Saint-Chamond, Claire-Marie Mazarelli, Marquise de La Vieuville de (1731–).

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Saint-Chamond, Claire-Marie Mazarelli, Marquise de La Vieuville de (1731–).

French essayist, playwright and short-story writer. Name variations: Saint Chaumond. Born Claire Mazarelli (also seen as Mazzarelli), 1731, in Paris, France; dau. of Ange Mazarelli (of Italian descent) and Marie-Catherine Mathée; m. Charles-Louis-Auguste Vieuville (b. 1726), marquis de Saint-Chamond, count of Vienne and of Confolens, 1st baron of Lyonese (colonel for the king), June 1, 1765; children: Charles-Louis-Auguste Vieuville (b. 1766).

Wrote pieces for periodicals, including self-portrait in Mercure (1751) and letter to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in L'Année littéraire (1763); published 2 eulogies, Éloge de Sully (1763) and Éloge de René Descartes (1965), and 1 play, Les Amants sans le savoir (1771).

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