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Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713–1792)
Riccobini, Marie Jeanne Laboras de Mezières (rik-ō-bē’nē). A French actress and novelist, wife of Antoine François; born at Paris in 1713; died there, 1792. She did not succeed upon the stage, and turned to the production of the sentimental novel with no little success. Her first work was the remarkable ‘Marquis de Cressy’ (1758). This was followed by ‘The Letters of Julia Catesby’ (1759); ‘Ernestine’ (1770–98), considered by many her masterpiece; ‘The Letters of Sophie de Vallière’ (1772); and a number of others.