D'Albert, Marie-Madeleine Bonafous (fl. 18th c.)
D'Albert, Marie-Madeleine Bonafous (fl. 18th c.)
French novelist. Fl. in 18th-century France; educated at Abbaye de Pentemont.
Raised the ire of the French ruling class with her novel Tanastés (1745), which criticized Parisian and court life, and was imprisoned briefly in the Bastille; released (1746), took refuge in a convent for 13 years at Bernadines de Moulins, then at Petit Saint-Chaumont; produced only one other novel, Confidences d'une jolie femme (Secrets of a Pretty Woman), a romance from the perspective of a young girl, which was published 30 years after her first (1775).
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