historian
politician
Henriette Guizot de Witt, the daughter of the historian and politician François Guizot and the wife of Conrad de Witt, was a French writer who wrote under the name Mme de Witt, née Guizot; to support family finances she composed some one hundred novels and educational texts of moralized history, such as Légendes et récits pour la jeunesse, Scènes historiques, Les chroniques de l"histoire de France jusqu"au XIVe siècle.
Career
She also translated Shakespeare and Charles Dickens into French.