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Françoise de Graffigny

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Born: February 10 1695

Died: 1111 12 17581758

Françoise de Graffigny, née d'Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt , was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.

Initially famous as the author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne, a novel published in 1747, she became the world's best-known living woman writer after the success of her sentimental comedy, Cénie, in 1750. Her reputation as a dramatist suffered when her second play at the Comédie-Française, La Fille d'Aristide, was a flop in 1758, and even her novel fell out of favor after 1830. From then until the last third of the twentieth century, she was almost forgotten, but thanks to new scholarship and the interest in women writers generated by the feminist movement, Françoise de Graffigny is now regarded as one of the major French writers of the eighteenth century.

Françoise de Graffigny

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 10 1695

Died: 1111 12 17581758

Françoise de Graffigny, née d'Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt , was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.

Initially famous as the author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne, a novel published in 1747, she became the world's best-known living woman writer after the success of her sentimental comedy, Cénie, in 1750. Her reputation as a dramatist suffered when her second play at the Comédie-Française, La Fille d'Aristide, was a flop in 1758, and even her novel fell out of favor after 1830. From then until the last third of the twentieth century, she was almost forgotten, but thanks to new scholarship and the interest in women writers generated by the feminist movement, Françoise de Graffigny is now regarded as one of the major French writers of the eighteenth century.

Books from Françoise de Graffigny

Lettres d'une Peruvienne (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 2)

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Letters from a Peruvian Woman

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Lettres Portugaises, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, et autres romans d'amour par lettres

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Lettere d'Una Peruviana, Volume 1

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Letters of a Peruvian Princess: With the Sequel. Translated from the French of Madame de Grafigny, by Francis Ashworth, Esq. in Two Volumes. Volume 2 of 2

Oeuvres complètes (French Edition)

Listy Peruwianki

Cenie: Piece En Cinq Actes (Classic Reprint)

Lettres d'une Péruvienne (French Edition)

Letters of a Peruvian Woman By Graffigny, Francoise

Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny: 1742 - 1744, Lettres 391-635