Delphine de Girardin
Novelist, Author
1804 – 1855
Who was Delphine de Girardin?
Delphine de Girardin, pen name Vicomte Delaunay, was a French author.
She was born at Aachen, and christened Delphine Gay. Her mother, the well-known Madame Sophie Gay, brought her up in the midst of a brilliant literary society. She published two volumes of miscellanea, Essais poetiques and Nouveaux Essais poétiques. A visit to Italy in 1827, during which she was enthusiastically welcomed by the literati of Rome and even crowned in the capitol, produced various poems, of which the most ambitious was Napoline.
Delphine's marriage in 1831 to Émile de Girardin opened up a new literary career. The contemporary sketches which she contributed from 1836 to 1839 to the La Presse, under the nom de plume of Charles de Launay, were collected under the title of Lettres parisiennes, and obtained a brilliant success.
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- Born
- Jan 24, 1804
Aachen - Also known as
- Vicomte Delaunay
- Charles de Launay
- Parents
- Spouses
- Émile de Girardin
(1831 - )
- Émile de Girardin
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 29, 1855
Paris
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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