Blanchecotte was born on 30 November 1830 in Paris, France.

[1][3] She wrote poetry and her first work Rêves et Réalités was published in 1855.

Subsequent volumes included Nouvelles poésies in 1861, Impressions d’une femme : pensées, sentiments, portraits in 1868, Les militantes, poésies in 1871, Tablettes d’une femme pendant la Commune in 1872, and Le long de la vie, nouvelles impressions d’une femme in 1875.

[3] In 1888 her poem Les larmes was set to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

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