A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bourette, Charlotte

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BOURETTE, CHARLOTTE,

Whose first husband was M. Curé, was a French poetess and lemonade-seller, called la Muse limonadiere. She was born at Paris in 1714, and died there in 1784. Madame Bourette kept the Café Allemand, and was celebrated for her numerous productions in prose and verse. Her writings introduced her to the notice of several sovereigns, princes, and princesses of the blood royal, and many of the most celebrated men of her time. Her poetry is careless and prosaic, but her prose compositions poetic and brilliant. She also wrote a comedy, "The Coquette Punished," which was acted with success in the Théatre Français.