Marie-Elisabeth de Polier

Marie-Elisabeth Polier (1742-1817), known as the Chanoinesse of Heiliggrabben, was a Swiss journalist and translator.

Life Marie-Elisabeth Polier was born in 1742 in Lausanne. as did two other cousins: Isabelle de Montolieu and Isabelle's sister Nanette.

Polier took up a religious vocation, as Chanoinesse (canoness) of the Reformed Order of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre in Prussia. Sanjay Subrahmanyam has suggested that her lack of knowledge of Indian geography may have introduced inconsistencies into the text.

Polier was named Dame of Honour at the court of Saxe-Meiningen, and died in Roudolstadt in 1817.

Works (tr.) Antonie: suivie de plusieurs pieces intéressantes by Christian Leberecht Heyne. Translated from the German. Mourer, Paris, Lausanne: Buisson, 1787. (tr.) Recueil d'historiettes. Translated from the German. Lausanne, Paris: L. Luquiens and Bossange & Comp., 1792. (tr.) Le club des jacobines, ou L'amour de la patrie: comédie en un acte by August von Kotzebue. Translated freely from the German. Paris, 1792. ? (tr.) La Sylphide ou l'ange gardien. Translated from the English The Sylph, by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Lausanne, Paris, 1795. This translation has also been attributed to Isabelle de Montolieu. (tr.) Eugénie, ou la résignation: anecdote by Sophie von La Roche. Translated from the German Schönes Bild der Resignation, eine Erzählung. Lausanne: Em. Henri Vincent, 1795. (tr,) Le pauvre aveugle by Christian Leberecht Heyne. Translated from the German. Paris: Chomel, 1805. (ed.) Mythologie des Indous by Antoine Polier. Roudolstadt, Paris, 1809.