Charlotte Bourette

Charlotte Bourette (, 1714–1784), known by the sobriquet La Muse Limonadière, was a French poet, playwright and lemonadier (lemonade seller).

Biography Bourette was born in Paris in 1714. Bourette married Sieur Curé. She was widowed before 1750 and remarried Sieur Bourette. She had no formal literary training.

Bourette was proprietress of the Le Café Allemand ('The German Café') on Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, from 1742. Her café was frequented by literary men and poets.

In 1779, Bourette published the one act comedic play La Coquette punie, which was performed in Théatre Français in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Epitaphe acrostiche sur la mort de Mme la Marquise de Mailly (1751)

Plays La Coquette punie (1779)