Sophie Ristaud Cottin

Sophie Cottin ( born Sophie Ristaud, sometimes also spelled Risteau; * March 1770 in Tonneins, Lot- et- Garonne, † August 25, 1807 in Paris) was a French writer whose novels were very popular in the 19th century and in several languages ​​were translated.

Life

With less than twenty years, she married her first husband, the banker Jean -Paul -Marie Cottin. She wrote several romantic and historical novels. After the death of her husband she ended dedicate himself entirely to writing and lived with a cousin and her three children in Cham plan Seine-et- Oise.

Works

• Claire d' Albe
• Mathilde ou Mémoires de l' histoire des Tires croisades
• Malvina
• Amélie Mansfield
• Élisabeth ou les Exiles de Sibérie

To German

• Elizabeth or The exiles after Siberia / by Sophie Cottin; processed by the author of the Heliodora that is Adolf Wilhelm Lindau - Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1808. In this work, based Gaetano Donizetti's opera Otto mesi in due ore.