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In 1691 she married Nicholas de Murat, Count de Gilbertez, and beginning in 1692 she frequently attended the salon of the Marquise de Lambert.
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Henriette Murat
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She most likely spent most of her childhood in Paris. There she socialized with Marie Catherine d"Aulnoy and Catherine Bernard. In 1697 she published Memoirs of the Countess of M***, a two-volume collection of false "memoirs" which was meant as a response to Charles de Saint-Évremond"s 1696 book Memoirs of the Life of Count Doctorate*** before his Retirement, which had portrayed women as incapable of virtue and fickle.
Murat"s book was successful and was even translated into English.
She was one of the leaders of the fairy-tale vogue, along with Marie Catherine d"Aulnoy, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont Louisiana Force, Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, and Charles Perrault. Among the fairy tales she wrote are Bearskin and Starlight.
At Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier"s insistence, she published three volumes of fairy tales between 1698 and 1699 -, New, and In 1699 she also published the ghost story A Trip to the Country, and was inducted into the Ricovrati Academy of Padua.
In December of 1699 she was involved in a scandal when a report was circulated accusing her of "shocking practices and beliefs" including lesbianism.
She tried to escape from the Château de Loches in 1706 wearing men"s clothing. She was then transferred to two other prisons before being brought back to the Château de Loches in 1707. In 1709 she obtained partial liberty from the Countess d"Argenton on the condition that she return to her aunt"s home.
Her last work was The Sprites of Kernosy Castle, published in 1710.
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