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Lightweight, transparent sheer fabric
Ninon is a lightweight, sheer fabric made with plain or leno weaving. It is a suitable material for curtains, evening wear and lingerie. Ninon is made with variety of filament yarns such as polyester, silk, rayon or nylon. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: NinonA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Webinaire - Ninon Dubourg et Christophe Masson (org.), Disability and War in the Middle AgesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Life, Letters And Epicurean Philosophy Of Ninon De L'Enclos, The Celebrated Beauty Of The Seventeenth CenturyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Ninon Chavoz. Inventorier l’Afrique. La tentation encyclopédique dans l’espace francophone subsaharien des années 1920 à nos joursCited 2 times
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📖 Definitions
Noun A sheer fabric of silk, rayon, or nylon made in a variety of tight smooth weaves or open lacy patterns.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Ninon Chavoz. Inventorier l’Afrique. La tentation encyclopédique dans l’espace francophone subsaharien des années 1920 à nos jours
Ninon de Lenclos, esprit fort dans la compagnie des hommes ou de la difficulté de concevoir la maître de philosophie
De Juliette à Ninon ou l’allongement de l’âge de la séduction
Godelier, Maurice. Claude Lévi‐Strauss: a critical study of his thought. xx, 540 pp., table, figs, bibliogr. London: Verso, 2018. £29.99 (paper)Lévi‐Strauss, Claude; foreword by Maurice Olender; trans. Jane Marie Todd. Anthropology confronts the problems of the modern world. xii, 129 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2013. £15.00 (cloth)Lévi‐Strauss, Claude; foreword by Maurice Olender; trans. Jane Marie Todd. We are all cannibals and other essays. viii, 159 pp., bibliogr. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2016. £20.00 (cloth)Loyer, Emmanuelle; trans. Ninon Vinsonneau & Jonathan Magidoff. Lévi‐Strauss: a biography. xlii, 709 pp., illus., bibliogr. Cambridge: Polity, 2018. £35.00 (paper)
Nouveaux Contes à Ninon: Autoportrait de l’écrivain en militant
Réal-Gabriel Bujold, La Brèche-à-Ninon, Rimouski, Éditeq, 1983.
Déborah V. Brosteaux, Les Désirs guerriers de la modernité , Paris, Seuil, « La Couleur des idées », 2025, 214 pages, par Ninon Grangé.
CHAVOZ (Ninon), Inventorier l’Afrique : la tentation encyclopédique dans l’espace francophone subsaharien des années 1920 à nos jours. Paris : Honoré Champion, coll. Francophonies, n°13, 2021, 338 p. – ISBN 978-2-745-35501-0
🆕 Influential since 2022
Webinaire - Ninon Dubourg et Christophe Masson (org.), Disability and War in the Middle Ages
Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/suitable for Divine Service? by Ninon Dubourg (review)
Ninon de Lenclos sur le théâtre d’Olympe de Gouges
Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages: Un/Suitable for Divine Service, written by Ninon Dubourg
DUBREUIL (Laurent), L’Élargissement francophone : dix interventions critiques. Avant-propos de Ninon Chavoz. Paris : Honoré Champion, coll. Francophonies, n°16, 2024, 176 p. – ISBN 978-2-745-36048-9
📚 Books worth reading
Life, Letters And Epicurean Philosophy Of Ninon De L'Enclos, The Celebrated Beauty Of The Seventeenth CenturyRobinson, Charles Henry · 2004
Mademoiselle LibertineEdgar H. Cohen · 1970- 📕NinonLillian Day · 1958
- 📕Lettres de Ninon de Lenclos au marquis de Sevigné · 1757
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