A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Fontaines, (the Countess de)
FONTAINES (THE COUNTESS DE), Daughter of the Marquis de Givri, Commander of Metz, and Wife of the Count de Fontaines, by whom she had two Children. Died 1748.
Was the author of two little romances, Amenophis and La Comtesse de Savoye, which have much merit, and were highly praised by Voltaire, whom they furnished with subjects for two of his most celebrated tragedies, Artemise and Tancred.
Mrs. Thicknesse.