Colette H Winn Editor & Author

Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation was an Ursuline nun and missionary. Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage was a Frenchwoman who set out for a series of “grand tours” in Europe in 1750 who kept a detailed record of her educational journeys to England, Holland, and Italy. Henriette-Lucie Dillon de la Tour du Pin fled revolutionary France for the United States. Her copious Journal of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman is one of few written testimonies of escape from the Reign of Terror written by a woman author. Colette H. Winn is professor emerita of French at Washington University in St. Louis. Lauren King received her MA in French literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. Elizabeth Hagstrom received her B.A. in French and international and area studies from Washington University in St. Louis.