Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier née Zofia Tyzenhauz ( lt, Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė; 1790 – 28 May 1878) was a Polish-Lithuanian

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

, writing in

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. She was a daughter of and Marianna Przezdziecka,. In 1818, she married Antoine Louis Octave de Choiseul-Gouffier, a French count, whose father emigrated during the French Revolution, and owner of

Plateliai Plateliai ( sgs, Platelē; pl, Płótele) is a town in Samogitia, Lithuania. It is situated on the west bank of Lake Plateliai, the largest lake in Samogitia. The town with the population of about 1,100 people is the center of an elderate in Plun ...

manor. She became one of the first female writers in Lithuania, after Ursule Radziwill and Ona Radziwill-Mostowska. Her

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s, mostly historical, are inspired from the lives of women in contemporary Lithuanian nobility. She was buried on cemetery des Champeaux in Montmorency.

Publications

* ''Le Polonois à St. Domingue ou La jeune Créole'',

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, 1818 * ''Barbe Radziwill. Roman historique'',

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, 1820 * ''Vladislas Jagellon et Hedwige, ou la réunion de la Lithuanie à la Pologne. Nouvelle historique'', Paris, 1824 * ''Le nain politque. Roman historique'', Paris 1827 * ''Mémoires historiques sur l'empereur Alexandre et la cour de Russie'', Paris 1829 * ''Halina Ogińska ou les Suédois en Pologne'', Paris 1839 * ''Réminiscences sur l'empereur Alexandre Ier et sur l'empereur Napoléon Ier'', Paris, 1862

References

1790 births 1878 deaths 19th-century French women writers 19th-century Lithuanian nobility 19th-century Lithuanian women writers 19th-century Polish women writers Polish writers in French Novelists from the Russian Empire {{Lithuania-writer-stub