Françoise-Albine Benoist

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Françoise-Albine Benoist (1724 – 1808 or 1809) was a French novelist, playwright and essayist born in Lyon.

She wrote a few theater works that were never played. She was also a journalist for Le Journal des Dames.

Little is known about her life. In April 1754 she married painter and draughtsman Jean-Marie Benoist.

According to Manon Roland, Benoist may have been a model for the heroine of Charles-Albert Demoustier's Lettres à Emilie.[1]

Her most famous work is Les Aveux d'une jolie femme.[2][3]

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