Abstract

Female memoirs play off the complex status of personal testimony. The multifarious works of Mme de Genlis are a fascinating example of the tensions running between didactic texts, memoirs, remembrances, portraits and anecdotes that are there hidden under the surface of these hybrid texts. Above all, they make up a monumental work toward which converge a number of early texts and fragments of various types.

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