Beauharnais, Fanny de (1737–1813)

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Beauharnais, Fanny de (1737–1813)

French novelist, poet and salonnière. Name variations: Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard, Comtesse de Beauharnais; Countess of Beauharnais. Born Marie Anne Françoise Mouchard in 1738 in Paris, France; died 1813; m. Claude de Beauharnais (uncle of Empress Josephine).

Held literary salon in Paris and was a friend of Napoleon; contributed to Journal des Dames and wrote tales and poetry; probably collaborated with her lover, Dorat, on the novel Sacrifices de l'amour (1771); also wrote Lettres de Stéphanie (1778) and La Fausse Inconstance (1787). Beauharnais and Marie Anne Fiquet du Bocage were the only women admitted to the academy at Lyon.

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