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- Author's profession: Inventor, Playwright
- Nationality: french
- Born: January 24, 1732
- Died: May 17, 1799
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She remembered the heroines of novels she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with sisterly voices that enchanted her. Now she saw herself as one of those amoureuses whom she had so envied: she was becoming, in reality, one of that gallery of fictional figures; the long dream of her youth was coming true.
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