Elie de Beaumont, Anne Louise (1730–1783)

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Elie de Beaumont, Anne Louise (1730–1783)

French novelist. Name variations: Anne-Louise Morin-Dumesnil Elie de Beaumont; Madame or Mme Elie de Beaumont. Born Anne Louise Morin du Mesnil in 1730 in Caen, France, into a Huguenot family; died 1783; m. Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont (lawyer at Parlement and advocate of religious tolerance).

Wrote Lettres du marquis de Roselle (1764) and completed Madame de Tencin's Anecdotes de la cour et du règne d'Edouard II (1776).

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