Born in 1785 in Douai, dead in 1859, this woman of letters wrote elegiac poetries of a touching inspiration. Girl of an armorial bearings painter, she saw the by-effects of the revolution. She knew a romantic love followed by an abandonment before being married in Brussels in 1817 in Valmore. She will still know the material embarrassment, disappointments, mournings.

In addition to the elegies, she publishes novels for youth. Her correspondence is announced by Sainte-Beuve and remains the most expressive comment of her poetic overflowings. Hugo, Dumas, Balzac, Vigny proclaimed her their relationship of spirit. Festivals accompanied the inauguration of her statue in Douai in 1896.

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