Mutinous Women: Author Joan DeJean in Conversation with Jack McCord

Join Joan DeJean and Jack McCord for a conversation about Mutinous Women, a new book written by Joan DeJean that tells the story of the first large group of Frenchwomen transported to this country as convicts in 1720.  Joan and Jack will discuss who the women really were, their role in the founding of cities such as New Orleans, and their legacy today – and, above all, their descendants, who now live in states from California and Colorado, to New Jersey and New York.

Joan DeJean has been Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1988. She previously taught at Yale and at Princeton. She is the author of twelve books on French literature, history, and material culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including “The Invention of Paris: Making the City Modern”  (2014);  “The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began” (2009); “The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour” (2005).