1. Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was born in Nice and spent her life there.
12 Facts About Agathe-Sophie Sasserno
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was born in 1810 at the place Victor in Nice.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Sasserno, a former aide of Andre Massena, and Marie Sibille Chartroux.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was a cousin of the painter Giovanni Battista Biscarra.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno wrote her first poem at the age of fourteen to distract her father.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno remained single all her life and devoted herself entirely to poetry.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno later wrote Ore meste, chants sur l'Italie, and the collection Poesies francaises d'une Italienne in 1854 for which the critic Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve wrote the preface.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was enthusiastic about the ongoing unification of Italy.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno's attachment to Nice, which she calls her homeland, is a recurring theme in her poems.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno writes of it in Nice "Oh Nice, oh my country Nice, oh sweet natal soil, oh my Nice so beautiful".
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres of Lyon.
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Agathe-Sophie Sasserno is buried in the cemetery of the castle.