ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the conditions under which gender equality was possible, and manifested itself, through the judicial tool of the royal book privilege. Who were the women who were in a position to solicit and obtain a book privilege for the printing of books in their own name? In practice, how did the legislation allow it? What editorial practices point to this equality? When women were granted book privileges, were they subject to the same rights and responsibilities as men? The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how women appropriated privileges to establish their rights over books, and used them to assume a certain authorial position. In so doing, they contributed to the creation of a space for themselves in book-trade and publishing circles in early modern France.
