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Françoise Paule Huguet de Graffigny (1695–1758), French author, playwright

in 1712 she married François Huguet de Graffigny (d. 1725), an army officer; she separated from him in 1718 on the grounds of his brutal treatment of her. Dame d'honneur of the regente, Élisabeth Charlotte de Lorraine, at the court of Lunéville; guest of Voltaire and the marquise Du Châtelet at Cirey-sur-Blaise 1738; accused of sending a compromising document of Voltaire's to friends, she escaped to Paris in early 1739, where she opened a salon; it became one of the most distinguished of her day. Author of the immensely popular novel Lettres d'une Péruvienne (1747) and play Cénie (1750), and correspondent over many years with Francois Antoine Devaux (1712–1796).