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Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon Ancelot (1792–1875) was a French painter, writer and playwright. Ancelot was born to a parliamentary family in Dijon, and was married to playwright Jacques-François Ancelot. From 1824 to 1866 Ancelot hosted a literary salon on Paris's rue de Seine.

Her plays were collected in four volumes and published as Theâtre complet in 1848. She published two memoirs: Les Salons de Paris, foyers éteints (1858) and Un salon de Paris 1824-64 (1866). Her most important novels include Georgine (1855), Une route sans issue (1857), and Un nœud de ruban (1858).

Exhibitions

• La Veuve du Roi Ban and several portraits, Salon of 1814
• Louis XIV, at the death bed of Jacques II, Salon of 1817

Collections

• Musée Carnavalet, Paris : François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique, 1819, oil on canvas

References

1. ^ Finch, Alison (2000). Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press. pp. 249. ISBN 9780521631860.
2. ^ Kale, Steven (2005). French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. JHU Press. p. 231. ISBN 9780801883866.
3. "Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans..." Gallica. 1814.
4. "Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans..." Gallica. 1817.
5. "François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique. | Paris Musées". www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr.

Bibliography

• Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Ancelot, Virginie". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography: 40–41. Wikidata Q115670001.

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