Sophie Ristaud Cottin
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Sophie Cottin (1770-1807) was a French writer whose novels were popular in the 19th century, and were translated into several different languages.
Born Marie Sophie Ristaud (sometimes spelt Risteau) in March 1770 at Tonneins, near Clairac, she was not yet twenty when she married her first husband, Jean-Paul-Marie Cottin, a banker. She wrote several romantic and historical novels including Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia (Elisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie 1806), a "wildly romantic but irreproachably moral tale", according to Nuttall's Encyclopaedia. She also published Claire d'Albe (1799), Malvina (1801), Amélie de Mansfield (1803), Mathilde (1805), set in the crusades and a prose-poem, La Prise de Jéricho. Her writing became more important to her after her first husband died when she was in her early twenties. She went to live with a cousin and her three children at Champlan (Seine-et-Oise) but died in her thirties, in Paris on 25 August 1807.
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This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.
