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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805)

Charrière, Isabelle Agnète de Saint Hyacinthe de (shä-ryãr’). A French novelist, dramatist, and miscellaneous writer; born (Van Tuyll) in Utrecht, 1740; died at Colombier, Switzerland, Dec. 25, 1805. She was one of the most accomplished women of her day. Her fictions and studies, ‘Caliste’ (1788) and ‘Neuchâtel Letters’ (1784), and the drama ‘The Thou and the You,’ contain much that is admirable.