Eugénie Poujade
Eugénie Poujade (1814–1881) was a Mauritian poet and writer. She was also known as Madame Delafond and Madame la Comtesse E. de Sornay. She founded the literary group Société du Lierre and its magazine La Parisienne.
Poujade was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, in 1814. She married Count Charles Antoine Pierre Octave Sornay in 1834; after he died, she remarried in 1858 to Pierre Antoine Delafond.
She gained fame in 1862 with the poetry collection Maurice et France, followed by Contes de ma tante Joséphine in 1864. In 1865, the newspaper La Parisienne began publication and she was its director. La Parisienne was presented as a publication of the Société du Lierre, which Poujade had founded. The literary circle started with about twenty members and met once a week; it was open to women.
She also wrote librettos, including Sous les tropiques by A P L Folly. By 1869 she was involved with the Société Protectrice de l'Enfance. She died in 1881.
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