Valérie de Gasparin

Valérie Boissier, comtesse de Gasparin (13 September 1813 – 1894) was a Swiss woman of letters. She was a spokeswoman in topics such as freedom, equality and creativity.

Biography She was born at Geneva. She published her first work, Voyage of an Ignorant Woman in the South of France and Italy, in 1832.

She and her husband were devout Christians; they were members of the Church of the Canton of Vaud and were involved in the foundation of the Union of the Free Evangelical Churches of France.

Works In addition to a number of translations of English and American authors, she published: Le mariage au point de vue chrétien, a work which won the Montyon prize from the French Academy (Marriage from the Christian Point of View, 1843) Un livre pour les femmes mariées (A Book for Wives, 1845) Il y a des pauvres à Paris et ailleurs, which also won the Montyon prize (There are Poor in Paris and Elsewhere, 1846) Les horizons célestes (The Heavenly Horizons, 1859)