Marguerite-UrsuIe-Fortunée Briquet (16 June 1782 – 14 May 1815) was an early 19th-century French

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and

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., ''Histoires d'historiennes'', Université de Saint-Etienne, 2006, p.11.

Biography

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 ''L'Almanach des Muses'' was a French-language poetry magazine published in Paris, France. History and profile ''Almanach des Muses'' was founded in 1765 by Sautreau de Marsy. The magazine was much in vogue during the second half of the 18th cen ...

''. In 1800, an ''Ode sur les vertus civiles'' opened her the doors of the Society of Literature and of the salons of Paris.

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, the

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aunt, gave the signal for applause by sending these verses, with her poem ''l’Ile de la Félicité'': Later were published ''Odes sur la mort de Dolomieu'', an

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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. However, Fortunée Briquet's most important work is undoubtedly her famou
''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. The historian was her son.

References

Bibliography

* Henri Beauchet-Filleau, Charles de Chergé, Paul Beauchet-Filleau, ''Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des familles du Poitou'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, (p. 785).

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