7 November 2016

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #30: Félicité de Genlis

'STÉPHANIE FÉLICITÉ
DUCREST DE ST AUBIN,
COMTESSE DE GENLIS.
NÉE DANS LA TERRE
DE CHAMPCERI PRÈS AUTUN
(SAÔNE ET LOIRE)
LE 25 JANVIER 1746.
MORTE À PARIS
LE 1er 1831.'

Félicité de Genlis wrote over eighty works, ranging from the didactic to historical, biographical and fictional. She was originally buried in Le cimetière du Mont-Valérien three days after her death, and her remains were transferred to Père-Lachaise in 1942.

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