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Dufresnoy, Adélaïde (1765 - 1825)

Short name Dufresnoy, Adélaïde
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First name Adélaïde-Gillette Billet
Birth name Dufresnoy
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Alternative name Adélaïde Dufrenoy — Adélaïde-Gillette Billet - Dufrénoy
Date of birth 1765
Date of death 1825
Birth date Notes 03-12-1765
Death date Notes XX-3-1825
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Sex Female
Place of birth Nantes
Place of death Paris
Lived in Nantes , Paris , France
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Dufresnoy, Adélaïde was ...
salon relation Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline
friend and mentor of Tastu, Amable
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Place(s) of Residence Nantes , Paris , France
Circulations of Dufresnoy, Adélaïde, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Dufresnoy, Adélaïde, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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*Article dans Dictionnaire historique [..] Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier 1804 is biography of
*Mention in Euphrosyne Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1832 comments on person
Portrait de Adélaïde-Gillette Dufrénoy née Billet (1765-1825), gravée par Grégoire et Deneux. 1840 1840 is portrait of
Madame Dufrénoy Paul Jacquinet 1886 is biography of
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
*Notice dans Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 comments on person

Mentioned in: - Briquet 1804 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: She got married at 15 and was forced to leave France as her husband was a member of the royal entourage. "Her witty sensitive and intermittently erotic verse was crowned by the Académie Francaise in 1815". - MMF transl.woman svdmay11 Cf. - Sainte-Beuve, Portraits de femmes, 381(Jose Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p.82) - Nicole Pellegrin (ed.), Histoire d’historiennes. PUSE, 2006.

Married aged 15, at least one son (Armand Dufrénoy).
Also lived in Alexandria (Egypt) for a while.

Collaborated with Amable Tastu.