Anne-Marguerite du Noyer (Nîmes, Languedoc 2 June 1663 – Voorburg, May 1719) was an early 18th-century woman journalist. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip. Born a Protestant, she converted to Catholicism in the years of the Huguenot persecution. In 1686 she married Guillaume du Noyer. In 1701 she converted back to Calvinism and had to leave France. She first moved to Geneva, then to The Hague. Among her famous visitors was Voltaire in 1713.
The following is an extract of the biography published with the Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon, vol. 1 (London, W. Mears/ J. Browne, 1716), the attack on Richard Steele makes Delarivier Manley a likely candidate as author of these lines:
Her works are appreciated in the same context:
Works
- Lettres historiques et galantes de deux dames de condition, dont l'une était à Paris et l'autre en province, par Mme de C*** [A.-M. Du Noyer] Cologne [The Hague]: P. Marteau, 1713.
Literature
- [Delarivier Manley?], "An Account of Madam DuNoyer's Person and Writings", in Anne Marguerite Petit Du Noyer, Letters from a Lady at Paris to a Lady at Avignon, vol 1, 2nd edition (London, W. Mears/ J. Browne, 1716).
- Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, Merckwürdige Reisen, Bd. 3 (published after the authors death in Ulm, 1754), p. 367-368.
- Regine Reynolds-Cornell: Fiction and reality in the Mémoires of the notorious Anne-Marguerite Petit DuNoyer (Tübingen: Narr 1999). ISBN 3-8233-5527-9
- Olaf Simons: Marteaus Europa oder Der Roman, bevor er Literatur wurde (Amsterdam/ Atlanta: Rodopi, 2001), p. 642. ISBN 90-420-1226-9