Mes soixante ans y sus referentes políticos y literarios: las memorias en verso de Constance de Salm

Abstract

This article studies Constance de Salm’s memoirs, published in 1833 and entitled Mes soixante ans. In her memoirs composed in verse the author recallsher feminist discourse in support of women’s rights, as she did all her life. We will unveil the political and literary references of the poetic discourse, which recalls the moresignificant events in France in a period of great change: from the end of the 18thcentury and through the early part of the 19thcentury. We will pay particular attention to the Empire period, with which Constance de Salm’s works have been consistently associated

Keywords

• French femining writing
• Constance de Salm
• Memoirs
• Literature of the Empire