Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier

Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier (Lithuanian: Sofija Tyzenhauzaitė de Šuazel-Gufjė; 1790 – 28 May 1878) was a Lithuanian novelist. She was a member of the Lithuanian nobility from the Tyzenhaus family. She married Antoine Louis Octave de Choiseul-Gouffier, a French noble in service of Napoleon after the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and owner of Plateliai manor. She is one of the first female writers in Lithuania. She wrote in French. Her novels are inspired from the life of females in contemporary Lithuanian nobility.

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