Delphine de Girardin

Delphine Gay ( born January 26, 1804 in Aachen, † June 29, 1855 in Paris) was a French poet. She was the daughter of Jean Sigismond Gay and Sophie Nichault de La Valette, the eldest child of the second marriage of her mother. From 1831 until her death she was married to Emile de Girardin.

Already at the age of seventeen she became a poet a name. My reputation was based on her poetry, which poétiques as Essais (par. 1824-26, 2 vols, and often) appeared. She also wrote novels (Le lorgnon, Contes d'une vieille fille, Le marquls de Font Anges, Marguérite ) and plays ( Judith, Cléopâtre, Lady Tartufe, Le chapeau de l' horloger and others). Great success had their Lettres parisiennes, they published press under the name of Vicomte de Launay 1836-48 in the newspaper La. Your oeuvres complètes published 1860-1861 in 6 volumes.