Mémoires de Anne-Marguerite Du Noyer

by Anne-Marguerite du Noyer, Henriette Goldwyn (Editor)

Rare Book

432 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2005

About the author

Anne Marguerite Petit du Noyer (d. May 1719) was one of the most famous early 18th century female journalists. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip. Born a Protestant she converted to Catholicism in the years of the Huguenot persecution. In 1686 she married Guillaume du Noyer. In 1701 she converted back to Calvinism and had to leave France in the event. She first moved to Geneva, then to The Hague. Among her famous visitors was Voltaire in 1713.