Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier

Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier née Zofia Tyzenhauz (Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė; 1790 – 28 May 1878) 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.

Publications

 * Le Polonois à St. Domingue ou La jeune Créole, Warsaw, 1818
 * Barbe Radziwill. Roman historique, Paris, 1820
 * Vladislas Jagellon et Hedwige, ou la réunion de la Lithuanie à la Pologne. Nouvelle historique, Paris, 1824
 * Le nain politque. Roman historique, Paris 1827
 * Mémoires historiques sur l'empereur Alexandre et la cour de Russie, Paris 1829
 * Halina Ogińska ou les Suédois en Pologne, Paris 1839
 * Réminiscences sur l'empereur Alexandre Ier et sur l'empereur Napoléon Ier, Paris, 1862