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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE ARMANDE AGLAE See also:CRAVEN (18o8—189r)  , See also:French author, the daughter of an emigre See also:Breton nobleman, was See also:born in See also:London on the 12th of See also:April 18o8 . Her See also:father, the See also:comte Auguste de la Ferronays, was a See also:close friend of the duc de Berri, whom he accompanied on his return to See also:France in 1814 . He and his wife were attached to the See also:court of See also:Charles X. at the Tuileries, but a momentary See also:quarrel with the duc de Berri maderetirement imperative to the See also:count's sense of See also:honour . He was appointed See also:ambassador at St See also:Petersburg, and in 1827 became See also:foreign See also:minister in See also:Paris . Pauline was thus brought up in brilliant surroundings, but her strongest impressions were those which she derived from the See also:group of See also:Catholic thinkers gathered See also:round See also:Lamennais, and her ardent piety furnishes the See also:key of her See also:life . In 1828 her father was sent to See also:Rome, and Pauline, at the See also:suggestion of See also:Alexis Rio, the See also:art critic, made her first See also:literary See also:essay with a description of the emotions she experienced on a visit to the catacombs . At the revolution of See also:July, M. de la Ferronays resigned his position, and retired with his See also:family to See also:Naples . Here Pauline met her future See also:husband, See also:Augustus See also:Craven, who was then attache to the See also:British See also:embassy . His father, See also:Keppel See also:Richard Craven, the well-known supporter of See also:Queen See also:Caroline, objected to his son's See also:marriage with a Catholic; but his scruples were overcome, and immediately after the marriage (1834) Augustus Craven was received into the See also:Roman Catholic See also:Church . Mrs Craven, whose family life as revealed in the Recit d'une scour was especially See also:tender and intimate, suffered several severe bereavements in the years following on her marriage . The Cravens lived abroad until 1851, when the See also:death of Keppel Craven made his son practically See also:independent of his See also:diplomatic career, in which he had not been conspicuously successful . He stood unsuccessfully for See also:election to See also:parliament for See also:Dublin in 1852, and from that See also:time retired into private life .

They went to live at Naples in 1853, and Mrs Craven began to write the See also:

history of the family life of the la Ferronays between 183o and 1836, its incidents being grouped round the love See also:story of her See also:brother See also:Albert and his wife Alexandrine . This See also:book, the Recit d'une scour (1866, Eng. trans . 1868), was enthusiastically received and was awarded a See also:prize by the French See also:Academy . Straitened circumstances made it desirable for Mrs Craven to See also:earn See also:money by her See also:pen . See also:Anne Severin appeared in 1868, Fleurange in 1871, Le Mot d'enigme in 1874, Le Valbriant (Eng. trans., See also:Lucia) in 1886 . Among her See also:miscellaneous See also:works may be mentioned La Scour Natalie Narischkin (1876), Deux Incidents de la question catholique en Angleterre (1875), See also:Lady Georgiana See also:Fullerton, sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres (1888) . Mrs Craven's charming See also:personality won her many See also:friends . She was a frequent See also:guest with See also:Lord See also:Palmerston, Lord See also:Ellesmere and Lord See also:Granville . She died in Paris on the 1st of April 1891 . Her husband, who died in 1884, translated the See also:correspondence of Lord Palmerston and of the See also:Prince See also:Consort into French . See Memoir of Mrs Augustus Craven (1894), by her friend Mrs See also:Mary See also:Catherine See also:Bishop; also Paolina Craven, by T . F .

Ravaschieri See also:

Fieschi (1892) . There is a See also:biography of Mrs Craven's father, " En See also:Emigration," in See also:Etienne Lamy's Temoins See also:des jours passes (1907) .

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