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Eugénie Foa (
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''Bibliographie de la France: ou, Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie''
Paris: Au Cercle de la Librairie. No. 49, 4 December 1848. p. 594.
jwa.org
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Eugénie Foa (Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
, 1796 - Paris, 1852) was a French writer, at times using the nom de plume
A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
A pen name may be used to make the author's na ...
"Maria Fitzclarence."
Eugénie Foa (born Esther-Eugénie Rodrigues-Henriques) was by descent a Sephardi Jew
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
of Portuguese-Jewish descent,Consultation en ligne dearchives la Maison Gradis
her mother being a member of the Gradis family, and both parents being members of the
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
Jewish community. On the death of her father in 1826, the family moved to Paris. Eugenie married young, but after leaving her husband Joseph Foa shortly after their wedding, she began to support herself by writing.
Her sister, Leonie, was the wife of composer Fromental Halévy
Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (; 27 May 179917 March 1862), was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera ''La Juive''.
Early career
Halévy was born in Paris, son of the cantor ...
and she is a cousin of Olinde Rodrigues
Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues (6 October 1795 – 17 December 1851), more commonly known as Olinde Rodrigues, was a French banker, mathematician, and social reformer. In mathematics Rodrigues is remembered for Rodrigues' rotation formula for vector ...
.
Books
*''Le kidouschim'' (''The Kiddushim'') (1830) *''La Juive: histoire des temps de la régence'' (two volumes, 1835) *''Les Mémoirés d'un polichinelle'' (1839) *''Le petit Robinson de Paris'' (1840) *''Le vieux Paris'' (1840)See also
* Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates#Origin of the story of the boy and the dike—The origin of the story about a Dutch boy who saves his country by putting his finger in a leaking dike has been attributed to Eugenie Foa's "''Le Petit Éclusier''" published in 1848.Paris: Au Cercle de la Librairie. No. 49, 4 December 1848. p. 594.
References
External links
* * * *jwa.org
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