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"A aussi traduit de l'allemand en français. - Née à Paris. - Femme du prédicateur protestant J. Daniel de La Fite, avec qui elle rédigea la Bibliothèque des sciences et des beaux-arts de La Haye. - Morte à Londres.
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Lafite, Marie-Élisabeth de ;
Bouée, Marie-Élisabeth"
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SAF
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Mary Lynn Johnson
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Marie-Elisabeth Boué de La Fite, daughter of Alexander Boué and Marie-Elisabeth Boué née Cottin, was born in Hamburg on 21 August 1737 and baptised in the French Reformed Church in Altona on 28 August 1737 (Französisch-Reformierte Gemeinde, 28, p. 58). A genealogy of the Boué family including further details on Marie-Elisabeth, her husband and her children can be found in the Hamburgisches Geschlechterbuch, Limburg an der Lahn: C.A.Starke Verlag, 1996, vol. 13, pp. 47, 50, 119 (vol. 200 in the larger Deutsches Geschlechterbuch series that began in 1889). [Information provided by the Hamburg archivist, Jürgen Sielemann.] In 1768 she married Jean-Daniel de La Fite (1719–1781), pastor
of the Walloon church in The Hague, and collaborated with him and six others in the Bibliothèque des Sciences et des Beaux Arts (1754–1778). She died in Pimlico, London (where she had lodgings as well as at Windsor), on 31 October 1794 and was buried on 6 November, according to Queen Charlotte's diary. [DNB, 2005] For other information (though marred by errors, including an incorrect death date), see [Louis-Marie Meschinet] de Richemond [1839-1911], ‘Mme de la Fite, lectrice de la reine Charlotte et governante des princesses d’Angleterre (1737-1797). La vie et ses écrits,’ Revue Chrétienne 25 (1878), pp. 243-252.
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MLJ