Marie-Marguerite Brun (25 June 1713 in Coligny — 10 July 1794 in Besançon) was a French lexicographer and poet.
Biography
Born as Marie-Marguerite de Maison-Forte, she took the name Brun in 1730 when she married the subdelegate of Besançon, who later became the King's Prosecutor to the financial office of Besançon.
She regularly invited writers at her home. In 1753, she released Essay d'un dictionnaire franc-comtois (a dictionary of the Franc-Comtois language) with Mr. Petit-Benoist.
In 1773, she earned an honourable mention in the Académie Française prize contest for her poem L'Amour maternel. In 1774, she published another poem, L'Amour des François pour leur roi.
References
- "Acte de décès de Marie Marguerite Guyenard" (in French). Archives de Besançon. 10 July 1794. pp. 142–143. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- Rose, Hugh James; Rose, Henry John; Wright, Thomas (1853). A New General Biographical Dictionary. London: Fellowes. p. 145.
- Lelong, Jacques; Fevret de Fontette, Charles-Marie (1771). Bibliothèque Historique De La France : Contenant Le Catalogue des Ouvrages, imprimés & manuscrits, qui traite de l'Histoire de ce Royaume ou qui y ont rapport ; avec des notes critiques et historiques (in French). Vol. 3. Paris: Jean-Thomas Herissant. p. 572.
- Depéry, Jean Irénée (1835). Biographie des hommes célèbres du Département de l'Ain, qui se sont distingués par leurs sciences, leurs talens, leurs actions, leurs vertus ou leurs vices (in French). Vol. 1. P.-F. Bottier. pp. 388–389. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
- Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne (in French). Vol. 6. Michaud frères, libraires. 1812. p. 103. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
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