Claire-Marie Mazarelli, marquise de Vieuville de Saint-Chamond (1731–1804)

Claire-Marie Mazarelli was born in Paris, the daughter of Angel Mazarelli, a French citizen of Italian birth, and his wife Marie-Catherine Mathée. In 1765, she married Charles-Louis-Auguste de Vieuville, marquis de Saint-Chamond. Madame de Saint-Chamond wrote articles for periodicals, including a self-portrait published in Le Mercure de France in 1751 and a letter to Jean-Jacques Rousseau that appeared in L'Année littéraire in 1763. She also published two eulogies, Éloge de Sully (1763) and Éloge de René Descartes (1765), and a play called Les Amants sans le savoir (Lovers Without Knowing It, 1771). In her writings, she criticized a society governed by outdated laws and traditions that left women with few rights.