Project Gutenberg 2008-01-15 Public domain in the USA. 262 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous La danse macabre des femmes toute hystoriee et augmentee de plusieurs personnages et beaux dictz en latin et francoys Produced by Carlo Traverso, Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "La danse macabre des femmes" by Anonymous is a historical text likely written in the late medieval to early Renaissance period. This book is a dramatic allegory that centers around the theme of mortality, presented through a dance of death involving women from various societal classes and conditions. The likely topic of the book revolves around the inevitable nature of death and serves as a moral reminder to its readers. The content of the book unfolds through a series of poetic dialogues where Death personified converses with various women—from queens to commoners—about their lives and their fates. Each character reflects on their joys, regrets, and earthly possessions, often dismissing the transient nature of life and the folly of human pride. As the dance progresses, each woman is called to acknowledge the certainty of her mortality, reminding readers that wealth, beauty, and status hold no power against death. This striking imagery emphasizes the universality of death, urging both acceptance and the importance of living a virtuous life in preparation for the afterlife. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 53.7 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. fr Death -- Poetry Women -- Poetry Dialogues, French French literature -- To 1500 French poetry -- To 1500 PQ Text FR Poésie Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry Category: Poetry Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: French Literature Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages 99880 2025-06-10T07:09:44.617971 text/html 93487 2008-01-15T04:49:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1084984 2008-01-15T04:49:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1160941 2025-06-10T07:09:54.892909 application/epub+zip 1160801 2025-06-10T07:09:49.499966 application/epub+zip 88116 2025-06-10T07:09:46.583968 application/epub+zip 2195754 2025-06-10T07:09:57.276981 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2211864 2025-06-10T07:09:52.499957 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 220219 2022-09-11T09:19:35.959475 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 59592 2025-06-10T07:09:43.607015 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 59350 2008-01-15T04:49:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 22264 2008-01-15T04:49:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19787 2025-06-10T07:09:57.436914 application/rdf+xml 14258 2025-06-10T07:09:47.162991 image/jpeg 3929 2025-06-10T07:09:46.873943 image/jpeg 1156486 2025-06-10T07:09:44.706970 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under Unknown