Family Name: Guynement de Kéralio
First Name: Louise-Félicité
Birth Date: Wed, Aug 23, 1758
Birth Place: Paris
Death Date: 1818
Death Place: Brussels
Main places of activity:
Place
Paris
Personal info:
Education

Probably educated at home, in Paris. Knew Latin, Italian and English, read Greek.

Career

1788: elected a member of the Académie of Arras and of the "Société patriotique bretonne"
Translations Other Works

secondary bibliography references

Hesse, Carla, The Other Enlightenment. How French Women became modern, Princeton, 2003.
Annie Geffroy, « Louise de Kéralio, traductrice, éditrice, historienne et journaliste, avant 1789 », dans Isabelle Brouard-Arends (ed.), Lectrices d’Ancien Régime, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003, p. 103-112.
J. Sgard, "Guÿnement de Kéralio" in Dictionnaire des Journalistes

Translations

  • A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world

  • Translation Title: Essai sur les moyens de rendre les facultés de l'homme plus utiles à son bonheur
  • Original Author: John Gregory
  • Original title: A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world
  • lang: English
  • Note:
  • Title: A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world
  • Publisher: J. Dodsley
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Year: 1773
  • Translation: Essai sur les moyens de rendre les facultés de l'homme plus utiles à son bonheur
  • Publisher: Lacombe
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    Translation attributed to her by Geffroy, "Louise de Kéralio", p.105.

  • Istoria del granducato di Toscana sotto il governo della casa Medici

  • Translation Title: Histoire du Grand-Duché de Toscane sous le gouvernement des Medicis
  • Original Author: Galluzzi, Riguccio
  • Original title: Istoria del granducato di Toscana sotto il governo della casa Medici
  • lang: Italian
  • Translation: Histoire du Grand-Duché de Toscane sous le gouvernement des Medicis
  • Publisher: rue Serpente
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    Lefèvre de Villebrune translated vols. 1 to 5; Kéralio vols. 6 to 9.

  • Travels in the two Sicilies, by Henry Swinburne, Esq. in the years 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780

  • Translation Title: Voyages dans les Deux-Siciles
  • Original Author: Henry Swinburne
  • Original title: Travels in the two Sicilies, by Henry Swinburne, Esq. in the years 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780
  • Publ. Year From: 1782 to: 1784
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Voyages dans les Deux-Siciles
  • Publisher: Barrois
  • N° Editions: 1
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1784
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    The preface contains a note by the translator
    The translation is unfinished.
    The translation was announced and praised in Le Censeur universel anglais
    Another translation of the same work, by J.-B. de la Borde, came out in 1785-87

  • A Discourse on the love of our country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789 at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, to the Society for commemorating the revolution in Great-Britain. With an appendix, containing the Report of the Committee of the Society; an Account of the Population in France, and the Declaration of Rights by the National Assembly of France

  • Translation Title: Discours sur l'amour de la patrie, prononcé par le Dr Richard Price, le 4 novembre 1789, à la séance de la Société instituée pour la commémoration de la Révolution dans la Grande-Bretagne
  • Original Author: Richard Price
  • Original title: A Discourse on the love of our country, delivered on Nov. 4, 1789 at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, to the Society for commemorating the revolution in Great-Britain. With an appendix, containing the Report of the Committee of the Society; an Account of the Population in France, and the Declaration of Rights by the National Assembly of France
  • Publ. Year From: 1788 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Discours sur l'amour de la patrie, prononcé par le Dr Richard Price, le 4 novembre 1789, à la séance de la Société instituée pour la commémoration de la Révolution dans la Grande-Bretagne
  • Publisher: Prault
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1789

  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons

  • Translation Title: État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force, par John Howard.
  • Original Author: John Howard
  • Original title: The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons
  • Publ. Year From: 1776 to:
  • lang: English
  • Note:

    Appendix published in 1780
  • Title: The State of the prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of some foreign prisons and hospitals
  • Publisher: T. Cadell, J. Johnson, C. Dilly
  • Pub. Place: London
  • Pub. Year: 1783
  • Lang: English
  • Note:

    Probably the source of the translation.

  • Translation: État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force, par John Howard.
  • Publisher: Lagrange
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1787
  • Lang: French
  • Note:

    The translation is also attributed to J. P. Béranger

  • The Stranger in Ireland: or A tour in the southern and western parts of that country, in the year 1805

  • Translation Title: L'Étranger en Irlande, ou Voyage dans les parties méridionales et occidentales de cette isle, dans l'année 1805
  • Original Author: John Carr
  • Original title: The Stranger in Ireland: or A tour in the southern and western parts of that country, in the year 1805
  • Publ. Year From: 1805 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: L'Étranger en Irlande, ou Voyage dans les parties méridionales et occidentales de cette isle, dans l'année 1805
  • Publisher: L. Collin
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1808
  • Lang: French

  • A Tour through Holland, along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany in the summer of 1806

  • Translation Title: Voyage en Hollande et dans le midi de l'Allemagne, sur les deux rives du Rhin, dans l'été de 1806
  • Original Author: John Carr
  • Original title: A Tour through Holland, along the right and left banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany in the summer of 1806
  • Publ. Year From: 1806 to:
  • lang: English
  • Translation: Voyage en Hollande et dans le midi de l'Allemagne, sur les deux rives du Rhin, dans l'été de 1806
  • Publisher: L. Collin
  • Pub. Place: Paris
  • Pub. Date: 1808
  • Lang: French
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