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See also:MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE See also:GAY (1776-1852) , See also:French author, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:July 1776 . Madame See also:Gay was the daughter of M . Nichault de la Valette and of Francesca Peretti, an See also:Italian See also:lady . In 17.93 she was married to M . Liottier, an See also:exchange See also:broker, but she was divorced from him in 1799, and shortly afterwards was married to M . Gay, See also:receiver-See also:general of the See also:department of the Riser or See also:Ruhr . This See also:union brought her into intimate relations with many distinguished personages; and her See also:salon came to be frequented by all the distinguished litterateurs, musicians, actors and painters of the See also:time, whom she attracted by her beauty, her vivacity and her many amiable qualities . Her first See also:literary See also:production was a See also:letter written in 1802 to the See also:Journal de Paris, in See also:defence of Madame de See also:Stael's novel, Delphine; and in the same See also:year she published anonymously her first novel Laure d'Estell . Leonie de Montbreuse, which appeared in 1813, is considered by Sainte-Beuve her best See also:work; but Anatole (1815), the See also:romance of a See also:deaf-See also:mute, has perhaps a higher reputation . Among her other See also:works, Salons celebres (2 vols., 1837) maybe especially mentioned . Madame Gay wrote several comedies and See also:opera libretti which met with considerable success . She was also an accomplished musician, and composed both the words and See also:music of a number of songs .
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