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Françoise-Albine Benoist

1730 – 1795

French writer

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Lived 1730 – 1795 (aged 65). Françoise-Albine Benoist was a French writer.

Françoise-Albine Benoist (1724 – 1808 or 1809) was a French novelist, playwright and essayist born in Lyon.

She wrote a few theater works that were never played. She was also a journalist for Le Journal des Dames.

Little is known about her life. In April 1754 she married painter and draughtsman Jean-Marie Benoist.

According to Manon Roland, Benoist may have been a model for the heroine of Charles-Albert Demoustier's Lettres à Emilie.

Her most famous work is Les Aveux d'une jolie femme.

Works Journal en forme de lettres, mêlé de critiques et d'anecdotes, par Madame B**, 1757. Journal des dames, February 1759, p. 80-86. Journal des dames, April 1759, p. 37-46. Mes principes, ou la Vertu raisonnée, par Madame B***, Amsterdam and Paris, Cuissart, 1759. « Lettre d'une femme sincère », Journal des dames, July 1761, p. 53-66 . « Seconde lettre d'une femme sincère », Journal des dames, September 1761, p. 212-224 . Élisabeth, roman par Madame ***, Amsterdam, Arkstée and Merkus, 1766 (with two further editions by the same publisher in 1766). Célianne, ou les Amans séduits par leurs vertus, par l'auteur d'« Elisabeth », Amsterdam and Paris, Lacombe, 1766 (with a further edition in Amsterdam in 1767, in Paris, aux dépens de la Compagnie in 1768; translated into italien as Celianna, ovvero, Gli amanti sedotti dalle loro virtù in Venice in 1785; there is a modern edition by Olga B. Cragg published in Saint-Etienne in 2002 ). La Vertu persécutée, ou, Lettres du colonel Talbert, par Madame ***, auteur d'Elisabeth, Dresden, Walther, 1767 (with two further editions in Amsterdam and Paris in 1767 ). Paméla françoise ou la Vertu en célibat et en mariage, dépeinte dans les lettres de Messieurs de Talbert & Mozinge, rédigées dans le goût des lettres de Clarisse & Grandisson par madame Riccoboni… Nouvelle édition, Amsterdam and The Hague, 1768. La Supercherie réciproque, comédie en un acte et en prose, Amsterdam and Paris, Durand, 1768. Le Triomphe de la probité, comédie en deux actes et en prose; imitée de l'Avocat, comédie de Goldoni, Paris, Le Jay, 1768 (and included in a collection). Agathe et Isidore, Amsterdam and Paris, Durand, 1768 (republished as Les Avantures du beau cordonnier; ou Les amours d'Isidore, né marquis d***, et de la vertueuse Agathe veuve du marquis d'Olfonte. Tableau intéressant de la sympathie des cœurs nobles, The Hague and Frankfurt, Van Duren, 1769). Sophronie, ou Leçon prétendue d'une mère à sa fille, London and Frankfurt, Eslinger, 1769; London and Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1769. L'Erreur des désirs, Paris, Veuve Regnard and Demonville, Lyon, Cellier, Rouen, Abraham Lucas, 1770. Folie de la prudence humaine, Amsterdam and Paris, Veuve Regnard and Demonville, 1771. Les Erreurs d'une jolie femme ou l'Aspasie françoise, Brussels and Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1781 (translated into German as Die Irrtümer eines artigen Frauenzimmers oder die franzosische Apasia, Breslau, Meyer, 1782; translated into English as Aspasia; or, the dangers of vanity. A French story, taken from real life, London, Bew, 1791 ). Les Aveux d'une jolie femme, Brussels and Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1782. Lettres sur le désir de plaire, 1786.

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French writer

When was Françoise-Albine Benoist born?

Françoise-Albine Benoist was born on 12 August 1730 in Lyon.

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Françoise-Albine Benoist died on 21 October 1795 in Paris.

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Françoise-Albine Benoist was a writer.

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Françoise-Albine Benoist was French.

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