Françoise de Graffigny

Françoise d'Happoncourt was born on 11 February 1695 in Nancy, in Lorraine, the daughter of an officer; her mother was a grand-niece of the engraver Jacques Callot. Married in 1712 to François Huguet de Graffigny, an officer of the Duke of Lorraine, a gambler and violent, she obtained a separation in 1723. After a stay at Cirey with Voltaire and Émilie du Châtelet, from December 1738 to March 1739, she settled in Paris and lived by her pen; there she kept a salon frequented by Voltaire and Rousseau. Her comedy Cénie triumphed in 1750. She died in Paris on 12 December 1758.

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• NovelLetters of a Peruvian WomanLettres d'une PéruvienneFrançoise de Graffigny · 1747LiteraturePublic domain