Eugénie Poujade

Jeanne Eugénie Poujade (1814 – 1881) also Madame Delafond, also Madame la Comtesse E. de Sornay was a Mauritian poet and writer, who founded the Société du Lierre and its periodical '' La Parisienne''.

Biography

Poujade was born in 1814 in Port Louis, Mauritius.FARIAS, Luana Costa de
"Poetisas das Áfricas de língua francesa: uma lírica de diversidades."
(2021). In 1834, she married Count Charles Antoine Pierre Octave Sornay. After his death, she remarried in 1858 to Pierre Antoine Delafond. She became known in 1862 with a volume of poetry, '' Maurice et France'', then published two years later ''Contes de ma tante Joséphine''. In 1865, the first issue of the newspaper '' La Parisienne'' was published, of which she was the director. In the periodical '' Le Monde illustré'', ''La Parisienne'' is presented as a publication of the Société du Lierre, which Poujade had founded. This literary circle, "provisionally omposedof twenty members, meeting once a week" was open to women. She also wrote librettos, for example for ''Sous les tropiques'' by A P L Folly. By 1869, she was involved with the Société Protectrice de l'Enfance. She died in 1881.

Selected works

* ''Maurice et France'' (1862)
* ''Essai sur les moeurs et le progrès au XIXe siècle'' (1864)
* ''Contes de ma tante Joséphine'' (1865)
* ''Les Parfums de la vie, la poésie...'' (Paris: impr. de AlcanLévy, 1868)

References

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1814 births
1881 deaths
Mauritian poets
British Mauritius people
Librettists
Mauritian women writers
Mauritian women poets
Women librettists