Octavie Guichard

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Octavie Guichard, who became Octavie Belot by marriage, then Octavie du Rey de Meynières, was born in Paris in 1719 and died in Chaillot in 1805.^[1] She was a French writer and translator.

Biography

As the impoverished young widow of a lawyer at the

• Réflexions d’une provinciale sur le discours de Jean-Jacques Rousseau touchant l’origine de l’inégalité de condition parmi les hommes (1756)
• Observations sur la noblesse et le Tiers-État (1758)
• Mélanges de littérature anglaise (1759) volume 1 volume 2
• Samuel Johnson, Histoire de Rasselas, prince d'Abyssinie (1760) [1]
• Histoire d'Angleterre
  , depuis l'invasion de Jules César jusqu'à l'avènement de Henry VII (1763–1765)
• Sarah Fielding, Ophélie, roman traduit de l'anglais (1763)
• Letters to François-Antoine Devaux (1762–1781)[2]

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