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    Françoise de Graffigny (née Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt; 11 February 1695 – 12 December 1758), better known as Madame de Graffigny...
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    (French: Lettres d'une Péruvienne) is a 1747 epistolary novel by Françoise de Graffigny. It tells the story of Zilia, a young Incan princess, who is abducted...
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  • Prize winner Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780), French painter Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621–1689), French memoir writer Françoise Beaucournu-Saguez...
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  • Candide Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), author of Manon Lescaut Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon...
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    Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (b. 1688) December 12 – Françoise de Graffigny, French lettrist (b. 1695) December 16 – Andrzej Stanisław Załuski...
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    1726) February 10 – Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné, French archbishop (d. 1762) February 11 Françoise de Graffigny, French writer (d. 1758) Abraham Pelt...
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  • Voltaire (1694–1778) Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758) Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–1799) Louis-François Faur (1746–1829) Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) Jean-Claude...
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  • dream was to become a writer, an ambition encouraged by his friend Françoise de Graffigny, who became his sponsor in the court society of Lorraine. They collaborated...
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  • him. She is also known as a correspondent of Françoise de Graffigny. Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny: 23 octobre 1744-10 septembre 1745, lettres...
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    Lettres persanes by Montesquieu (1721), Lettres péruviennes by Françoise de Graffigny (1747) and Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse by Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
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    closer than ever to Françoise de Graffigny, advising her on Cénie and helping to bring about the marriage of her ward, Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, to Helvétius...
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    Éléonore de Lespinasse, Anne-Marie du Boccage, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Françoise de Graffigny, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Bernard de Jussieu...
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    Saint-Lambert began writing poetry in his adolescence and belonged to Françoise de Graffigny's social circle in Lunéville. By October 1733 he had already begun...
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    royal courts, de Beaumont communicated regularly with influential social figures, such as Emilie du Châtelet and Françoise de Graffigny. Both women published...
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    Constance de Salm following her divorce Françoise de Graffigny, author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne Julie de Lespinasse: her chief draw was d'Alembert...
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  • (François-Marie Arouet) (1694–1778) René-Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d' Argenson (1694–1757) Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758) Antoine François Prévost (Antoine...
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    in the French eighteenth century [Francoise de Graffigny, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Isabelle de Charrière]. Newark DE, University of Delaware Press, 2010...
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  • Normandy Zalman Gradowski (1910–1944), Polish Jewish Holocaust victim Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), French novelist and salonnière Elizabeth Grant (1797–1885)...
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    highest priority of the State. Gazette de Leyde Political Spectrum Lettres d'une Péruvienne by Françoise de Graffigny Modernity Rationalism Universalism In...
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  • Revolution Marie de Gournay (1585–1645), novelist, essayist and critic Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758), novelist and playwright Évelyne Grandjean (born 1939)...
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  • Germany/US, nf) Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758, Lorraine/France, f/d) Anders Abraham Grafström (1790–1870, Sweden, nf/p) Joe de Graft (1924–1978,...
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  • Woman's Labour, Mary Collier (1739) Letters from a Peruvian Woman, Françoise de Graffigny (1747) The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1756) An Essay on Woman...
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    Duke of Orléans. From 11 September to 5 October 1738, Françoise de Graffigny paid "Madame de Lorraine" a farewell visit at Commercy, and her letters...
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    1726) February 10 – Armand Jules de Rohan-Guéméné, French archbishop (d. 1762) February 11 Françoise de Graffigny, French writer (d. 1758) Abraham Pelt...
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  • Saint-Lambert, Fagan de Lugny, l’abbé de La Marre, the chevalier Louis Caron-Destouches, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut, Françoise de Graffigny... Ultimately...
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    from the French with an additional original volume. Written by Françoise de Graffigny. London: Thomas Cadell, 1774. Malcolm, 1779 (tragedy, unproduced)...
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    officer and for many years was the lover of novelist and playwright Françoise de Graffigny. Élisabeth-Madeleine took care of him in his old age and died a...
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  • non-f. wr. Agnieszka Graff (b. 1970, Poland), feminist wr. & es. Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758, France), nv. & pw. Sue Grafton (1940–2017, United States)...
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    by Poullain de Saint-Foix (published several times in conjunction with Lettres persanes), and perhaps especially Françoise de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une...
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  • print, vol. 13 due in 2010, edition will be complete in 15 vols. Françoise de Graffigny met Jeanne Quinault in 1740, and regarded the actress as her best...
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