Английская Википедия:Agathe-Sophie Sasserno

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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno (3 October 1810 – 6 June 1860) was a French poet. She was born in Nice and spent her life there. Although she wrote in French, she considered herself Italian.

Life

Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was born in 1810 at the place Victor (today the place Garibaldi) in Nice.Шаблон:Sfn She was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Sasserno, a former aide of André Masséna, and Marie Sibille Chartroux.Шаблон:Sfn She was a cousin of the painter Giovanni Battista Biscarra.Шаблон:Sfn She wrote her first poem at the age of fourteen to distract her father.Шаблон:Sfn According to Jean-Baptiste Toselli, she received much praise for this, which encouraged her to continue.Шаблон:Sfn She remained single all her life and devoted herself entirely to poetry.Шаблон:Sfn

Although she wrote in French she considered herself Italian so she dedicated her work Les Sylphides (1838) to King Charles Albert of Sardinia.Шаблон:Sfn She later wrote Ore meste, chants sur l'Italie (1846), and the collection Poésies françaises d'une Italienne in 1854 for which the critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve wrote the preface.Шаблон:Sfn She was enthusiastic about the ongoing unification of Italy. In 'Glorie e Sventure : chants de guerre de l'indépendance italienne (1852) she evoked Anita Garibaldi.Шаблон:Sfn

Her attachment to Nice, which she calls her homeland, is also a recurring theme in her poems.Шаблон:Sfn She writes of it in Nice (1858) "Oh Nice, oh my country Nice, oh sweet natal soil, oh my Nice so beautiful".Шаблон:Sfn In Tears and Smiles (1856) six poems are devoted to Nice. One entitled Physionomies nationales describes several regional costumes, of which two are of the Land of Nice.Шаблон:Sfn In À Catherine Ségurane she celebrates the heroism of Catherine Ségurane, the washerwoman of Nice.

During her life, she corresponded with several French writers including Alphonse de Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and François-René de Chateaubriand.Шаблон:Sfn She was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres of Lyon.Шаблон:Sfn She is buried in the cemetery of the castle.Шаблон:Sfn A square and a private school are named after her in Nice.

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