Constance de Salm

[3] Her father, Marie-Alexandre de Théis (1738-1796), a Royal prosecutor for Chauny, member of the minor French nobility, was a poet who wrote comedies.

[5] In 1789, she married Jean-Baptiste Pipelet de Leury (1759-1823), a surgeon,[2] whose father had been ennobled by a charge of the King,[5] and established herself in Paris, where various pieces of her writing were published in the Almanac des Muses and other periodicals.

Others included "Messoixanto ana" (1833), "Les vingt-quatre heures d'une femme sensible", "Pensdes", and "Cantate sur le manage de Napoleon".

[6] Poetical "Epistles", "Dramas", and various other productions in verse, read by Pipelet at the Athenaeum at Paris, and afterwards published, obtained for her an honorable reputation in the literary world.

[10] She lived alternately on the estates of her husband, in Germany, and at Paris, where, by her wit, her conversational powers, and her amiable manners, she rallied round her the elite of artists, and people of letters.

Salm's poetic works are distinguished by a firm and frank pace, by force of thought, philosophical spirit, and by the habit of using the proper word, which contributes to rendering her style as clear, natural and energetic, without taking away elegance and grace.