Madeleine de Scudéry (Le Havre, 1607- Paris, 1701), author of enormous prestige in the 17th century, was a woman of extraordinary culture and one of the first European writers to earn a living with her pen. Although he began by frequenting the reputed Cenacle of the Marchioness of Rambouillet, he would soon open his own room in his residence in the Parisian district of the Marais, where questions as fundamental as the education of girls or the social institution of marriage were submitted to examination.