Adèle Esquiros

Esquiros had four brothers - Pierre-François (d. 1864), a music teacher in Libourne and then in Bordeaux; Gabriel-Félix, a professor in Geneva; Edmond, painter in Paris; and Henri, merchant in Buenos Aires.

Her sister Émilie (d. 1864) married a certain Dubosc, a landowner at Le Puy.

A teacher and poet, she met Alphonse Esquiros, a Romantic writer converted to socialism and republican ideas, with whom she married in Paris on 7 August 1847 and wrote several books: Histoire des amants célèbres and Regrets, souvenir d'enfance, before being abandoned by her husband in 1850.

[1][2] During the French Second Republic, Esquiros was an active member of the Women's Club founded in April 1848 and the Society for the Mutual Education of Women, founded in August 1848, with Jeanne Deroin, Eugénie Niboyet and Désirée Gay.

[2] A member of the Société des gens de lettres, she died in Paris in 1886, blind, paralyzed and in abject poverty, surviving only thanks to a meagre treatment of the Société.