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French poet and novelist

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (20 June 1786 – 23 July 1859) was a French Romantic poet and novelist.

Early life and education

Desbordes-Valmore was born in Douai. Following the French Revolution, her father's business was ruined, and she traveled with her mother to Guadeloupe in search of financial help from a distant relative.

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Marceline's mother died of yellow fever there, and the young girl somehow made her way back to France.^[1] At age 16, back in Douai, she began a career on stage. In 1817 she married her husband, the "second-rate" actor Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore.^[2]

Career

Desbordes-Valmore published Élégies et Romances, her first poetic work, in 1819.

In 1821 she published the narrative work Veillées des Antilles.^[3] It includes the novellaSarah, a contribution to the genre of slave stories in France.^[4]

Desbordes-Valmore appeared as an actress and singer in Do