Eugénie Poujade
Jeanne Eugénie Poujade (1814 – 1881) also Madame Delafond, also Madame la Comtesse E. de Sornay was a Mauritian poet and writer, who founded the Société du Lierre and its periodical La Parisienne. BiographyPoujade was born in 1814 in Port Louis, Mauritius.[1] In 1834, she married Count Charles Antoine Pierre Octave Sornay.[2] After his death, she remarried in 1858 to Pierre Antoine Delafond.[3][4][5] She became known in 1862 with a volume of poetry, Maurice et France, then published two years later Contes de ma tante Joséphine.[6] In 1865, the first issue of the newspaper La Parisienne was published, of which she was the director.[7] In the periodical Le Monde illustré, La Parisienne is presented as a publication of the Société du Lierre, which Poujade had founded. This literary circle, "provisionally [composed] of twenty members, meeting once a week" was open to women.[8][9][10][11] She also wrote librettos, for example for Sous les tropiques by A P L Folly.[12] By 1869, she was involved with the Société Protectrice de l'Enfance.[13] She died in 1881.[1] Selected works
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