Françoise Marguerite Janiçon (1711-1789) was a Swedish writer.

Biography

She was born in the Netherlands as one of two daughters of the Huguenot

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(1674-1730), Dutch minister in Hesse-Cassel, and Marguerite Anne Marie de Ville. From 1741, she lived in Sweden with her spouse, the Swedish historiographer

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(1713-1785). Her spouse was ennobled in 1752 in order to by the noble estate Christineholm. Françoise Marguerite Janiçon belonged to the few females who participated in the political debate under their own name rather than under a pseudonym during the Swedish

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, along with

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, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Charlotta Frölich and

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. She was at one point referred to by

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as the most learned female in Sweden, and upheld a political correspondence with

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. In 1767, she published the political work ''Tankar i anledning af Sista Öfwerflöds-Förordningen Och Dess wärkställighet; Fattade i pennan, och Dedicerade til MALCONTENTERNE, Af En Fri Svensk'' (Thoughts in regard to the last Abundance-Law and its implementation; written by pen, and dedicated to MALCONTENTERNE, by a free Swede). In it, she supported the regulations to reserve certain clothes according to class, and spoke to in particular female readers with question as to how the economy of the state should be organized. Alongside Charlotta Frölich, she was one of two women to publicly participate in the debate as to how the economy should be governed by the state.

Publications

* ''Tankar i anledning af Sista Öfwerflöds-Förordningen Och Dess wärkställighet; Fattade i pennan, och Dedicerade til MALCONTENTERNE, Af En Fri Svensk'' (1767)

References

* Skuncke Marie-Christine, Tandefelt Henrika, red (2003). Riksdag, kaffehus och predikstol: frihetstidens politiska kultur 1766-1772. Skrifter / utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 0039-6842 ; 649. Stockholm: Atlantis. Libris 9002888.

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