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GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852) , French author, was born in Paris on the 1st of July 1776. Madame Gay was the daughter of M. Nichault de la Valette and of Francesca Peretti, an Italian lady. In 17.93 she was married to M. Liottier, an exchange broker, but she was divorced from him in 1799, and shortly afterwards was married to M. Gay, receiver-general of the department of the Riser or Ruhr
union brought her into intimate relations with many distinguished personages; and her salon came to be frequented by all the distinguished litterateurs, musicians, actors and painters of the time, whom she attracted by her beauty, her vivacity and her many amiable qualities. Her first literary production was a letter
Journal de Paris, in defence ofMadame de Stael's novel, Delphine; and in the same year she published anonymously her first novel Laure d'Estell. Leonie de Montbreuse, which appeared in 1813, is considered by Sainte-Beuve her best work
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See her own Souvenirs d'une vieille femme (1834) ; also Theophile Gautier , Portraits contemporains; and Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. vi.End of Article: GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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