This experience led her to write an elegy to her daughter, which, encouraged by her uncle Jean-François Ducis, she published in 1804.

The collection of poems was reprinted six times in the following six years, and influenced other French poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine.

She published other collections of elegies, including political works that commented on contemporary events like the Napoleonic Wars.

("Born to be a lover, wife, mother and passionate patriot, to be an excellent daughter, a faithful and generous friend, you must have suffered a lot.

Her letters to her brother as a child has proved a useful source of contemporary information on female education at the time.

[7] She influenced other French poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine.