Note 342 — BOOK IX[283]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Marceline Josèphe Félicité Desbordes, Dame Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859) had appeared, with some success, at the Opéra-Comique, when, in 1817, she married François Prosper Lanchantin, known as Valmore, the actor, and left the stage. Her poetry is distinguished for sweetness and pathos, without affectation. That published before the time in which Chateaubriand is writing includes Élégies et romances (1818), Élégies et poésies nouvelles (1824) and the Pleurs (1833). Pauvres fleurs appeared in 1839 and Bouquets et prières in 1843.—T.