Anne-Marie du Boccage (1710 - 1802)

Short name Anne-Marie du Boccage
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First name Anne-Marie
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Alternative name Anne-Marie du Bocage , Anne-Marie Duboccage
Date of birth 1710
Date of death 1802
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Place of birth Rouen (FRA)
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Lived in France
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Related to Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont , Charles-Albert Demoustier , Elizabeth Montagu , Fanny de Beauharnais
Bibliography Mentioned in: - La Porte 1769 IV, 467-523 (see hyperlink for list) - Briquet 1804 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Larnac, 152, 158, 254 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Her play Les Amazones performed in 1749, was the first work by a women to be performed at the Comédie Francaise for some thirty years". Cf. Grace Gill-Mark, Une femme de lettres au XVIIIe siècle: Anne Marie du Boccage. Paris, 1927. Martine Reid and François Bessire (dir.), Forma Venus, Arte Minerva: sur l'oeuvre et la carrière d'Anne-Marie Du Bocage, 2017
Provisional Notes 8 April 1750 Leprince de Beaumont went to Montagu's salon, where she also met Anne-Marie du Boccage, who noted it in her Lettres anglaises (Robain, Mme Leprince de Beaumont intime, 2004, p. 45) svdoct11 Married 1727; widowed 1767. Husband rich - problems once widowed (Gill-Mark, p. 43) Travel writer. Memberships: also Academies of Florence and Cortona.
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Spouse Bocage | Duboccage
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Memberships Accademia dell' Arcadia (Rome), Accademia dei Ricovrati (Padua), Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon
Place(s) of Residence France