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It derives from gris (French for grey) and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. The 1694 edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française described a grisette as simply "a woman of lowly condition". By the 1835 edition of the dictionary, her status had risen somewhat.
Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Gaston Leroux (1868–1927), author of The Phantom of the Opera and The Mystery of the Yellow Room which is recognized as the first locked room puzzle mystery novel; Gabrielle Réval (1869–1938) André Gide (1869–1951) Henry Bordeaux (1870–1963) Marcel Proust (1871–1922), author of In Search of Lost Time, sometimes seen as the greatest ...
Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century French painters. It includes French painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
This is a list of women artists who were born in France or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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Anne de Seguier, 16th-century French poet and salon-holder; Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, who pioneered the nouveau roman; Albertine Sarrazin (1937–1967), French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and poet; Johanna Schipper (known as "Johanna"; born 1967), Taiwanese-born French comics artist and short-story writer