| Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte | |
| Birth Name: | Augustine-Malvina Souville |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1830 |
| Birth Place: | Paris, France |
| Death Place: | Paris, France |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Nationality: | French |
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Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte or Malvina Blanchecotte (1830–1897) was a French poet and writer.
Blanchecotte was born on 30 November 1830 in Paris, France.[1] She earned a living as a seamstress and a teacher.[2] She wrote poetry and her first work Rêves et Réalités was published in 1855. Subsequent volumes included Nouvelles poésies in 1861, Impressions d’une femme : pensées, sentiments, portraits in 1868, Les militantes, poésies in 1871, Tablettes d’une femme pendant la Commune in 1872, and Le long de la vie, nouvelles impressions d’une femme in 1875.[3]
In 1888 her poem Les larmes was set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.[4]
Blanchecotte died on 21 February 1897 in Paris.[1]