Fanny Tercy | |
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 In this painting, the artist, Lucile Messageot (top left, dressed in black) depicted herself with her mother Marie Françoise Clerc (1749-1825) (center, dressed in orange), and her second husband, Judge Claude Antoine Charve (standing, top right), her brother and sister from the first marriage, Xavier Messageot (1782-1844) (top center), and Fanny (bottom right, dressed in white). Bottom center, dressed in yellow, is the young Liberté, future wife of Charles Nodier. | |
| Born | Françoise-Cécile Messageot November 22, 1782 Lons-le-Saunier, Franche-Comté, France |
| Died | April 1, 1851 (aged 68) Quintigny, Jura, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | Early 19th-century |
| Genre | Historical novels |
| Literary movement | Sentimentalism |
| Spouse |
Anne-François Tercy
(m. 1814; sep. 1824) |
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Fanny Tercy née, Françoise-Cécile Messageot; November 22, 1782, Lons-le-Saunier – April 1, 1851, Quintigny), a 19th-century French historical novelist.[1] Along with Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Gabrielle de Paban, Sophie Doin, and George Sand, Tercy embraced and transformed sentimentalism during the first half of the 19th-century.[2]
- ^ Samuels, Maurice (6 August 2018). The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. Cornell University Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-5017-2983-6. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ Hajek, Anne Catherine (2017). "The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved 20 August 2024.