Lafite, Marie-Elisabeth Bouée de (c. 1750–1794)
Lafite, Marie-Elisabeth Bouée de (c. 1750–1794)
French translator and short-story writer. Name variations: Madame Lafite. Born c. 1750 in France; died 1794; m. a Protestant preacher.
Collaborated with husband on periodical Bibliothèque des sciences et des beaux arts; published educational fiction, including Entriens, drames et contes moraux (1778) and Eugénie et ses élèves (1787); also wrote Lettres sur divers sujets (1775) and trans. Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy (1787) and Sophie von la Roche's novel Miss Lony (1792).
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