Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon Ancelot (1792–1875) was a French painter, writer and playwright.[1][2] Ancelot was born to a parliamentary family in Dijon, and was married to playwright Jacques-François Ancelot.[2] From 1824 to 1866 Ancelot hosted a literary salon on Paris's rue de Seine.[2]
Her plays were collected in four volumes and published as Theâtre complet in 1848.[1] She published two memoirs: Les Salons de Paris, foyers éteints (1858) and Un salon de Paris 1824-64 (1866).[1] Her most important novels include Georgine (1855), Une route sans issue (1857), and Un nœud de ruban (1858).[1]
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Exhibitions
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edit- Musée Carnavalet, Paris : François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique, 1819, oil on canvas[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Finch, Alison (2000). Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press. pp. 249. ISBN 9780521631860.
- ^ a b c Kale, Steven (2005). French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. JHU Press. p. 231. ISBN 9780801883866.
- ^ "Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans..." Gallica. 1814.
- ^ "Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans..." Gallica. 1817.
- ^ "François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique. | Paris Musées". www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr.
Bibliography
edit- Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Ancelot, Virginie". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: 40–41. Wikidata Q115670001.