| Bibliography |
MENTIONED IN: - Beard, Mary Ritter (1946 [1987]): Woman as Force in History, A Study in Traditions and Realities, New York: Persea Books. Cf. - ŠAUPERL, Mojca (2009): "Fanny Mongellaz : chemins d'un oubli". In: VAUDAY, Patrick (ed.), MOČNIK, Rastko (ed.), ZUPANC EĆIMOVIĆ, Paula (ed.), ROTAR, Drago B. (ed.). Histoire de l'oubli en contextes postsocialiste et postcolonial, Koper: Université de Primorska, Centre de recherches scientifiques, Maison d'édition Annales: Société d'historie de Primorska Sud, pp. 145-156. |
| Provisional Notes |
Born into a bourgeois family in Chambéry, Fanny Burnier was educated at a boarding school in Geneva. In 1823 or 1824 she married Pierre-Joseph Mongellaz, a physician and author of medical texts. The couple lived in Paris between 1824 and the summer of 1828, however Fanny did stay with Marguerite Baur, the widow of the chemist Claude-Louis Berthollet, at Arcueil for some time around 1825. Fanny Mongellaz died in Flumet, Savoy, in 1829.
*Acquaintance of Joseph-François Michaud
Published works:
- Louis XVIII et Napoléon dans les Champs Élysées (Paris, Ponthieu, 1825)
- De l'Influence des femmes sur les mœurs et les destinées des nations, sur leurs familles et la société, et de l'influence des mœurs sur le bonheur de la vie (Paris, Michaud, 1828; second - posthumous - edition 1831)
Lost manuscripts:
- Vie de saint François de Sales
- Pierre, comte de Savoie (unfinished historical novel) |