| Fortunée Briquet | |
|---|---|
Fortunée Briquet (1804 engraving) | |
| Born | Marguerite-Ursule-Fortunée Bernier 16 June 1782 Niort |
| Died | 14 May 1815 (aged 32) Niort |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Hilaire-Alexandre Briquet |
Marguerite-UrsuIe-Fortunée Briquet (16 June 1782 – 14 May 1815) was an early 19th-century French femme de lettres and polygraph. [1]
A polygraph is an author who writes in a variety of fields.
Fortunée Bernier received a very good education and was one of the most outstanding students of Hilaire-Alexandre Briquet, who later became her husband, and who inserted her early writings in the Almanach des Muses . In 1800, an Ode sur les vertus civiles opened her the doors of the Society of Literature and of the salons of Paris. Fanny de Beauharnais, the First consul aunt, gave the signal for applause by sending these verses, with her poem l’Ile de la Félicité:
L'Almanach des Muses was a French language poetry magazine published in France.
Fanny de Beauharnais, née Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard, was a French lady of letters and salon-holder. She was the mother of French politician Claude de Beauharnais. She was the grandmother of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden, and through her she is the ancestor of former royal families of Romania and Yugoslavia, and the present royal families of Belgium, of Luxembourg and of Monaco.
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.
An ode is a type of lyrical stanza. It is an elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode. Different forms such as the homostrophic ode and the irregular ode also exist.
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.
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