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'''Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez''' [[née]] Poisson (22 November 1684 - 28 December 1770) was a [[French people|French]] author and playwright.
[[File:Vicente pascual y pérez-antonio ximeno-Madama de Gómez leyendo en su estudio.jpg|thumb|Madame de Gómez reading in her study]]
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'''Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez''' ([[née]] Poisson; [[pseudonym]] '''M.P.V.D.G.'''; 22 November 1684 – 28 December 1770) was a [[French people|French]] author and playwright.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Madeleine-Angelique was born in Paris on the 22nd of November 1684 to the actor [[Paul Poisson]].<ref name="histoire" />
Madeleine-Angelique was born in Paris on 22 November 1684 to the actor [[Paul Poisson (actor)|Paul Poisson]].<ref name="histoire" />


Madeleine-Angélique married a Spanish nobleman, Don Gabriel de Gomez, thinking he was rich. When she discovered her husband was burdened with debt, she turned to writing as a hope to escape poverty. Her first a tragedy, ''Habis'', was released in 1714 to much critical appeal, but her other early works were not as successful.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144570173 |title=The feminist encyclopedia of French literature |date=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1999 |isbn=9780313296512 |location=Westport, Conn. |pages=237 |oclc=144570173}}</ref><ref name="histoire">{{Cite book |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6485858w |title=Histoire de la ville et du chateau de St.-Germain-en-Laye , suivie de recherches historiques sur les dix autres communes du canton. |last=Goujon |first=Abel (1794-1834) Auteur du texte |last2=Odiot |first2=Charles |date=1829 |publisher=Saint-Germain, Imprimerie d'Abel Goujon, rue de Paris, n° 41. 1829. |pages=476 |language=fr}}</ref>
Madeleine-Angélique married a Spanish nobleman, Don Gabriel de Gomez, thinking he was rich. When she discovered her husband was burdened with debt, she turned to writing as a hope to escape poverty. Her first a tragedy, ''Habis'', was released in 1714 to much critical appeal, being played at the [[Comédie-Française]] with a revival in 1732.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The feminist encyclopedia of French literature |date=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=9780313296512 |location=Westport, Conn. |pages=237 |oclc=144570173}}</ref><ref name="histoire">{{Cite book |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6485858w |title=Histoire de la ville et du chateau de St.-Germain-en-Laye , suivie de recherches historiques sur les dix autres communes du canton. |last=Goujon |first=Abel (1794-1834) Auteur du texte |last2=Odiot |first2=Charles |date=1829 |publisher=Saint-Germain, Imprimerie d'Abel Goujon, rue de Paris, n° 41. 1829. |pages=476 |language=fr}}</ref>


Between 1722 and 1772, Gomez published eight editions of ''Les Journées amusantes'', with the work being translated into English by [[Eliza Haywood]].<ref name="Heintz">{{Cite book |title=Writers of the French Enlightenment I |last=Michele |first=Heintz |publisher=Thomson Gale |year=2005 |editor-last=Spencer |editor-first=Samia I |series=Dictionary of literary biography |volume=313 |location=Detroit |chapter=Madeleine-Angelique Poisson de Gomez}}</ref>
Some of her works have been published under the pseudonyme M.P.V.D.G.


While most of her work was published under the name Madame de Gomez (M{{sup|me}} de Gomez), some of her works have been published under the pseudonym M.P.V.D.G.
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She died in [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] on the 28th of December, 1770 at the age of 86.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archives.yvelines.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMTYtMDctMTkiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6MTtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6Mzg1NjtzOjE2OiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sIjtiOjE7czoyMToidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbF9tb2RlIjtzOjQ6InByb2QiO30=#uielem_move=261%252C-95&uielem_rotate=F&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=78 |title=Death Certificate of Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez |publisher=Archives départementales des Yvelines |year=1770 |pages=56 |language=fr}}</ref>

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==Published Works==
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She died in [[Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] on 28 December 1770 at the age of 86.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archives.yvelines.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMTYtMDctMTkiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6MTtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6Mzg1NjtzOjE2OiJ2aXNpb25uZXVzZV9odG1sIjtiOjE7czoyMToidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbF9tb2RlIjtzOjQ6InByb2QiO30=#uielem_move=261%252C-95&uielem_rotate=F&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=78 |title=Death Certificate of Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez |publisher=Archives départementales des Yvelines |year=1770 |pages=56 |language=fr}}</ref>
*Anecdotes persanes, dédiées au roy, Paris au palais, J.-B. Mazuel, 1727

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*Anecdotes, ou Histoire secrette de la maison ottomane, Amsterdam, Par la compagnie, 1722
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==Published works==
*Cléarque, tyran d'Héraclée, tragédie, Utrecht, E. Neaulme, 1733
===Plays===
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*Crémentine, reine de Sanga ; histoire indienne, Paris, Mouchet, 1727
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*''Habis, tragédie'' (1714)
*Entretiens nocturnes de Mercure et de La Renommée, au jardin des Thuilleries, Paris, Le Clerc ; Mouchet ; Saugrain ; Prault, 1731
*''Cléarque, tyran d'Héraclée, tragédie'' (1733 - English translation: Cléarchus, Tyrant of Heraclea, a tragedy)
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*Habis ; tragédie, Paris, P. Ribou, 1714
*''Marsidie reine des Cimbres, tragédie '' (1735 - English translation: Marsidie, Queen of the Cimbri)
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*Histoire de Jean de Calais, roi de Portugal, ou, La vertu recompensee, Bruxelles, Eugène-Henry Fricx, 1731
*''Semiramis, tragédie'' (1737 - English translation: Semiramis, tragedy)
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*Histoire d'Osman premier du nom, XIXe empereur des Turcs, et de l'impératrice Aphendina Ashada, Paris, Prault père, 1734

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*Histoire du comte d’Oxfort, de Miledy d’Herby, d’Eustache de Saint-Pierre et de Beatrix de Guines au siège de la ville de Calais, sous le règne de Philippe de Valois, roi de France & de Navarré, en 1346 & 1347, Paris, G. Saugrain, 1728-1731, Calais, [s.n.], 1765
===Novels===
*Histoire secrette de la conqueste de Grenade, Paris, C. Le Clerc, 1723
*''Anecdotes persanes, dédiées au roy'' (1727 - English translation: Persian Anecdotes, dedicated to the king)
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*Histoires du comte d'Oxfort, de Miledy d'Herby, d'Eustache de S. Pierre, et de Beatrix de Guine, La Haye, J. Gallois, 1738
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*''Anecdotes, ou Histoire secrette de la maison ottomane'' (1722 - English translation: Anecdotes, or Secret History of the Ottoman House)
*La jeune Alcidiane, Paris, Guillaume-Denis David, 1733
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*''Crémentine, reine de Sanga ; histoire indienne'' (1727 - English translation: Creatine, Queen of Sanga: Indian History)
*Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Paris, Veuve Guillaume, 1732-1739 (Les Amans cloîtrés dans la septième partie est inspiré du fameux roman *de Claudine de Tencin, Mémoires du comte de Comminge).
*''Entretiens nocturnes de Mercure et de La Renommée, au jardin des Thuilleries'' (1714 - English translation: Nocturnal interviews of Mercury and La Renommée<ref name="pheme" group="N.B.">La Renommée is an alternate name for [[Pheme]]. There is a statue of her riding Pegasus in the Tuileries Garden.</ref> in the Tuileries Garden.)
*Les journées amusantes, dédiées au roi, Paris, Andre Morin, 1722
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*''Histoire de Jean de Calais, roi de Portugal, ou, La vertu recompensee'' (1731 - English translation: The History of Jean de Calais, King of Portugal, or Virtue Rewarded)
*Marsidie reine des Cimbres, tragedie, Utrecht, Etienne Neaulme, 1735
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*''Histoire d'Osman premier du nom, XIXe empereur des Turcs, et de l'impératrice Aphendina Ashada'' (1734 - English translation: History of Osman, first of the name, XIXth emperor of the Turks, and of the empress Aphendina Ashada)
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*Œuvres mêlées de Madame de Gomez : contenant ses tragedies & differens ouvrages en vers et en prose, Paris, André Morin, 1724
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*''Histoire du comte d’Oxfort, de Miledy d’Herby, d’Eustache de Saint-Pierre et de Beatrix de Guines au siège de la ville de Calais, sous le règne de Philippe de Valois, roi de France & de Navarré, en 1346 & 1347''(1765 - English translation: History of the Count of Oxford, of Miledy of Herby, of Eustace of St. Peter and of Beatrix of Guines at the siege of the city of Calais, under the reign of Philip of Valois, King of France and of Navarre, in 1346 and 1347)
*Semiramis, tragédie, Utrecht, Étienne Neaulme, 1737
*''Histoire secrette de la conqueste de Grenade'' (1723 - English translation: The secret history of the conquest of Granada)
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*''Histoires du comte d'Oxfort, de Miledy d'Herby, d'Eustache de S. Pierre, et de Beatrix de Guine'' (1738 - English translation:Stories of the Earl of Oxford, of Milady of Herby, of Eustace of St. Peter, and of Beatrix of Guinea)
*''La jeune Alcidiane'' (1733 - English translation: The Young Alcidiane)
*''Les journées amusantes, dédiées au roi'' (1722 - English translation: ''La Belle Assemblée'' published 1754)

===Collections and editions===
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*''Œuvres mêlées de Madame de Gomez:contenant ses tragedies & differens ouvrages en vers et en prose'' (1724 - English translation: Collected Works of Madame de Gomez: Containing her Tragedies and Various Works in Verse and Prose)
*''Cent nouvelles nouvelles'' (published in multiple parts between 1732-1739 - English translation:The Hundred News)

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{Cite journal |last=Edmiston |first=William F. |date=2000 |title=Plots, Patterns, and Challenges to Gender Ideology in Gomez and Sade |jstor=398177 |journal=The French Review |volume=73 |issue=3 |pages=463–474 }}

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Latest revision as of 20:31, 22 August 2023

Madame de Gómez reading in her study

Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez (née Poisson; pseudonym M.P.V.D.G.; 22 November 1684 – 28 December 1770) was a French author and playwright.

Biography[edit]

Madeleine-Angelique was born in Paris on 22 November 1684 to the actor Paul Poisson.[1]

Madeleine-Angélique married a Spanish nobleman, Don Gabriel de Gomez, thinking he was rich. When she discovered her husband was burdened with debt, she turned to writing as a hope to escape poverty. Her first a tragedy, Habis, was released in 1714 to much critical appeal, being played at the Comédie-Française with a revival in 1732.[2][1]

Between 1722 and 1772, Gomez published eight editions of Les Journées amusantes, with the work being translated into English by Eliza Haywood.[3]

While most of her work was published under the name Madame de Gomez (Mme de Gomez), some of her works have been published under the pseudonym M.P.V.D.G.

She died in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 28 December 1770 at the age of 86.[4]

Published works[edit]

Plays[edit]

  • Habis, tragédie (1714)
  • Cléarque, tyran d'Héraclée, tragédie (1733 - English translation: Cléarchus, Tyrant of Heraclea, a tragedy)
  • Marsidie reine des Cimbres, tragédie (1735 - English translation: Marsidie, Queen of the Cimbri)
  • Semiramis, tragédie (1737 - English translation: Semiramis, tragedy)

Novels[edit]

  • Anecdotes persanes, dédiées au roy (1727 - English translation: Persian Anecdotes, dedicated to the king)
  • Anecdotes, ou Histoire secrette de la maison ottomane (1722 - English translation: Anecdotes, or Secret History of the Ottoman House)
  • Crémentine, reine de Sanga ; histoire indienne (1727 - English translation: Creatine, Queen of Sanga: Indian History)
  • Entretiens nocturnes de Mercure et de La Renommée, au jardin des Thuilleries (1714 - English translation: Nocturnal interviews of Mercury and La Renommée[N.B. 1] in the Tuileries Garden.)
  • Histoire de Jean de Calais, roi de Portugal, ou, La vertu recompensee (1731 - English translation: The History of Jean de Calais, King of Portugal, or Virtue Rewarded)
  • Histoire d'Osman premier du nom, XIXe empereur des Turcs, et de l'impératrice Aphendina Ashada (1734 - English translation: History of Osman, first of the name, XIXth emperor of the Turks, and of the empress Aphendina Ashada)
  • Histoire du comte d’Oxfort, de Miledy d’Herby, d’Eustache de Saint-Pierre et de Beatrix de Guines au siège de la ville de Calais, sous le règne de Philippe de Valois, roi de France & de Navarré, en 1346 & 1347(1765 - English translation: History of the Count of Oxford, of Miledy of Herby, of Eustace of St. Peter and of Beatrix of Guines at the siege of the city of Calais, under the reign of Philip of Valois, King of France and of Navarre, in 1346 and 1347)
  • Histoire secrette de la conqueste de Grenade (1723 - English translation: The secret history of the conquest of Granada)
  • Histoires du comte d'Oxfort, de Miledy d'Herby, d'Eustache de S. Pierre, et de Beatrix de Guine (1738 - English translation:Stories of the Earl of Oxford, of Milady of Herby, of Eustace of St. Peter, and of Beatrix of Guinea)
  • La jeune Alcidiane (1733 - English translation: The Young Alcidiane)
  • Les journées amusantes, dédiées au roi (1722 - English translation: La Belle Assemblée published 1754)

Collections and editions[edit]

  • Œuvres mêlées de Madame de Gomez:contenant ses tragedies & differens ouvrages en vers et en prose (1724 - English translation: Collected Works of Madame de Gomez: Containing her Tragedies and Various Works in Verse and Prose)
  • Cent nouvelles nouvelles (published in multiple parts between 1732-1739 - English translation:The Hundred News)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ La Renommée is an alternate name for Pheme. There is a statue of her riding Pegasus in the Tuileries Garden.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Goujon, Abel (1794-1834) Auteur du texte; Odiot, Charles (1829). Histoire de la ville et du chateau de St.-Germain-en-Laye , suivie de recherches historiques sur les dix autres communes du canton (in French). Saint-Germain, Imprimerie d'Abel Goujon, rue de Paris, n° 41. 1829. p. 476.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ The feminist encyclopedia of French literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1999. p. 237. ISBN 9780313296512. OCLC 144570173.
  3. ^ Michele, Heintz (2005). "Madeleine-Angelique Poisson de Gomez". In Spencer, Samia I (ed.). Writers of the French Enlightenment I. Dictionary of literary biography. Vol. 313. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
  4. ^ Death Certificate of Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez (in French). Archives départementales des Yvelines. 1770. p. 56.

Further reading[edit]

  • Edmiston, William F. (2000). "Plots, Patterns, and Challenges to Gender Ideology in Gomez and Sade". The French Review. 73 (3): 463–474. JSTOR 398177.
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