Family Name: Fiquet Du Boccage (born Le Page)
First Name: Anne-Marie
Birth Date: Tue, Oct 21, 1710
Birth Place: Rouen
Death Date: Sat, Aug 07, 1802
Death Place: Paris
Main places of activity:
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Rouen 1709 1732
Place From To
Paris 1732 1801
Personal info:
Education

She was essentially self-educated. At the age of 10, she spent some time in the Couvent de l'Assomption (in Paris), where her great talent for literature and writing began to develop.
Career

Member of the Academy of Rouen (1756) and of the Academy of Lyon (1758). She was the second Frenchwoman, after Emilie du Châtelet, to be admitted to the two prestigious Academies of the Arcades of Rome and Bologna. Her friend Algarotti arranged for her to be received in the Academies of Padua, of Florence and of Cortona.

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Financial Situation

She was born into the upper middle-class.
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Translations

  • Paradise Lost

  • Translation Title: Le Paradis terrestre, poème imité de Milton
  • Original Author: John Milton
  • Original title: Paradise Lost
  • Publ. Year From: 1666 to: 1666
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Le Paradis terrestre, poème imité de Milton
  • Publisher: Jacques-Nicolas Besongne
  • Pub. Place: London [Rouen]
  • Pub. Date: 1747
  • Lang: French

  • The Temple of Fame: A Vision

  • Translation Title: Le Temple de la Renommée
  • Original Author: Alexander Pope
  • Original title: The Temple of Fame: A Vision
  • Publ. Year From: 1714 to: 1714
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Le Temple de la Renommée
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Date: 1748
  • Lang: French
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  • Pierino Gallo