Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt Miniature Portrait On Ivory 18th Century

Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt, wife of Graffigny, born February 11, 1695 in Nancy and died December 12, 1758 in Paris, is a woman of letters from Lorraine. Author of the famous novel Letters from a Peruvian Woman published in 1747, she is one of the most important women in 18th-century literature. Famous during her lifetime, she fell into oblivion after the French Revolution. It was only with the advent of the feminist movement in the 1960s that she was rediscovered and new editions of her works were published. Blackened Wooden Frame (slightly missing) period: 18th CenturyProvenance: collection of the Lajarretie Du Breuil estate size: frame: 9.5 cm view: diameter: 4.5 cm