Françoise de Graffigny

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Françoise de Graffigny

Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt de Graffigny (born February 13, 1695 in Nancy , † December 12, 1758 in Paris ), known as Madame de Graffigniy , was a French writer and Salonnière of the Enlightenment .

Life and work

First page Lettres d'une Péruvienne (Letters from a Peruvian Woman).

Françoise de Graffigny married at a very young age, but soon divorced her violent husband, the Chamberlain of the Duke of Lorraine , and for a while enjoyed the hospitality of Émilie du Châtelet and Voltaire at Cirey Castle in what is now Haute-Saône (1738) and from there went to Paris in the company of Mademoiselle de Guise, later Duchess of Richelieu, where she appeared as a writer. In addition, until her death she was in charge of an important salon in which the enlightened personalities , especially the " philosophes ", frequented. After her death, this was continued by her niece Madame Hélvetius .

She was the best known French writer of the 18th century. Her letter novel Lettres d'une Péruvienne / Lettres péruviennes (Letters from a Peruvian) (1747) was widespread and was translated into numerous languages ​​(German 1801). Formally, it was based on Montesquieu's Lettres persanes . She also had great success with her drama Cénie (1750), while her comedy La fille d'Aristide fell through with audiences.

A first collection of her works was published in London in 1788 in 4 volumes. In 1820, letters were first published under the title Vie privée de Voltaire et de Madame du Châtelet , which Graffigny from Cirey had written to friends in Lorraine.

Works

  • Raymond Trousson (Ed.): Romans de femmes du XVIII siècle: Mme de Tencin , Mme de Graffigny, Mme de Riccoboni, Mme de Charrière, Olympes de Gouges, Mme de Souza, Mme Cottin, Mme de Genlis, Mme de Krüdener, Mme de Duras , Paris, Robert Laffont: 1996.
  • Lettres d'une Péruvienne , Paris: Flammarion, 2005. ISBN 2080722166
  • Cénie: pièce nouvelle en cinq actes , Vienna: Jean Pierre van Ghelen, 1752.
  • Le fils légitime drame en trois actes et en prose , Lausanne: Grasset, 1771.
  • Culotte rouge, ou, Le vainqueur du Kraken: drame-féerie en quatre actes et six tableaux , Paris: Bricon et Lesot, 1911.
  • Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny , Oxford: Voltaire Foundation / Taylor Institution, 1985.
  • Choix de lettres , Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001.

literature

  • Femmes dramaturges en France (1650–1750): pièces choisies , Paris / Seattle, 1993. (Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature)
  • Jacqueline Chammas: Trois personnes uniques: la triade idéalisée dans la correspondance de Françoise de Graffigny (1738–1742) , Montréal: Université de Montréal, 1996.
  • S. Pascal Dewey: À l'ombre des lumières: mesdames de Tencin et de Graffigny , New York: P. Lang, 1996.
  • Georges Mangeot: Une biography de Madame de Graffigny , Nancy: Edition de la Revue “Le Pays Lorrain”, 1913.
  • Kim Mignogna: L'étrangère dans la société parisienne chez l'abbé Prévost, Mme de Graffigny et Mme de Duras , Montréal: Université de Montréal, 2002.
  • Georges Noël: Une "Primitive" oubliée de l'école des "cœurs sensibles"; Madame de Graffigny (1695–1758) , Paris: Plon-Nourrit, 1913.
  • English Showalter: Voltaire et ses amis d'après la correspondance de Mme de Graffigny , Banbury: The Voltaire Foundation, 1975.
  • Lynne V. Stewart: De l'extérieur a l'intérieur: un voyage vers l'écriture féminine Lettres d'une Péruvienne de Françoise de Graffigny , Ottawa, NLC, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Graffigny, Françoise de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graffigny, Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1758
Place of death Paris