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See also:GIRARDIN, DELPHINE DE (1804–1855) , See also:French author, was See also:born at See also:Aix-la-Chapelle on the 26th of See also:January 1804. Her See also:mother, the well-known Madame Sophie See also:Gay, brought her up in the midst of a brilliant See also:literary society. She published two volumes of See also:miscellaneous pieces, Essais poetiques (1824) and Nouveaux Essais poetiques (1825). A visit to See also:Italy in 1827, during which she was enthusiastically welcomed by the literati of See also:Rome and even crowned in the capitol, was productive of various poems, of which the most ambitious was Napoline (1833). Her See also:marriage in 1831 to Emile de Girardin (see below) opened up a new literary career. The contemporary sketches which she contributed from 1836 to 1839 to the See also:feuilleton of La Presse, under the nom de plume of See also:Charles de Launay, were collected under the See also:title of Lettres parisiennes (1843), and obtained a brilliant success. Contes d'une vieille See also:fine a ses neveux (1832), La Canne de See also:Monsieur de See also:Balzac (1836) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur (1853) are among the best-known of her romances; and her dramatic pieces in See also:prose and See also:verse include L'Ecole See also:des journalistes (184o), See also:Judith (1843), Cleopdtre (1847), See also:Lady Tartufe (1853), and the one-See also:act comedies, C'est la faute du maxi (1851), La Joie fait peur (1854), Le Chapeau d'u. n horloger (1854) and Une Femme qui deteste son See also:marl, which did not appear till after the author's See also:death. In the literary society of her See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Madame Girardin exercised no small See also:personal See also:influence, and among the frequenters of her See also:drawing-See also:room were See also:Theophile See also:Gautier and Balzac, See also:Alfred de See also:Musset and See also:Victor See also:Hugo. She died on the 29th of See also:June 1855. Her collected See also:works were published in six volumes (186o–1861).
See Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, t. iii.; G. de Molenes, " See also:Les Femmes poetes," in Revue des deux mondes (See also:July 1842) ; Taxile Delord, Les Matinees litteraires (186o) ; L'Esprit de Madame Girardin, avec une See also:preface See also:par M. Lamartine (1862); G. d'Heilly, Madame de Girardin, sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres (1868) ; Imbert de See also:Saint Amand, Mme de Girardin (1875).
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