Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes

Fanny Dénoix or Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes (1798-1879) was a French poet and writer who was lauded as "the muse of the Oise," the site of her well known poem, Jeanne Hachette, or the siege of Beauvais.

Married first to Mr. Lavergnat, Fanny married a second time on 16 February 1818 to Mr. Dénoix des Vergnes, surgeon of the Royal Guard dragoons. From 1832 on, she published collections of poems under the name of Fanny Dénoix, Fanny Denoix (without the accent, which corresponds to the local pronunciation of her name) or Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes.

Correspondent Dénoix corresponded with many French intellectuals of the time including, Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand, Eugène Sue and Alphonse de Lamartine. In 1837, she published Why I am a Poet: To my detractors in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Amiens.

Dénoix produced her first poetry collection in 1837, Hours of Solitude, and perhaps her most ambitious endeavor was to translate into verse the Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue (1843). After the 1848 French revolution, Fanny Dénoix became actively involved in politics, publishing an ode to the army (1850), a collection of patriotic verses (1855), and a salute to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1858). ) She took that opportunity to make the first awards: Paul Dupont-Sevres (200 fr), the unnamed author of a Latin poem "Ode to Jeanne Hachette" (200 fr.), and Laçroix de a Neuville-en-Ilez (100 fr). The plaque on display there spells her name Denoix, without an accent.

Selected works Among her many books, poems and letters, the author's name is spelled Dénoix or Denoix (without the accent).

The Holly Fountain, by Fanny Dénoix Jeanne Hachette, or the siege of Beauvais, a poem by Fanny Denoix The Brothers of Christian doctrine in Beauvais, letter to the Progress of the Somme by Fanny Denoix Vergnes Gisors-Neauffles, by Fanny Dénoix To Napoleon III, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes To HM the Empress of Mexico, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes Jefferson Davis before the High Court of Justice, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes M. de Cavour, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes To Victor Hugo, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes The Return, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes Without fear and without reproach, poetry, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes Hours of solitude, poems by Fanny Denoix, 1837 The Council, letters written in the Journal d'Amiens, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes Warriors and sentimental, poems by Fanny Denoix Honor to you! Virtues, Courage, Glory, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes Mysteries of Paris (from the novel Les Mystères de Paris by Eugène Sue), poem, by Fanny Dénoix, 1843 Compiègne, La Forêt, by Fanny Dénoix / Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes Pierrefonds, by Fanny Dénoix To the French Army, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes, 1850 Toby, Dog of Muse, to Milord, Dog of Czar, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes, 1865 Here and there, Historical Studies (including Visit to Monsieur de Chateaubriand), by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes, 1865 Let the justice of a woman, by Fanny Vergnes Denoix (sic), 1866 My Politics, by Fanny Dénoix des Vergnes, 1867