> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 176](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258654) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55037230) QID Q55037230 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Genlis, (Caroline) Stéphanie Félicité (née du Crest de Saint-Aubin) (Comtesse de) (1746-1830/1831), French writer, educator and botanical historian, born 25 \[26?\] Jan 1746 in Champcéry (nr. Autun), in 1762 married Charles Brillart de Genlis (1737-1793), a colonel of grenadiers who later became Marquis de Sillery, lady in waiting to the duchess of Chartres (i.e. Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, 1753–1821, the mother of Louis-Philippe I, 1773-1850) 1770, governess to the daughters and sons of the family, fled to Switzerland during the Revolution 1793, moved to Berlin 1794 and then Hamburg, returned to France during the Consulate 1799, died 31 Dec 1830 (or 1 Jan 1831) in Paris. **Abbreviated name**: *Genlis* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Baillon 2: 686; Barnhart 2: 38; Bossert p. 142; DBF 15: 1045-1049; Jackson p. 214 (as "\[Brulart de Sillery, (S.F)\]"); Kew 2: 394; Plesch p. 235; Portr. 3: 472; PR ed. 1: 3564, ed. 2: 3273; Rehder 5(index): 315; Sotheby 1: 230; Tucker 1: 273-274. #### Biofile - Bearne, C.M.C., 1907. Heroines of French society in the court, the revolution, the empire and the restoration... New York (E.P. Dutton and Co.): xxiv, 485, \[1\] p., front., *pl*., portrs. (n.v.) - Bertaut, J., \[1941\]. Madame de Genlis... Paris (B. Grasset): 291 p. (portr.) (n.v.) - Broglie, G. de, 1985. Madame de Genlis... Paris (Librairie Académique Perrin): 528 p. \[16\] lvs. (n.v.) - Carpenter, M.M., 1953. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 50: 289. (as "... Félicitaté Ducrest...") - Chabaud, L., 1901. Mesdames de Maintenon, de Genlis & Campan, leur rôle dans l'éducation chrétienne de la femme... Paris (Plon-Nourrit et cie.): 2 lvs., xxiv, 335 p. (n.v.) - Dobson, A., 1893. Four French women... London (Chatto & Windus): viii, 207 p. (n.v.); American ed. \[1890\],... New York (Dodd, Mead and company): 6 lvs., 207 p., front. (portr). (n.v.); \[1923\]... London, New York (H. Milford, Oxford University Press): 5 lvs., \[3\]-212 p., front. (portrs.). (n.v.) - Du Parquet, M., \[1900\]. Gouverneur de princes – 1737-1830... Paris (Calmann Lévy): 2. lvs., 380 p. front. (portr.). (n.v.) - Harmand, J., 1912. Madame de Genlis, sa vie intime et politique, 1747-1830... Paris (Perrin): xii, 557 p., frontisp., *pl*. (portr.). (n.v.); English transl.... 1913. A keeper of royal secrets, being the private and political life of Madame de Genlis... London (E. Nash): xxii, 439, \[1\] p. front., portrs. (n.v.) - Laborde, A.M., 1966. L'OEuvre de Madame de Genlis... Paris (A.G. Nizet): 253 p. (n.v.) \[See also: Basil, G., French Rev. 40(5): 711-712. Apr 1967 (rev.)\]. - Plagnol-Diéval, M.-E., 1996. Madame de Genlis... Paris (Memini... Diffusion, CNRS éditions): 194 p. + 1 computer disk (bibl.). (n.v.) - Rose, H.J., 1850. New gen. biogr. dict. 7: 502. (n.v.) - Rostand, R., \[1926\]. La vie amoureuse de Madame de Genlis... \[Paris\] (E. Flammarion): 187 p. (n.v.) - Wittrock, V.B., 1905. Acta Horti Berg. 3(5): 103. - Wyndham, V., 1958. Madame de Genlis, a biography... London (Deutsch): 304 p. (n.v.); American ed., 1960... New York (Roy Publishers): 304 p. (n.v.) #### Eponymy *Genlisea* A. St.-Hil. (1833). ### Publications ##### n.36.268. Botanique historique **Title** La *Botanique historique* et Littéraire, contenant tous les Traits, toutes les Anecdotes et les Superstitions relatives aux Fleurs... Paris (Chez Maradan, Libraire) 1810. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. historique*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1810, p. \[i\*-iii\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-359, \[i, errata\]. *Copies*: BR, HH-Dumbarton Oaks, WU. *Another imprint* \[2 vols.\]: 1810,... Paris (Chez Maradan, Libraire), \[Tome premier\]: p. \[i\]-xv, 1-240; \[Tome second\]: p. \[i-ii\], 1-237, \[errata on verso of p. 237\]. *Copies*: K, MO, NY, NYPL (n.v.). *Another imprint* \[2 vols. in 1\]: 1811,... Paris/Londres (Chez Colburn, Libraire), \[Tome premier\]: p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-240; \[Tome second\]: p. \[i-ii\], \[1\]-238. *Copies*: British Library (n.v.), K, OXF. *English transl*.: 1826,... *Historical* and literary *Botany*, containing the qualities, anecdotes and superstitions, relative to trees, plants and flowers, Windsor (C. Andrews), 3 vols., Oct. *Copy*: British Library (n.v.). – Transl. by Eliza P. Reid. *Note*: Also transl. and published in Italian (1813), German (1817) and Dutch (1822), but none of these translations seen by us.