A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Montanclos, Marie Emilie Mayon, Madame de

4120871A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Montanclos, Marie Emilie Mayon, Madame de

MONTANCLOS, MARIE EMILIE MAYON, MADAME DE,

Was born at Aix, in 1736. Her first husband was Baron de Princeu, and her second, Charlemagne Cuvelier Grandin de Montanclos. Being left a widow a second time, she devoted herself to literature. She wrote comedies in one act, vaudevilles, and operas, and a periodical work called "The Ladies' Magazine." She died in 1812, aged seventy-six.