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- Françoise de Graffigny (née Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt; 11 February – 12 December ), better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.
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Françoise de Graffigny (11 February, December, ), born Françoise d’Issembourg du Buisson d’Happoncourt, is a Frenchwriter. She was born in Nancy and died in Paris.
She married a chamberlain in the household of the duke of Lorraine. However, her husband was a violent man, a drinker and a gambler. In eleven years of marriage they had three children, none of whom survived childhood. She succeeded in obtaining a legal separation from him as several witnesses had seen or heard him beating her. She left him and went to Paris in with a certain Mademoiselle de Guise. There she befriended Voltaire, with whom she stayed for a time at the Château de Cirey and to whom she dedicated her writings.
She became famous with her Lettres d'une Péruvienne () and Cénie (), about the condition of women. She is also the author of several journals and a v
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