Pauline de Meulan


Pauline de Meulan was a French writer and journalist.

Biography

She was the daughter of Count Charles de Meulan, an advisor to the King and general finance collector of Paris, later of Marguerite de Saint-Chamans.
With the help of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, she began writing for the magazine Le Publiciste.
She married François Guizot in 1812. The couple seemed strange since she was 14 years older than François and both had very different characters, as stated by Gabriel de Broglie in the following table taken from his book Guizot:
François GuizotPauline de Meulan
Provincial, born in a petty bourgeois family, without fortuneBorn in a noble and wealthy family of the Old Regime. Brought up in a brilliant society
Protestant, rigorousCatholic, tolerant
Solitary and withdrawnEnjoys theater and society
Bookish and seriousSpiritual, spicy, cultivates the art of paradox
Reads religious and philosophy booksIs fond of Racine
Dogmatic, theoretician, has plenty metaphysical certaintiesObservant, pragmatic, without great convictions

Works