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Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du (1710 - 1802)

Last edited by Gabriel_Diez on March 20, 2025, 5:52 p.m.
Short name Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du
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First name Anne-Marie
Birth name Le Page
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Alternative name Anne-Marie du Bocage — Anne-Marie Duboccage
Date of birth 1710
Date of death 1802
Birth date Notes 22-10-1710
Death date Notes 8-8-1802
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Sex Female
Place of birth Rouen
Place of death Paris
Lived in France
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Marianne Loir (painter), Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu (engraver), Portrait of Madame du Bocage, in Recueil des oeuvres de Madame du Bocage des Académies de Padoue, de Bologne, de Rome et de Lyon , 1764, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Gallica
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Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du was ...
related to Demoustier, Charles-Albert
related to Leprince de Beaumont, Marie
related to Montagu, Elizabeth
related to Beauharnais, Fanny de
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Le paradis terrestre (1748) 3 0
Les Amazones (1749) 6 0
La Colombiade (1756) 28 0
Recueil des oeuvres (1762) 6 1
Lettres sur l'Angleterre, la Hollande et l'Italie (1768) 6 0
*Poem dedicated to Grismondi (1789) 0 0
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Circulations of Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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Académie des Arcades, membership Unknown reader (to be identified) 1758 is award for person
Bespiegelingen over den Staat der Rechtheid, voorbericht Reflections on the state of innocence, foreword Wolff, Elisabeth 1765 is biography of
Bespiegelingen over den Staat der Rechtheid, voorbericht Reflections on the state of innocence, foreword Wolff, Elisabeth 1765 -
*Art. in Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux-Arts Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1765 comments on person
*Mention in Histoire litt. des femmes françaises La Porte, Joseph de 1769 is biography of
Sketches of the lives and writings of the ladies of France Thicknesse, Ann 1780 is biography of
Verslag van de voornaamste leevensgevallen en werken van madame Du Boccage Report of the life and works of Mme du Boccage Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1782 is biography of
Essai de littérature, à l'usage des dames Dampmartin, Anne-Henri Cabet de 1794 comments on person
*Reception of Du Boccage Alorna, Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre 1800 comments on person
A la mémoire de Madame du Boccage In memory of Madame du Boccage Beauharnais, Fanny de 1802 is obituary of
*Art. in Algemene Konst- en Letterbode Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1802 is obituary of
*Art. in Nieuwe Vaderlandsche Bibliotheek Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1803 is obituary of
*Article dans Dictionnaire historique [..] Briquet, Marguerite Ursule Fortunée Bernier 1804 is biography of
*Chapter in Le Plutarque des jeunes demoiselles Propiac, Catherine-Joseph-Ferdinand de 1806 is biography of
*Mention in Les Femmes de France Paul Jacquinet 1886 is biography of
*Mention in Histoire des femmes écrivains de la France Henri Carton 1886 is biography of
La Illustració Catalana nº 321 1894 comments on person
Histoire de la littérature féminine en France Jean Larnac 1921 is biography of
Marianne Loir (painter), Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu (engraver), Portrait of Madame du Bocage, in Recueil des oeuvres de Madame du Bocage des Académies de Padoue, de Bologne, de Rome et de Lyon , 1764, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Gallica None is portrait of

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

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)
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Married 1727; widowed 1767.
Husband rich - problems once widowed (Gill-Mark, p. 43)

Travel writer.
Memberships: also Academies of Florence and Cortona.