Marie-Catherine Desjardins
first met Antoine de Boësset, sieur de Villedieu
, with whom she had a lengthy affair (and whose name she later took), although they never married.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.
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Klein, Nancy Deighton. The Female Protagonist in the Nouvelles of Madame de Villedieu. Peter Lang, 1992.
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Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
Family and Intimate relationships
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Antoine de Villedieu
made his second promise of marriage to Marie-Catherine Desjardins
, before a notary, after she had borrowed money to pursue him to Provence.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
386
Family and Intimate relationships
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Marie-Catherine Desjardins
signed a document which released Antoine de Villedieu
from his promise to marry her; he almost immediately married someone else.
Kuizenga, Donna. “Madame de Villeneuve”. Seventeenth-Century French Writers, edited by Françoise Jaouen, Gale, 2003.
387
names
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
BirthName: Marie-Catherine Desjardins
The name Hortense has been mistakenly attributed to MCV
by several scholars, and she has been called (and in 2012 is still called by OCLC WorldCat) Marie-Catherine-Hortense. But she invariably...
Publishing
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
Love-letters written by Marie-Catherine Desjardins
were disposed of by their recipient, Antoine de Villedieu
, to Claude Barbin
the publisher. Barbin
travelled to the Netherlands to seek her permission for publication. He failed to win...
Textual Production
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
The sonnet Jouissance by Marie-Catherine Desjardins
, said to be connected with her love for Antoine de Boësset, sieur de Villedieu
, was written this year, according to Micheline Cuénin
.
Cuénin, Micheline. Roman et société sous Louis XIV : Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins 1640-1683). Atelier Reproduction des Thèses & Librairie Honoré; Champion, 1979.