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See also: born in See also: Paris on the 1st of See also: July 1776
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Madame Gay was the daughter of M
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Nichault de la Valette and of Francesca Peretti, an See also: Italian lady
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In 17.93 she was married to M
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Liottier, an See also: exchange broker, but she was divorced from him in 1799, and shortly afterwards was married to M
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Gay, See also: receiver-general of the department of the Riser or See also: Ruhr
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This 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
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Her first See also: literary production was a letter written in 1802 to the Journal de Paris, in 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
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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
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Among her other See also: works, Salons celebres (2 vols., 1837) maybe especially mentioned
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Madame Gay wrote several comedies and See also: opera libretti which met with considerable success
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She was also an accomplished musician, and composed both the words and See also: music of a number of songs
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She died in Paris on the 5th of See also: March 1852
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For an account of her daughter, Delphine Gay, Madame de Girardin, see GIRARDIN
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See her own Souvenirs d'une vieille femme (1834) ; also
See also: Theophile Gautier, Portraits contemporains; and Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, vol. vi
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