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Françoise de Graffigny
The story of Françoise de Graffigny's life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel - the Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1747) - that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play - Cénie (1750) - that ranked among the ten most successful new plays of the century, and became a noted salon hostess. Yet fifty years after her death she was almost forgotten, and has been rediscovered only in the last few decades. Now her novel is...
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by Déterville, a nobleman, who is soon captivated by her. One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts Zilia's feelings on her separation from both her lover and her culture, and her experience of a new and alien society. Françoise de Graffigny's bold and innovative novel clearly appealed to the contemporary taste for the exotic and the timeless appetite for ...
Françoise de Graffigny
En tant que membre de l'equipe qui prepare une edition de la correspondance de Mme de Graffigny, j'ai vecu avec elle pendant une trentaine d'annees. Ce qui n'etait au debut que de la curiosite professionnelle de ma part s'est transforme en affection et admiration, et en un fort sentiment d'identification. Je peux lire son ecriture, qui pour certains n'est qu'un griffonnage informe, avec plus de facilite que la mienne. J'ai tendance a me facher quand elle se fache, et je dois parfois me rappeler qu'elle pouvait se tromper. J'ai essaye d'ecrire sa biographie avec sympathie mais sans en faire un plaidoyer, car je pense que les faits en eux-memes suffisent a prouver qu'elle etait une femme remarquable dont les accomplissements n'ont pas ete pleinement apprecies. Je suis convaincu que chacun trouvera l'histoire de sa vie riche en informations, emouvante, et y puisera meme de l'inspiration.
Madame Péruvienne
La vie de Françoise de Graffigny (1695-1758), qui avait ému ses contemporains avec un roman sentimental, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, inspiré des Lettres persanes de Montesquieu. Elle côtoya Voltaire et Rousseau.
Letters of a Peruvian Woman
Graffigny's bold and original novel tells the story of Zilia, an Inca Virgin, rescued from the Spanish and brought to France. Separated from her lover and her culture, she recounts her experiences and personal growth. To this fine new translation are appended extracts from Graffigny's chief source and other writers' fictional responses.
Françoise de Graffigny
The story of Françoise de Graffigny’s life reads like a novel. Following a disastrous marriage, she was forced by political upheavals to leave her native Lorraine and move to Paris, where she struggled to survive against poverty and persecution. Here she made her way into the heart of literary society in the heyday of the Enlightenment, wrote a novel – the Lettres d’une Péruvienne(1747) – that made her an international celebrity, wrote a play –Cénie(1750) – that ranked among the ten most successful new plays of the century, and became a noted salon hostess. Yet fifty years after her death she was almost forgotten, and has been rediscovered only in the last few decades. Now her...
Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres
Françoise de Graffigny est une femme de lettres paradoxale; elle avoue craindre 'le nom d'auteur', mais ses écrits font preuve d'une originalité hardie. Pour la première fois la grande diversité de son uvre fait ici l'objet d'un examen: sa correspondance, qui mêle des observations pénétrantes sur son époque à des réflexions franches sur les diverses facettes de sa vie de provinciale dépaysée, de salonnière célèbre, d'écrivain novateur, et de femme - en toutes lettres; son drame sentimental, Cénie, et autres pièces morales ou philosophiques; ses premiers contes; et ses Lettres d'une Péruvienne, que l'on s'arrache au dix-huitième siècle, devenu roman iconique des dernièr...
