Isabelle de Montolieu (1751 - 1832)

Short name Isabelle de Montolieu
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First name Isabelle
Birth name Montolieu
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Alternative name Élisabeth-Jeanne-Pauline Polier de Bottens Montolieu
Date of birth 1751
Date of death 1832
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Sex Female
Place of birth Switzerland
Place of death Switzerland
Lived in Switzerland
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Isabelle de Montolieu was ...
related to Charrière, Isabelle de
related to Marie-Elisabeth Polier
related to Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité de
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Receptions of Isabelle de Montolieu, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
ZZ*Letter commenting Montolieu to Benjamin Constant Charrière, Isabelle de 1801 comments on person
Article dans le Dictionnaire historique [..] Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier 1804 comments on person
Notice dans Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 comments on person
MENTIONED IN: - Briquet 1804 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Pléiade, p.1372 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "She is best-known for her translation into French of Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson (1813) to which she wrote a sequel in 1824".
In Querard: La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique .... vol. 6, Paris, 1834 Montolieu is discredited as translator for not knowing very well English and German. Still: "chez Madame de Montolieu les charmes de l'imagination et les richesses du sentiment dédommagent de l'infidélité dans ses versions" ABR june 2011 Married in 1769, widowed in 1775, remarried in 1786. 2 children, 1 survived (Henri-Antoine).