Claire de Kersaint

Claire de Kersaint (March 22nd 1777 with Brest - 1828 with Nice), girl of Armand de Kersaint, count de Kersaint, duchess of Lasted, was a French novelist.

She is born on March 22nd, 1777, in Brest. She passes part of her childhood in the cloister of Pathémont. His/her father, a liberal who challenges cruelties of the Republicans however, is guillotine in 1793. In 1794, it is exiled with her mother in Philadelphia to settle finally in the Antilles. Thereafter, the two women go immigrant to Switzerland, then in London where Claire marries, in 1797, Amédée Brittany-Malo de Durfort, duke of Duras.
Of return in France in 1808, Claire becomes acquainted with Chateaubriand for which it succeeds in obtaining the post of ambassador in London. She devotes herself to her living room where one finds Humboldt, Cuvier, Montmorency, Talleyrand and Madam de Staël.
After several nervous breakdowns, she dies in Nice in January 1828.

Claire de Kersaint did not make publish of alive sound, its first novel Olivier , finished in 1822.
Its second novel, Ourika is him published in 1823 and is a sharp success. Its third novel is entitled Edouard .

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