GIRARDIN, DELPHINE DE (18041855)

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GIRARDIN, DELPHINE DE (18041855) , French author, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle on the 26th of January 1804. Her

mother

MOTHER

, the well-known Madame Sophie Gay, brought her up in the midst of a brilliant literary society. She published two volumes of miscellaneous pieces, Essais poetiques (1824) and Nouveaux Essais poetiques (1825). A visit to

Italy

ITALY
ITALY (Italia)

in 1827, during which she was enthusiastically welcomed by the literati of Rome and even crowned in the capitol, was productive of various poems, of which the most ambitious was Napoline (1833). Her

marriage

MARRIAGE

in 1831 to Emile de Girardin (see below) opened up a new literary career. The contemporary sketches which she contributed from 1836 to 1839 to the feuilleton of La Presse, under the nom de plume of Charles de Launay, were collected under the

title

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

of Lettres parisiennes (1843), and obtained a brilliant success. Contes d'une vieille fine a ses neveux (1832), La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac (1836) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur (1853) are among the best-known of her romances; and her dramatic pieces in

prose

PROSE

and verse include L'Ecole des journalistes (184o), Judith (1843), Cleopdtre (1847), Lady Tartufe (1853), and the one-act comedies, C'est la faute du maxi (1851), La Joie fait peur (1854), Le Chapeau d'u. n horloger (1854) and Une Femme qui deteste son marl, which did not appear till after the author's death. In the literary society of her time Madame Girardin exercised no small personal

influence

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

, and among the frequenters of her drawing-room were Theophile

Gautier

and Balzac, Alfred de Musset and

Victor

VICTOR
VICTOR, GAIUS
JULIUS
- JULIUS
(4th cent. A.D.)
VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Hugo. She died on the 29th of June 1855. Her collected works were published in six volumes (186o1861).
See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. iii.; G. de Molenes, " Les Femmes poetes," in Revue des deux mondes (July 1842) ; Taxile Delord, Les Matinees litteraires (186o) ; L'Esprit de Madame Girardin, avec une

preface

PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

par M. Lamartine (1862); G. d'Heilly, Madame de Girardin, sa vie et ses oeuvres (1868) ; Imbert de Saint Amand, Mme de Girardin (1875).

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