Book
Françoise de Graffigny
- Alternative title:
- her life and works
- Abstract:
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The story of Françoise de Graffigny’s life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel – the Lettres d’une Péruvienne (1747) – that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play – Cénie (1750) – that rank... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Voltaire Foundation Publisher's website
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-30
- Source identifiers:
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9780729408479
- ISBN:
- 9780729408479
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- VF1:393
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Voltaire Foundation
- Copyright date:
- 2004
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