Marijuana the Heir to Villandon

Marijuana the Heir to Villandon , born in November 1664 with Paris where she died the February 24th 1734, was a Romancière and a French poetess .

Marijuana the Heir to Villandon was the niece of Charles Perrault and the friend of Madeleine de Scudéry, Marie-Catherine d' Aulnoy and of Henriette-Julie de Murat. She belonged to the movement of the Précieuses. She wrote many fairy tales, including one Riquet with the bunch .

Madeleine de Scudéry, who was her tutor, bequeathed her to him living room in 1701. The Heir who, like the latter, had never married, lived incomes of his literary work and liberalities of the duchess of Longueville (of which it wrote the Biographie) and of the duchess of Épernon (to which it dedicated its tale the Enchantments of the eloquence , in the meslées Œuvres , its first work going back to 1695).

Towards the end of the lifetime, the Heir also worked like translator of the heroic Épîtres of Ovide in 1728. This translation impressed the French Academy as well as the Heir was immortalisée in the literary Parnassus under the name of “MUSE Télésille” and that it accepted a pension of state. To its death, the Journal of the Scientists devoted a obituary of six pages to him, distinction usually only reserved to the intellectuals of great reputation.

It was accepted with the Académie of the floral Plays of Toulouse in 1696 and with the Académie of Ricovrati of Padoue in 1697.

Works

  • Tales , ED. Raymonde Robert, Paris, Champion, 2005 ISBN 2745309803
  • History of the marchioness-marquis de Banneville , New York, Modern Language Association off America, 2004 ISBN 0873529316
  • Marmoisan or the Girl as a boy , ED. Catherine Velay-Vallantin, Carcassonne, GARAE/Hésiode, 1992 ISBN 2906156205
  • Fairies, tales of the tales , Geneva, Slatkine Reprints, 1978
  • the Skilful princess, or, adventures of Finette , Paris, Marijuana, 1664-1734

Works on line

  • Riquet with the bunch , Paris, Garnier, 1987
  • Whims of the destiny, or Collection of singular stories and amusing arrived nowadays , Paris, P. - M. Huart, 1718
  • the Innocent Fraud, the Miserly one punished, Enchantemens of the eloquence, the Adventures of Finette, the Triumph of [[Antoinette Deshoulières|Mrs. Deshoulières]] , Paris, J. Unlucky, 1696

Translations

  • heroic Epistles of Ovide, translated into worms François , Paris, Brunet wire, 1732

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