Abstract
This research project investigates the work of Marie Le Jars de Gournay with regard to the problem of gender equality, which is the central theme in the texts "Egalité des hommes et des femmes" (1622) and "Grief des dames" (1626), and appears in some decisive passages of "Le proumenoir de Monseigneur Montaigne" (1594) and "Apologie pour celle qui escrit" (1626). In the seventeenth century…