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Françoise de Graffigny

Born

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February 11, 1695

Died

December 12, 1758

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Françoise de Graffigny, née d'Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt (11 February 1695 - 12 December 1758), was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.

Initially famous as the author of Lettres d'une Péruvienne, a novel published in 1747, she became the world's best-known living woman writer after the success of her sentimental comedy, Cénie, in 1750. Her reputation as a dramatist suffered when her second play at the Comédie-Française, La Fille d'Aristide, was a flop in 1758, and even her novel fell out of favor after 1830. From then until the last third of the twentieth century, she was almost forgotten, but thanks to new scholarship and the interest in women writers generated by the feminist movement, Françoise de Graffigny is now r ...more

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Average rating: 3.47 · 1,194 ratings · 101 reviews · 118 distinct works • Similar authors

	Letters from a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny, David Kornacker (Translator) 3.45 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 1747 — 126 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres d'une Peruvienne (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 2) by Françoise de Graffigny, Joan DeJean 3.52 avg rating — 351 ratings — published 1747 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres d'une Péruvienne 3.49 avg rating — 158 ratings — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ziman Et Zenise, Suivi de Phaza, Comédies En Un Acte En Prose (Litterature) 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres d'une Péruvienne - Bac 2026 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peruvian Letters: Including the Letters of Aza really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettres d'une Péruvienne: uvre au programme du BAC - Texte intégral et dossier pédagogique collaboratif by Françoise de Graffigny, Gwendoline HONIG (Editor), 36 enseignants contributeurs (Primary Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lettere d'Una Peruviana, Volume 1 by Françoise de Graffigny, G.L. Deodati 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters of a Peruvian princess: with the sequel. Translated from the French of Madame de Grafigny, by Francis Ashworth, Esq. In two volumes. Volume 2 of 2 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cenie: Piece en Cinq Actes (Classic Reprint) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Here it is wished, as elsewhere, that women possess merit and virtue. But nature would have had to make them thus, for the upbringing they are given is in such opposition to the goal proposed that it appears to me to be the great masterpiece of French inconsequence.”
― Françoise de Graffigny, Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess: Translated From the French

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“The pleasure of being - a forgotten pleasure not even known to so many blind humans - that thought so sweet, that happiness so pure, "I am, I live, I exist," could bring happiness all by itself if one remembered it, if one enjoyed it, if one treasured it as befits its worth.”
― Françoise de Graffigny, Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess: Translated From the French

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