Madame de Rémusat (1780–1821)

Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, comtesse de Rémusat, was a French aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to the Empress Josephine. She was generally regarded as a woman of great intellectual ability and personal grace. After her death, her book Essai sur l'éducation des femmes (Essay on the Education of Women), was published to critical approval. However, it was not until her grandson Paul de Rémusat edited and published her Mémoires in three volumes (1879–1880), followed by a selection of her correspondence with her husband and son (1881), that her historical importance and literary talent were recognized.