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To M. Talleyrand-Périgord
Late Bishop of Autun
Wollstonecraft dedicates the book to Talleyrand, whose report on French national education trained girls only to please men — and calls on him, as a legislator building a constitution on reason, to extend that same reason to women.
Address to TalleyrandReason as the ground of rightsIndependence as the basis of virtue