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Françoise de Graffigny by Pierre-Augustin Clavareau. Lunéville, musée du château des Lumières. Photo: T. Franz, Conseil départemental
On International Women’s Day, join us in celebrating the publication next month of the final volume of letters of pioneering writer and salon hostess, Madame de Graffigny. It will mark the completion of over 30 years of impeccable editing of La Correspondance de Mme de Graffigny and bring to a close the story of Mme de Graffigny’s lost papers which began over years ago.
When Mme de Graffigny died on 12 December , she was the world’s most famous living woman writer. Despite the failure of her last play, La Fille d’Aristide (), she was admired throughout Europe for her novel, Lettres d’une Péruvienne (), and her drama, Cénie (), both huge popular successes. The publication of volume 15 of Mme de Graffigny’s correspondence brings us to her death, and beyond. Her friends wrote the last letters in this volume, as they tried to preserve her glory for posterity by bringing out editions of her unpublished works and selected correspondence. They were not immediately successful, and the moment seems right to retrace the history of her papers.
Title page of Lettres d’une Péruvienne (Paris, ). Image: BnF.
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Françoise de Graffigny
French novelist, playwright, and salon hostess (–)
Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt, Madame de Graffigny | |
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Madame de Graffigny | |
| Born | ()11 February Nancy, Duchy of Lorraine |
| Died | 12 December () (aged&#;63) Paris, France |
| Title | Madame de Graffigny |
Françoise de Graffigny (néeFrançoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt; 11 February – 12 December ), better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.
Initially famous as the author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne, a novel published in , she became the world's best-known living woman writer after the success of her sentimental comedy Cénie in Her reputation as a dramatist suffered when her second play at the Comédie-Française, La Fille d'Aristide, was a flop in , and even her novel fell out of favor after From then until the last third of the twentieth century, she was almost forgotten, but thanks to new scholarship and the interest in women writers generated by the feminist movement, Françoise de Graffigny is now regarded as a significant French writer of the eighteenth century.
Early life, marriage, and widowhood in Lorraine
[edit]Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt was born in Nancy, in the duchy of Lorraine.[