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Bichette...viens donc arranger ma rosette!..., 1844. 'Bichette...viens donc arranger ma rosette!...'. - 'Voilà bien les hommes!...comme ils abusent de leurs droits! parce qu'on a eu un jour de faiblesse de serrer avec eux les noeuds de l'hymenée, ils voudraient ensuite vous faire serrer à perpétuité ceux de leurs cravattes!..mais je suis décidée à suivre désormais les principes émis ce matin même par Artémise Jabutot dans son remarquable article de la Gazette des femmes libres....A bas les noeuds de cravattes et les boutons de pantalons!'. Husband: 'Bichette...come and fix my rosette!...' Wife: 'That's men for you!...how they abuse their rights! Just because we had one day of weakness to tighten the wedding knots with them, they want to make you tighten the knots of their ties for ever! ..but I have decided from now to follow the principles issued this very morning by Artémise Jabutot in her remarkable article in the Gazette of free women....Down with tie knots and trouser buttons!'. Satirical criticism of 'bluestockings': women with interests beyond housework and childcare. Female authors were often depicted as mannish and ugly - the implication being that their intellectual output was just as objectionable as their looks. From Les Bas-bleus, no. 16.