Octavie Belot (1719 - 1804)

Short name Octavie Belot
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First name Octavie
Birth name Belot
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Alternative name Octavie Guichard , Octavie du Rey de Meynières , Octavie Bellot , Octavie Durey de Meinières
Date of birth 1719
Date of death 1804
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Sex Female
Place of birth Paris
Place of death France
Lived in Paris , France
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Place(s) of Residence Paris , France
Receptions of Octavie Belot, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Sketches of the lives and writings of the ladies of France Ann Thicknesse 1780 comments on person
Mentioned in: - La Porte 1769 V, 258-291 (see hyperlink for list) - Boudier de Villemert 1779 - Briquet 1804 - MMF - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "The first of her two published essays is a criticism of Rousseau's discourse on equality, an his idealization of natural life".
Voisine de quartier de Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (cf Girou-Swiderski) elle appelle Mme Helvetius "l'Arthemise de notre siecle" (dans lettre a Devaux 28-3-1772) autre lettre au meme (28-7-1772) sur la meme: [..] Nous nous voyons assez ouvent, pour des etres egalement farouches. [...] (Corr.gen Helvetius, t.III p.411) Lived in Chaillot, died in Chaillot. Widowed, remarried to Durey de Meinières, widowed. Translator from English (Johnson, Hume - source: Briquet)