ABSTRACT
The special circumstances that surrounded the publication of Marquise de Lambert's works weighed heavily in the reviews that greeted her Avis in the late 1720s and her complete works in the late 1740s. That the first review of Avis d'une mere a sa fille appeared in the periodical, although its focus was politics, not 'belles lettres', should come as no surprise since Etienne Ganeau, who held the privilege for the periodical, was also the printer of the Avis. The Journal des savants's reviewer commended Lambert for her skill at upholding strong moral principles without displaying 'cette devotion chagrine qui tyrannise, par un zele malentendu'. In the first review to greet the publication of Lambert's Euvres, Le Journal de Verdun mentioned Fontenelle, not surprisingly, but instead of referring to eulogy, the reviewer commended him for the role as mediator, instrumental to the publication of her collected works in the Paris edition that was printed by the Ganeau printing house.
