Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont explained

Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont
Birth Date:1729
Birth Place:Caen
Death Date:12 January 1783)
Death Place:Paris
Nationality:French

Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont (1729 – 12 January 1783) was a French writer. She was the author of Letters from the Marquis de Roselle.

Biography

Beaumont was born Anne Louise Morin du Mesnil in Caen in 1729 the daughter of Huguenot Robert de Bérenger. Though she was raised a Catholic on the orders of Louis XV, her father was Protestant. He left France selling the family's estate at Mézidon-Canon. Her husband was Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont, a lawyer in the Calas affair and well known defender of religious freedom. They married in 1760. The couple had a son Arnaud 1772. They also regained the family estate through a legal battle. Beaumont wrote several books for publication and they have been translated into a number of languages including English and Dutch. She died in Paris in 1783.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: CERL Thesaurus . data.cerl.org.
  2. Web site: WPHP . womensprinthistoryproject.com.
  3. Web site: Yesterday history . www.chateaudecanon.com . Château de Canon en Normandie.
  4. Web site: Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont reçoit en son château . Ouest France.
  5. Book: Bas . Philippe Le . France: Dictionnaire Encyclopédique . 1842 . Firmin Didot Frères, Éditeurs . fr.
  6. Web site: Elie de Beaumont Mme (Anne-Louise Morin-Dumesnil) 1729-1783 . World Cat.