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Alix de Lamartine
1766–1829
A reflective French diarist and memoirist, she is remembered for writing with unusual honesty about family life, faith, and daily experience in the years around the French Revolution. Her journals also offer a close, intimate glimpse into the world that shaped poet Alphonse de Lamartine.
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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 Lyon in 1766, she later became known as Alix de Lamartine after marrying into the Lamartine family. She is best known today for her journals and autobiographical writing, which were valued for their sincerity, moral reflection, and detailed record of domestic and spiritual life.
Her habit of writing each evening about the events of the day gave her work a vivid, personal quality. Those pages have drawn readers not only because they preserve her own voice, but also because they illuminate the family world in which her son, the poet and statesman Alphonse de Lamartine, was raised.
Though not as widely read as some of her more famous contemporaries, her writing remains important as a firsthand account of a cultivated French woman living through a period of deep social change. She died in 1829.