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Ma bonne amie, puis-je entrer!..., 1844. 'Ma bonne amie, puis-je entrer!...as-tu fini de collaborer avec monsieur?'. Husband to wife: 'Darling, can I come in!...have you finished collaborating with the gentleman?'. 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. 29.