Madame de graffigny biography for kids
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Saving Madame de Graffigny
VS
saw the successful completion of a year project: the publication of the Correspondance of Françoise de Graffigny (), famous in her time – and again today – as the author of the epistolary novel Lettres d&#;une Péruvienne and the play Cénie. Spanning 15 volumes, this landmark edition contains more than letters, annotated by an international team of scholars. It opens in most dramatic fashion, with a battered wife&#;s desperate plea for help (my translation):
My dear father,
I am forced, in the dire plight where I find myself, to implore you not to abandon me and to have Mr de Rarecour come and get me as quickly as possible, for I am in great danger and am all shattered with blows. I throw myself at your mercy and ask you that this be done very soon. You have to say that others than I informed you, for everyone knows it. I am with much respect your most humble and obedient servant
F. d’Haponcour de Grafigny
The editors date this letter to a
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Couverture / Jaquette
The story of Françoise de Graffigny's life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel - the Lettres d'une Péruvienne () - that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play - Cénie () - that ranked among the ten most successful new plays of the century, and became a noted salon hostess. Yet fifty years after her death she was almost forgotten, and has been rediscovered only in the last few decades. Now her novel is widely read once more, and studied as a masterpiece. At the same time, a vast collection of her letters and papers emerged, and scholars have used the ongoing edition of her Correspondance to shed important light on a long list of noted figures, such as Choiseul, Crébillon f
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Françoise de Graffigny
her life and works
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The story of Françoise de Graffigny’s life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel – the Lettres d’une Péruvienne () – that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play – Cénie () – that ranked among the ten most successful new plays of the century, and became a noted salon hostess. Yet fifty years after her death she was almost forgotten, and has been rediscovered only in the last few decades. Now her novel fryst vatten widely read once more, and studied as a masterpiece. At the same time, a vast collection of her letters and papers emerged, and schola