Marie-Marguerite Brun (25 June 1713 in Coligny — 10 July 1794 in

Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzer ...

) was a French

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and poet.

Biography

Born as Marie-Marguerite de Maison-Forte, she took the name Brun in 1730 when she married the

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of Besançon, who later became the King's Prosecutor to the financial office of Besançon. She regularly invited writers at her home. In 1753, she released ''Essay d'un dictionnaire franc-comtois'' (a dictionary of the

Franc-Comtois language Frainc-Comtou (french: franc-comtois) is a Romance language of the ''langues d'oïl'' language family spoken in the Franche-Comté region of France and in the Canton of Jura and Bernese Jura in Switzerland. Sample vocabulary References Bibli ...

) with Mr. Petit-Benoist. In 1773, she earned an honourable mention in the Académie Française prize contest for her poem ''L'Amour maternel''. In 1774, she published another poem, ''L'Amour des François pour leur roi''.

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