Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline Guizot
French writer
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| Intro | French writer | ||||
| Places | France | ||||
| was | Writer Children's writer | ||||
| Work field | Literature | ||||
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| Religion: | Protestantism Catholicism | ||||
| Birth | 2 November 1773, Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France | ||||
| Death | 1 August 1827 (aged 53 years) | ||||
| Star sign | Scorpio | ||||
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Biography
Pauline de Meulan (2 November 1773 in Paris — 1 August 1827) was a French writer and journalist.
Biography
She was the daughter of Count Charles de Meulan, an advisor to the King and general finance collector of Paris, later of Marguerite de Saint-Chamans.
With the help of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, she began writing for the magazine Le Publiciste.
She married François Guizot in 1812. The couple seemed strange since she was 14 years older than François and both had very different characters, as stated by Gabriel de Broglie in the following table taken from his book Guizot:
| François Guizot | Pauline de Meulan |
|---|---|
| Provincial, born in a petty bourgeois family, without fortune | Born in a noble and wealthy family of the Old Regime. Brought up in a brilliant society |
| Protestant, rigorous | Catholic, tolerant |
| Solitary and withdrawn | Enjoys theater and society |
| Bookish and serious | Spiritual, spicy, cultivates the art of paradox |
| Reads religious and philosophy books | Is fond of Racine |
| Dogmatic, theoretician, has plenty metaphysical certainties | Observant, pragmatic, without great convictions |
Works
- Les Contradictions, ou ce qui peut arriver (1799)
- La Chapelle d’Ayton, ou Emma Courtenay (1799)
- Essais de littérature et de morale (1802)
- Écolier, ou Raoul et Victor (1821)
- Lettres de famille sur l'éducation (1826)
- Une famille (1828)
- Conseils de morale, ou Essais sur l'homme, la société, la littérature (1828)