Louise Felicite de Keralio

(b. Jan. 19, 1757, Valence, Drome, France – d. Dec. 31, 1821, Brussels, Belgium )

Gender: F

Louise-Félicité de Kéralio (1756-1822) was a French writer, historian and translator. From 1786-1789 she edited a fourteen-volume collection of French works written by women, but left it incomplete. In 1787 she published Histoire d’Élisabeth, reine d’Angleterre, a biography of Elizabeth I. In 1790 she married Pierre-François-Joseph Robert, secretary to Georges Danton. She and her husband were active supporters of the French Revolution, and went into exile in Brussels on the Restoration of Louis XVIII.

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Louise Felicite Keralio (née de)

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