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Foa, Eugenie

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Eugenie Foa (Bordeaux, 1798- Paris, 1853) was a French romance writer.

Eugenie Foa (born Esther-Eugenie Rodrigues-Henriques) was by descent a Sephardic Jewess, her mother being a member of the Gradis family, and both parents being members of the Bordeaux Jewish community. On the death of her father in 1826, the family moved to Paris. She married young, but after leaving her husband, began to supported herself by writing, using at times the nom de plume "Maria Fitzclarence." Foa's books, which were popular, if lightweight, romances, include:

  • Le ridouschim (1830)
  • La Juive: histoire des temps de la régence (two volumes, 1835)
  • Les Mémoires d'un polichinelle (1839)
  • Le petit Robinson de Paris (1840)
  • Le vieux Paris (1840)

Her sister, Leonie, was the wife of Fromental Halevy.

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