Cornélie-Pétronille-Bénédicte Wouters (October 14, 1737 – April 3, 1802), known as the baroness of Vassé, was a woman of letters known for her work as a translator in the 18th century.
Cornélie Wouters de Vassé was born in Brussels, in what was then the Austrian Netherlands and is now Belgium, in 1737.
[1] She moved to Paris after the death of her husband, the wealthy baron of Vassé, and it was there that she began to write and translate for a living in 1782.
[2][3] She often collaborated with her sister Marie Thérèse Wouters, who helped her translate works into French from English, including The British Plutarch by Thomas Mortimer.
[1] In 1790, she became the only woman of the period to have contributed to the public debate over Jews' rights in France, producing a pamphlet in their defense.