Genlis

Genlis, Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de, was born at Champery, near Autun, Burgundy, in 1746. She received a good education, and in 1761 married Comte Bruslart de Genlis, afterwards Marquis de Sillery, who perished a victim of the Revolution in 1793. Her aunt, Madame de Montesson, having secretly married the Duc d'Orleans, had her appointed governess to her husband's children, one of whom was the future Louis Philippe. She began early to write on educational and moral subjects, and no fewer than ninety works came from her pen. Chief among these are Le Theatre de l'Education, Annales de Vertu, Lettres sur l'Education, Les Veillees du, Chateau, Les Petits Emigres, and a number of historical romances. In 1792 she went into exile, but returned to receive a pension from Napoleon, which was continued by the Orleanist princes after the Restoration. She died in 1830, leaving; several volumes of Memoires.