Note 340 — BOOK IX[283]

Hortense Allan de Méritens (1801-1879) published, as her first work, in 1821, a remarkable novel, the Conjuration d'Amboise, which was succeeded by Sextus, ou le Romain des Maremmes, the Indienne, Settimia and others. In 1873 and 1874, she published, under the pseudonym of "Madame Prudence de Saman" and the title of the Enchantements de Prudence, a series of erotic confidences, or romantic autobiography, in which she mixes up Chateaubriand, Lamennais, Béranger and a score of others with her imaginary adventures.—B.