A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Viot, Marie Anne Henriette
VIOT, MARIE ANNE HENRIETTE,
A native of Dresden, Prussia, was distinguished for her wit, learning, and the versatility of her genius. Her father, M. de l'Estrang, removed to France when she was a child. At the age of twelve she married d'Antremont, who left her a widow in four I years. She then married de Bourdic, of Nismes. After his decease she again married; her third husband was M. Viot, commissary of the Intêrieures at Barcelona, Madame Viot was honoured with a seat in the academy of Nismes, and read, on her admission, an eulogy on her favourite, Montaigne. She wrote an "Ode to Silence," "The Summer," "Fauvette," a romance, "La Foret de Brama," an opera, etc. This excellent and accomplished lady died near Bagnols, in 1802, aged fifty-six.