Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier

Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier née Zofia Tyzenhauz was a Polish-Lithuanian novelist, writing in French. She was a daughter of Ignacy Tyzenhauz and Marianna Przezdziecka,.
In 1818, she married Antoine Louis Octave de Choiseul-Gouffier, a French count, whose father emigrated during the French Revolution, and owner of Plateliai manor.
She became one of the first female writers in Lithuania, after Ursule Radziwill and Ona Radziwill-Mostowska. Her novels, mostly historical, are inspired from the lives of women in contemporary Lithuanian nobility.
She was buried on cemetery des Champeaux in Montmorency.

About the author

Language of works

french

Born/died

1790 — 1878

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