Antoinette-Thérèse Deshoulières (

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, 31 May 1659 –

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, 8 August 1718) was a French poet.

Biography

The daughter of Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières, she managed to publish her mother's works. ''La mort de Cochon'' which she wrote is a tragi-comedy in the manner of Corneille. The heroes are Cochon, the dog of the Duke of Vivonne, and Grisette, the cat of Antoinette des Houlières. This subject shows the relations which the two ladies of Houlières maintained with the court of France. Her mother, Corneille himself, were her teachers, as well as the poet Benserade, who said "Daughter of a wonder and wonder herself". She was a member of the Accademia Galileiana. She and her mother both died of breast cancer. Antoinette-Thérèse was buried at Eglise Saint-RochQuintin Craufurd, Essais sur la littérature française pg. 399; downloadable
/ref> in Paris on 9 August 1718, in the cellar of the Chapel of the Virgin.

Works

Œuvres de Madame Deshoulières et de Mademoiselle Deshoulières. Volume 1 (288 pages) Read online
on Gallica
Œuvres de Madame Deshoulières et de Mademoiselle Deshoulières. Nouvelle édition augmentée… Volume 2 (378 pages) Read online
on Gallica
Ode
crowned by the

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1659 births 1718 deaths People from Rocroi Writers from Grand Est 17th-century French poets French women poets Deaths from breast cancer in France {{France-poet-stub