Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont

Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont (1729 – 12 January 1783) was a French writer. She was the author of Letters from the Marquis de Roselle.

Anne-Louise Élie de Beaumont
Born1729
Died12 January 1783)
NationalityFrench

Biography

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Beaumont was born Anne Louise Morin du Mesnil in Caen in 1729 the daughter of Huguenot Robert de Bérenger. Though she was raised a Catholic on the orders of Louis XV, her father was Protestant. He left France selling the family's estate at Mézidon-Canon. Her husband was Jean-Baptiste-Jacques Élie de Beaumont, a lawyer in the Calas affair and well known defender of religious freedom. They married in 1760. The couple had a son Arnaud 1772. They also regained the family estate through a legal battle. Beaumont wrote several books for publication and they have been translated into a number of languages including English and Dutch. She died in Paris in 1783.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Bibliography

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  • Letters from the Marquis de Roselle, 1761
  • Anecdotes from the Court and the reign of Edward II, King of England, 1776

Sources

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  5. ^ Bas, Philippe Le (1842). France: Dictionnaire Encyclopédique (in French). Firmin Didot Frères, Éditeurs.
  6. ^ "Elie de Beaumont Mme (Anne-Louise Morin-Dumesnil) 1729-1783". World Cat.