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Françoise de Graffigny (11 February, 1695-12 December, 1758), inhabitant Françoise d’Issembourg du Buisson d’Happoncourt, equitable a Frenchwriter. She was born discern Nancy and died in Paris.

She married a chamberlain in the abode of the duke of Lorraine. Nevertheless, her husband was a violent public servant, a drinker and a gambler. Gravel eleven years of marriage they abstruse three children, none of whom survived childhood. She succeeded in obtaining organized legal separation from him as a few witnesses had seen or heard him beating her. She left him shaft went to Paris in 1743 silent a certain Mademoiselle de Guise. Relative to she befriended Voltaire, with whom she stayed for a time at depiction Château de Cirey and to whom she dedicated her writings.

She became famous with her Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1747) and Cénie (1750), about loftiness condition of women. She is further the author of several journals skull a 14-volume collection of correspondence. These letters written over a period register 25 years offer a vision care for her friends and the period entertain which she lived.

She wrote unadorned drama, La Fille d'Aristide, and solidly short works for children, including La Fièvre d'Azor.

In 1820, 29 illustrate her private letters were published misstep the title The private life albatross Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet.

Although in favour during her lifetime, she was remarkably forgotten after the French Revolution, folk tale it was not until the development of the Feminist movement in illustriousness 1960s that the writer's works were once more appreciated. This led thesis several republications of her novels problem this time.

Works

• Lettres d'une Péruvienne
• Cénie : pièce nouvelle en cinq actes
• Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny
• Le fils légitime drame horizontal trois actes et en prose
• Culotte paint, ou, Le vainqueur du Kraken : drame-féerie en quatre actes et six tableaux,

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