Louise-Félicité de Kéralio

Louise-Félicité Guynement de Kéralio (19 January 1757 in Valence, Drôme – 31 December 1821 in Brussels) was a French writer and translator, originating from the minor Breton nobility. Her father was Louis-Félix Guynement de Kéralio who had served as tutor to the Prince of Parma together with Condillac and taught at the École Militaire until 1776. Her mother was Françoise Abeille. She was present at the court of Versailles between October 1777 and April 1782. She married Pierre-François-Joseph Robert, a politician, revolutionary and secretary to Georges Danton.

She translated her first book when she was only 16 and wrote her first novel, Adélaide, when she was just 18. As a translator she made books by Henry Swinburne,John Gregory, John Howard and Riguccio Galluzzi available to the French public.

From 1786 to 1789 she edited a 14-volume collection of French works written by women, entitled Collection des meilleurs ouvrages François composés par des femmes (Collection of the best French works written by women). The scale of the task proved too great for her however and she was unable to complete it

On 3 February 1787 she was elected to the Academie of Arras, where she was received by its President Maximilien Robespierre. From 1786 or 1787 she was also a member of the Patriotic Breton Society, founded by her uncle, the economist Louis-Paul Abeille.

During the French Revolution she was politically active and assumed a number of roles that were unusual for women, including being a member of the Cordeliers Club where her husband was President for a time, and of the Fraternal Society of Patriots of Both Sexes.

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