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ess d'Arbouville (29 October 1810 – 22 March 1850) was a French writer.

Biography

Born on October 28, 1810, Sophie de Bezancourt was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Maximilien Joseph Antoine Lecat, baron de Bazancourt, and his wife Élisabeth Marie Constance Henriette d'Houdetot.Toutes ces données biographiques se trouvent dans ''Madame d'Arbouville d'après ses lettres à Sainte-Beuve, 1846-1850'' par Léon Séché ; voir Bibliographie She was Sophie d'Houdetot's granddaughter, and frequented her salon with select society. Léon Séché described her as follows: "She had a rather ugly figure, with strong features and protruding eyes which, at first glance, were not in her favor, but as soon as she opened her mouth, her relative ugliness was forgotten". And Sainte-Beuve said of her: "Charming young woman, a little Diane, childless. Remained a child and younger than her age. Not pretty, but better."

Works

*(translated by Lady Mary Fox) ''Mary Madeleine'' (185

*''Three Tales: Christine van Amberg, Resignation, and the Village Doctor'' (1853) *''Poésies et Nouvelles'' (1855)

References

External links

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Review
of Sophie d'Arbouville's ''Poésies et Nouvelles'', ''The Dublin Review'', December 1856, pp. 411–41 1810 births 1850 deaths French women poets 19th-century French women writers French women short story writers 19th-century French short story writers French women novelists 19th-century French novelists 19th-century French poets French salon-holders {{France-novelist-19thC-stub