Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier

Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier

Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier née Zofia Tyzenhauz (Lithuanian: Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė; 1790 – 28 May 1878) was a Polish-Lithuanian novelist, writing in French. She was a daughter of Ignacy Tyzenhauz [pl] and Marianna Przezdziecka,.[1] In 1818, she married Antoine Louis Octave de Choiseul-Gouffier, a French count, whose father emigrated during the French Revolution, and owner of Plateliai manor. She became one of the first female writers in Lithuania, after Ursule Radziwill and Ona Radziwill-Mostowska. Her novels, mostly historical, are inspired from the lives of women in contemporary Lithuanian nobility. She was buried on cemetery des Champeaux in Montmorency.[1]

Publications

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  • Le Polonois à St. Domingue ou La jeune Créole, Warsaw, 1818
  • Barbe Radziwill. Roman historique, Paris, 1820
  • Vladislas Jagellon et Hedwige, ou la réunion de la Lithuanie à la Pologne. Nouvelle historique, Paris, 1824
  • Le nain politque. Roman historique, Paris 1827
  • Mémoires historiques sur l'empereur Alexandre et la cour de Russie, Paris 1829
  • Halina Ogińska ou les Suédois en Pologne, Paris 1839
  • Réminiscences sur l'empereur Alexandre Ier et sur l'empereur Napoléon Ier, Paris, 1862

References

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  1. ^ a b Minakowski, Marek. "Zofia Tyzenhauz h. Bawół". Minakowski's Great Genealogy.