| Short name |
Isabelle de Montolieu |
| VIAF |
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| First name |
Isabelle |
| Maiden name |
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| Married name |
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| Alternative name |
Élisabeth-Jeanne-Pauline Polier de Bottens Montolieu
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| Date of birth |
1751 |
| Date of death |
1832 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
Switzerland |
| Place of death |
Switzerland |
| Lived in |
Switzerland
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| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
Marie-Elisabeth Polier
,
Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis
,
Isabelle de Charrière
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| Bibliography |
MENTIONED IN:
- Briquet 1804
- Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921
- Pléiade, p.1372
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "She is best-known for her translation into French of Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson (1813) to which she wrote a sequel in 1824". |
| Provisional Notes |
In Querard: La France littéraire, ou Dictionnaire bibliographique .... vol. 6, Paris, 1834 Montolieu is discredited as translator for not knowing very well English and German. Still: "chez Madame de Montolieu les charmes de l'imagination et les richesses du sentiment dédommagent de l'infidélité dans ses versions"
ABR june 2011
Married in 1769, widowed in 1775, remarried in 1786. 2 children, 1 survived (Henri-Antoine). |