[RUSTAING DE SAINT-JORY] Les Femmes militaires, 1736

Second edition.
Utopian novel in which the narrator discovers an island on which women have military power and share political power. The author revisits the myth of the Amazons which experienced renewed interest at the beginning of the eighteenth century. It allows us to propose an alternative political system to both mock the decadence of the politicians of the time and question the role assigned to women in the family and society.
Precursor of feminist ideas before the letter.