Constance de Salm: Difference between revisions

 

==Early years==

 

==Career==

 

In 1794, the theater of the Rue de Louvois performed her, ''Sapho, tragedie melee de chants'', a lyric tragedy in three acts and in verse, with music by [[Jean-Paul-Égide Martini]].{{sfn|Letzter|Adelson|Adelson|2001|p=35}} This piece, which was preceded by a precise description of the life of [[Sappho]], was quite successful, with more than a hundred performances. She dedicated it to her father, whom died in 1796.{{sfn|Collombet|1833|p=282}} She continued to provide fugitive pieces to newspapers and collections. She soon found a place for herself in the top rank of women poets, after writing a series of poems, which she styled as "Epitres" (Epistles), the first of which, in 1797 was "Epitre aux femmes", (Epistle to Women) and the most notable, "Epitre surl'aveuglementdu siecle" (On the Blindness of this Age). Others included "Messoixanto ana" (1833), "Les vingt-quatre heures d'une femme sensible", "Pensdes", and "Cantate sur le manage de Napoleon".{{sfn|Century Company|1906|p=888}} Poetical "Epistles", "Dramas", and various other productions in verse, read by Pipelet at the Athenaeum at Paris, and afterwards published, obtained for her an honorable reputation in the literary world. She also published several ballads, of which she composed the melodies and the piano accompaniments.{{sfn|Hale|1855|p=800}}

==Further reading==

* ''Biographie universelle...'', éd. augmentée, 1854–1865, tome 37, {{p.|526-528}}

* ''Grand dictionnaire universel du 19th-century'', Paris, 1865–1876, tome XIV, {{p.|128}}

* ''Nouvelle Biographie générale'', 1867, tome 43, {{p.|196-198}}

[[Category:19th-century French dramatists and playwrights]]

[[Category:19th-century French women writers]]

[[Category:Princesses by marriage]]