Éléonore-Aglaé-Marie Despierres

Éléonore-Aglaé-Marie Despierres (1843–1895), was a French historian.

Éléonore Bonnaire was born on 16 January 1843 at Alençon. A correspondent of the French Ministry of Education, she published studies on topics related to her hometown, such as the Alençon lace, the Notre-Dame d'Alençon basilica, the history of printing, theater and sculptors of Alençon.

The wife of Lucien, Vincent, Gerasime Despierres,[1] Bonnaire died on 9 November 1895 at Pacé, Orne. A street of her native town of Alençon was named after her in 2007.

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  1. This explains why many the authorship of many of her works is attributed to "Madame Bonnaire Gerasime Despierres," a name now rejected by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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