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Delphine Gay (born January 26, 1804 in Aachen , † June 29, 1855 in Paris ) was a French poet .
She was the daughter of Jean Sigismond Gay and Sophie Nichault de La Valette , the eldest child from their mother's second marriage. From 1831 until her death she was married to Émile de Girardin .
At the age of seventeen she made a name for herself as a poet. Her reputation was based on her poetry, which appeared as Essais poétiques (Par. 1824–26, 2 vols., And more often). She has also written novels ( Le lorgnon , Contes d'une vieille fille , Le marquls de Fontanges , Marguérite ) and plays ( Judith , Cléopâtre , Lady Tartufe , Le chapeau de l'horloger and others). Her Lettres parisiennes , which she published under the name of a Viscount de Launay in the newspaper La Presse in 1836-48 , had great success . Her Œuvres complètes appeared in six volumes from 1860 to 1861.
literature
- Arthur-Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand: Madame de Girardin . Dentu, Paris 1874.
- Parisian theater . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 9 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig August 26, 1843, p. 137-139 ( books.google.de ). (to the drama Judith )
Web links
- Literature by and about Delphine Gay in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gay, dolphins |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Girardin, Delphine de; Girardin, Delphine Gay de; Gay de Girardin, dolphins; Launay, Charles de (pseudonym); Lespès, Léo (pseudonym); Viscount de Launay, Le (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1855 |
| Place of death | Paris |