Editorial note — Translated from Le Correspondant. Learned Women And Studious Women. By Monseigneur Dupanloup.

[Footnote 5: It is also to be observed that Molière's learned women had only the affectation and not the reality of science, just as the précieuses merely affected the fine language and manners of the court. The former were ignorant women playing the part of savantes the latter provincial women aping Paris fashions.]