Fanny Tercy
Fanny Tercy | |
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In this painting, the artist, Lucile Messageot (top left, dressed in black) depicted herself with her mother Marie Françoise Clerc (1749-1825) (center, dressed in orange), and her second husband, Judge Claude Antoine Charve (standing, top right), her brother and sister from the first marriage, Xavier Messageot (1782-1844) (top center), and Fanny (bottom right, dressed in white). Bottom center, dressed in yellow, is the young Liberté, future wife of Charles Nodier. | |
| Born | Françoise-Cécile Messageot 22 November 1782 |
| Died | 1 April 1851 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Period | Early 19th-century |
| Genre | Historical novels |
| Literary movement | Sentimentalism |
| Spouse |
Anne-François Tercy
(m. 1814; sep. 1824) |
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Fanny Tercy, née Françoise-Cécile Messageot (22 November 1782, Lons-le-Saunier – 1 April 1851, Quintigny), was a 19th-century French historical novelist. Along with Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Gabrielle de Paban, Sophie Doin, and George Sand, Tercy embraced and transformed sentimentalism during the first half of the 19th century.