Writings
Her writings consists of miscellaneous sketches, verses, plays, and novels, such as Si j'etais reine (1868) and Les marriages de la créole (1866), reprinted under the title La chanteuse (1870). Her 1867 novel "Bicheville," a thinly disguised attack on the society of Florence, capital of the new Kingdom of Italy, caused serious embarrassment to Rattazzi, who was serving as prime minister of the Kingdom. She also wrote L'Aventurier des Colonies (1885), a drama; and the volume of tales, Enigme sans Clef (1894).
In 1881 she edited Rattazi et son Temps, and in the last two or three years of her life she published two volumes of her own memoirs, and edited the Nouvelle Revue Internationale, to which she also contributed a significant amount.
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