Fanny Tercy

Françoise-Cécile (nickname "Fanny") Messageot, was born on 22 November 1782 in Lons-le-Saunier. She was the daughter of Jean Joseph Messageot, a cavalry officer who became a postmaster, and Marie-Françoise Clerc. She had an older sister, Lucile, who became a painter, and a twin brother, François-Xavier. Her mother remarried Claude-Antoine Charve, a judge at the Lons-le-Saunier court. From this second marriage, Louis, Tercy's half-brother, and Liberté-Constitution-Désirée (1790–1856), a half-sister who married Charles Nodier, were born. Tercy spent her childhood in Lons-le-Saunier. Judge Charve was imprisoned in 1793 at the Cordeliers prison where he met Anne-François Tercy (1775–1841), playwright and "man of letters", also imprisoned; he was Fanny's future husband. They married on 11 September 1814. After the wedding, the couple went to Paris and were very close to Charles Nodier. He encouraged Fanny Tercy to write. Unable to stand her husband any longer, she left him in 1824. To prepare for her ''La Dame d'Oliferne'' (1829), Tercy walked from the town of Arinthod to the old Oliferne castle. ==Later life and death==

During the reign of Louis-Philippe, she obtained a pension of a "woman of letters". == Selected works ==

• Deux nouvelles françaises : Marie Bolden, ou la Folle de Cayeux et Cécile de Renneville , Paris, Th. Desoer, 1816 • Louise de Sénancourt Paris, Maradan, 1817 • Isaure et Montigny, Paris, 1818 • Six nouvelles, 2 vol., Paris, Galliot, 1821 • L’Ermite du mont Saint-Valentin, ou Histoire des amours de la dame de Martigues et du chevalier Roger de Parthenay, 2 vol. Paris, Béchet aîné, 1821 • ''Contes moraux à l'usage des enfants'', Gallica, 1828 • ''La Dame d'Oliferne'', Paris, Levavasseur, 1829 • Chroniques franc-comtoises. La Tour de Dramelay, Paris, C. Vimont, 1831 • Nouvelles chroniques francomtoises. Le Juif et la sorcière. Paris, C. Vimont, 1833 • Historiettes et conversations morales, dédiées à Mennessier Nodier, Paris, Dufey, 1834 • Chalain et les enfants de M. Aubert, 1834 • Emmerande la bienheureuse, 1834 • Pierre et Marcellin, 1836 ==Notes==