The Periodical as Transnational Salon: Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier's L'Érudition Enjouée (1703)

One of the earliest examples of a French periodical written by a woman, Marie-Jeanne LHéritier de Villandon's L'Érudition Enjouée highlights the ways in which one early eighteenth-century salonnière adapted to print, drawing on the culture and literary conventions of the salon to push women's intellectual, cultural, and political authority further into the public, printed sphere. LHéritier was also politically savvy, using her transnational journal to promote the diplomatic aims of the Bourbons in Spain while at the same time subtly undermining prejudice against women rulers.