Recueil des exemples de la malice des femmes, et des malheurs venus à leur occasion

Recueil des exemples de la malice des femmes, et des malheurs venus à leur occasion by Anonymous is a provocative 1596 French pamphlet that assembles dramatic anecdotes aimed at exposing what its author portrays as the dangers and deceptions of women. Framed as a catalog of wickedness and the resulting misfortunes, the text uses vivid rhetoric and moralizing tales to argue for a bleak view of female conduct, reflecting anxieties about gender, power, and social order in early modern Paris. Part polemic, part cultural mirror, the work belongs to the period’s broader efforts to classify and explain human behavior—placed here under the science category as an early attempt to systematize social and moral observations. Readers will encounter examples, allegory, and doomsday warnings typical of late-16th-century print culture, alongside clues to how rhetoric, rumor, and authority shaped public attitudes toward women. Treated critically, it illuminates the intersections of literature, social history, and the proto-scientific study of human character. Ideal for historians, students of gender and early modern studies, and listeners curious about the history of ideas, this audiobook offers a compact, unvarnished window into how societies once narrated moral danger and why those narratives matter today.