Abstract
This article focuses on the ideology of masculinity under Louis XIV and its women writers’ responses with fairy tales. In Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier’s “Marmoisan, or the Innocent Deception” and Marie Catherine d’Aulnoy’s “Belle-Belle or the Fortunate Knight,” I examine the role of female-usurping power and of the cross-dressers as they relate to the re-presentation of the seventeenth-century Amazon or function as the female embodiment of the early modern diplomat, as well as the emasculation of male power in the context of war and conflicts. In conclusion, I draw the correlation between images of power in the tales and that of the aging Louis XIV.
Recommended Citation
Trinquet du Lys, Charlotte. "Women Soldiers’ Tales during Louis XIV’s War Conflicts." Marvels & Tales 33.1 (2019). Web. <https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/marvels/vol33/iss1/9>.
