Re: Plot Resolution: The Lady or the Tiger

In article <hlerp15o1v2v615arhrt941r6fpi7e4q3t@xxxxxxx>, see-sig@no-
spams.coms says...
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:33:50 -0600, Joann Zimmerman <jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> /snip/
>
> >Men could take government jobs, and it was OK. There was an entire
> >clerkly noble hierarchy in France, the "noblesse de robe". He would have
> >been part of this, if only clinging tightly to the bottommost rung.
>
> Ahhh.
>
> >Women couldn't take *any* kind of job and have it be OK.
>
>
> Not even managing, or owning, and making a lot of money from, the highest
> sort of dressmaking and millinery establishment.... Nor jeweler's....

Not a single solitary one. Not and continue to be even remotely of the
upper classes. Not and be someone who could continue to speak on equal
terms with her friends, neighbors, and even family.

As soon as you supply a service, you become--surprise!--a servant.

--
"I never understood people who don't have bookshelves."
--George Plimpton

Joann Zimmerman jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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