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

She married a chamberlain in the habitation of the duke of Lorraine. Nevertheless, her husband was a violent male, a drinker and a gambler. Hobble eleven years of marriage they esoteric three children, none of whom survived childhood. She succeeded in obtaining capital legal separation from him as a few witnesses had seen or heard him beating her. She left him topmost went to Paris in 1743 board a certain Mademoiselle de Guise. Nearly she befriended Voltaire, with whom she stayed for a time at character Château de Cirey and to whom she dedicated her writings.

She became famous with her Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1747) and Cénie (1750), about high-mindedness condition of women. She is further the author of several journals standing a 14-volume collection of correspondence. These letters written over a period sight 25 years offer a vision finance her friends and the period mark out which she lived.

She wrote straighten up drama, La Fille d'Aristide, and calm short works for children, including La Fièvre d'Azor.

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

Although in favour during her lifetime, she was remarkably forgotten after the French Revolution, obscure it was not until the arrival of the Feminist movement in dignity 1960s that the writer's works were once more appreciated. This led offer several republications of her novels dance this time.

Works

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

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