Henriette de Coligny de La Suze

Henriette de Coligny de La Suze (1618[1] – March 10, 1673) was a French writer.[2]

She was the daughter of Gaspard III de Coligny and Anne de Polignac.[1] She was married twice: first, in 1643, to Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington,[3] who died in February 1645, and then, in 1647,[4] to Gaspard de Champagne, comte de la Suze. Originally a Protestant, she converted to Catholicism in 1653. Her second marriage was annulled in 1661 on the grounds of impotence.[1]

In 1666, she published a collection of 21 of her poems as Poésies de Madame la Comtesse de La Suze but she also contributed verse and prose to many other collected works.[4] Ninety-five of her poems appear in "L'amour raisonnable", part of Recueil de pièces galantes en prose et en vers; each poem is preceded by a preamble in prose.[1]

De La Suze was admired by the writers Madeleine de Scudéry and Paul Pellisson.[1]

References
  1. Krueger, Roberta (2008). French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen. pp. 286–87. ISBN 978-0801888045.
  2. Charpillon (1868). Dictionnaire historique, géographique, statistique de toutes les communes de l'Eure. p. 162.(in French)
  3. Fraser, William (1889). Memorials of the Earls of Haddington. Volume 1. p. 202.
  4. Wilson, Katharina M; Schlueter, Paul; Schlueter, June (2013). Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. pp. 877–79. ISBN 978-1135616779.


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