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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis (1746–1830)

Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin, Comtesse de (zho-lēs’). A French miscellaneous writer; born at Champcéri near Autun, Jan. 25, 1746; died at Paris, Dec. 31, 1830. Among her writings which amount to about 90 volumes, are several little comedies intended to be acted by her pupils, the children of the Duke of Chartres; some stories, among them the romance ‘Mademoiselle de Clermont’ (1802); ‘Unpublished Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century and the French Revolution’ (10 vols., 1825); ‘Baron d’Holbach’s Dinners.’