A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Grouchy, Sophia

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GROUCHY, SOPHIA,

Sister of Marshal Grouchy, and widow of the celebrated French Philosopher Condorcet, was a successful writer and translator. She translated two works of Adam Smith into French; and she added "Letters on Sympathy," in which Madame Condorcet supplies some omissions of the author, whom she examines, modifies, and often combats. Her translation is remarkable for the elegance and purity of its style, the ideas and severity of philosophical language. This lady composed a treatise for the education of her daughter, which remains unpublished. She died in 1822, universally regretted.