Bawr, Alexandrine de (1773–1860)

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Bawr, Alexandrine de (1773–1860)

French playwright and novelist. Name variations: Alexandrine Sophie Goury de Champgrand, Baronne de Bawr; Baroness de Bawr; Alexandrine Sophie, countess de Saint Simon; S. de Bawr. Born Alexandrine Sophie Goury de Champgrand, 1773 (some sources cite 1776) in Stuttgart, Germany, of French parents; died 1860 (some sources cite 1861) in Paris, France; dau. of an aristocratic father and an actress; m. Comte de Saint-Simon (div.); married a Russian officer named de Bawr (crushed by a cart years later).

Fiction includes Le Rival obligeant (1811), Le Double stratagème (1811) Auguste et Frédéric (1817), and Cecilia (1852); also wrote two guides Cours de littérature (1821) and Histoire de la musique (1823).

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