Françoise de Graffigny: Her Life and Works [French]

by English Showalter

The story of Fran oise de Graffigny's life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel - the Lettres d'une P ruvienne (1747) - that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 0729408477
• ISBN13: 9780729408479
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
• Length: 399 Pages