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Alix de Lamartine
1766–1829
Remembered as the mother of Alphonse de Lamartine, she was also a writer in her own right whose private journals and letters offer a vivid, intimate view of family life, faith, and daily reflection in early 19th-century France.
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El Manuscrito de mi madre aumentado con las comentarios, prólogo y epílogo
by Alix de Lamartine
About the author
Born Françoise-Alix des Roys in 1766, Alix de Lamartine was a French writer who died in 1829 at Mâcon. She is often mentioned in connection with her son, the poet and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine, but her own writing has also been preserved and studied.
She kept a daily journal over many years, using it as a space for self-examination, order, and reflection. Her letters were later gathered in published collections, and together these personal writings have made her an interesting figure for readers of memoir, correspondence, and literary history.
Though not widely known today, her surviving work gives a quiet but valuable picture of domestic life and inner thought in post-Revolutionary France. For audiobook listeners, she stands out as a writer whose voice reaches us through the small, careful records of everyday experience.