As a well-known practitioner Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636) lived experience of popular Parisian suburbs, middle-class and of the Court. As midwife of the Queen, she delivered Queen's six babies. One of them was the Dauphin who became King Louis XIII. Her habit of language and her vocabulary demonstrate that she was belonging to both of popular and educated worlds. Obstetrics was not free of Hippocrates and Galen conceptions and the theoretic weakness of her written works is noticeable while Paré then Guillemeau began the increasing knowledge of obstetrics.
...MoreDescription Bourgeois was the Queen's midwife, who delivered six of her babies, including the Dauphin who became King Louis XIII.
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