Augustine-Malvina Blanchecotte or Malvina Blanchecotte(1830–1897) was a French poet and writer.
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Born | Augustine-Malvina Souville (1830-11-30)30 November 1830 Paris, France |
Died | 21 February 1897(1897-02-21) (aged 66) Paris, France |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | French |
Blanchecotte was born on 30 November 1830 in Paris, France.[1][2] She earned a living as a seamstress and a teacher.[1][3] She wrote poetry and her first work Rêves et Réalités was published in 1855. Subsequent volumes included Nouvelles poésies in 1861, Impressions d’une femme : pensées, sentiments, portraits in 1868, Les militantes, poésies in 1871, Tablettes d’une femme pendant la Commune in 1872, and Le long de la vie, nouvelles impressions d’une femme in 1875.[3]
In 1888 her poem Les larmes was set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.[4]
Blanchecotte died on 21 February 1897 in Paris.[2]
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