Françoise Bertaut de Motteville
Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621 – 1689) was a French memoir writer.
Biography
She was the daughter of Pierre Bertaut, a gentleman of the king's chamber, and niece of the bishop-poet Jean Bertaut.[1]
Her mother, a
He died two years later at the age of eighty-two, and in 1642 the queen summoned Mme de Motteville to court, being now her own mistress by the death of Richelieu and Louis XIII. Through all the intrigues and troubles of the
Some letters of hers are preserved, especially a curious correspondence with
The best edition of her Mémoires is that of M. F. Riaux (2nd ed., Paris, 1891, 4 vols.), containing the essay by Sainte-Beuve from vol. v. of his Causeries du lundi. The Mémoires were translated into English in 1726 and again by KP Wormeley in 3 vols., 1902. For details concerning her family see Recherches sur Madame de Motteville et sur sa famille, by Charles de Beaurepaire (Rouen, 1900).[1]
Bibliography
- Oliver Mallick, "Rien n'est permanent sous le ciel." Mme de Motteville am französischen Hof (1622-1666), in: Zeitsprünge, vol. 18, no. 3 (2014), p. 257-312.
- Jean-Pascal Gay, "Françoise de Motteville. Une expertise indéfinie ou comment ne pas être théologienne. Autour d'une "dissertation" féminine sur la divinité du Christ", in : Source(s), n°8-9, 2016, p. 39-73.
References
- ^ a b c d e public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Motteville, Francǫise Bertaut de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 931. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the