Charlotte Bourette

Charlotte Bourette (née Reynier, 1714–1784), known by the sobriquet La Muse Limonadière, was a French poet, playwright and lemonadier (lemonade seller).

Biography

Bourette was born in Paris in 1714.[1][2] Bourette married Sieur Curé. She was widowed before 1750 and remarried Sieur Bourette.[3] She had no formal literary training.[4]

Bourette was proprietress of the Le Café Allemand on Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, from 1742.[1][5][6] Her café was frequented by literary men and poets.[2][6] French philosopher Voltaire gifted Bourette with a porcelain cup and she wrote a poem for him in return.[6] She was known by the sobriquet La Muse Limonadière.[2][4]

In 1778, Bourette retired to Versailles.[3] She maintained literary correspondence with some of eighteenth-century France's most influential writers,[4] including Claude Adrien Helvétius, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire.[7]

In 1779, Bourette published the one act comedic play La Coquette punie,[8] which was performed in Théatre Français in Maastricht, The Netherlands.[1][3] Her plays were occasionally performed at her Café in Paris.[8]

Bourette died in 1784.[3][7]

Publications

Poetry

  • Ode au Roi de Prusse, par Madame Curé (1750)[9]
  • Epitaphe acrostiche sur la mort de Mme la Marquise de Mailly (1751)[9]
  • A Monseigneur le Dauphin. A Madame la Dauphine (1752)[9]
  • La Muse limonadière, ou Recueil d’ouvrages en vers et en prose, par Mme Bourette, cy-devant Mme Curé, avec les différentes pièces qui lui ont été adressées (1755, 2 volumes)[9][10]

Plays

  • La Coquette punie (1779)[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Gardiner Adams, Henry (1857). "Bourette, Charlotte". A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, Sketches of all women who have been distinguished by great talents, strength of character, piety, benevolence, or moral virtue of any kind. London: Groomsbridge and Sons. p. 120.
  2. ^ a b c Spary, Emma C. (31 May 2024). Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760. University of Chicago Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-226-76888-5.
  3. ^ a b c d e Pascal, Jean-Noël. "Charlotte BOURETTE - Dictionnaire créatrices". Antoinette Fouque, éditions des femmes (in French). Archived from the original on 22 January 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  4. ^ a b c Young, Paul J. (2010). ""Une voix Plébéienne" in Eighteenth-Century France: Charlotte Curé, "La Muse Limonadière"". Eighteenth-Century Fiction. 23 (2): 321–345. doi:10.3138/ecf.23.2.321. ISSN 0840-6286.
  5. ^ Bihl-Willette, Luc (1997). Des tavernes aux bistrots: histoire des cafés (in French). L'AGE D'HOMME. p. 62. ISBN 978-2-8251-0773-7.
  6. ^ a b c Soo-Hoo, Anna (3 September 2021). "The Hippocrene and the Seine". The Henri Peyre French Institute. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  7. ^ a b "Charlotte Bourette [née Reynier]". Electronic Enlightenment Project, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  8. ^ a b Gardner, Jennifer L. (30 July 1999). Sartori, Eva M. (ed.). The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-313-03345-2.
  9. ^ a b c d Tunstall, Kate (22 May 2025). "A Bibliography of the works of Charlotte Bourette, formerly Curé, née Renyer, a.k.a. la Muse Limonadière, latterly la Muse Citoyenne de la Cour". Carnet18. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  10. ^ Jacob, Heinrich Eduard (1935). The Saga of Coffee: The Biography of an Economic Product. G. Allen & Unwin Limited. p. 185.
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