Louise Levesque

Introduced to distinguished writers, these men of letters, of which she made her favorite company and who appreciated the scope of her mind, induced her to write. She therefore devoted her leisure reading and soon indulged herself to poetry. She tried her hand to most varied genres.

• Birth Name — Louise Cavelier • Born — 23 November 1703 • Birthplace — Rouen, France • Died — 18 May 1745 • Place of death — Paris, France • Occupation — Playwright Poet Novelist

• 1731: Lettres et chansons de Céphise et d’Uranie, Paris, in-8°; • 1733: Célénie, histoire allégorique, Paris, 4 part. in-12; • 1736: Le Minet, pièce comique et facétieuse, Paris, in-12; • 1736: Lélia, ou Histoire de Carthage, Amsterdam, in-12; • 1736: Judith, five-act opera, Paris, non performed because no composer accepted to write the music. • Remarques critiques sur l’histoire de Don Quichotte; • L’Augustin, pièce grave et plusieurs pièces de vers dans les Amusements du cœur et de l’esprit; • 1736–1741: Le Siècle, ou les mémoires du Comte de Solinville, moral novel, La Haye, in-12; • 1738: Sancho Pança, gouverneur, poème burlesque, Amsterdam, in-8°; • 1740: L’Auteur fortuné, comedy, Paris; • 1744: Le Prince des Aigues-Marines. Le Prince Invisible, contes, Paris, in-12;