Eugénie Poujade | |
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Born | 1814 Port-Louis |
Died | 1881 |
Occupation | Poet, writer |
Language | French |
Years active | 1860s |
Notable works | Maurice et France |
Jeanne Eugénie Poujade, also Madame Delafond, also Madame la Comtesse E. de Sornay (1814 - 1881) was a Mauritian poet and writer, who founded the Société du Lierre and its periodical La Parisienne.
Poujade was born in 1814 in Port Louis, Mauritius. [1] In 1834, she married Count Charles Antoine Pierre Octave Sornay. [2] After his death, she remarried in 1858 to Pierre Antoine Delafond. [3] [4] [5] She became known in 1862 with a volume of poetry, Maurice et France, then published two years later Contes de ma tante Joséphine. [6] In 1865 the first issue of the newspaper La Parisienne was published, of which she was the director. [7] In the periodical Le Monde illustré, La Parisienne is presented as a publication of the Société du Lierre, which Poujade had founded. This literary circle, "provisionally [composed] of twenty members, meeting once a week" was open to women. [8] [9] [10] [11] She also wrote librettos, for example for Sous les tropiques by A P L Folly. [12] By 1869 she was involved with the Société Protectrice de l'Enfance. [13] She died in 1881. [1]
Eugénie Poujade | |
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Born | 1814 Port-Louis |
Died | 1881 |
Occupation | Poet, writer |
Language | French |
Years active | 1860s |
Notable works | Maurice et France |
Jeanne Eugénie Poujade, also Madame Delafond, also Madame la Comtesse E. de Sornay (1814 - 1881) was a Mauritian poet and writer, who founded the Société du Lierre and its periodical La Parisienne.
Poujade was born in 1814 in Port Louis, Mauritius. [1] In 1834, she married Count Charles Antoine Pierre Octave Sornay. [2] After his death, she remarried in 1858 to Pierre Antoine Delafond. [3] [4] [5] She became known in 1862 with a volume of poetry, Maurice et France, then published two years later Contes de ma tante Joséphine. [6] In 1865 the first issue of the newspaper La Parisienne was published, of which she was the director. [7] In the periodical Le Monde illustré, La Parisienne is presented as a publication of the Société du Lierre, which Poujade had founded. This literary circle, "provisionally [composed] of twenty members, meeting once a week" was open to women. [8] [9] [10] [11] She also wrote librettos, for example for Sous les tropiques by A P L Folly. [12] By 1869 she was involved with the Société Protectrice de l'Enfance. [13] She died in 1881. [1]