Françoise-Albine Benoist


Françoise-Albine Benoist was a French novelist, playwright and essayist born in Lyon.
She wrote a few theater works that were never played. She was also a journalist for Le Journal des Dames.
Little is known about her life. In April 1754 she married painter and draughtsman Jean-Marie Benoist.
According to Manon Roland, Benoist may have been a model for the heroine of Charles-Albert Demoustier's Lettres à Emilie.
Her most famous work is Les Aveux d'une jolie femme.

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