A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Faugere, Miss
FAUGERE, MISS,
Was born in the year 1709, in the neighbourhood of Avignon. She was compelled by her parents to take the veil; but, with an utter repugnance to the life of a nun, she strained every nerve to free herself from the thraldom imposed upon her. Ten years elapsed, however, before her efforts were crowned with success, when she received a papal permission to leave the sisterhood. But even then she was looked upon by her family as having disgraced herself and them. She, however, removed to Paris, and from their to London. Wholely dependent upon her literary labours, she was compelled to write too much, and her writings are of very unequal merit. The best of her works are "Le Triumphe de I'Amitié," published in 1761; "Abassaï, Histoire Orientale," in 1753; "Contes du Serail," in 1753; and "Les Zelindiens," in 1758. She also wrote "Dialogues Moraux et Amusans," published in 1777.