Virginie Ancelot
Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon Ancelot (1792–1875) was a French painter, writer and playwright. Ancelot was born to a parliamentary family in Dijon, and was married to playwright Jacques-François Ancelot. From 1824 to 1866 Ancelot hosted a literary salon on Paris's rue de Seine.
Also recorded as Marguerite Virginie Chardon · Madame Marguerite Virginie Ancelot · Marguerite Chardon · Marguerite-Louise-Virginie Ancelot
Virginie Ancelot
Jean Gigoux · (Original text: Madame Ancelot) · Public domain
- Full name
- Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon.
- Born
- 1792. · Dijon.
- Died
- 1875. · 7th arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- writer, playwright, painter, salonnière, novelist and memoirist.
- Fields
- art and literature.
- Languages
- French.
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Marguerite-Louise Virginie Chardon Ancelot (1792–1875) was a French painter, writer and playwright. Ancelot was born to a parliamentary family in Dijon, and was married to playwright Jacques-François Ancelot. From 1824 to 1866 Ancelot hosted a literary salon on Paris's rue de Seine.
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Her plays were collected in four volumes and published as Theâtre complet in 1848. She published two memoirs: Les Salons de Paris, foyers éteints (1858) and Un salon de Paris 1824-64 (1866). Her most important novels include Georgine (1855), Une route sans issue (1857), and Un nœud de ruban (1858).
The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art and literature. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Work by Virginie Ancelot is recorded in the collections of Musée Carnavalet and Museum of Art in Łódź.
La Veuve du Roi Ban and several portraits, Salon of 1814 Louis XIV, at the death bed of Jacques II, Salon of 1817
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1792
Virginie Ancelot born at Dijon.
1875
Virginie Ancelot died at 7th arrondissement of Paris.
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Dijon.
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7th arrondissement of Paris.
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Musée Carnavalet, Paris: François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique, 1819, oil on canvas
Portrait of Marguerite-Louise Virginie Ancelot, playwriter (1792-1875).
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scholarly publication
- Taking Humour Seriously: Women and the Theatre of Virginie Ancelot, Nottingham French Studies, 2014
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- 1.Finch, Alison. Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press. 249. 2000. 9780521631860.
- 2.Kale, Steven. French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. JHU Press. 231. 2005. 9780801883866.
- 3.Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans. Gallica. 1814.
- 4.Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure des artistes vivans. Gallica. 1817.
- 5.François Ancelot (1794-1854), auteur dramatique. Paris Musées. www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr.
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Taking Humour Seriously: Women and the Theatre of Virginie Ancelot, Nottingham French Studies, 2014Crossref registry
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