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Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Dan Jones about the lives of women in 16th-century France

Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.

Dr Suzannah Lipscomb talks to her fellow historian Dan Jones about her latest book, The Voices of Nîmes, which offers a fascinating window into sex and morality and the lives of women in 16th-century France.

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