Anne Ferrand

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Anne Ferrand (* 1657 ; † 1740 in Paris ) was a French writer .

Life

Title page of the Histoire nouvelle des amours de la jeune Belise et de Cléante, 1689

Anne Ferrand was the daughter of François Bellinzani, an agent of Jean-Baptiste Colbert , and his second wife, Louise Chevreau. Anne was born around 1657. When she was 13 or 14, she fell in love at a ball with Louis Nicolas Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, who was about 13 years her senior . When she found out that Breteuil was planning to marry someone else, Anne wanted to enter a convent. However, on February 1, 1676, the family forced her to marry Lieutenant au Châtelet Michel Ferrand, a scion of the Parisian nobility. With Breteuil, who was transferred to Italy until 1684, Anne Ferrand kept in touch by letter. The father was imprisoned in 1683 after Colbert's death and died in prison after five months. In her marriage to Ferrand, she gave birth to three children. The only son Antoine Ferrand , born in 1676, became known as a lawyer and libertine poet. Breteuil's return in March 1686 led to the breakdown of his marriage with Ferrand. The divorce contract approved the wife to take up residence in a convent, an immediate payment of 6,000 livres and a quarterly maintenance payment of 4,000 livres a year.

Seven months after the official separation, Anne Ferrand gave birth as the fourth child, who after the baptism entry was simply baptized with the name Michelle without naming the parents and was later placed in a convent. Ex-husband Michel Ferrand refused to recognize the child. Until 1691 Anne Ferrand was interned in the convent of Saint-Lô near Chartres on the orders of the king . In 1735 Michelle, a nun, supported by her half-sister Émilie du Châtelet and represented by the lawyer Henry Cochin , successfully sued the aged mother before the Paris court for the recognition of maternity . The maternity lawsuit, which attracted public attention, was included in the Recueil des Causes célèbres in 1739 and detailed in the lawyer's memoirs in 1753. Anne Ferrand died in 1740.

plant

Anne Ferrand published the story of their love in 1689 as Histoire nouvelle des amours de la jeune Bélise et de Cléante , a letter novel in three parts. In the first two parts, Bélise tells a woman about her love for Cléante. In the third part, a friend tells Cléantes the end of the lovers. The novel had several editions by the end of the 18th century. A collection of letters followed in 1691 under the title Histoire des amours de Cléante et de Bélise, avec le recueil de ses lettres .

Publications

  • Histoire nouvelle des amours de la jeune Bélise et de Cléante , Paris, 1689.
  • Histoire des amours de Cléante et de Bélise, avec le recueil de ses lettres , Paris, 1691.

literature

  • Eugène Asse (editor): Lettres de la présidente Ferrand au Baron de Breteuil: suivies de l'histoire des amours de Cléante et de Belise et des poèsies d'Antoine Ferrand, révues sur les éditions originales, augmentées des variants, de nombreuses notes d 'un index et précédées d'une notice biographique , Charpentier, Paris, 1880. online on Gallica BnF
  • Henry Cochin: Pour Demoiselle Michelle Ferrand . In: Oeuvres contenant le recueil de ses mémoires et consultations, Volume 4, Paris, De Nully, 1753, p. 469.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Auguste de Breteuil, Évelyne Leve: Baron de Breteuil, Lettres d'amour, mémoires de cour (1680-1715), Tallandier, Paris, 2013, p. 5ff.
  2. ^ André Maurel: La Marquise du Châtelet: Amie de Voltaire, Frédérique Patat, 1930, p. 2ff.
personal data
SURNAME Ferrand, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferrand, Anne de Bellinzani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1657
DATE OF DEATH 1740
Place of death Paris