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Claire Lechat de Kersaint, Duchess of Duras (1777–1828)
Duras, Claire Lechat de Kersaint, Duchess of (dü-rä’). A French novelist; born in Brest, 1777; died in Paris, 1828. Well born, accomplished, and brilliantly married, she was seized with the sentimental sickness of the day, and wrote ‘Ourika’ (1823), the tale of a negress who fell in love with a white man; and ‘Edward’ (1825), a novel in which it was the gentleman’s turn to throw his heart in an indiscreet direction.