Fanny de Beauharnais

Fanny de Beauharnais (born Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard de Chaban ; born October 4, 1738 in Paris , † July 2, 1813 ) was a French poet and salonnière of the 18th century.

biography

Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard (Fanny she called herself a writer) married in 1753 the naval officer Claude de Beauharnais , Comte des Roches Baritaud (1717–1784). Even in early youth, she devoted herself completely to poetry and poetry. She was one of the grandmothers of Stéphanie de Beauharnais , the adopted daughter of Napoleon , and due to her marriage to the Beauharnais family, she had considerable social influence over her own and in the other salons of the ancien régime in Paris . Among other things, the writer Claude-Joseph Dorat was an important member of their salon from 1762 until his death in 1780. Envious people also attribute their works to the participants in their salon as authors.

Beauharnais sauce

She is also credited with inventing the Beauharnais sauce - a mixture of béarnaise sauce and herb-flavored liquid butter. Related to it is the Garniture à la Beauharnaise - a classic French garnish made from minced mushrooms, artichoke hearts , castle potatoes and Beauharnais sauce, which Auguste Escoffier dedicated to Fanny.

Works

Mélanges de poésies fugitives et de prose sans conséquence , Paris 1772
Lettres de Stéphanie , 1773
L'Abillard supposé , 1780

literature

FK Turgeon: Fanny de Beauharnais: Biographical Notes and a Bibliography. In: Modern Philology , August 1932, pp. 61-80.

Web links

Literature by and about Fanny de Beauharnais in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ FK Turgeon: Fanny de Beauharnais: Biographical Notes and a Bibliography. In: Modern Philology , August 1932, p. 61
↑ Helga Baumgärtel: Sauces with a story - A culinary journey through two centuries ; in My Family & I - Creative Cuisine, No. 6/2003, Sauces & Dressings , Hubert Burda Media, 2003, ISSN 0933-0828 , page 78

personal data
SURNAME	Beauharnais, Fanny de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mouchard, Marie-Anne-Françoise; Beauharnais, Marie-Anne-Françoise de; Mouchard de Chaban, Marie-Anne-Françoise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French poet
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	July 2, 1813

[1] FK Turgeon: Fanny de Beauharnais: Biographical Notes and a Bibliography. In: Modern Philology , August 1932, p. 61

[2] Helga Baumgärtel: Sauces with a story - A culinary journey through two centuries ; in My Family & I - Creative Cuisine, No. 6/2003, Sauces & Dressings , Hubert Burda Media, 2003, ISSN 0933-0828 , page 78