Fanny de Beauharnais

Fanny de Beauharnais ( born as Marie- Anne -Françoise mouchard de Chaban, born October 4, 1738 in Paris, † July 2, 1813 ) was a French poet and salonière of the 18th century.

Biography

Marie- Anne -Françoise mouchard ( Fanny she called herself as a writer ) married in 1753 the naval officer Claude de Beauharnais, Comte des Roches Baritaud ( 1717-1784 ). Even in his early youth she devoted himself entirely to poetry and literature. She was one of the grandmothers of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, the adopted daughter of Napoleon, and was a result of marrying into the Beauharnais family on their own and significant in the other Parisian salons of the Ancien Régime social influence. Among other things, the writer Claude -Joseph Dorat was from 1762 until his death in 1780 an important member of her salon. Her works are attributed to the participants of envious of her salon as authors.

Beauharnais sauce

You will also be the invention of Beauharnais sauce - a mixture of béarnaise sauce and spiced with herbs melted butter - attributed. With their related is also the garniture à la Beauharnaise - a gereichte meat classic French garnish of chopped mushrooms, artichoke hearts, castle potatoes and sauce Beauharnais, which was dedicated by Auguste Escoffier Fanny.

Works

• Mélanges de poésies fugitives et de prose sans Consequence, Paris 1772
• Lettres de Stéphanie, 1773
• L' Abbillard supposé, 1780