Note 343 — BOOK IX[283]

Anaïs Ménard, Dame Ségalas (b. 1814), published the Algériennes in 1831, when only seventeen years of age. Next came the Oiseaux de passage (1836) and, later, Enfantines: poésies à ma fille (1844), the Femme (1847) and Nos bons Parisiens (1865). To these must be added a number of novels and plays of various descriptions. Madame Ségalas will, however, remain known mainly as the author of the Enfantines, a collection of verse that has had no less than ten editions.—B.