seventeenth-century French women writers, the salns, and the development of literary taste during the seventeenth century. She is writing a book on the role of the seventeenth century in the creation of France's national identity. Read More Read Less