A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Babois, Madame Victoire

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BABOIS, MADAME VICTOIRE,

A French poetess, was born in 1759 or 1760, and died in 1839. She was the niece of Duels, the celebrated French dramatist and translator of Shakspere. This lady spent her whole life at Versailles, in the midst of her family and friends; and having but a slight acquaintance with men of letters, she was never taught the rules of style and composition, but wrote as nature dictated. Her poetry is very popular in France, and she is also the author of several little prose works. Her elegies were particularly appropriate, for she had much true feeling, and always sympathized with the sorrows she described.