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Fanny Tercy
Fanny Tercy , Françoise-Cécile Messageot; November 22, 1782, Lons-le-Saunier – April 1, 1851, Quintigny), a 19th-century French historical novelist. Along with Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, , Sophie Doin, and George Sand, Tercy embraced and transformed sentimentalism during the first half of the 19th century. Biography Françoise-Cécile (nickname "Fanny") Messageot, was born on 22 November 1782 in Lons-le-Saunier. She was the daughter of Jean Joseph Messageot, a cavalry officer who became a postmaster, and Marie-Françoise Clerc. She had an older sister, Lucile, who became a painter, and a twin brother, François-Xavier. Her mother remarried Claude-Antoine Charve, a judge at the Lons-le-Saunier court. From this second marriage, Louis, Tercy's half-brother, and Liberté-Constitution-Désirée (1790–1856), a half-sister who married Charles Nodier, were born. Tercy spent her childhood in Lons-le-Saunier. Judge Charve was imprisoned in 1793 at the Cordeliers pris ...
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Lucile Messageot
Marguerite Françoise Lucie Messageot, or Lucile Franque (13 September 1780, Lons-le-Saunier - 23 May 1803, place unknown) was a French people, French painter and author. Biography She was born to Jean-Joseph Messageot, a cavalry officer, and his wife Marie Françoise, née Clerc. Her sister Fanny Tercy, Fanny was a novelist. While still very young, she began her studies with Pierre-Narcisse Guérin in Paris. Her first exhibit came in 1799, but ended poorly when her portrait of Anne-Louise-Francoise Delorme (1756-1825), who called herself "Princess" Stéphanie-Louise de Bourbon-Conti, was deemed politically subversive and removed from the exhibition. For her second exhibition in 1802, she chose a subject taken from the poems of Ossian. This was inspired by her membership in a group known as the , or the "Primitives". The group was created by Pierre-Maurice Quays, a student of Jacques-Louis David, and advocated a return to earlier, simpler artistic styles. In 1798, Jean-Pierre ...
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