Sophie Ristaud Cottin

Sophie Ristaud Cottin

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Sophie Cottin (22 March 1770 - 25 August 1807) was a French writer whose novels were popular in the 19th century, and were translated into several different languages.

Biography

Born Marie Sophie Ristaud (sometimes spelt Risteau) in March 1770 at Tonneins, Lot-et-Garonne, she was not yet twenty when she married her first husband, Jean-Paul-Marie Cottin, a banker. She wrote several romantic and historical novels including Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia (Elisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie 1806), a "wildly romantic but irreproachably moral tale", according to Nuttall's Encyclopaedia. She also published Claire d'Albe (1799), Malvina (1801), Amélie de Mansfield (1803), Mathilde (1805), set in the crusades and a prose-poem, La Prise de Jéricho. Her writing became more important to her after her first husband died when she was in her early twenties. She went to live with a cousin and her three children at Champlan (Seine-et-Oise) but died in her thirties, in Paris on 25 August 1807.

References

• French National Library
• Cottin's life and work

Further reading

• Introduction to Amélie Mansfield
• Cottin's life and works (in French)
• Works by Sophie Ristaud Cottin at Project Gutenberg

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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Name	Cottin, Sophie Ristaud
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Date of birth	1770
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Date of death	1807
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