Fortunée Briquet
Fortunée Briquet | |
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Born | Marguerite-Ursule-Fortunée Bernier 16 June 1782 |
Died | 14 May 1815 Niort | (aged 32)
Occupation | Writer |
Spouse | Hilaire-Alexandre Briquet |
Marguerite-UrsuIe-Fortunée Briquet (16 June 1782 – 14 May 1815) was an early 19th-century French
Biography
Fortunée Bernier received a very good education and was one of the most outstanding students of
Muse and Grace at once! one day what will she be? Talents have no age, She was born immortal.
Later were published Odes sur la mort de Dolomieu, an ode to Denis Lebrun, la Vertu est la base des républiques, and her Mémoire sur Klopstock, sa vie et ses ouvrages, which earned her entrance in the "Athénée des arts" of Paris.
However, Fortunée Briquet's most important work is undoubtedly her famous Dictionnaire historique, littéraire et bibliographique des Françaises et des étrangères naturalisées en France (Paris, Gillé, 1804, in-8°).
She still produced a few pieces in 1807, but soon stopped writing. Domestic troubles poisoned her last days, her health faltered and she died.
The historian Apollin Briquet was her son.
References
- ^ Nicole Pellegrin , Histoires d'historiennes, Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006, p.11.
Bibliography
- Henri Beauchet-Filleau, Charles de Chergé, Paul Beauchet-Filleau, Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des familles du Poitou, Paris, Hachette, 1876, (p. 785).
- Nicole Pellegrin, « Fortunée Briquet »
External links
- Fortunée Briquet on poétesses d'expression française
- Fortunée Briquet on Data.bnf.fr