 By guiding and leading in this political matter, she became a prominent figure in Paris.In 1759, she published an early midwifery textbook, "Abrégé de l'art des accouchements" (Abridgment of the Art of Delivery), which was a revision and expansion of an earlier midwifery textbook published in 1667.In the same year, the king (Louis XV) commissioned her to teach midwifery to peasant women in an attempt to reduce infant mortality.