Claire De Duras
Claire, Duchess of Duras (née de Kersaint; 1777, Brest, France – 1828) was a French writer best known for her 1823 novel called Ourika, which examines issues of racial and sexual equality, and which inspired the 1969 John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant's Woman.
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